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A 4in Old purple or watermelon worm on a drop shot or shacky head up against bluff walls with a good ledge close to deep water has been good to me. That Zoom Old Purple is hard to find but it seems to be candy for those little spots. With the watermelon, watermelon candy worms I always dip the tails just a little in the spike-it. On the drop shot I keep it cheap and simple with a no.2 straight shank Eagle Claw hook, they come in packs of 50 at Wallmart and a split shot on the end. There is a lot of retieing involved with throwing that all day, but most of the time you just loose the split shot. On the shakey heads I go back and forth from the worm to a twin tail grub in cinniamon purple, the Zoom creepy Crawler seem to have more action then the Fat Albert. Staying on those ledges from the wall down to 15-20 ft near 60-80ft doesn't get very many keepers but seems to produce action. I have found that the younger people who don't have a knee jerk hook set fish a drop shot better than old fisherman. Hope that helps, by the way there are a lot of bluegill up on the walls right now so you can catch some big sunnies to keep things going.

There is a good green tint, not as much in the Kings as the white, went back today barley a riple on the water and nothing but dinks. I had to go 30ft with a drop shot to get a keeper. When the Wendsday night tournament kicked off tonight I saw a lot of boats run a long way up the Kings. I was throwing a twin tail grub on a 1/4 oz jig head the day before and slaying them, but I guess that pattern needs a few white caps. The wife was throwing a Yum Dinger texas rigged with no weight and was matching me 1 to 1.

I was on the white and Kings yesterday out of Big M and hit fish all afternoon right off the bank under trees and around log jams. Might be some deep crankin action but flipping any shaded area put a lot of 16-18 in largemouth in the boat for me and my wife. The wind was blowing about 15 mph out of the south, could be the reason so many fish were up on the bank.

I ran up there on th 8th lauched at Big M and fished down to the Harbor resort, started on wind blown cliff walls then went into log jamed coves. We caught a lot of short fish off the bluff walls, there wasn't a color of worm they would not eat as long as it was 4in long. Then back in the coves we threw little double tailed grubs and were hitting 16-18 in largemouth out of every boat slip and all around the banks. I had a monster that I could not turn on 10lb line run under the boat and back into a dock before wraping around a post and snaping the line. I had just pulled a 3lb bass out of the same slip and was 20 yards from the dock when he hit. Even though the sun was brutal since we started at 3pm seeemed if you cast into any shade there was a fish. For these two Beaver Lake anglers it was great to cacth some real fish. We will respool with some heavier line before returning. My wife dove in a few times around the cliffs to cool off and said the ledges were covered with big brown crawfish.

The last I read the Corps passed a law you could not fish/swim inside the no wake zone, but they are depending on the owner of the Marina's to enforce those laws. They were writing tickets over here on Beaver for wakes in the no wake zone but we only have one Marina running out fishmen.

I have not seen much top water in the afternoons to dark at all, lately expcept for schools of bluegills. I lost a redfin to a big swrill around point 8 but I think it was a bad knot since it only took drag for 2 seconds before the lure was gone. Dang flourocarbon. Are the stripers starting thier early moring feeding up around Rambo yet or are they further North? Or maybe it's a midnight thing?

I think the gar you are seeing are spotted and long nose gar, the short nose gar is most commonly confused with the alligator. I talked to the wildlife officers that collect fish to display fish for the public and they have not been able to find a small aligator gar in Arkansas for over 10 years. They get calls all the time but either it is a mistake in ID or the fish is over 100lbs. Not finding small fish shows that the spawning grounds for these big fish are gone. If you do find any alligator gar there are two phone numbers to call in th AR fising guide book. Those big dark shadows you seeing could be massive carp or flathead catfish. I found a massive carp dying of old age back in the winter and netted him and wieghed him for the heck of it, 62lbs, each scale was as big as a half dollar.

Here is a good read on that point, I didn't realize that "southren" lakes have held the record since 1960. http://arkansasroadstories.com/nature/walleye.html

I went back and read that acticle too and found that the state did stock some paddle fish years ago in Beaver trying to bring them back, I still don't see them like Table Rock unless you count the run in the spring to the Beaver tail waters. I have been on the James were I see hundreds of those fish caught for thier eggs and thrown into dumpsters at the ramps. I guess that is a sport for some but I would enjoy letting a 80lb fish go and imagine how big it could get and eat a something else that night. To me all fish are fun to catch and the bigger they are the funner it is to catch them, so I find all fish cacth and release with some limited harvest usally of fish that won't survive due to deep hook. I feel better that I harvested a deep hooked bass then to bring home a mess of crappie or catfish. But to each thier own, when I was younger I ran trout lines and shot deer, it's later in years the fun went out of those things. Maybe when we get a good walleye population and they start walleye tournaments here with good pay outs they will have the same respect as "money" fish. Myself when I relese a 20in walleye I hope to see it a few years down the road on my granddaughtes hook. Thanks for setting me straight again on the paddlefish. Maybe someday we will find a strugan they do live a 100 years and the darn has only been there since the 60s.

I stand corrected, I was thinking of the lake and did not go back to the orignal river system. I was very interested in this subject when they were growing the Walleye in the Nursrey Pond and talked to serveral Wildlife employees involved in the project. They were all conserned that the walleye would fail again and the only condition they could find that was a threat to the fish was over fishing. Then again the white river used to be the home to paddle fish, alagator gar and sturgean and I have not seen any of those fish in Beaver. The biggest difference I see in Beaver and Table Rock is the water moves in Table Rock and there is very little generation in Beaver and that has a lot to do with river fish not being able to survive and I am guessing why the walleye cannot reproduce.

. This is the third attempt to get Walleye to stick in Beaver, they are not a native fish like they are in the lakes up North. They tried stocking Walleyes twice in the 80s and they didn't take at all because people caught and ate them before they could reproduce. The last big stocking a few years ago were all breading size fish over 12in so they would have a chance of reproducing. I have not seen any studies but I hope they are doing some type of study to see how they are doing. Don't get in too much of a hurry to have big fish fries with Walleyes or we will be talking about "when" Beaver had some walleyes. If you were fishing Beaver in 2003 you would have to go below the darn for a chance to see one. By the way the first stocking at Beaver was the same year as the first stocking in Greers Feary and Beaver was a thought to be a better lake for Walleye. Greers now holds the World Record.

Wow, I know there was a good bite but that is some serious wieght for 3 fish. I feel like a hero if I can break 10lbs with 5 fish, I wish I knew how people find so many big fish on that lake. I have fished that lake for almost ten years and I can count 5lb fish on one hand.

Anybody fish the tourament and stay for weigh in?? I was going to, but the wife wanted to fish and I didn't want to pay another entry fee so we just fished. She ended up boating a 3lb spot but I only had about 8lbs myself but a good 4lb black. Just wondering how that would have measured up. Most of our fish came off a drop shot, lost a Redfin at dark must have been a weak knot, was taking a lot of drag then gone. Then after dark we worked jigs around points for serveral smallmouth but only one keeper. Put the boat back on the trailer as soon as the lighting started.

Most Memorial Day weekends and 4th of July they will have those somewhere on RT12, IMO they should have some on the water. I have seen people get out of thier boats at private docks barely able to walk. Now it is summer I will wait until they are off the water before I go out. I have not been checked for a license in a while either at Table Rock and Grand I hear boats are check quite often. Last time I was checked at Swepco the warden was glad I was obeying the law since he had used up an entire book of tickets that day.

They finally got the sand out of the parking lot in Rocky Branch. I was putting in yesterday while they were moving it, they really messed up the pinic area, but the swimming area is really usless with the water so high I don't know why they were messing up the parking in the first place. When the water drops they can still push the sand down and build a beach, just a little thinking goes a long ways. I got on a pattern of finding bluegill beds and tossing in jigs, found bass every time, smallmouth and largemouth. The carp were giving away the locations pretty easy. I just looked for muddy spots were the carp were feeding, when I got closer I could make out the beds, tossed in a jig and could get 2-3 quailty fish before moving to the next one.

Went out early today to check out a prop and got hot really quick, tried a few spots got two keeper blacks but total was around 5 lbs so I decided to save the money. Didn't run much out of Prarie Creek area, might have been better farther North but the sun had me drained.

The single tail silver, hula grub, twin tail on a shacky head with so many colors and ways to fish them.

Well it is up almost a foot since I started this thread, if they didn't drop the water the last storms would have put it over the flood gates. Anybody heard when they might try again ? I remember when there was a winter draw down but guess that was not profitable. Guess I should just get some 20lb test and learn how to fish flooded brush.

I saw a guide in the Coppermine area with ballons out, but no poles bent. Most of the guides I have seen have been heading North of point 5 (big cliffty) towards darn area.

Anybody fish through that storm last night? Just wondering if they called it off...

I only saw them at the wiegh in, but did see some bank cruisers around point 9.

I fished backseat Sunday and caught a lot of short fish, mostly smallmouth on a manunum finesse worm, and a few wake bait fish. I had some big fish located but the boater didn't have faith in my spots so he drove right past them, oh well his entry fee i was just there. But from the guys with bags over 12lbs I found people who were still fishing bedding fish, and some jumping from brush pile to brush pile. Anyone have any insight on what was happening this past weekend and what the big ones were hitting?

Almost another foot and little generation, with another day of rain I betting it will level off back to about 1124 feet for a while.

My boat was hit by a drunk driver on the way to the lake last year, it didn't damage the boat but the prop did go through his hood. The police only asked for the boat regestration and boat proof of insurance from me, and the driver had no insurance. I thought the truck insurance would cover the boat when I was towing it, but after calling both insurance I found I was wrong. Had I not had insurance on the boat I would have had a fine, even not having proof in the boat rates a fine.

Well hit 1121.4 and they quit letting it out, I am wondering if they will just let it rise with all this rain.