1969Larson

Can anyone tell me exactly where "Neil's Bluff" and "Walker's Bluff" are or how to get there by vehicle? Is there access? Thanks!

Put me down for 1131 and floodgates open again (crazy weather lately last few years)

If I recall, she came up around 15 feet in a week in 2011 so it all depends on the rain... you just never know.

How about topwater for walleye? Had a skinny 21-incher hit a pencil popper in just a few feet of water yesterday.

Yeah, I was wondering if the huge numbers of walleye and spoonbills are trapped there since just a few hundred yards downstream there are shoals that you have to drag a canoe over or if they come and go during generation.

I guess I should have posted this in the Beaver Tailwaters forum, but i think most folks there don't fish the White River for stripers. I Floated from the Dam to Betrand Access in a canoe this weekend. Caught a limit of small keeper rainbows for dinner fairly quickly and then I was surprised to see tons of walleye - big ones too, and even a pack or two of stripers cruising through the deeper water just before Parker Bottoms. Since this is still the single barbless hook area, I didn't really have anything to throw at them. Anyone ever have luck catching stripers or walleye through here? What lure did you use? I was thinking one of those giant rainbow trout swimbaits with one giant hook could work... flatten the barb and it would be legal. Also, it was neat for my son to get really close to several gigantic spoonbills in the clear water.

Property has belonged to a Walmart Sr. Manager in International Integrations since 2001 - Steve Crumpler. Search for parcel 15-09668-000 here... http://www.arcountydata.com/search.asp

Put a canoe in at Houseman around 9 AM and used a trolling motor to get up to the bridge. Two nice walleye on the secret weapon (rapala in crawdad color) and two rainbows on powerbait and rooster tails. Generation started around noon and the water was up by 1:00. The quick float back to Houseman brought several small kentuckys and one really nice hybrid right on the shore on crankbaits.

Dobsonflys freak me out. I have seen grown men scream like girls on the banks of the Buffalo River fishing at night when these things came in attracted to our lanterns. They look like a crawfish mated with a dragonfly and can be the size of small birds!

Aw come on... Let 'em play, ref!

Not to be insensative, but you can always stock more fish. Don't complain about the A-Rig for conservation reasons or sportsmanship unless you are fishing barbless with 4-lb line. I do it all the time and don't lose many fish.

I saw a stocking truck dumping at the ramp by the HWY 12 bridge recently. I assumed it was the fingerling blue catfish that they stock occasionally from the hatchery in Centerton. Could that have been trout accidentally? That or I'm sure it is no fun to drive that big tanker truck around the back side of Lake Atalanta where I've seen them dump trout before... just sayin'...it would be a lot easier to go to the ramp at HWY 12 if you were trying to get off of work early. - But that's a bit of a swim to the back of Prairie Creek - and a lot of stripers to swim by this time of year!

What does it matter if you are catching fish by throwing 5 hooked swimbaits, 1 finess worm, a hand-tied fly, or pulling the fish out from under the bank with your bare hands? Have fun and make good memories. If you're lucky, share them with someone you love. Don't break the law. Don't waste. Respect your quarry and it's creator.

What? A decent striper plug has three treble hooks - that's 9 hooking points. An umbrella rig will have 4 or more separate hooks. Striper fishermen troll balloons, planar boards, and downriggers... sometimes all at the same time. I've seen 12 rods out at once. What's the big deal?

Note that border permits do not apply to Beaver Lake as it is entirely in Arkansas.

F&F, How's this for a smile?! Thanks for the insight! We were able to find this guy on topwater from the bank in the very back of Prairie Creek yesterday evening. First striper ever... 40-inches! From shore! Whooop!

The points refer to the Corps of Engineers markers which are posted on the lakeshore. More are pretty visible from the water. You can see them on the Corps map here... http://www.swl.usace.army.mil/parks/beaver/pdf/coebeavermap.pdf

Can anybody help me with a spot to find some stripers right now? I've tried trolling big crankbaits on planar boards from the dam to Starkey and I've trolled umbrella rigs from Lost Bridge South up and around the island at point 1 but haven't had any luck. It is always nice to be out on the lake burning gas, but at some point I'd like to find a fish, ya know?

WOW! Those are magnificent fish!

There is access and parking at Highway 112 and you can fish the section upstream to the bridge at Wagon Wheel Road with no problems. If you go downstream of Highway 112 you'll probably get confronted and if you go upstream of Wagon Wheel you probably will too. Good luck! This is a great little creek with some nice smallmouth close to town. Use your stealth approach and you'll do fine with the fish and the landowners.

Seriously, if you returned fire how could you possibly argue self-defense? This isn't a home invasion. You're in a boat on the water shooting at someone on land and this is self-defense? The truth is, you didn't have to defend yourself to begin with. In the time it took to get your weapon out, you could have cranked the motor and been out of there. All you did was escalate things. Surely I'm not the only one here who has been minding my own business walking up a creek fishing for smallmouth when some simple-minded landowner on a power trip runs you off. Ever had someone show you the gun on their hip or nod at the .45 in their lap while sitting there on a four-wheeler? River access and water rights is a whole subject for debate, but the bottom line is like Daddy always said, "You can be right... but you can also be dead right." There's plenty of idiots out there, but there's also plenty of water.

Super clear up around the dam today. Twin bridges was solid mud with beautiful clear green water coming in at the Richland Creek junction.

I watched the tremendous flow of water from Beaver Lake into the tailwaters below today while the floodgates were open a mere 3 feet. What is this ride like for a fish? Does a striped bass swim too close to the dam chasing a ball of shad like usual only to find himself whisked over the top... plunge 200 feet down and recover in the tailwaters with rainbow trout all around? I guess fish can survive this trip ok? What do they do next? Head down toward Table Rock? Hang around the dam? Any ideas? What is the farthest downstream anyone has caught a striper?

Does anyone know where the mud line is currently? Found any clear water?

Just be thankful it is not still raining at that rate. It well could be. With enough rain it really doesn't matter what you did to prepare. Also remember that to generage power, you have to have customers for it. It is easy to find customers in the late afternoons in July and August. But power demand is pretty small in the middle of the night in April. We talk about the power "grid" but it is not as if the generated power goes into a battery storage pack somewhere. It has to be used. The lake itself is the storage.