Bass Ivy

He helped me out too in the past. Started catching stripers.

He used to post on here a lot. I looked at his history he’s not been on here in over two years. Anyone know if he’s still around?

I tell you where I seen some nice ones. In that creek at the Shiloh pavilion in Springdale West johnson avenue. But I just looked and. It’s the head of spring creek which is a tributary of the Illinois River. So I guess can’t use them from that creek.

Have to go way up the creeks. Might be some blelow lake Atalanta. I’ve never looked there.

Anyone ever tried Creek Chubs in Beaver on Stripers? I tried them years ago but I didn’t know what I was doing At the time. I think they should work. just don’t know how good they would work.

One time was at the ramp at 12 Bridge. It was Memorial Day. Somebody had this awesome speed boat man it had a big block in it. Chrome headers. Flames painted on it. I bet it was the first time this dude launched it. Anyway he had rollers on the trailer. He unhooked the front of the boat and proceeded to have his buddy back him down the ramp. The boat slid right off the trailer and onto the concrete. 😂. It was a beautiful boat with not a scratch on it before That. So then the ramp is blocked. So about 15 guys gets down there and they rock and slide and wallow that boat down the concrete ramp and into the water. Just beat the hell out of the bottom of it.

I w broke the tips off circle hooks on stripers. Still land the fish but the tips will be broke off.

It’s been awhile since I’ve been out trolling for stripers. But was planning on maybe going in the next week or so. Where are they at right now? I can pull 10 up to 12 at once. Looks kinda funny with an 18 foot bass boat lol. Run 6 planer boards. Been awhile since I’ve been out like a few years. My 15 year old daughter is begging to go. Last time I went in was in about January years ago and we were finding some in prairie creek. I’m sure they are on the move from the deep end up the lake. But some areas to Target sure would help out.

Also forgot to mention you don’t have to fish out deep. Just near deep water. Cast along the bank in 4 to 6 foot of water.

You might be able to go back and find some of my old posts. There should be somE pictures of cats we’ve caught out of Beaver. And some more tips. Used mostly jugs

Cut bluegill is hard to beat. Just go catch you a few before dark. Fast breaking banks near the deep water. With boulders and snags. You will catch some fish. I’ve caught flatheads in 50 degree water. Most of the flatheads that I’ve looked at stomach contents out of Beaver had Crawdads in them. So keep that in mind. Liver and stinkbait stuff like that will only catch you little fish. You need to use what the bigger ones are used to feeding on. Use bait from the water you are fishing in for best results. Some will think I’m crazy on that one, but try it you may just be surprised.

Beaver is real good catfishing. It doesnt bother me that everyone avoids the big Beav when it comes to catfishing. Just leaves more for myself.

Exactly looks like a pile of short stripers to me. That right there is what happens to lots of stocked stripers in Beaver

Seen this on Facebook says Arkansas Fish on it. Guy is from NW arkansas so Im assuming from Beaver Lake. What do you think?

I would say that a fish being thrown into an ice chest of ice alive is not any more humane than just throwing a live fish down and having him fillet'd in a few seconds. Looks to me like the ice would be a slow way to go out. In hot weather white bass almost have to be put on ice. They wont live in a live well for very long when the water temps get up there, and if they are dead for very long before being fillet'd they are not fit to eat.

one night i was fishing under 12 bridge on the east end by the end pier. Snagged onto to something cranked it in it was an old metal tackle box. Looks like fun out there fishing with snow on the deck. At least you didnt have jet skis ripping around, and big boats full of drunks playing loud music and whoopin and hollering.

I dont think there is nothing wrong with using a big golden shiner. Only thing is the ones you buy at the bait store are really not big enough but they will work. Ive got a farm pond out here that im going to fix up just for Golden shiners. Grow me some 8 inchers I would be sastified with that. I never was into driving all over the lake chasing shad and throwing a net for 3 or 4 hours to get a few gizzards. To heck with that Ill find another bait. When I go to the water I want to fish not drive all over looking for shad. Im not a no pro at catching stripers by no means, but I really just dont see that using shad would be that much more of an advantage to make them worth the trouble. If i could catch shad fairly quickly and easily i would use shad. Ive even got a place out here that I could put a large stock tank or build a tank with spring fed into it, but I just dont think shad are that much better to be worth the trouble. From what ive heard and read the Golden Shiners work better than the Black Salties do. Salties have an advantage though. In real hot weather they are easier to keep alive. The golden shiner pond project is just about to start here at my place. When I get ready to go I can just go out there and get all i want of whatever size i want. From crappie size to striper size seems like the best plan for my situation.

I will just dip them all out of the live well and throw them in a five gallon bucket with no water and go to work on them. If I really get after it I can probably fillet 4 white bass a minute. With an electric knife

White and Red in clearer water and chartreuse and red in staind water. And a rapala shad rap is about all you need for whites in Beaver. For daytime fishing but at night its a whole different deal. I dont know what it is, but that little shot of red makes a big difference. If you are on a wind blown shorline and there is a mudline from the waves I break out the chartreuse with a red head. Inline spinners work good and even the 1/4 oz horsehead with a marabou tail I like to use also. ill go down a windblown bank with a chartreuse horse head with a red head and catch whites, crappie, spots, blacks, big bluegill, hybrids and even walleye. Ive fished with guys and the whites start busting the water I like to use a spook. Ive had guys laugh at me when I pull out the ole horse head, but they usually are not laughing at me by the time we get done. They are usually asking me if i have another one of them they can use. LOL . Horse heads work good with grubs on them too. In white or chartreuse. There may be some newer lures that work better but I just stick with what i know works. And i have good results. By the time Ive put 20 or 30 big whites in the boat while they are still trying to find something that works, they are usually done laughing at me at that point. LOL Done it several times. Me and this other guy one time was down just north of the Dam in that pocket back in there by that picnic area. I knew the wihites were there cause i had been hitting that spot and starting to catch a few in the spring. The wind had blown all night long out of the SW and it was cloudy most of the day. The wind had been slamming that pocket all night long and all day. I knew them whites would be stacked in there. So I called my neighbor up and he was always ready to go fishing. We got out there and the white caps were big. It was all i could do to keep the boat in position right there. The boat would go up and come down and water would come over the nose of my bass boat. I just turned on the bilge and we went at it. Sometimes I would have to jump back in the drivers seat and start the big motor to keep us out of the trees the wind was so strong. there were probably 20 people trying to fish off the bank right there and they couldnt cast very far out right into that blasting wind. Me and that guy caught alot of fish. I dont know exactly how many but it was at least 80. All on Chartreuse Horse heads with a red head. You could cast with the wind right up against the trees let it fall and just real it along just fast enough to feel it tick on the bottom every once in awhile. and it was just about every cast. we slayed the whites until my trolling motor batteries finally got weak enough I couldnt keep the boat off the bank any more. It was just one of them trips I wont ever forget. If we could have contnued to stay out there no telling how many whites we could have caught. When the skin is about gone off your thumb from lipping fish you know youve been in them. LOL usually about 2 or 3 weeks after the run starts up in the rivers it will get good up on the North end of the lake for whites. Up in the back end of Indian Creek cove is a good place to get into the whites in the spring also.

They moved alot of the graves from the areas the lake covered up across from the military Park entrance. On the south side of 62 highway. I thinks its old wire rd. there in that area is where that cemetery is.

Yep I just found that myself and came on here to post it up, but you beat me too it. LOL

Does anyone know if they left the bridge intact when the lake filled up that was located real close to the Lost Bridge South park. I always assumed thats why they called that area Lost Bridge, but Im just guessing. i know there was a bridge that crossed the river in the same area as the Hwy 12 bridge and it was supposedly demolished and left in the bottom of the lake.

Yeh Grand is just crawling with Shad. All the striper guides around here used to go over to Grand to catch their shad to use for bait over here. I dont think they do that any more though. I know on Beaver I dont even try to catch shad to fish with. you can run all over the lake and spend all day trying to catch some. Plus they are a pain in the butt to keep alive so, I just go buy me some brood minnows and go fishing. Ive got a small pond here at the house Im going to drain it, and clean it out. and Im going to stock it with golden shiners. When I get ready to go striper fishing and I want some big Brood minnows Ill be able to just go out there and get me some. The brood minnows they sell at the bait store are still pretty small they will grow quiet a bit bigger than what they sell. We have one pond here that is almost two acres and its over 20 foot deep in the deepest part. A few years ago I started throwing my left over crappie minnows that were golden shiners and brood golden shiners in there. There are some big Golden shineers in there now. The pond is just so big and deep that I cant seine some out of it. When they spawn they make alot of forage for the bass in there.

Supposedly the stripers were added to Beaver to eat alot of the Gizzard shad in there that are too big for any of the other fish in there too eat. I just imagine them stripers eat anything they can catch and fit in their mouth. The Biologist disagree about the stripers hurting the bass fishing. I figure they do hurt the bass fishing some, but I dont think they are hurting it too bad by eating small bass because if they were actually doing that they wouldnt need to remove the length limit of Spots. Im sure they eat lots of Threadfin shad though. I wish Beaver had at least twice the amount of shad that it does it sure woudnt hurt nothing. I bet the stripers probably eat alot more threadfin than they do gizzard shad..

I dont think there is near as many shad in Beaver as in Grand Lake not even close. Yeh I see see schools of shad on the Lowrance in Beaver but usually just small schools here and there. Sometimes Ive seen big schools in Beaver but never nothing like Grand. Ive seen them on Grand on the finder just solid every where. You didnt have to look for shad on the finder they were just every where. I havent been on Table Rock in a long time and I havent been on Table Rock in the winter time ever. But I will just about bet there is alot better forage base in Table Rock. Look at the Kings River arm how far it runs and the James River is massive. War Eagle on Beaver is not much it runs to a dam and that is the end of the line even the white River arm on Beaver runs up a good ways but it ends at a dam too. Although Lake sequoya spills over and Im sure lots of Forage fish are raised up river from there. I see alot of skinny bass on Beaver. The ones on Table Rock are fat as pigs as far as I know. And like another person mentioned about not ever being checked on Beaver. He is right Ive never had my live well checked in my life on Beaver. Ever. And there are alot of people fishing out there that wouldnt know A spot from a Largemouth and probably keep all they catch. I know of a guy that bass fished that didnt even have a golden rule in his boat or anything to even measure a fish. He was always braggin about how many keepers he would catch. One of my other buddies bought him a golden rule for christmas. LOL. One time that guy without a golden rule was fishing at Monte Ne and one of my other buddies was in the boat with him. I was in my boat by myself. I was following them around talking to them and fishing behind them. They had more fish than me. When we got done I pulled up beside them and handed my golden rule over to my buddy. They started pulling fish out and by the time they got done they only had one or two keepers. LOL. So then I gave my four keepers to the one guy who didnt have rule. Cause he liked to eat fish. I caught a double that day on a spook. Keeper Black and kentucky at the same time. That guy was always telling me how many keepers he was catching all the time. Ive never heard him bragging again about how many keepers he would catch after my buddy gave him a golden rule for christmas. LOL But now he can go out there him and his boy and catch a mess of Kentucks and fry them up Myself I never kept any Largemouth, Kentucks, or Smallies. If i wanted fish to eat I would eat whites or crappie. But I eat more Flatheads than any other fish out of Beaver. But now I will eat some Kentucks if I think it will help out in the lake. I was fishing a tournament out of Prairie creek one night. At the weigh in there was a game warden watching the fish come in. And a guy put a short fish up there to be weighed and the warden wrote him a ticket. On Beaver that is the only time Ive ever seen a Warden check fish on the lake. In my opinion they need to check all the boats coming in off the lake at the ramps sometimes. ive always wandered how many short stipers and hybrids get taken out by all them boats under the bridge at night in the summer time. About 90 out of 100 of them people dont even speak english. I used to catch some hybrids and small stripers fishing under the bridge at night with lights, and turn them back. I figure most of them people doing that couldnt tell one from the other. I bet alot of short crappie get taken out too.