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AGFC, UAPB tune in to trout movements on Little Red River • Arkansas Game & Fish Commission

It's a slow moving front, been looking at radar several times this morning and it has stalled out west of here all morning, but looks like it will get here later this morning.

I don't fish that area of the lake, but I can tell you that on the lower end of Beaver Ned rigs are working really well with small swimbaits a close second. Swimbaits may be a good choice for your son, similar to cranks and spinner baits as you can cast and retrieve them. Might be a top water bite too.

The smallies are still biting. Ned rig and swimbaits. I believe the spawn is peaking for the smallies. Saw lots of beds today. Lots of squirrely bites. My striper fishing buddy and his son got on to a topwater striper bite this AM and caught some. I did not get on the lake until 10 AM, but the smallies are biting all day long. If you want to get stripers, get out there early. This dude is just a 12 incher, but gotta love the colors:

Pete, I believe you established a record for most moles caught by an OA Angler. Congrats!

Way to go Pete! The mole thing is weird. In all of my days of fishing, I have never seen a mole in the water, let alone 2.

The smallies are still biting. Neds and small swimbaits. Ned rig is a better bite, but they will eat a swimbait too. A buddy of mine had some good early topwater striper fishing today, they boated one that went 25 lbs. Lower lake, but I am sworn to secrecy as to the exact location.

Didn't get much here either. South of here, looks to be coming down. Up early, going to chase some fish unless that stuff moves north.

When it comes to fishing, craziness is good! 😀

Smallmouth fishing was really good on Beaver yesterday, doubt it has anything to do with the water flow, but for whatever reason it was the best smallmouth day I have ever had on that lake. Looks like they've stopped generating at Beaver, so it is slowly rising. Weather guy last night was saying 1-3 inches today through Friday AM.

That is one fat rainbow!

The smallmouth were biting like crazy today. Caught a bunch. Ned rigs and 3.3 Keitechs on 1/4 oz heads. No giants but caught some solid fish. Some scattered stripers popping shad are around. WT 67

They are full time generating at Beaver too. More heavy rain possible Thursday.

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The Bella Vista Fly Tyers do kids fishing activities and some other charitable stuff. I don't belong, so I don't know exactly what they do, but here's a link to their website if you want to check it out, Bella Vista Fly Tyers Club (google.com)

I would have gone yesterday but needed get a new starter battery. Boats (sigh).

That poor woman. But seriously, congrats!

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Dutch and I fished around the Indian Creek area today. Some fog on the lake early, but not bad. When I was on my way driving through Pea Ridge, the fog was really bad. The fishing was good, we caught 50 fish, I believe 8 were white bass, one 19" walleye, one largemouth and the rest were smallies. Dutch caught one smallie that we did not measure, but I bet it was 18" easily, but it looked to be spawned out. We caught a bunch in the 12-16" range, but except for that one, no bigguns. Fun fish, they are fighting hard this time of year. We saw shad spawning in one cove, the only place we saw them spawning, but it is early. for them to be spawning. In that cove we also had some top water striper activity, we threw at them, but never got one to bite. Ned rig and 3.3 Keitech were our best baits. We got a handful on top waters. WT 63.

I'm glad they are letting some water out of the lake. I don't know if they are running Beaver too, have to check. Speaking of shad - we saw some spawning on Beaver today. A buddy of mine fishing Table Rock saw some spawning on a dock today.

Well done!

Good deal, thanks for the write-up!

It's becoming a yearly thing, floods and Vernon.

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Looks like we may get some heavy rain Saturday night into Sunday.