Hello From Gravette, Ar

[Bill Pisechko]

Hello Gang!!!

We are Bill & Heather. I have been coming to Noel, MO for 20 years annually for a dart tournament. "Life" moved me to NWA 4 years ago. Love to fish and the outdoors.

We have just bought purchased new kayaks and hope to paddle the paint off of them. My NWA floating experience is limited to floating the Elk, but that's all going to change.

We are interested in BBQ, camping, new friends, floating & fishing and hints on public access.

Hope to meet some of you soon...

Bill & Heather

[Quillback]

Welcome, good to see new members from NWA!

[Bill Pisechko]

@quillback....Thanks

[bfishn]

Hello Gang!!!

We are Bill & Heather...

We are interested in BBQ, camping, new friends, floating & fishing and hints on public access.

Welcome Bill & Heather!

I lived just outside Gravette for a stint back in the '80s, there's some mighty fine folks there. Finding new freinds there into BBQ & fishing should be easy, just strike up a chat with driver of the the occasional fishing rig you see at the C store. Camping or floating may be harder, most I knew felt those were tourist activities.

When you get your first invitation, forego the bottle of wine for a 12-pak of Milwaukee's Best. Trust me.

As for public access... you're 'in a tight spot' to quote "O Brother...". There's the Elk you know of course, but it's a fair drive to much anything else. Yakking in Spavinaw Creek might get you arrested or worse. Crystal Lake at Decatur is fairly fishy and yak-freindly. At times Little Sugar is floatable thru Bella Vista, and it gets almost no pressure (there's fish there too), but limit your land activities strictly to the highway bridges to avoid problems there.

On the OK side, there's Eucha (Oochie) and a bit of Spavinaw above it. Good fishing there.

And if you run across a grizzled old guy named Roy sleeping one off in a road ditch, don't be afraid to give him a lift home, he's harmless. He also knows all the best morel mushroom spots. :-)