5/3 Doubleheader Report

[kjackson]

Hit the Dam Site launch shortly after 5 am this morning to find a boat pulling out. The two guys in it said that fishing had been dead for them, and considering the front moving in, they were leaving. One of them showed me weather radar on his phone, and it was plain that my plan to hit the lake for the early bite wasn't going to work. As I started putting stuff back into my truck, the wind freshened and it started to rain.

Headed back home to do some much-needed reorganization of tackle. By the time I got back to Eureka, the jungle rains started. While I've spent most of my life in the Pacific Northwest where we take rain as common as the sunrise, I'm not a big fan of lightning, and there was enough of that to make me glad I was in the man cave instead of hunkered in a boat dock somewhere on Beaver.

I poked my head out about 10:30 to see sun and blue sky. Twenty minutes later I was back at the launch. The day improved from there. I played around on some flats and put two 18-19-inch walleyes in the boat-- the first I've landed in Arkansas. Landed half a dozen small smallies as well. Left the walleyes to see if I could find some whites, but failed to run across any before I left about 3 pm.

Water temp was between 75 and 77 degrees, and water clarity was 13 to 14 feet. Caught the walleyes trolling out-of-production shad baits at 15 feet in 20 FOW. Caught the smallies on #7 Flicker Shads (Pro color in red).

[J-Doc]

Nice! Glad you finally got on the eyes.

[wc1063]

Nice!!!

[rps]

Good on you.

[Feathers and Fins]

You have earned those fish, I know you worked hard to get them, now is time to enjoy that fine table fair.

[Luckyj]

Nice!

[nathanhooper]

Glad you found them. The whites are up here also, you'll get ahold of some before too long I'm sure. Maybe we will bump into each other sometime out there on the water, looks like we fish the same area's up here in no mans land. Well, that is till the summer hits us and the striper chasers start moving in...

[kjackson]

Glad you found them. The whites are up here also, you'll get ahold of some before too long I'm sure. Maybe we will bump into each other sometime out there on the water, looks like we fish the same area's up here in no mans land. Well, that is till the summer hits us and the striper chasers start moving in...

In case you see me, I'm running a blue, 18-foot Starcraft mod-vee boat with a Yamaha tiller--probably the only one on the lake.

I know there are crappie up the creek, but I can't speak to numbers.

May make an early-morning tomorrow or the next day, depending upon weather and the W word.

[nathanhooper]

I'll keep an eye out. I run an old 16' trophy. Red and grey. Its beat up, but still catches the fish. Hopefully sooner...than later...I'll have my boat project done and be on the water in my new ride. But that does not look to be soon.

I normally get out in the evening. I try to stay away, unless I'm out with friends, on the weekends. Too busy for me. Wednesday is usually when you'll find me on the water. I wish I could get out in the mornings, but this darn thing called work gets in my way most of the time.