District 2 Quartely Newsletter

[mojorig]

We produce a quarterly newsletter highlighting some of the things we did during that quarter. I have attached our newsletter for April-June. Feel free to email me at jtrisley@agfc.state.ar.us, if you would like to be put on our email list to receive the quarterly newsletter.

2014 Second Quarter Newsletter.pdf

[Grubber]

Thanks Jeremy....good read

[Quillback]

Good stuff, thanks!

[Ham]

I'd be curious to know where they shocked on BSL. I have no idea how they missed all the freaking smallies I was catching. They were the predominant species for me from April on. I was very surprized, but I'm not complaining.

[Quillback]

Could be the smallies were too deep, seems I read somewhere that the shocker doesn't work below a certain depth, I'm thinking 6 feet or something like that.

[mojorig]

Ham,

The areas that we sampled on Bull Shoals Lake were: Bear Creek (16 samples), East Sugarloaf (16 samples), and Jimmy's Creek (16 samples). The areas that we sampled on Norfork Lake were: Bennett's Bayou (16 samples), Float Creek (16 samples), and Shoal Creek (16 samples).These can change from year to year. Historically, we don't sample that many smallmouth bass. We are going to try to specifically target them in the future. This will have to be done separate from our annual sampling. Quillback is correct that our device doesn't work below a certain depth. We usually work along the shoreline in 10 foot or less.

I definitely agree that that are a lot of smallmouth bass and some really big ones in Bull Shoals and Norfork.

Hopefully we can have some of you all ride along with us one night to see the whole operation.

Again feel free to email me with any questions that you have. I would be glad to answer them for you.

jtrisley@agfc.state.ar.us

[Quillback]

A ride along would be cool, is the White river arm of Table Rock in District one or two?

[Feathers and Fins]

Very neat info.

I must say I really appreciate the AGFC reps that come and post here you guys can sure help with many questions and topics Thanks a Bunch

[mojorig]

Quillback,

We only work the Cricket Creek arm of Table Rock in D-2. I am not sure about D-1 and the upper end of Table Rock. You are welcome to email Jon Stein at Jonathan.Stein@agfc.ar.gov. He would be the person to ask about that.

Feathers and Fins,

We are glad to be on here. We need to do a better job of getting the information about the fisheries into the hands of the anglers. We also get on here because we are avid anglers, too.

[Grubber]

The ride along sounds like a hoot, especially the smallmouth sampling, keep up the good work....