District 1 Fisheries Newsletter

[Mike jones]

Awesome stuff Jon! Thanks for the insight!

[YAKFM]

We collect adult walleye from the Kings River just above Table Rock Lake. We normally put in at the Romp Hole Access and motor downstream to collect a few bigger fish for spawning. We also work on Beaver Tailwater around the Highway 62 bridge, if water levels are right. We normally need about 20-30 females and around 30 males to complete the spawning project. Fish are spawned on the bank, if the females are free flowing eggs. If the fish are not free flowing, we take them back to the hatchery and Charlie Craig Hatchery personnel monitor them 24 hours a day until they can be spawned. Once the fish have spawned, the hatchery takes the brood fish back to the Kings River and Beaver Tailwater. The eggs hatch and the hatchery raises them to fingerlings. The fingerlings are then stocked back into Arkansas waters, including Beaver Lake.

We also collected our crappie broodstock for Beaver Lake Nursery Pond from Beaver Lake. We have a good number of fingerling crappie in the pond that will be released into Beaver Lake this fall.

Thanks everyone for the good comments. Hope to see you on the water sometime.

Jon Stein

Arkansas Game and Fish Commission

District Fisheries Supervisor

2805 West Oak Street

Rogers, AR 72758

479-631-6005

Thank you for the feedback, Jon. Its great to get some insight into how AGFC manages the fishery.

[Champ188]

Thanks for your hard work and for caring enough to share this information on the forum! You guys do not have an easy job by any stretch of the imagination. We appreciate what you do for us.

[wc1063]

Thank you very much for sharing the information, someone actually doing their job, and very good at it, too!!

It would be nice if this catches on with the LE and the people that were supposed to maintain the docks around the lake, or am I just hoping for too much!!