Striper Report?

[Arkansas Kayak Angler]

Heading out in the kayak new years day looking for stripers, anyone have them located?

Thanks in advance

[Sore Thumbs]

Prairie Creek would be a great place to start.

[YAKFM]

Check out the fishing reports for the past two weeks and the thread titled "The Current Hot Bite". As Sore Thumbs indicated, start out at PC and work your way up river.

[Coach CaL]

Jeff there is going to be a group of us heading on new years day. The Okies are coming over.

[J-Doc]

Coach, be advised that there will be a 200+ bass tourney new years day. And they will all be on the move desparately trying to find bass so lots pentax my around and wake creation. Possibly 250+ this year....

Launching out of Prairie Creek. The annual Polar Bear tournament.

[Coach CaL]

YIKES. . Thanks J-Doc. . We might need to re think our plans. . That does not sound fun

[J-Doc]

My guess would be Swepco as an alternative. Most of the tournament guys will be on Beaver so traffic on Swepco would be far far less. Or I would hope it would anyway. But that lake can get super windy so it's harder in a kayak on windy days.

[Coach CaL]

Thats a good idea. We had a kayak tournament there for the NWA children center a couple of weeks ago. We had 50+ kayaks sign up. It's a fun little lake but it does get HAMMERED this time of year, like you said with most of the tourney guys going to beaver it might be the ticket.

[Sore Thumbs]

I don't think there will be more than 65 boats in that tourney.

[Feathers and Fins]

They are on the move I would start looking from Horseshoe bend to point 12.