Ham and Dave’s Bowfin Odyssey

[Ham]

It’s kinda weird. The AGFC is still monitoring them closely, but people have gotten so used to them that they aren’t reporting them as much. 
Snakehead can be found in the ditches alongside the farm fields near Hunter and any creek, slough, bayou, or river might have them. They can get thick in an area and then wane. 
People on FaceBook have been posting some impressive fish from backwaters of White River and Little Red River. They have been found in sloughs associated with Cache River also. 

 

[Jerry Rapp]

33 minutes ago, Ham said:

It’s kinda weird. The AGFC is still monitoring them closely, but people have gotten so used to them that they aren’t reporting them as much. 
Snakehead can be found in the ditches alongside the farm fields near Hunter and any creek, slough, bayou, or river might have them. They can get thick in an area and then wane. 
People on FaceBook have been posting some impressive fish from backwaters of White River and Little Red River. They have been found in sloughs associated with Cache River also. 

 

so you are talking St. Francois county in Arkansas?

[Ham]

Weather has really screwed us up on this deal. I was totally confident in my Black River backwater. But that got Shut down.

Day 2 is officially scrubbed. I love to fish, but I can’t make myself dive 6 plus hours to fish 5 hours in a steady rain and a 15 mph wind. Real Feel is upper 40’s.

Dave might fish close to his lodging. I’m not. 

[Ham]

7 minutes ago, Jerry Rapp said:

so you are talking St. Francois county in Arkansas?

St Francis County in Arkansas. We were fishing around Hunter, AR. 

[Gumboot]

3 hours ago, Ham said:

St Francis County in Arkansas. We were fishing around Hunter, AR. 

I've shot a lot of ducks around Hunter, AR...

I grew up hunting and fishing a duck lake off the Languille River just east of you.  Had many a Grinnel break my 4 lb test while jigging buck brush for crappie.

You're definitely in the right country!

[Ham]

5 hours ago, Gumboot said:

I've shot a lot of ducks around Hunter, AR...

I grew up hunting and fishing a duck lake off the Languille River just east of you.  Had many a Grinnel break my 4 lb test while jigging buck brush for crappie.

You're definitely in the right country!

I saw that on google maps and I would like to fish it When it's not flooding. Does the water ever get close to clear?

[FishnDave]

Wednesday… miserable day, weather-wise.  I saw an opening on the radar, so fished nearby.  Fished for 3.5 hours… and despite wearing waders and a rain jacket, I managed to get wet tbrough every later I had on.  My fingers stopped functioning properly, so I gave it up.  I caught 10 species, and @ 40 fish… so it was a fun 1/2 day.

I caught:

-Creek Chubs

-Green Sunfish

-Largemoutb Bass

-Bluegill

-Black Crappie

-Knobfin Sculpin

-Longear Sunfish

-Striped Shiner

-Grass Pickerel

-Brown Trout

 

 

[Johnsfolly]

@FishnDave nice variety. Assume you were fishing near Mammoth springs. Congrats on those grass pickerel. I still need to catch another and get photos.  

[Gumboot]

17 hours ago, Ham said:

I saw that on google maps and I would like to fish it When it's not flooding. Does the water ever get close to clear?

The Languille gets really clear in the summer but its hard to run and there is almost no public access.  Fishing can be really good when they start draining rice fields late august/september.  All manner of fish stack up at mouth of ditches running into the river. 

Same thing happens on Bayou Deview and the Cache, and pretty much every slough in rice country.

[Ham]

11 hours ago, Gumboot said:

The Languille gets really clear in the summer but its hard to run and there is almost no public access. 

I did notice that access was limited to non existent.

I apparently love a challenge