11/26 day trip at Sam Baker

[top_dollar]

             I fished Saturday around the Sam Baker access.  The water temp was 45-46 degrees all day, air temp about the same, clarity about 6 feet or so.  I brought my fish graph this time to see how deep the holes were, and the deepest I saw was 14 feet.  I was there from about 11a-4p and looked for crappies for an hour or so to no avail.  Picked up a jerkbait and immediately started catching.  One of the better days of bass fishing I've had.  I quit counting at 10 fish, and they just bit better and better throughout the day, then the bite stopped abruptly at about 330.  If I had to guess, Id say I caught somewhere around 30 bass.  Most were fairly shallow, but up on the deep banks. They were mostly between 13 and 15 inches, with the biggest being a 17 inch LM.  

[jdmidwest]

Fish look good this time of year.  Did you float thru or just paddle near the access?

[top_dollar]

2 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

Fish look good this time of year.  Did you float thru or just paddle near the access?

I didn't have anyone to shuttle me, so I just put in at the access, walked/paddled upstream to the holes I wanted to fish, and paddled back down.  

[jdmidwest]

10 hours ago, top_dollar said:

I didn't have anyone to shuttle me, so I just put in at the access, walked/paddled upstream to the holes I wanted to fish, and paddled back down.  

The store concessionaire in the Park used to do shuttles.  I have used a bored park worker from time to time.

The Big Creek Float from Brunot is awesome in a kayak.  Run up 49 above the park and float to it.

[top_dollar]

15 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

The store concessionaire in the Park used to do shuttles.  I have used a bored park worker from time to time.

The Big Creek Float from Brunot is awesome in a kayak.  Run up 49 above the park and float to it.

Thanks ill do that! I want to do big creek, but the 2 times I have been there were in the winter so I figured most of the fish would be in winter spots on the main river and not in big creek.  

[jdmidwest]

There are deeper holes up there than what you see in the park.  There will be fish in them.  Lots of it will be shallow runs, even a little shutin spot to squeeze thru or pull over them.

[jdmidwest]

Thats 143 up there.  49 would be coming down the back end out of Des Arc.