Late March

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After you cross the river headed to Eureka Springs, take the first right, take the next right on CR 107, at the fork in the road take the right branch, and it will end about 100 feet from the river. The land between the river and the road may be private so ask at Riverview Resort and Country Store, which is just past the road I told you about. Good people at that store.

I have always been on that stretch in a kayak, but I remember seeing it. BTW, the stretch just downstream of the bridge is where my buddy and I caught a 7 pound brown.

[WestCentralFisher]

Thanks!

[WestCentralFisher]

Fished the tailwater this morning, and....holy crap. This place is awesome! Nothing particularly large but it's so beautiful here and the fishing is pretty easy.  I am thoroughly impressed. 

[WestCentralFisher]

Everyone else on the river seemed to be wondering where the walleye and/or big browns were, while I was actively having to restrain myself from saying "HOLY CRAP THERE ARE SO MANY RAINBOWS HERE" the whole time. For someone that doesn't get to fish water like this too often, the scale of the fishing down on these tailwaters is just on a different level. 

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1 hour ago, WestCentralFisher said:

Fished the tailwater this morning, and....holy crap. This place is awesome! Nothing particularly large but it's so beautiful here and the fishing is pretty easy.  I am thoroughly impressed. 

Pretty water, isn't it? I lived about about 7 miles downstream of the 62 bridge for 17 years. The river begins to become the lake just downstream from the 62 bridge. The house was on the bluff adjoining the Holiday Island Marina. If I walked across the road and looked down the bluff, I could see the boat in the marina. Health required a move back to Tulsa, and now I only fish 2 or 3 times a year with guides. Regrettably,  they focus on sections of the lake many miles downstream.

[Devan S.]

I am glad you are happy. I loathe Beaver Tailwater's treatment compared to others on the white river chain but it is home and that is where my heart is.

I don't know the rest of your plans but if generation gets in your way, just remember that a 1/4oz. swimbait head with a keitech(or other) slowly scrubbed around the dam site, indian creek or other general locations in the area will at least lead to the tug of a mad smallmouth. 

SWMO/NWARK where you can snag spoonbill, catch walleye, rainbows, browns, sunfish and perch, all the bass species, maybe even find some catfish in a 1 mile circle. 

[WestCentralFisher]

14 hours ago, Devan S. said:

I am glad you are happy. I loathe Beaver Tailwater's treatment compared to others on the white river chain but it is home and that is where my heart is.

I don't know the rest of your plans but if generation gets in your way, just remember that a 1/4oz. swimbait head with a keitech(or other) slowly scrubbed around the dam site, indian creek or other general locations in the area will at least lead to the tug of a mad smallmouth. 

SWMO/NWARK where you can snag spoonbill, catch walleye, rainbows, browns, sunfish and perch, all the bass species, maybe even find some catfish in a 1 mile circle. 

I know familiarity with a water leads to seeing and understanding problems a visitor like me wouldn't even notice. But on the surface level, it's a really impressive place. I have already started sketching out a plan for a trip back, which would involve camping and canoe rentals. Hopefully May or early June....this is more of a couple getaway with some fishing mixed in, but this place commands much more attention than I can give it this weekend. 

I had been very discouraged by absolutely banging my head against the wall to zero avail at Taneycomo on Thursday. Now, there is a body of water that seems to dislike me. I know it's an excellent fishery, but I am at odds with it. Whenever I go, it's always me and the other poor soul at the public access getting blanked or maybe catching one and then the tricked out guide boat coming in saying they caught 152 fish all over 28 inches. And you want to think they're lying, but the limits of fish they're throwing in the cooler strongly indicate at least an element of truth. I might be exaggerating a little, but you get the idea, and it's enough to drive a fellow crazy. It's just not a place real suited for a blue collar bank fisherman, I am starting to figure. 

So when I started down here yesterday, I was resigned to a trip to a pretty place with few if any fish caught, and then I immediately started hauling them in. Well, I was hooking them like crazy. More than the normal share got off, but even then it was what I would have to call a banner morning of trout fishing. 

 

[WestCentralFisher]

Got out a little more today. Maybe a tiny bit slower in bright sun with no wind to obscure the water, but still a real good day.