Tweet Good reports abound. The warming waters from the early July heat may have sent crappie into deeper water to keep cool, and a few areas reported to us the past couple of weeks that the crappie bite had shut … Continue reading →
TweetWe think of Millwood Lake, the Corps of Engineers lake created by damming Little River in southwest Arkansas, as a serious largemouth bass fishing lake — and it is. But the size of the crappie we’ve been seeing (or at … Continue reading →
Tweet Kaimon Allender caught this 2 lb. 1oz. crappie out of Lake McMurtry this week. Share your photos with us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The Wildlife Department is working with the Oklahoma Health Department to craft messaging that promotes … Continue reading →
Tweet Today: Crazy crappie tips blow catch count through the roof… kriss, you signed up to get email from oldschoolfishingsecrets.com on 14 Jun 2017. As a valued subscriber/customer of Old Fishing Secrets, LLC, I respect your privacy and trust … Continue reading →
Tweet J RUSSELLVILLE – It’s natural that anglers and conservationists would be concerned about heavy flooding and how it could affect Arkansas fisheries. Spawning periods that coincided with major spring floods last year will be affected. Some fish production years … Continue reading →
Tweet Chuck Long AGFC Northeast Regional Educator, Jonesboro JONESBORO — Let’s start an argument. Not about politics, best brand of truck or the best snack for a fishing trip. This is a real argument, one in which everyone has an opinion … Continue reading →
Tweet The AGFC Fisheries Division says the crappie fishing just got more interesting on Lake Hogue, a 300-acre impoundment in western Poinsett County south of Jonesboro. District 3 Fisheries staff recently tagged crappie in Lake Hogue. The tags (yellow, in the photo … Continue reading →
Tweet Earlier this year, DNR biologists tagged more than 1,000 crappie with a yellow spaghetti tag. Anglers who catch a tagged crappie should remove the tag from all caught fish using a knife or scissors and place each tag in … Continue reading →
TweetMeredith Jacks went to the ponds at Bryant’s Bishop Park ponds on Saturday, the start of the free fishing extended spring break that runs through March 29, and caught this 4.3-pound bass. Lisa Spencer from Lisa’s Bait Shop sent in the photo and said … Continue reading →
Tweet LITTLE ROCK – Winter weather may have many anglers sitting at home dreaming of warmer days, but it won’t be long until water temperatures begin to warm to the upper 50-degree range and put the crappie on the move … Continue reading →
Tweet Randy Zellers Assistant Chief of Communications LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas Game and Fish Commission hatcheries produced and stocked more than 9.3 million fish during 2019 to improve fishing conditions for Arkansas anglers in 2019. Tommy Laird, AGFC Assistant Chief of … Continue reading →
Tweet BATON ROUGE, La.–Crappie regulations on Eagle Lake, a shared waterbody between Madison Parish, LA, and Warren County, MS, have become permanent. The regulations include a daily creel limit of 30 fish per day and a minimum total length limit … Continue reading →
Tweet Right now (and every other winter) there is an abundance of shad in the deeper portions of lakes like Lake Conway. This is particularly true of Wilhelmina Cove (aka “The Pool” or “The Cove”). Over the last month, AGFC Fisheries biologists have … Continue reading →
Tweet How about that nice crappie in the photo on the right. Capt. Darryl Morris, who guides for his Family Fishing Trips service, sent us the photo: a healthy 16-inch black crappie caught on Lake Hamilton on Tuesday of this week but … Continue reading →
Tweet White Bass, Black Bass, Crappie All Active A cold front followed by a little warming, all the way up to 70 degrees in some spots in the state, had the fish confused and active. Just when they, and most … Continue reading →
Tweet HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK — Get hooked on fishing and learn from some of the best in the crappie-fishing world at the inaugural Mr. Crappie Invitational and Crappie Expo in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Oct. 4-6. One hundred of America’s … Continue reading →
Tweet MAGNOLIA – The sun may have cooked away any rainbows over Lake Columbia on Saturday, July 27, but local angler David Allen Sisson certainly found the proverbial pot of gold when he netted a fish few in the fishing world have … Continue reading →
TweetToday, at its monthly meeting, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission passed a Notice of Intent to make the current crappie regulations on Eagle Lake in Madison Parish permanent. Eagle Lake is located in Northeast Louisiana and is shared border … Continue reading →
Tweet Check out Baylor’s crappie he caught! Take a kid fishing and make some memories today! Share your photos with us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. … Continue reading →
TweetCrappie update at West Boggs Lake West Boggs Lake in Loogootee, is one of many lakes statewide that is stocked and managed by fisheries biologists. Data from a recent survey revealed that West Boggs crappie are growing much faster than … Continue reading →
