Walleye fishing is fair around 35 feet deep on nightcrawlers drifted over the flats in the lake.

Crappie fishing is fair around 12-14 feet of water.

Largemouth and Kentucky bass ganged up in the run-offs for two days and are being caught frequently as are a lot of fish in the transition at the present. Fish are moving to shallow water, but cooler weather is needed to improve the bite. In the shallows, try traps, crank baits, jigs and finesse rigs along with a top water lure early and late in the day.

Catfish No Report

Crappie No Report

Stripers No Report

Largemouth Bass No Report

White Bass No Report

ANGLER'S EDGE 3RD ANNUAL TEAM BASS TOURNAMENT
OCTOBER 15-16, 2005
Entry Fee $200.00 plus $20.00 Big Bass (100% payback - optional) per team
Each team will receive 2 Free Falcon Rods and a Free Buffet Dinner at Mario's
Entry forms can be picked up at Wilderness Trail - Entry fees can be paid at Wilderness Trail also
For more Information call us at 870-445-2703 DEADLINE FOR ENTRY IS OCTOBER 8TH

Sunday morning we were watching the rain from Hurricane Rita. We don’t know how much rain we will get from this system, but at least it is giving us some much needed water. Lake temperature should come down a little this week with the predicted lower night time temperatures. As of Sunday morning the lake temperature is 78.7 degrees. Lake level is about the same as last week, at 647.80, 6 ½ feet below normal pool. With the rain we might gain a little back this week. The thermocline is now at 31 feet and is four feet wide, the temperature in the thermocline is 69 degrees. It was very hot this last week and the crappie again pulled out of the brush piles and moved out into the thermocline for comfort. Crappie minnows and Swimming Minnows worked the best this week in 30+ feet of water. Because the weather pattern will change the lake temperature and lake level this week we will give you a professional guess with the game fish.

Remember to keep only what you can eat and release the rest for another day. Rick Culver of Wilderness Trail does the research for this report and the writing of this report.

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Largemouth bass are good, and 2-3 pound bass are schooling up river. The best energetic feeding periods and schooling activities are mid-day in Mud Lake, Horseshoe Lake and Clear Lake. The rise in lake level from the recent rains, and cooler temperatures have really tuned the black bass on. Heddon Dying Flutters, Clear Baby or Tiny Torpedos, Smithwick Rouges, Devil Horses, all are catching the schoolers on top water in the last few days. Zoom Horney Toads in black, Turbo Shads, or Bass Assasin Shads in rainbow trout or gizzard shad colors, are all taking good size bass in the pads and vegetation. Try working these in the pad edges along Little River. Jig bite continues improving and are taking a few better fish in the last week. Texas Craw color, black/blue/purple with Hog Craw trailers in pumpkinseed/ chart or black continue to be best colors. Most consistent bites remain on bases of cypress trees and knees, in approximately 6-8 feet depths. Berkley 10" Power Worms in red shad or blue fleck colors are taking keeper length bass along the river stair-step washouts where laydowns or stumps are present. Crankbait bite is improving on stumps in Little River. Best colors from the past week appear to be working best, are the Norman DLN (Deep Little N) or the Cordell Big O, in chrome blue back, mouse gray with orange belly, and the brown back craw with orange belly. Our best crankbait bite is positioning the boat downstream from the stumps and targets, and throwing upcurrent, (into the current coming down river) swimming the crank down stream to the stump, slowing or stopping at the target or stump, then deflecting off the stump, and stop again. This is normally when the bite is occurring, at the slow or stop moment right at the stump or tree, as it swims around or is deflected off the target. Several nice bass over 5-7 pounds have been caught and released in the last week in this manner.

Crappie remain best early in the mornings, although the Crappie bite is shifting. Best this week on smoke or orange/white colored grubs, 12 to 14 feet deep, in contact with planted brush piles and tops. The best bite has shifted to later in the morning, and is 9am to 11am.

Channel (Blue) Catfish bite is good, using live shiners, or cut bait, on yo-yos under cypress trees in the oxbow lakes, and on trot lines in Little River set at 12-15 feet depth in the current. The best yo-yo bite remains at night on live shiners, in 6-9 feet depths under cypress tree overhangs.

White bass are still randomly schooling in Little River and are hitting 1/4 to 1/2 oz Rat-L-Traps in chrome, white, or chrome/chartreuse colors. In addition, white Chuck-n-Spins, white Rocket Shads and red beetle spins are working well around these schoolers. Good areas this week continue to be in Little River around White Cliffs, McGuire Lake, and AR Highway 71 landing. Once you find those schools of shad, the Whites are just below or adjacent to, the school on your graph. Throw Rat-L-Traps or Rocket Shads all around the edges of those bait schools, and count down to approx 10-15 feet depth and yo-yo back through the school at various depths until you connect with the White Bass.

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For those fishing the river and below the spillway, as of Monday, September 26, the lake level is approx 5 inches above normal conservation pool due to recent rains from Hurricane Rita. Current is increased in Little River due to change discharge at the dam. The lake elevation is 259.60.

Release at the dam is approx 605CFSt. Water clarity in the river is reduced at approx 10" and is expected to worsen as additional water is added from runoff this week. Clarity on the main lake approx 6-8+". North eastern sector of the lake around OK Landing, is muddy. Saline River clarity muddy due to runoff from recent rains over the weekend.

The upriver oxbows such as McGuire, Horseshoe, Mud Lake, Cemetary Slough, etc, away from any current in Little River, still have much better water visibility, estimated at approx 2 feet in places. Water temperatures have decreased in the last week and range approx 77ºF early to 83ºF later in the day, depending on area of the lake and wind.

Use EXTREME caution navigating Little River in low light conditions, and SLOW DOWN! Careful watch for floaters and debris in Little River's current, and wearing your PFD is a requirement!!