Mena’s Crawford honored as AGFC Game Warden of the Year
July 26, 2023
NORTH LITTLE ROCK – As Major Brian Aston of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission read off a three-minute list of some of the more amazing accomplishments of the officer he would announce Tuesday as the 2023 Sgt. Monty Carmikle Arkansas Game Warden of the Year, it struck some people in the audience that it was a wonder the winner would have time to attend the presentation, much less have much time away from his work.
Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
July 20, 2023
Barrett (shown) and his brother Teagan found the rainbows biting at Calico Rock this week while fishing out of Jenkins Fishing Resort. Photo provided by Dave McCulley.
Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
July 13, 2023
Crew, a youngster from Oklahoma, landed this nice rainbow trout while fishing with family and guide Austin Kennedy recently in the Beaver Lake Tailwater. Photo provided by Austin Kennedy.
Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
July 6, 2023
Mitch (no last name provided), a client of Spring River fishing guide Mark Crawford, displays a prized smallmouth bass caught while the duo fished the Spring recently. Cool water at the Spring is a perfect respite from this recent summer heat. Photo provided by Mark Crawford.
Outgoing Commission Chairman Martin Pushed agency to stop ‘kicking the can’
July 5, 2023
One summer night two years ago, Arkansas Game and Fish Commissioners and other agency staff were meeting at Stan Jones Mallard Lodge near Alicia, in northeast Arkansas. Bobby Martin, beginning his sixth year on the Commission, had just been voted by his fellow commissioners as chairman, and summer had officially arrived.
Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
June 29, 2023
Graeme Shaw, who was visiting Arkansas from Missoula, Montana, earlier this month, caught this nice rainbow on the White River. He estimated it to be about 14 pounds and released it after this photo. "It's the biggest rainbow I've ever caught worldwide."
Ducks in a row at Frog Bayou
June 28, 2023
More than 1,300 acres of land in western Arkansas acquired by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission in the past seven years are now in the midst of a project that will provide substantially more public waterfowl hunting opportunity, more outdoor recreation and more needed habitat for migrating waterfowl.