Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
Aug. 5, 2020
Happy Caldwell, an 81-year-old angler, had a happy day fishing recently with guide John Duncan on DeGray Lake.
Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
July 29, 2020
Jake Young, an 8-year-old from Harrison, caught his first bass on Lake Hamilton a couple of weeks back. His "nana," Nancy Godsey of England, Arkansas, who sent us the photo, says she's not sure whether Jake or she was more excited. Jake told her the fish was "a real fighter."
Spines help catfish live another day
July 29, 2020
CAMDEN – Fisheries biologists say the best way to determine a fish’s age is by the study of the otolith, a calcium carbonate structure in the inner ear that develops annual growth rings, like the rings inside a tree. The drawback to this process, though, is that a fish must be harvested to get to the otolith.
Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
July 22, 2020
Director, biologists mull changes needed in flooded Hurricane Lake WMA
July 22, 2020
BALD KNOB – Kayakers would have found the South Unit of Henry Gray Hurricane Lake Wildlife Management Area inviting in June. In fact, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Wildlife Management Division biologists had placed blue markers on trees that would be easily recognizable to paddlers who use the AGFC’s water trails around the state.
Northeast Arkansas field joins list for permitted dove hunts
July 15, 2020
JONESBORO – Dove hunters will have more than 300 acres of privately owned farmland available via drawn permit for the early weeks of Arkansas’s 2020 dove season, which opens Saturday, Sept. 5. Several regions of the state have been represented by the private land permit hunts in the past three years since the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission initiated the program, but this year will mark the first time a northeast Arkansas field has been part of the roster.
Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
July 15, 2020
Elizabeth Farr, 13, landed a catfish on noodles baited with goldfish at Lake Ouachita recently. Elizabeth's mom, Cassie, said Elizabeth and her sister (in a previous week's photo) caught eight catfish all this size in one trip. Photo provided by Lisa Spencer of Lisa's Bait Shop in Benton.