Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
March 17, 2022
Guide Craig Yowell (left) enjoys the celebration as angler Eric Underhill from Colorado holds on to a 34-inch, 25.8-pound brown trout caught in the Bull Shoals Dam tailwater out of Cranor's White River Lodge this past weekend. Yowell says the trout took the bait to the middle of the river, then back to the shoreline for a 7-minute tussle with Underhill. Photo courtesy of Craig Yowell.
Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
Feb. 3, 2022
A nice rainbow is displayed by an angler named Miles from Wichita, Kansas, who was fishing with guide (and Fishing Report contributor) Mike Winkler recently on the Little Red River. They were fishing pink San Juan worms on a deep-water nymph rig out of the boat with the floodgates open at Greers Ferry Dam. Photo provided by Mike Winkler.
Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
Jan. 27, 2022
Chris Allen from Memphis, covered up and masked while fishing the Spring River recently with guide Mark Crawford, got ahold of a big brown trout that made for a nice photo. Mark said, "His big hands make the fish looker smaller than it was! Honest" Photo provided by Mark Crawford.
Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
Jan. 20, 2022
The Haylee family from Wisconsin caught some nice stripers on Norfork Lake last week. Photo provided by Steve Street.
Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
Jan. 13, 2022
David Stott found the big bass biting last Saturday at Lake Maumelle, catching this 8-pound bass as part of a five-bass stringer that weighed more than 17 pounds, enough to win a bass league tournament event. Mike Hammett finished right behid Stott, catching five bass totaling 16.22 pounds. Photo provided by WestRock Landing.
Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
Jan. 6, 2022
Dale Clark landed this beautiful, hefty rainbow trout while fishing the Spring River in north Arkansas recently. Photo provided by Mark Crawford.
AGFC tags special ‘stocking’ stuffers for the holidays
Dec. 22, 2021
LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Family and Community Fishing Program has begun trout stockings for the 2021-22 winter stocking season at ponds throughout Arkansas. This is the chance to hook into a specially tagged, prize-winning rainbow trout before the water warms too much to support these cold-water fish.