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Date	12-Apr-24
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Conditions : Greers Ferry: Tommy Cauley of Fishfinder Guide Service (501-940-1318) said The water level at Greers Ferry Lake is at 462.10 feet msl; it is 0.06 above normal pool. The shad spawn is happening now over some portions of the lake. Some of our fish have spawned, but many havent. Between now and June theres a lot more to go, and a lot of fish eating are coming and going to spawn and post-spawn. With the full moon many are going to spawn in the next week, so be ready.
Catch rates for this time of year are really good, just stay with the same programs. Some crappie are roaming around chewing, while others are chowing down in pole timber or in brush piles. Wherever they are they are suspended 4 feet down to 40 feet. Use live baits, jigs, crankbaits or beetle spins for best results.
Black bass are good super shallow out to 40 feet in guts, main lake points or secondary points, on Alabama rig, Carolina rig, jerkbaits, football heads or crankbaits, and Texas-rigged lizards. Stay around the shad and or spawning areas. Some bass now are eating topwater baits as well.
Walleye are following the river spawn looking to get set up back downlake to eat, while the lake walleye are pulled up to the same spots eating and trying to spawn on flats, humps, rip-rap and points. Drag a crawler or crankbait or use a minnow-tipped jig. The spoon works best around schools of bait.
Catfish are hanging out on secondary points around and under bait fish or up rivers and creeks real shallow and gorging.
Hybrid bass and white bass are gorging like the other species, and when you find them just about any metal bait you get in front of them will get a response. Also, swimbaits, hair jigs and inline spinners have pulled up a lot of them out of super deep water, 25-50 feet. No report on bream, but the full moon is coming and its warming up.

Fish N Stuff (501-834-5733) in Sherwood says both the bass fishing and crappie fishing have been very good in the past week. Anglers are using various approaches for bass a Carolina rig and a jig are both being favored. On windier banks, a Chatterbait or spinnerbait have been working. Anglers also have been catching them off a floating worm up shallow. Anything in a bright color Bubble Gum and Merthiolate are popular now will get their attention. Also, anglers report catching a few on jerkbaits still.
Crappie fishing has been good using a little Roadrunner or a Fin Spin in one-eighth ounce or quarter ounce. Anglers have also been catching crappie up shallow around buckbrush or on standing timber in about 15 feet of water. Water clarity up the lake is stained, but in the lower end it is really clear, they say.

Reported by: Arkansas F&G

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About: - The 30,000-acre Greers Ferry Lake is known for its clear waters and cliffs that line much of its shoreline. One easily recognizable geologic feature on the lake is Sugar Loaf Mountain, where a national recreational trail by the same name climbs the 1,000-foot summit on an uninhabited island (making it accessible only by boat). During warmer months, the fog that hovers over the cold water in the Little Red can create a striking effect. And visitors traveling from the south or east will certainly notice a difference as they enter the regions hilly terrain. Fishing - Unknown, but impressive, is the fact that two world-record fish, the hybrid striped bass and the walleye, were caught on Greers Ferry Lake, which is the reservoir from which the Little Red River flows. (The hybrid striped bass, caught in 1997, weighed in at 27 pounds, 5 ounces, and the walleye, caught in 82, was 22 pounds, 11 ounces.) But walleye and hybrid striped bass arent the only catches on the fishing menu at Greers Ferry. Every game fish native to the State of Arkansas has been stocked in the clear waters of the lake by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, and it is especially revered as an excellent largemouth bass fishery. Camping - On the lake, there are more than 10 campgrounds, dozens of boat ramps and nine marinas, eight of which offer rental boats.

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