Robert Johnson – Mike Golden came down from North Dakota on March 29 to visit Eureka Springs, and since then he’s felt what it’s like to have a striper on. He wanted his girlfriend to have that experience, too. It was a rough, windy day but we found some whites, then a couple of good stripers made it to the boat.
We’re still catching good fish from this end of the lake from Point 4 to Point 7. Stripers are also being caught between Hwy. 12 to Monte Ne near Rogers.
We got ours on six-inch shad down about 18 ft. with just 1/4 oz. weights. So they are getting closer to the surface every day now. We found water temps running from 52° to 54° both on Beaver and here at Holiday Island.
Here at the Island we found crappie out in the middle of Leatherwood Creek by the marina, and some small male white bass in the back waiting on the bigger females to show up. It won’t be long, just a little more warm rain and days and most of our warm water fish will be ready to spawn.
Crappie will move into the shoreline brush, which they are already checking out on the warmer afternoons. The walleye are about done with their spawn and being caught up the tailwaters from Houseman Access to the Spider Creek area. We do better on them here when the spawn is over and they come back to hang around the flats off the Island from mid-April through the summer. A jig tipped with a minnow catching most.
Well, I better go for this week. Most the warm water fish spawn between 58° and 64°, which is only a couple weeks away. Enjoy the sun, we’ve got lots coming.
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