Hope everyone had another wonderful week, as always. Crappie are still biting in Beaver Lake, and for walleye in the lake, I’m picking them up on the points and dragging crank bait across them.
But wait, there’s more.
I went fishing on the Beaver tailwaters, the beautiful White River yesterday, and did a little trolling to catch a walleye like this sweet girl did on her father-daughter trip. All I caught were some nice size Rainbow chunks. Other people around me had caught one-to-a-few walleye.
But again, just as every year, everyone is jumping the gun. Wait till they get here, it’s going to be a great walleye season, I can tell. For some it’s all about getting out of the house and for others it’s about tracking them all the way from Table Rock Lake up to the Beaver tailwaters where they stage their journey to shallower water to spawn.
And they are working their way up here. Primetime usually is the end of March – first of April. We also see the white bass two weeks behind them in the chain of the spawn, but this year because of the weather I think it’s going to be early.
Then they are supposed to get back to their territorial waters. Many of the walleye stay all year long in the White River, almost like anyone who visits Eureka Springs, Arkansas, who says, “ Oh gosh I love it here. I want to stay here forever. I think I wanna live here!”
What walleye are supposed to do is come up here lay their eggs and then swim back to Table Rock. But times are changing, the climate is changing, everything is changing. This warm weather is tricking them into thinking it’s springtime so they’re doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
Have a good year with us at Custom Adventures Guide Service. On Facebook there are many good pictures and info, call (479) 363-9632 to book the right guide for you. We have a team of pros who can get you on the fish of memories.