Steve & Lisa Spencer give tips and conditions for local fishing holes in Saline County in this column. See more info about Steve and Lisa at the end.
Mike Parsley caught the blue catfish while fishing on the Arkansas River using cut skip jack.
Neil Powell caught like 7 1/2 pounds of crappie while using #6 crappie minnows over at Hot Springs Village at Lake Sophia.
Saline River – Catfish & bass have both been doing great on black saltys and goldfish. Bream have been hitting on crickets. Crappie being report caught off of #6 crappie minnows in the deeper holes.
Gavin Bright , 6yr old shows off his nice catfish while fishing with his father Steve using fresh chicken livers at a private lake.
Jake, 8 yr old, is showing off the 3 biggest he caught at his grandfather David Smith neighborhood pond off of black salty’s with the help of his older brother Garrett helping him hold them.
Sunset Lake – Catfish seem to still being doing great. Fresh chicken livers, bass minnows, night crawlers and stink baits have been doing well. Crappie been slow on #6 crappie minnows. Bream good on crickets and red worms, superworms. Bass fair on bass minnows and black saltys. Also on plastic worms.
Hunter Howard caught this nice bass at Sunset Lake using a Zoom O’l Monster worm.
Isaac Cunningham 7 yr old, was fish at Dierks Lake with his Father Kevin and he caught this channel catfish off of a worm.
Lake Norrell – Crappie doing good at night on #6 crappie minows. Bass been good on bass minnows and plastic worms. Catfish been good off of black saltys, cut baits, shad & skipjack and redworms and fresh chicken livers. Bream doing great on crickets drop shot them.
Robert Smith caught this nice blue catfish below Tull Bridge on the Saline River using night crawlers.
David Thomas caught this bass while fishing on a undisclosed water, bait unknown either.
Bishop Park Ponds – Here too the catfish have been doing great off of fresh chicken livers and also wildcat chicken liver stink bait. Bream good on crickets and superworms. Bass good off of bass minnows and black saltys, and zingtails and chatterbaits. Crappie slow but small in size off of #6 crappie minnows, and crappie jigs.
Noah Mitchem, 7 yrs old & Kruse Scrivner, 6 yrs old caught these catfish while fishing at Old River Lake with night crawlers.
Lake Winona – Crappie been fair off of $6 crappie minnows and Kalin’s grubs. Bream good on crickets. Bass have been hitting crank baits and bass minnows. Catfish been good off of bait shrimp, fresh chicken livers and night crawlers.
