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.
Addison Sparks, 7 yr old shows off a good stringer of fish caught while fishing at the Saline River using crickets.
Ashdon Bradley, 4yr old caught this bream while fishing at Lake Norrell using a worm.
Logan Carper, 8 yr old caught this bream while fishing with worms at the saline River.
Saline River – Bass have been good on brooder minnows, plastic worms and brush hogs. Catfish have been doing well on trotlines baited up with goldfish & black salty’s. Crappie being caught in the deeper holes with #6 crappie minnows. Bream have been abundant off of crickets. Gar too have been very active and fun to catch also.
Conner Atkins, 2 yr old with the first fish caught at Greers Ferry Lake while using a worm. His father Robbie said that he wanted no part of touching it.
Hunter Adkins, 7 yr old, caught this fish while fishing at Greers Ferry Lake using a worm.
Judy Elrod caught this crappie while fishing at Lake Nimrod using a Kalins 2 ” grub in the color Red hot Mama.
Sunset Lake – This lake is best for catfish, fresh chicken livers seem to do very well here. I also have some that catch them on bait shrimp and stink bait. Bream have been good on crickets and red worms. Bass have been hitting spinner baits, plastic worms and brooder minnows. Crappie have been slow but deep with #6 crappie minnows and pink crappie minnows.
Rogger Lee Graham Jr. caught this nice catfish while fishing on the Caddo River using brooder minnows.
Billy Mitchell caught this bass while wading in the Saline river using a rooster tail.
Dawson Arnold caught this catfish using a shakey head at Greers Ferry.
Lake Norrell – Some late night fishing by a couple of my regulars have been providing them with them some slab crappie using #6 crappie minnows. Not only the big red ear bream but the big blue gill have been good out there off of red worms. The red ear have been being caught off of crickets drop hoting them. Bass been good on zing tails, plastic worms and brooder minnows. Catfish have been good off of cut bait, black salty’s and night crawlers.
Buddy Rowan caught this nice bass while fishing at Lake Nimrod using a 2″ alin’s grub.
Hunter Kindy, 13 yr old caught this nice bass using a chatter bait while fishing Lake Norrell.
Mark Joseph caught this 2lb 10 oz crappie while fishing at Lake Nimrod using #6 crappie minnows.
Bishop Park Ponds – Some decent size catfish been caught off of fresh chicken livers as well as on cut baits too. Some big bass have been caught off of brooder minnows and plastics too. Bream very good off of crickets. While crappie have been slow off of #6 crappie minnows and pink crappie minnows.
Joe Luke Shelnutt 5 yr old, caught this huge bream while fishing with a cricket at Lake Ouachita.
Alivia, 11 yr old caught some fish just recently on minnows at Hindman Park. Pictures provided by Albert Harris.
Lake Winona – Some huge catfish have been caught off of bream, goldfish and black salty’s. Bream excellent off of crickets and red worms. Bass good on minnows. Crappie have been good off of #6 crappie minnows and also #12 bass minnows.
Rusty Pelton, with a bass he caught out of Lake Norrell.
