White River will change with the costal weather in route
Don Schnable
August 30, 2012
White River - Freshwater Fishing Report
Jim Brentlinger at Linger's Guide Service and Fishing Lodge(870-499-5185) had this report for Buffalo City to Red's Landing: There are a lot of fish from Cartney Access to Matney Mountain Shoal and hardly anyone is fishing that area. Rapalas, Zig Jigs or your favorite bottom bait. The water levels fluctuate daily but if you will watch the computer-generated flow-projection report, you can pick your favorite water level and catch plenty of fish. The fish are not biting that well between Norfork and Red's Landing, but you can limit out if you don't get in a big hurry.
Buffalo River
as of Wednesday, the river was very low and slowly falling. Ponca was at 1.45 feet, Pruitt was very low at 3.18 feet, Tyler Bend was low at 3.29 feet and Buffalo Point was low at 2.56 feet. Clousers, Shenk's Streamer, KC's Ozark Slider and Crazy Dads are all working well. Also, try large hopper and dragon fly patterns on top. Whit's Hopper and Whitlock's Gorilla Dragonfly are cool patterns to try, as well as Sneaky Pete's, Gurglers in white or chartreuse, and Boogle Bullets. The top-water bite with flies is really going gangbusters. Spotted bass are holding near woody debris. Smallmouth bass are in the deeper channels. Sunfish have been caught with about anything that hits the water. Small poppers, woolly buggers, spiders, beetles and hoppers are raking in the sunfish. Sometimes it is hard not to catch them. Spin fishing has picked up fish with white or gray Flukes, 4-inch Zoom lizards in watermelon red and tube baits in green pumpkinseed. Crank baits, buzzbaits and spinners have worked well also.
Crooked Creek
the gauge at Kelley's Slab was reading 9.51 feet Wednesday. Fishing has been very good; Top-water fishing is producing smallmouth up to 18+ inches for both fly and spin anglers. Concentrate on deeper runs and the upper end of pools with chunk rock and/or wood cover, and cover thoroughly with repeated, accurate casts with varied retrieve rates.
Target Species:
Varied
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