You'll want to mark your calendar for this Thursday, June 20, for the public meeting planned to gain input on DeGray Lake.
The AGFC is hosting this meeting, as well as one on Thursday, June 27, at the Arkadelphia Parks and Recreation Department, 2555 Twin Rivers Drive, from 6 to 8 p.m.
The AGFC is currently reviewing and updating its management plan for the lake, which was last revised in 2013. Fisheries managers in the AGFC’s Hot Springs regional office encourage all anglers to attend these public meetings to voice their concerns and comments concerning the fishery. The June 20 meeting will include a brief presentation regarding the current status of the lake, including the most recent sampling results and stockings.
Following the presentation, attendees will be assigned randomly to small groups to discuss and record topics they feel are important to consider when moving forward with revisions to the fishery management of the lake.
Fisheries biologists will compile the recommendations gathered from this meeting and present them to attendees during the June 27 meeting. Following that presentation, the meeting will adjourn and attendees still have time to visit further with AGFC staff. For more information about the meeting, contact the AGFC's Hot Springs Regional Office at 877-525-8606.
* Meanwhile, our regular reporter from DeGray Lake, John Duncan at Iron Mountain Marina, says this is a great time to be fishing the lake, but get there before the rain arrives (or wait until this latest front passes). He says white bass are schooling from Brushy Creek to Point Cedar, If the wind will give you a break, they will surface.
Arlie Moore near the Boy Scout Camp has been a good area. Hybrids are also active. Again, if the wind will give you a break, try surface lures for school fish very early and late. Whopper Plopper and Zara Spooks work well. If they go down, switch to crankbaits, Rat-L-Traps or spoons. Black bass are turning to the summer pattern. Use Worms and soft plastics. Catfish reports are fair on noodles andb ream beds are showing up since the full moon.
* There are plenty more good reports from around the state. For instance, you don't have to have a boat at Lake Charles in northeast Arkansas, our source tells us. Fishing is so good there for bream and catfish, you can handle it all from the shoreline. And Mike Siefert in southwest Arkansas, who guides at Millwood Lake, has an in-depth report on some new techniques and baits getting hammered in his neck of the woods.
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