Making some Thanksgiving memories on the water

Arkansas anglers are still making some big catches this fall

By Jim Harris

Arkansas Wildlife Editor

Certainly this time in the fishing season requires different patterns and often different quests for anglers, but some favorites are out there to be caught. Some folks took the time over the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend to do a little late fall fishing.

One angler and a buddy (bottom photo) hauled in a 6pound channel catfish out of the windbreak at Lake Overcup in Conway County, and Johnny 'Catfish' Banks, the owner of Overcup Landing near where that catfish was taken, decided it was time to go after bream (top left photo), landing a nice bluegill (10 inchws long, 12 ounces).

Visitors to Overcup, he said, are also catch bass that are going hard after shad, and crappie were doing well off the docks a few days ago.

Meanwhile, another regular customer of Mike Siefert's Millwood Lake Guide Service named Garrett, from Texas, found out just what this 'Millwood Mayhem' going on now is all about, catching black bass and white bass (right photo).

Siefert says the Kentucky bass have joined in with the largemouths and the whites in the feeding frenzy on Millwood thanks to perfect daytime- nighttime temps and water level.