[jackie53]

Tubes, TRD and small worms are all great creek baits, but don't forget small topwaters like a baby Spook or Tiny Torpedo. 1/8 oz spinnerbaits are killers at times and never it a creek without..
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Oh yeah, don't forget the Beetle Spin.

Telephone ,Telegram, Telegraph,TellaSam!!!
Don't give away all our secrets!!!!
Pfffffffft!!!!! Lol 😂😆 Lol

 

[sam]

If I was going to tell all the secrets, I'd have mentioned this:

Back from the time I could first carry a rod until my late teens, I walked the creeks of north Arkansas using this lure about 99% of the time.

 

[jackie53]

If I was going to tell all the secrets, I'd have mentioned this:

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Back from the time I could first carry a rod until my late teens, I walked the creeks of north Arkansas using this lure about 99% of the time.

Loose lips sink ships...Lol 😂😆...

 

[8upSS]

Definitely a Drum.

I always get them mixed up

That thing was 20” long and pulled like a freight train

A fun fight on a 5’ UL with 4lb line.

 

[Buck-Ridge]

I waded and floated Fourche one time from a neighbors farm down to Middlebrook bridge and caught 74 smallmouth in 4 hours on a gold R9 and after I lost it a gold R7 Rapala. Biggest was 3.5 lbs. Most of them were small but it was a blast. Some of the creeks I used to wade when I was young don't have enough water anymore to grow fish.

 

[AR Snowgooser]

Black and red flake tube or green pumpkin works well on the Saline river

 

[paxcolt]

One of the greatest of all outdoor activities.

 

[JR2]

I waded and floated Fourche one time from a neighbors farm down to Middlebrook bridge and caught 74 smallmouth in 4 hours on a gold R9 and after I lost it a gold R7 Rapala. Biggest was 3.5 lbs. Most of them were small but it was a blast. Some of the creeks I used to wade when I was young don't have enough water anymore to grow fish.

Been there…done that! SO MUCH FUN!

 

[dr85]

Ned rigs with a weed guard
Small z man stick baits or tubes

 

[RiceFarmer14]

How do you know if you’re not trespassing on these smaller creeks?

 

[DonniePowell]

How do you know if you’re not trespassing on these smaller creeks?

You really ain't having fun unless you are looking over your shoulder quite a bit.

 

[sam]

Unless you are on public land you are trespassing, permission is needed to trespass on any private land in Arkansas, posted or not. That's the law.

 

[Remington]

Ask the landowners?

 

[jackie53]

In the Creek or River is not Trespassing...
Now when you step out of the creek your Trespassing..
creeks private property in Arkansas?


The public has the right to use a stream in Arkansas if it is navigable. Both commercial and recreational use is considered in determining navigability. However, landowners on a navigable stream have the right to prohibit the public from crossing their property to reach the stream.

 

[Wag]

Jackie, you know I love ya, but you cannot give out legal advice you got from Junior Samples.

 

[inthehollar]

In the Creek or River is not Trespassing...
Now when you step out of the creek your Trespassing..

10+ years ago I asked an Arkansas GW about this. His reply was something along the lines of, any waterway that is deemed non-navigable cannot be accessed even in the water without landowner permission. Keep in mind this a while back, things could have changed. Also, I don't know of a list of waterways classifying them as navigable and non-navigable.

 

[jackie53]

If I run my boat up the Red River as far as I can in my boat and get out,stay in the Stream am I trespassing? No...

 

[Kdub64]

If I run my boat up the Red River as far as I can in my boat and get out,stay in the Stream am I trespassing? No...

As long as that waterway is determined to be navigable it is covered under the jurisdiction of the Corps of Engineers.

Navigable waters means all lakes, rivers, and streams, which can support a vessel capable of carrying one or more persons during a total of six months in one out of every ten years.

 

[jackie53]

As long as that waterway is determined to be navigable it is covered under the jurisdiction of the Corps of Engineers.

Navigable waters means all lakes, rivers, and streams, which can support a vessel capable of carrying one or more persons during a total of six months in one out of every ten years.

Thank You ..

 

[RiceFarmer14]

As long as that waterway is determined to be navigable it is covered under the jurisdiction of the Corps of Engineers.

Navigable waters means all lakes, rivers, and streams, which can support a vessel capable of carrying one or more persons during a total of six months in one out of every ten years.

interesting, where did you get that? always wondered why crooked creek was floated butt Janes Creek or maybe Martin creek was not…south fork of the spring river is but other smaller creeks aren’t. The navigable list of rivers was not as broadly defined as this an few years ago…