Thread: How about Saline River?

It isn't salt water, but it is called the Saline River in Central Arkansas, about 15 minutes from my house.

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I had a chance to go with a good friend who has fished this river his whole life, and at almost 81 years old that's nothing to sneeze at:

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We hoped for some walleye and brownies, but they wouldn't cooperate. But we caught a mixed bunch of crappie and bass just the same.

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We only had about three hours to fish in this howling wind. One of the highlights of the day was the bald eagle that tried to land in a tree over our heads, but spooked away. The wind got it before I could get my camera out.

It was a glorious day with a good friend....Our good Lord does indeed give us "richly all things to enjoy."

Nice looking river! Great report :headbang:

Nice mess of fish for February.

was thatg black crapie?

All of them were black crappie....we call them specks around here, but I understand that's a different kind of fish in other places. Three were over 13 inches and one was 14. Had a fish fry for the family last night. Nothing like straight from the water to the frydaddy.

Another couple of weeks and we should have some ice-chest-full kind of days. The wild plum trees and yellow jonquils are all saying that spring is around the corner -- but we had a pretty good frost Saturday morning. Maybe that's the last one.

I fish the same river a couple of hours south. I live about 1 mile from it. I plan to set a few trotlines on it this weekend, Lord willing.