Fishing this week

LAKE CONWAY Fishing overall was good to excellent. Bream were excellent, biting in 8-10 feet depth around the banks. Worms and crickets were working best. Catfishing was excellent on trotlines with goldfish and minnows. Crappie were biting in 8-10 feet depth, especially around the Arkansas 89 bridge, on minnows and jigs. Bass fishing was good around lily pads and cypress trees. Best baits were a white spinnerbait and a topwater frog.

LAKE MAUMELLE Bream fishing was excellent using worms and crickets. Crappie was good using minnows and jigs and crappie niblets. Black bass fishing is excellent. Bass are biting wacky rig worms, spinnerbaits, jerkbaits and just about everything else for shallow water. Catfishing was fair with worms bringing in a few 5- to 10-pounders.

LAKE FAYETTEVILLE Fishing across the board was good. Bream were biting worms and crickets. Crappie fishing was good on minnows and jigs. Bass fishing rated good with crankbaits working best. Catfishing was good on worms.

LAKE DARDANELLE Bass fishing has been excellent. Bass are feeding up on the flats early and late and on the drops midday, topwater early and late; jigs, crankbaits and plastics midday. Striped bass still in the creeks. Topwater and swimbaits working best. White bass are with them holding in the current. Bream have been excellent on crickets and worms in the creeks around stumps, and in the river around grass on the rocks. Catfish have been excellent on cut bait and worms off of River Point and the mouth of creeks.