looking for big bream and or shellcracker

[bigbream]

Where in Arkansas or Mississippi can I find the best fishing for big bream or shellcracker ??? I am talking atleast 14 ounces and up. I have heard that Millwood Lake in Southwestern Arkansas is a good big bream lake. Can anyone give me any information ????

[fishingpox]

As a kid,my father would take me to Millwood often. I have not fished it in years but ,I do know for a fact,then, there were big brim and crappie there. Also, you might consider Tunica Cutoff in Tunica, Mississippi. The Mississippi River is in it but is on the drop. There are some big blue gill in it. I haven't been to Tunica Cutoff in awhile because of casino traffic and to many wrecks. I guess people are getting tore up down there.
Try the Arkansas forum,you might get someone closer to Millwood,who fishes there and will have better information. Good fishing to ya's.

Where in Arkansas or Mississippi can I find the best fishing for big bream or shellcracker ??? I am talking atleast 14 ounces and up. I have heard that Millwood Lake in Southwestern Arkansas is a good big bream lake. Can anyone give me any information ????

[Barnacle Bill]

Come on over to Virginia in June. One of our members is going to show us where to catch Super Giant Shellcrackers. Aint that right Panman?

[spoon]

fishingpox hit it right. Go to Tunica

[gooch]

Big Bream I would recomend you just call Jerry Blake and set up a trip with him to go crappie fishing. But if it is big bream you are dead set on catching, Millwood is as good of place as you will find. I also catch a bunch of big ones on Lake Ouachita here in Arkansas. We caught a good mess of them weekend before last some arround 12 inches long. I will try and look and find some pics from last summer of some of them and send you.

[Joe Horton]

In Miss. Try Tunica cut off. Bream get well over 1 lb. there. In Arkansas, Bear Creek for nice size Bream and Big Shellcrackers. Hope this helps, Joe

[bigbream]

Big Bream I would recomend you just call Jerry Blake and set up a trip with him to go crappie fishing. But if it is big bream you are dead set on catching, Millwood is as good of place as you will find. I also catch a bunch of big ones on Lake Ouachita here in Arkansas. We caught a good mess of them weekend before last some arround 12 inches long. I will try and look and find some pics from last summer of some of them and send you.

Gooch, is Millwood the kind of lake I could fish cold and still find my way around well enough to catch some fish or would I need a guide ????

Is Quachita a better bream lake than Millwood ???? Which would be better around first week in May for both size and numbers ???

I really appreciate the info.

[gooch]

Big bream personaly I would go to Ouachita. Now I say that for several reasons.

1 its closer
2 I baisicaly grew up on the lake
3 It is beautiful. No houses, condos, nothing but a few marinas, beautiful national forrest and clear clean water
4 Millwod is scary full of timber. I mean scary man. If you were a boat mechanic that was good at replacing lower units that is your lake.

Big bream I am not a know it all by any means regarding big bream. I just know what I know and most of what I know I learned from the knowlegable folks on this board. I do know that the bream will be comming to bed soon and they are easy to spot on Ouachita and VERY FEW folks target them. I would suggest you PM Jerry Blake and ask him his opinion. The guy catches fish for a living in the area you want to fish and I am just captain redneck He has been very nice to answer some questions for me. I am trying to scedule time to have him take me and my dad fishing soon. You might also want to look at the espn website and check out there outdoors section and then go to fishing hot spot maps. There is a good quadrangle map of both Ouachita and Millwood.
I will say that if you are comming in the next 30 days Ouachita is a tough place to beat to go and camp out at one of the many lake side camping areas or the hundreds of islands on the lake. You can fish all day and night stalk all night. If you do go to Ouachita let me know and I will send you some qps areas that we caught some of those 12 inch bream last summer and areas that they bed.

[dawgyrunner]

saw this post and was wondering is Quachita a good gill and shellcracker lake for size ????

[livemusic]

I fish Lake Erling (probably an hour from Millwood Lake) for bass and white perch (crappie) but I have heard that it has big redears.