Thread: Management of lake Conway or lack there of.

I cant speak for Lake Conway but how much thought do you think is being put into the boat landings. Why for the life of me why would you put gravel and large chunks of rock around the launch. I understand erosion and all that but at LEAST put a place with some freaking sand so you can put your boat on the bank without ripping a hole in the hull. I guess they think people are not going to notice things not being taken care of. I believe they think we are just grateful to have a place to go fish. The boating lanes in Harris Brake are terrible. Go put in at Chitman Hill on the lake. You can either run your pretty boat up on the concrete (OUCH) or you can run it into a rock the size of a basketball. Heck I guess I should just get out of the boat 3 or 4 feet from the bank. The only two places that I have seen sand is at Corp boat launches. Maybe the AG&FC needs to take notes on how to construct a boat launch. The boat landing on the Foushe River at Perryville is horrible to. River comes up and deposits mud all over ramp. Not their fault I know. I was putting in the other day and you barely got enough room for trailer and boat side by side on the ramp. I am talking matter of a half inch serperating them. Why cant they get local fire dept to bring fire truck to landing and hose the ramp off and widen it back up. Dont know. They might have to get out of the office to notice such things.

If you want to voice your opinion go to the Arkansas Game and Fish page on facebook or email the commisioners.

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If you guys think this is bad you should get involved in current waterfowl regulations. Here are some non-sensible examples: 2 years ago, the AGFC tried to trade 80 acres of prime bayou meto bottoms for 80 acres of timber that was cut in 1997 that it labeled a "square deal" when in fact it was was far from a square deal (beautiful timber for a giant squirrel nest). Now they are talking about logging trees in Bayou Meto! The point is there is always someone trying to make a buck that is connected within the higher ranking brass at the AGFC and therefore the folks that hunt there have to keep a current fight attitude just to keep a place to hunt. Problem is, when the commish votes, it happens and most of the time they don't know enough about the matter to make an educated vote and are influenced by those who have spoken to them.

Blueduck, come up and take a look at Big Lake WMA. I can show you what Bayou Meto will look like when they get through logging it!!

I have reviewed the bing aerial photos as well as updated Google Earth photos of Big Lake and want to cry thinking about what could possibly happen to the scatters. Its unthinkable.

In my life I have seen 2 harvests of timber in Big Lake. The first was in a section of woods that I hunted. Some days we hunted a blind and others we waded in the woods. After they cut it, we couldn't beg a duck in standing in the timber.
Hope you guys fair better!

Go check out bell slough on the dam side. They clear cut 80 acres and left 3 or 4 cypress standing.

Look at Petit Jean WMA where they thinned the timber , looks like they removed big areas of huge Scaleybark Hickories. if we are not careful our public hunting grounds may wind up being Pine tree farms to make a buck. Look at Nimrod WMA , it is COE but they have planted most of the old fields in Pine plantations. Since when did the AGFC and Corps of Engineers get into the timber business? I think our public property should be returned to natural state of hardwoods or mixed planting to benefit wildlife.