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Check our calendar for popular fishing tournaments in Arkansas held annually and see what our state-of-the-art facilities have to offer. We can also help you locate the nearest Arkansas marinas, boat docks, and fishing guide services to make your Arkansas fishing vacation a success!

With The Natural State's four distinctive seasons and moderate weather, even during the winter months, Arkansas has some of the best year round fishing available. Classified into six regions from the Ozark Mountains to the Delta, the state provides some of the best local fishing areas you'll find, albeit a quiet cove on a lake or the serenity of a trout river. Fishing in Arkansas is a popular pastime for family fishing vacations, those who want to hook a trophy-sized fish or those competing in tournaments.

Arkansas fishing waters welcome a simple cane pole and can of worms, a graceful fly rod on a flowing river or a bass boat racing to a hot spot. The Natural State offers 9,700 miles of fishable streams and rivers, 600,000 acres of lakes, numerous bayous, creeks and sloughs, providing anglers the chance to land a trophy or catch a limit from a variety of freshwater species. To augment those opportunities, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission operates warm-water hatchery systems and trout hatcheries.

In Arkansas, trout fishing for rainbow, brown, cutthroat and brook trout is a favorite outdoor activity on the White River in the tail waters of the Norfork, Bull Shoals, Beaver, Ouachita and Greers Ferry dams. Mammoth Spring provides plenty of cold water for trout fly-fishing action on the Spring River anytime of the year. And the Little Missouri River in western Arkansas offers cool-season rainbow trout fishing. Catfish, crappie and bream are also abundant in the southern (Timberlands or lower Delta) part of the state.

Bass fishing is enjoyed on streams and lakes in all 75 Arkansas counties. The state boasts nine species of bass, including stripers that top the 60-pound range. Arkansas offers world record fishing; three current world-record fish (brown trout, walleye and hybrid bass) were hooked in Arkansas waters.

Even though Arkansas has produced three current world-record fish, its homegrown anglers know well that fishing in Arkansas is frequently about more than the fish. It can be just as much about watching an osprey plunge feet first into the water and soar away with its prey, or experiencing a fiery sunset framed by Delta cypresses. Or floating on the clear waters of an Ozark Mountain stream beneath a towering, lichen-covered limestone bluff, or enjoying the turning leaves of autumn reflected in the still waters of a quiet cove.

Year-round Arkansas fishing opportunities attract thousands of sport fishing and outdoor enthusiasts from the nearby states of Missouri and Louisiana, Texas and Tennessee, Indiana and Illinois, and beyond. Are you looking for Arkansas lodging during your fishing vacation? Visit Places to Stay to find the perfect accommodation for your visit.

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