Arkansas offers anglers an opportunity of a lifetime fly fishing in waters that managed to guarantee the population of large trout and other species. Pick up your free copy of the Fishing Season Information & Wildlife Property Discovery booklet, which is available with any of the wildlife offices.

The perfect spot to fly fish is the White River. Trout love this kind of environment. The White River is also quite famous for fly fishing bream and bass. The Little Red River is noted as one of Arkansas’ world famous tail water trout streams. It’s known for the great fly-fishing opportunities it offers. Rainbow trout are stocked here by the thousands annually and periodic releases of brown trout have produced an excellent fishing. Lake Ouachita is another beautiful place in Arkansas where fly fishing is popular. Beneath the clear, clean waters lies a treasure of sporting fish. The lake is stocked each year with young fish. You’ll find large mouth bass, brim, catfish, cool water walleye and even rainbow trout. DeGray Lake is home to several different species of bass, blue and flathead catfish.

The lake supports small mouth, largemouth, Kentucky, and white bass as well as trout, crappie, catfish, walleye, and pan fish in abundance. In close competition, offering as much variety, Greers Ferry Lake is also worth mentioning for its wide variety of bass, walleye, crappie and bream; the lake is the home of the World Walleye Classic and attracts hundreds of expert walleye anglers every year. Arkansas River traverses the state from west to east, creating the 50-mile-long Lake Dardanelle giving the opportunity of superior angling for a variety of bass and catfish species as well as crappie.