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My Son-N-Law and I go White Bass Fishing. We caught good numbers of White’s and a dozen Black Bass. We kept a few and released the rest. We caught the White’s on Rooster tails and the Blacks on Zoom Flukes

We caught good numbers of spawning Largemouth Bass fishing with Wacky Worms. The day started out with a mix of breaking White and Black Bass. My daughter and Seans wife Mary joined us for the first few hours.

On June 26,2009 I drove over to Hot Springs via Hwy7, on the way back around 5:45 pm I was driving down a stretch of road 12 miles north of Jessieville and a huge animal crossed the road in front of me. I was about 300 yds from it and at first I thought it appeared to be a bear but as I came closer it was was way to long and slender to be a bear. I am 5′8″ and it stood almost to my waist high. It was black in color and not brown. There was also a SUV behind me and they saw the same thing. So if it wasn’t a bear then what could it be? I have read several articles that says black panthers don’t exist in North America.
I’ve already got several responses… It was not a dog nor a house cat and yes at first site was bout .1 to .15 tenths of a mile from me but I got a lot closer before it had crossed the road and that’s when I realized it was not a bear… I know for a fact it was a Panther but why does everyone say there is none in Arkansas. I’m not an idiot to the outdoors. Just wanted input…my grandfather was an old wise man and had seen one many yrs ago in Johnson county, Clarksville to be exact.
Oops looked at calendar wrong, was June 19th… to error is human.
FYI :The Mountain Lion is known by several other names: cougar, puma, catamount, and panther.

Sean Buffington caught this nice catfish while bass fishing with a dropshot rigged plastic worm on Lake Estrella in Hot Springs village Arkansas. The fish were in about twenty feet. Occasionally you will pick up at catfish, walleye or drum dropshot fishing. … sean buffington catfish bass fishing lake estrella hot springs village arkansas dropshot plastic worm banks patrick jameson black ass