Beaty Lake Fishing Guide, St. Francis County, Arkansas

• Overview

  You will find Beaty Lake in St. Francis County, Arkansas. It lies 184 feet above sea level. Roughly 65 acres: a morning covers one end, an afternoon the other. About 1.4 miles of bank, so nothing stays unexplored for long. By elevation it sits in the lower part of our Arkansas listings. Forrest City at 6.4 miles is the nearest place to stop. New South Memphis sits 37 miles out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Beaty Lake

  Depth figures are not published for this one. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Open biodiversity records for St. Francis County list green sunfish, cypress darter, rainbow darter and longear sunfish. What holds for the county may not hold for this water. At Beaty Lake the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Temperature averages peak at 81°F in July and bottom out at 38°F in January. Cold never closes this one. The first and last hours carry the summer; the middle is slow. November and March are the quiet, comfortable months to be out. It holds true on Beaty Lake more years than not.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. This is a natural basin, not a dammed one. No car park, ramp or path is recorded within easy reach of the shore. Catfish want bait on the bottom: cut bait or worms, a simple running rig, and patience after dark. Bank access can be seasonal on ground like this. Close seasons apply to some species and not others. Failing this one, try Forest Lake Number 4, 4.3 miles away. Treat Beaty Lake as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.