Lake Ouachita Fish Species

What Species of Fish can be found in Lake Ouachita?

Spawning temp for each Species of Fish

Bass

• Largemouth Bass
• Smallmouth Bass
• Spotted Bass (Kentucky)

See The Fishing Tool Set Lake Ouachita Guides Recommend

True Bass

• White Bass
• Striped Bass
• The Hybrid Bass is not stocked into Lake Ouachita.

Catfish

• Blue catfish
• Channel catfish
• Flathead catfish
• Bullhead / Mudcat

Crappie

• Black crappie
• White crappie

Sunfishes

• Bluegill
• Green sunfish
• Longear sunfish
• Redbreast sunfish
• Redear sunfish
• Warmouth / Goggle-eye

Carp, Drum, Buffalo and Minnows

• Common carp
• Grass carp
• Drum
• Buffalo
• Texas shiner
• Golden shiner
• Blacktail shiner
• Red shiner
• Fathead minnow

Gar

• Alligator gar
• Longnose gar
• Shortnose gar
• Spotted gar

Chain Pickerel

* Rainbow Trout

Walleye

Gar

• Alligator gar
• Longnose gar
• Shortnose gar
• Spotted gar

Shad

• Threadfin
• Gizzard

Lake Ouachita is located in Garland and Montgomery Counties, Arkansas,
13 miles west of Hot Springs, Arkansas.

* No longer stocked.