Shiner minnows and threadfin shad are the preferred live bait. Shiners approved for use by Arkansas Game and Fish in Norfork Lake are available at most better Norfork Lake bait and tackle shops.

Vacation season is here, and there's not a better place to take a sporting sojourn than right here in Arkansas.

Michael Deere reports on why a swim area at Norfork Lake in north Arkansas was forced to closed and now is open. The swim beach at Bidwell Point at Norfork Lake was the only area closed down for ...

NORFORK LAKE, Ar. – Early Sunday morning, an EF-3 tornado tore across Norfork Lake flipping docks and tearing apart campgrounds in a matter of minutes. In the aftermath, one particular boat was ...

A boating accident on Norfork Lake in Baxter County that resulted in ... according to the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. The accident occurred at ...

Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists recently stopped the spread of zebra mussels from reaching Norfork Lake, according to a press release issued Friday afternoon. AGFC says thanks to the ...

The Arkansas Department of Health has issued a fish consumption advisory for large walleye in Bull Shoals and Norfork lakes. The advisory came after walleye tested from these two lakes were found ...

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is asking anglers for their input into a possible change to the minimum length limits for all black bass species on Norfork Lake in north Arkansas. Largemouth ...

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ar (KARK) – More than 40 mature trees that fell victim to a freak January windstorm now have a second life providing cover for crappie, bass and other fish, thanks to the efforts ...

While scuba diving at Norfork Lake in Arkansas, Cody Wyatt has already seen how a new kind of artificial fish attractor is working. In recent weeks Wyatt, a fisheries biologist with Arkansas Game ...

MOUNTAIN HOME, AR - Norfork Lake in northern Arkansas reached a new record high this morning. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the lake reached 579.32 feet at 9 a.m. The old record high was ...