September in Mountain View, Arkansas

My wife and I spent September, 2007 in a RV campground about 6 miles north of Mountain View, Arkansas. This was our first trip to this area. We had a great time.

We love to travel in our RV which is a 30′ with slide, trailer. We have all the amenities of home away from home. We pull it with a Ford F150, super crew cab, 4×4, with a topper over the short bed. Since we both love to do bass fishing from a boat, we haul the boat on top of the truck. I am able to load and unload the boat by myself with a special arrangement mounted to the trucks rear bumper.

The full service campground we stayed in sets right on the bank of Sylamore Creek. We chose this to be able to do some bass fishing while there. About two hundred yards downstream the creek empties into the White River which is a popular fishing destination. We launched our boat into the creek and fished both the creek and the river.

We had some success catching small mouth bass and sunfish on artificial lures. We used bait cast, spin cast and open face spinning reels tossing spinners, spoons, rooster tails, and even some small crank baits. The action was not great, but we had fun in a new setting for us.

The locals were very helpful by providing us tips about where and how to fish. They told us about Mirror Lake, supposedly full of rainbow trout. We were told where to fish, what bait to use, and even how to rig the bait. Their advice turned out to be good as we were quite successful. Our bass fishing quickly turned into rainbow trout catching.

Blanchard Springs is water coming from Blanchard Springs Cavern. The Forest Service offers tours of the cavern. The picture below is of water coming out of the cavern forming a stream.

The stream is dammed to form Mirror Lake. This is a small lake that is stocked with trout by the state of Arkansas. We watched the stocking process one time and saw many adult, nice sized, fish being put into the lake. Below is a picture, at the lake, of some of the trout we caught.