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It was a nice little lake cove with clear water, and a little stream flowing in at the end. That little tributary would be very low most years, by this time in the summer. And most years, there wouldn’t be any green trees and shrubs in the water. But it looked to be a good place to fish a topwater lure, late in the evening, and I meant to try it. There was a nice little rock cliff not far away, some timber sticking up out of the water nearby, and no one there but me.

The Big Creek Golf & Country Club Cup team defeated the West Plains Country Club this weekend by a score of 16 1/2 to 15 1/2 to successfully win the MoArk Cup for the third straight year. The Saturday Better-Ball and Alternate-Shot matches were played at West Plains with the home team winning the morning matches 5 1/2 to 2 1/2. The afternoon matches were tied at 4-4. The score after day one was West Plains 9 1/2 to Big Creek’s 6 1/2

LITTLE ROCK – When the top 64 teams from the senior division of the Arkansas Youth Shooting Sports Program meet at the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation Jacksonville Shooting Sports Complex on June 4, those bearing the names Beebe, Fouke, Jacksonville and God’s Great Outdoors of Farmington will be carrying the top seeds going into their respective competition brackets. Junior teams will shoot June 3 with Magnolia, Corning, Southside and Alma squads filling the top seeds in their competition.

Little Rock - The application period for Arkansas’s special urban bow hunts for the 2022-23 deer hunting season is now open. The hunts, which begin Sept.

LITTLE ROCK — The application period for special deer hunting permits on many wildlife management areas in Arkansas is open until 11:59 p.m. July 1, and hunters will notice many new opportunities, thanks to regulations passed during the May Commission meeting.

Lucas McVay finished the Decathlon in 15th place with 4,927 points, while teammate Caiden Curtis was unable to finish after rolling an ankle on the last jump during the triple jump event. McVay finished 59th in the 100-Meter Dash, 26th in the Long Jump, 42nd in the Shot Put, 17th in the High Jump and 37th in the 400-Meter Dash to end the first day of the Decathlon.

Big Creek Golf & Country Club’s 2022 Cup Team hung on by a single point for a thrilling 15-14, threepeat victory in the Ozark Cup matches against Harrison Country Club this weekend. Saturday’s best-ball and alternate-shot matches were in Mountain Home with Big Creek winning the best ball by 4 1/2 to 2 1/2 and winning alternate shot by the identical score.