AT A GLANCE
Why go?
Big Horseshoe Lake is a small, quiet natural lake in eastern Arkansas, set in the flat, farm-and-levee country of the Mississippi Delta near the town of Beedeville. Far from a resort destination, it draws visitors for one unhurried reason: fishing. Anglers rate it a dependable spot for crappie, the slender silver panfish that thrive in the state's lowland oxbow-style lakes.↗↗
Roughly 42 acres in size with around 1.9 miles of shoreline, the lake is compact enough to work slowly from a small boat or the bank. Its appeal is its intimacy — a modest sheet of open water ringed by Delta farmland, where a morning or evening visit feels like a private outing rather than a crowded recreation area.↗
Why people come: crappie water
The lake's main reputation is as a crappie fishery, with white crappie the species anglers most associate with it. That fits the surrounding Arkansas Delta landscape, where shallow, naturally formed lakes and oxbows — from the big Mississippi oxbow at Lake Chicot down to countless smaller ponds — are known for crappie, bream and catfish. If you enjoy sight-fishing around fallen timber, weed edges or a quiet bank with a cane pole and some minnows, this kind of small lake rewards patience.
