Events Calendar

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9th Annual Great Cotter Trout Fest
June 18-19, 2010

Vendor alert!
Mark your calendars for the 9th annual Great Cotter Trout Festival June 18 & 19 2010 at Big Spring Park, Cotter, Arkansas. The festival has grown year after year and prime vendor space this year should be at a premium. To address increasing publicity costs, a $15 non-refundable advertising fee will be required for each approx 10 ft x 10 ft vendor space. Larger spaces can be arranged.

 Larry Barker 870-425-9261
Sonny Sharp 870-492-4483
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Recurring Meetings

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Cotter Chamber
   3rd Tuesday-8 am
Brass Door
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Cotter Lions Club
2nd Monday-5:30 pm
Cotter VFW

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Cotter Saturday Club
3rd Saturday

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Add your meeting or special event here.

Fishing in Cotter’s Big Spring
 

LITTLE ROCK - In an effort to expand trout fishing opportunities to more people and more areas of the state, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has established fishing regulations which opens Big Spring to fishing by youth and disabled anglers.

For the past 40 years, Big Spring had been managed as a trout sanctuary for spawning trout. Fishing was not allowed in the man-made channel of the spring. The regulation preventing fishing has been relaxed somewhat to allow fishing derbies during special events. Trout were stocked directly into Big Spring for those fishing derbies. The spring never proved to be an ideal location for trout to spawn and contribute wild trout to the White River. The underground spring is located in north Arkansas just south of Cotter and emerges adjacent to the White River near the newly renovated AGFC Cotter access area.