Both streams offer excellent fishing for catfish, black bass, bream, crappies and walleyes. The WMA has excellent hunting for ducks, rabbits and squirrels, and birders will find superb opportunities for viewing wintering waterfowl and bald eagles. Lake Ashbaugh can be reached by two routes. Follow Arkansas Highway 304 west out of Delaplaine for 3 miles, then turn north on the gravel county road and go 1.5 miles to the lake. Or, follow Arkansas Highway 280 north 2 miles out of Delaplaine, the turn west on the gravel county road and go 3 miles to the lake.
Signs mark the turnoffs on major highways.
There are concrete boat ramps on the lake's northeast and southwest corners.