SWEPCO Lake

[retroaction man]

Im thinking about going to check this place out.. has anyone been? Is it catch and release? Ill take any info anyone can give.

[Phil Lilley]

http://www.mcflyshop.com/reports/

A duplication but worth it.

[jay bird]

In your search engine put " The bass fishing home page" go to fishing reports, then AR. Take what they say with a grain of salt, but flipper seems to be very reliable. There seems to be some kids on it that are messing with people, but if you look and weed out the 100 fish days you will find some good information.

[jOrOb]

I fished SWEPCO one time last year and had a pretty good day. It is big enough to fish from a tube if you like, or from a bass boat easily. Plus the water is WARM all year round. We did well on 4 inch split shot rigged worms tight to cover.

The biggest for that trip was about 3 1/2 pounds, but I was told by my fishing buddy that there were a number of bigger fish to be had.

It's a neat place to go for a day trip.

jOrOb

[retroaction man]

I fished SWEPCO one time last year and had a pretty good day. It is big enough to fish from a tube if you like, or from a bass boat easily. Plus the water is WARM all year round. We did well on 4 inch split shot rigged worms tight to cover.

The biggest for that trip was about 3 1/2 pounds, but I was told by my fishing buddy that there were a number of bigger fish to be had.

It's a neat place to go for a day trip.

jOrOb

do you think it would be any problem fishing from a kayak? from what i hear its going to be crowded this time of year. its very stable and rigged for fishing. would you recommend any put in locations?

[MoCarp]

I drove around that lake for an hour and never did find a public ramp!!

would love to know 2 things about it--

I how the heck to you get to the water

and for those that have fished it are there any common carp in it?--the state says there are grass carp--but are not sure about common carp

MO

[retroaction man]

so far this is sounding like a great place to take my kayak.

[Bobby M.]

here are some brief directions on how to get to swepco. take hwy 12 west out of gentry ar.

stay on hwy 12 until you get to Cripps rd. It is a pretty small road, the ramp is a few miles down this

road. there is limited parking and the ramp absolutely sucks, there is also a field you can

park in but I think the guys charges money. I have only been there once, about 2 months

ago, I went with my cousin who lives in fayetville and has fished swepco several times,

we caught between 20 and 25, several over 3 and 1 or 2 over 4. fished from daylight to

about 11:00 am. my cousin said this was a very slow day, usually 50 fish or better was

his average outing. the lake is fairly big, we ran down the lake at 60 mph +. water

temp was 84 at the exaust of the plant. 67 at the dam on the far end of the lake. he

says you can always catch them on green pumpkin finness worms with spot remover jig

head, carolina rigged worms,and a few on a jig. he says many days there is a great

topwater bite. flukes cast right up into the exaust and allowed to drift will produce many

fish. overall it was an awesome place, a little crowded but plenty of fish to go around. it

is stocked with the florida stain largemouth, so there is a potential for some monsters to

be caught, with the year round growth due to warm water. if you have a chance to go down

there, I highly recommend it and they say there is an awesome night bite year round.

there is alot of big bass boats and they all run wide open, I personally would not go out

in a kayak, but i have no experience in one. someone with experience would probably just fine.

I am trying to get a satellite picture posted but I havent figured it out yet, I will try and get that on here.

[Bobby M.]

[retroaction man]

Today i used google earth to find the lake but still, thank you for the directions. If you havnt used google earth there is a free version at www.earth.google.com i tried this out a few months back and northwest ar did not have much data at that time. But today i noticed that you can zoom into your house if you want to.

topo info has also been added. needless to say not much got done today at work.

i guess the only question is were is the exaust (or anyother good locations to fish) FROM THE BOAT LAUNCH??