Little Central Arkansas road trip to go on a swine hunt

[Lance34]

Not a Beaver Lake Report...  Just wanted to share about a little road trip I took down to central AR on Sunday.  

 

Met up with a good friend of mine from down there to go fish Lake Dardanelle.

 

The initial plan was to go to Lake Conway but, had a lot of rain the day before so the Big D was the next option.  He hasn’t been on this lake in months. We burned a lot of gas to find them.  We about gave up with only 2 fish in the kitchen to head back home when one of his tanks ran out of gas and had to switch tanks over.  We were slowly drifting when all of the sudden his graph lit up like Christmas lights.

 

Told him man look at your graph.  He said you think those are crappie....  I said it’s a sign.  Let’s drop some hooks down and find out.😂😂

 

Boy were we lucky.  Rigging 40 fow, 30 feet down was where we caught them.  Not my favorite way of rigging but, that’s how they are on this lake this time of year I guess.  Not relating to nothing.  Just up a deep creek arm swimming around in the open feeding on their way to spawning areas.

 

Haven’t fished in central Arkansas in a long time.  You’ll get spoiled quick with how fat the crappie are.  

 

God bless..  pics below 

 

 

 

[BilletHead]

               Look at them heifers! What a bunch of toads! You are right big sows work too. Nice fish there,

BilletHead

[JestersHK]

Man thats a nice mess there!  I'd like to know the details on the swine hunt too!

[Ozark Flyer]

Yea, my buddy from down there is always making fun of the beaver Crappie.

[Johnsfolly]

On 2/20/2018 at 8:34 AM, Lance34 said:

Not a Beaver Lake Report...  Just wanted to share about a little road trip I took down to central AR on Sunday.  

 

Met up with a good friend of mine from down there to go fish Lake Dardanelle.

 

The initial plan was to go to Lake Conway but, had a lot of rain the day before so the Big D was the next option.  He hasn’t been on this lake in months. We burned a lot of gas to find them.  We about gave up with only 2 fish in the kitchen to head back home when one of his tanks ran out of gas and had to switch tanks over.  We were slowly drifting when all of the sudden his graph lit up like Christmas lights.

 

Told him man look at your graph.  He said you think those are crappie....  I said it’s a sign.  Let’s drop some hooks down and find out.😂😂

 

Boy were we lucky.  Rigging 40 fow, 30 feet down was where we caught them.  Not my favorite way of rigging but, that’s how they are on this lake this time of year I guess.  Not relating to nothing.  Just up a deep creek arm swimming around in the open feeding on their way to spawning areas.

 

Haven’t fished in central Arkansas in a long time.  You’ll get spoiled quick with how fat the crappie are.  

 

God bless..  pics below 

 

 

 

That's a great livewell full of slab crappie! Great job! I wish I had a chance to get some fish like those, but don't put in the time to find them. You guys have those big crappie figured out!

[Lance34]

11 hours ago, Ozark Flyer said:

Yea, my buddy from down there is always making fun of the beaver Crappie.

Yes...  Just long and skinny here.  A 14” crappie on Beaver weighs around 1.6-1.5#s this time of year.  Down there 2#s give or take.  All about that fertile water.  

[Ozark Flyer]

Very true.  I make a lot of trips to Wister in OK for just that reason.  Food and cover.