Quote Originally Posted by Tadpole101 View Post
The Game & Fish has a Bioligist looking into Dardanelle. They say that all the thread fin shad left the pool, The Game & Fish did some checking for spawns in lakes and they said there wasn't one on Dardanelle and there was hardly any adult crappie. The last I heard they was trying to figure out why.
This may be true, but if there was a problem with the spawn, I would think it would have been from a drastic change in water level. To my knowledge the Gov. has not been yo-yoing the level to an extent that would affet the spawn. Also as Nimrod noted, there is enough back area in the pool to give the fish adequate area to stay in and spawn. I certainly dont believe that the shad are gone, because if that should happen, all the rest of the fish population would also be adversly affected. It has been several years since I fished over there, but the last time I did, the fish were healthy and fat as they could be. This has been three to four years, but there were shad out the gazoo over there then. Mayby there is a Game & Fish person on the site that could give us some first hand info concerning the river and its pools.