Thread: Lake Dardanelle ??

Originally Posted by mb4850

C.J. some times I think you just ain't right.

I have never said that...but I have thought it several times.

Let's have fall camp in Peru. If those Dardanelle fish are down there, it would be worth the drive. I'll check for some lakes in the Lima area and no, I didn't need to google to know Lima is the capital.

Originally Posted by RCC

I have never said that...but I have thought it several times.

and no, I didn't need to google to know Lima is the capital.

Wow Rcc, you so smart. I thought lima was a bean?

Originally Posted by Cmj

Wow Rcc, you so smart. I thought lima was a bean?

That's where the bean was invented hence the name. Been checking out Peru. They got some funky fish down there.

Originally Posted by RCC

That's where the bean was invented hence the name. Been checking out Peru. They got some funky fish down there.

Its all them potholes they got down there. By the time them Dardanelle Crappies make it all the way to the bean capitol, they are all colored up like a peacock.

I have been told that Lake Dardanelle never develops a summer thermocline since the river runs through it with good current most all the time. The tourney bass fishermen have told me that if you are fishing more than 10 feet deep= your below most of the bass. I wonder if the same applies for crappie in the summer? I know I caught some 55 feet deep in the strip pits back in January. Maybe their annual migration to Peru makes them act different than regular crappie

I don't think I agree with the thermocline theory. I have marked one as shallow as 12ft in Piney and even in the main channel, hence Bass and other fish holding at 10ft.

Gobblerblaster, the folks from AGFC says there is a thermocline most years. But now with the rain and current it should'nt be but most dry years there will be very little if any current.

Good point CMJ. I have always heard that the fish will be above the thermocline. 12 foot deep water would be deeper than the bottom of the lake in most places- except the channels and strip pits- in Dardanelle anyway. Maybe that is why I can't find them in the summer. I suppose they just scatter.

Is all this rain going to have Lake Nimrod messed up by this weekend? If not, I may try it there.