Vacation on the Big D

We spent our vacation on Lake Dardanelle with our son and some of my wifes kin folk. Caught some nice crappie, never caught a limit but sure had a good time. Got to meet Mc Daddy, his wife, RL Crappie, his wife, and dog, sure is nice meeting folks from the sight on the water and putting a face with a name. Went over to Lake Nimrod one day, fought the wind for a while and got to talk to Nimrod on the lake. Finally found the fish, caught a bunch (mostly small) but kept enough for a good mess.
It was cool and rained some most every day but it didn't stop us to much. Sunday afternoon we were watching some storm clouds build, so I got out my cell out to look at radar and saw a bunch of purple headed our way. By the time we got poles put up and got to the ramp (the same time as everybody else)it was raining the wind blowing and the tornado alarm was going off. It was surprising how smooth it went with everyone rushing to load and get out of there, all except for the guy who stopped in front of me to tie his boat down and I had to kindly ask him to GET OUT OF THE WAY!!! Was able to get a few pictures. Attachment 200321Attachment 200322Attachment 200323Attachment 200324Attachment 200325Attachment 200326Attachment 200327

Missed the picture of the best crappie.Attachment 200330

That's a hog there. Glad ya had a good time and kept safe. Congrats.

great post!

That siren was not anything but test it goes off every day at noon over there . :Rofl Good fish. :highfive

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Originally Posted by NIMROD

That siren was not anything but test it goes off every day at noon over there . :Rofl Good fish. :highfive

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Sunday the siren was for real!

Nice fish congrats on a successful trip!

David it was really great meeting you and Debbie, and thanks for cooking fish for lunch and inviting me to eat with you. Thanks also for helping us get off the lake so quickly when the tornado sirens went off Sunday afternoon. It was certainly legitimate, my phone went off twice saying to take shelter immediately. If you do it again next year holler at me and maybe we can fish together.

Good trip !!!!!

David, it was a pleasure to meet you, sorry we didn't have a chance to meet the rest of your family. You guys really caught some nice fish thanks for sharing the story and pictures.

Looks like a great trip

Looks like you had a good time.

Come on back to Nimrod the spawn about over but summer time pattern should be just around the corner. Good see'n you and yours on the water.

One of my favorite places to camp. Life has intervened this year, in a big way. Last year, I remember Harold and Deezer helping me with camper plumbing problems........and then spending the night practically when the "Vilonia" tornado hit. This was right after Crappie Camp.

Right now, it's very hard to plan anything. But if anyone wants to plan a CC "trek" over there sometime, holler.

Nice job

Nice pics and post. Thx for sharing with us.

Nice trip DKO, Glad you got to hammer a some. Hope to see ya on the water soon.

looks like yall had fun!

Good looking fish.