Check out these hawgs! Another case of a small waterbody producing some big bass.
This is 50-acre Gurdon Lake, located about a half hour drive south of Arkadelphia in Clark County. The Commission has stocked Florida Largemouth Bass at this lake since they acquired it from International Paper Company back in 1990.
Per reports from anglers visiting the lake, the big ones are often elusive when pursued with rod and reel. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission collected these on a recent electrofishing evaluation of the bass fishery. Nearly one of ten bass collected with electrofishing was greater than 20 inches in length. Nearly 48 percent of the bass were greater than 15 inches. They collected fin clips as a continuation of monitoring the Florida bass genetics in this lake. They weighed several bass from this sample that were between four and seven pounds.
Gurdon Lake features a concrete boat ramp adjacent to the Gurdon City Park. It’s a shallow lake with a maximum depth of about 13 feet, and there are numerous cut stumps throughout the shallow portion of the lake, so exercise caution when navigating.