Lake Conway fishing: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, White Catfish

Target species: Largemouth Bass, Chain Pickerel, White Catfish, Black Bullhead, White Bass, Redfin Pickerel, Bluegill
Boat: 4 ramps and launches on file for this water.
Start here: Launch at Dix Creek North Boat Ramp, 1 lane.

The lake

Lake Conway covers 5,438 acres in Arkansas, across Faulkner County. It is a lake: 96.6% of it is 8 feet deep or less; the deepest point measured is at least 12 feet (3.7 m). Our records hold 16 species for this water.

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7 target fish, led by Largemouth Bass

  • Largemouth Bass — Feeding water: 65–85°F.
  • Chain Pickerel — Feeding water: 60–75°F.
  • White Catfish — Feeding water: 70–85°F.
  • Black Bullhead — Feeding water: 70–80°F.
  • White Bass — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
  • Redfin Pickerel — Feeding water: 65–75°F.
  • Bluegill — Feeding water: 70–85°F.

Also recorded here: Redear, Warmouth, Green Sunfish, Silver Carp, Grass Carp, Common Carp, Goldfish, Golden Shiner, Western Mosquitofish.

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Paul Blake Howard from Memphis, TN, USA · CC BY 2.0

Depth and bottom

Deepest measured point: at least 12 ft (3.7 m). That is the deepest contour line: the bottom goes deeper. 96.6% of the water is 8 feet or shallower. We hold 160 depth contour lines for this water.

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  • 0–1 ft: 6.4% of the water
  • 1–2 ft: 9.4% of the water
  • 2–3 ft: 9.7% of the water
  • 3–4 ft: 14.1% of the water
  • 4–5 ft: 13.1% of the water
  • 5–6 ft: 14.6% of the water
  • 6–7 ft: 15.4% of the water
  • 7–8 ft: 13.9% of the water
  • 8–10 ft: 3.4% of the water

4 ramps and launches on this water

On this water we hold 2 trailer ramps and 2 boat ramps.

  • Hiway Landing Boat Ramp — Mayflower.
  • Paradise Landing Boat Ramp — Mayflower.
  • Dix Creek North Boat Ramp — 1 lane.
  • Greens Lake Boat Ramp — 1 lane.

Fee and opening hours are blank for all 4 places in this list: a blank means we hold no such field, not that it is free or always open, and this list may not be complete.

Water and conditions

Our water temperature readings average 85°F; they do not cover the whole year, so this is not a yearly average. pH averages 7.4. These readings span 2018. The latest reading is from 2018, more than three years ago: read these numbers as history, not as the water today.

What is hard here

Wind is the limit, not the fish: 5,438 acres of open water build a short steep chop, and there is no shelter in the middle. With 96.6% of the water 8 feet or less, low level turns the flats into hazards.

Where this data comes from

  • Arkansas Game and Fish Commission — Arkansas Game and Fish Commission: depth contours: class A, a survey of the bottom.
  • Webster, K.E., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A. LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0, EDI, doi:10.6073/pasta/64ddc4d04661d9aef4bd702dc5d8984f (CC BY 4.0); Cheruvelil et al. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0 (EDI) — LAGOS-US DEPTH v1.0: Lake depth for 17,675 lakes in the conterminous U.S.: class B, a depth figure measured and published by an agency, without a bottom map.