Fishing at Lake Bendine, Pulaski County, Arkansas

• Overview

  You will find Lake Bendine in Pulaski County, Arkansas. The water sits 269 feet up. It covers about 2 acres, so this is small water you can walk round in under an hour. Our Pulaski County list holds plenty of bigger water. You are 3.8 miles from Little Rock. North Little Rock is 5.8 miles away, with Landmark at 6.4 miles. This one sits near enough to a boundary to be worth checking.

• Where to Fish on Lake Bendine

  Depth remains unrecorded, so treat the first session as a survey. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. A soft bed grows weed late into autumn, which keeps fish shallow. Survey and observation records for Pulaski County include largemouth bass, longear sunfish and green sunfish. Read it as a county summary, not a water-by-water list. Lake Bendine gives up its fish to patience rather than distance.

• Seasonal Patterns

  July is the warm end of the year here, averaging about 82°F, while January sits near 40°F. The season runs year-round, with the peak either side of summer. Spring and autumn carry the fishing; summer squeezes it into the edges of the day. The cooler months are the comfortable ones to fish here. On Lake Bendine the same rules apply, with local timing.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. You can leave the car about half a mile from the water. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Parking is often the real limit rather than the bank itself. Some ground is open by custom rather than by right, so tread carefully. For a change of water, Big Dickinson Lake is 1.1 miles distant. Rules at Lake Bendine are worth checking on the day.