Oklahoma angler wins easily at Dardanelle Monday, May 10, 2021
Kirk Smith of Edmond, Okla. brought a five-bass limit to the scale Saturday weighing 19-15 to win the three-day Lake Dardanelle Plains Division Toyota Series event out of Russellville, Ark. His three-day total of 15 bass weighing 51-03 earned him the win by a 6-pound margin over 2nd-place angler Zach King of Clarksville, Ark., and earned Smith the top payout of $36,104. Smith said he considers himself an offshore and electronics geek, a combo that helped him blow it out on Lake Dardanelle. While the majority of the fields success seemed to go up and down throughout the event, Smith had a pattern like no one else that allowed him to lay off early the first two days and still be leading by an ounce.