Thread: What's the Deal With Keystone Lake

I'm fairly new to the keystone lake area and have found the same thing. Dinks. Even though they taste good if you can get enough of them I would much rather get ahold of those bigger ones caught in the springtime spawn. I have fished the heated dock just east of Mannford and had mixed results.Had decent results a Mannford ramp area in the past. Care to share any possible bank fishing spots that produce in our lake?

Originally Posted by mrsapulpa

I'm fairly new to the keystone lake area and have found the same thing. Dinks. Even though they taste good if you can get enough of them I would much rather get ahold of those bigger ones caught in the springtime spawn. I have fished the heated dock just east of Mannford and had mixed results.Had decent results a Mannford ramp area in the past. Care to share any possible bank fishing spots that produce in our lake?

One place I have had results in the past is Appalachia bay-just off the north end of the parking lot. Last year not so good, but didn't fish there as much. Hope this helps.

Hey, cc. I hope that fish food was intruding on your pond in the Philippines. They are protected in the U.S. About twenty or so years ago, PETA got them on the endangered species list (even though they were large in numbers), with a potential fine of $15,000 per bird. PETA has a lot of power in Congress, and they were "outraged" that people were killing these "poor defenseless birds". Judges around the country have been a bit more lenient, probably because they know the havoc caused to the fisheries. They have totally cleaned out many catfish farmers in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas. The ban has had the effect of creating a cormorant boom. Fisheries experts have documented the destruction of, and damage to, many fisheries by cormorants U.S. Fish and Wildlife now considers them to be overpopulated, but could do nothing about it, except to approve of sonic cannons at catfish farms. More recently, catfish farmers got the OK to kill any cormorant with a catfish in its mouth. Unless fisherman organize and put some heat on Congress (not much chance since PETA has tons of money and influence), the only hope to reduce cormorant numbers is if they clean out enough lakes that they starve themselves. And where does that leave us fishermen?

I couldn't be positive but I'm pretty sure that cormorant had a catfish in his mouth right before it took its final swim with the fishes.

I KNOW for a fact that it did. Every cormorant that I have ever seen had a catfish or crappie in its mouth. It choked to death trying to swallow the fish. HONEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The crawdads have to eat too