Reply With QuoteThanks a lot. Are the crappie good around these parts?
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That's your Huckleberry! The river is navigable for another couple of miles upstream. Beware of Conser creek. There is a huge mud bar in the mouth that can cause you some problems if the water is any below normal.
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yep.Originally Posted by DrNip
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It depends on what you mean. The crappie fishing is good, particularly during the spawn. I don't consider the crappie (or any other species) caught out of that system to be fit for human consumption, though.
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Why???
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My wife says the same thing about the Oklahoma river in downtown OKC. If the fish swim and look to be healthy should be no problems eating. Of course I don't eat much fish, just love to fish.
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Doesn't Fanny Creek come out of the south end of Wister?
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Wister is basically a large open sewer. Three municipalities with a combined population of approx. 10,000 and a large poultry processing plant discharge minimally treated effluent into the system. There are also hundreds of poultry farms in the basin that for years have applied untreated litter to the pastures in the area.
Nitrates and phosphates are high, and so are the concentrations of fecal coliform bacteria. If you take a trip to one of the backwater areas when the water temps start hitting the 80's you'll see (and smell) what I'm talking about.
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CrapAlicous, you are so wrong on many levels with this comment! You are going to have to leave the fire station lingo at the fire station. I see many people did not catch the "the south end" comment, but i did. good one! keep it coming. haha. This newbee will never post again if you keep this up!
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Mountain Fork - The municipalities and poultry processing plant that discharge into Wister have to meet an EPA monthly discharge permit that is monitored by Okla. Dept. of Environmental Quality. If they violate that permit then they get in trouble and have to take corrective action. The poultry farms have to comply with certain EPA Clean Water Act application rates. The application rates that are allowed on the pastures is based on annual soil sample testing. Fecal coliform bacteria is, typically, not found in chicken waste.
