Thread: Lookin at Butla

Originally Posted by bar pitt

After reading this thread I now know why this country is going down the drain. Hell I got a little dumber just reading some of this s$&t

That's impossible. Bwahahahahaha:D

Originally Posted by mississippi

"MDWFP fall 2012 electrofishing found good numbers of white crappie and Surprisingly, there was a decent white crappie spawn despite the low water."
...….........so where'd they go??

Source Please. The only report I have been able to find referred to Sardis and not butler. Would love to see some numbers if anyone has that info.

Originally Posted by SlabLapper4sure

I know it's been THE DEAD SEA, but when the lake gets down to normal pool, all those fish will be moving back into the main lake and we will see just what we have!I'm just wondering if the Corp pulled 3' of water in 12 hrs.Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service: Memphis: Coldwater River at Arkabutla Dam
Just checked this morning and getting the same reading as yesterday!Gonna have to ride down there. Another question I have . If you launch off the state park ramp, at Enid, Do they have pay envelopes at the ramp or what time does the office open? I want to launch by 5am. I'm igernant in this matter!

1st your truly not suggesting that all butlers crappie decided to go hang out in shallow water and grass with it being 90 to 98 degrees out. Early spring maybe but surly not now.

2nd I was wondering the same thing about the water level. So i went to observe for myself and I would say that they most differently did pull 3 feet of water. However it was more like 24 hours.

Originally Posted by bird down

dont believe everything u read on the Internet. In order for them to take 3 ft of water out in 12 hrs they would have to blow the levee. Also in order for there to be some good fishing in the near future they going to have to restock it.

So your suggesting that they restock the RIVERS were the Crappie come from.

Originally Posted by bar pitt

Oh My God y'all can't be serious another butlas done soap opera. There are crappie in there not saying you can catch em right now but they didn't all die and they didn't all go thru the spillway. For now tho bird u keep catching your 4 fish on Sardis and big c u stay mad cause everybody fishes more than you and handi you quit stirring the pot

The Crappie left out butler by the Dump Truck loads thanks to all the trollers <--not an actual word.

Originally Posted by Release to the Grease...

There may be a situation where that logic applies, but it isn't Butla

That lake is so full of tiny shad you wouldn't believe it. The stained water color stunts their growth (the shad) a little and they make perfect crappie forage as such. When you filet a crappie at Butla it is normal for a pile of those little shad to fall out of the gut. Those are arguably the best fed crappie in the nation, and as Stan alluded that info is straight from Keith Meals mouth and backed up by my filet knife!!!

Don't know about the growth patterns. But just today I went out scouting and actually walked around most of Bayou Point and all I could see were shad every freakin were. Ive never seen anything like it.

Also off topic I spent about an hour looking at elbow and happened to see lots of big catfish moving out and back into main spillway at least a dozen or better and I say 10 pounds and better. I for one never thought any catfish laid around in there. at lest not in those numbers.

Originally Posted by Rip a Lip

To all haters...stay offa Butla when the water gets right this year and everyone else is catchin them pigs! You might try some farm pond where the stunted crappie is a year older but hasn't grown any :D

Not Hating or mad. But theirs a wake-up call going on at butler right now and I'm wondering what your going to say when the water does get down to around 218 and your still not catching fish in the numbers.

Originally Posted by Big C

Y'all have really been busy. What is sad is people that don't know much at all about Butla seem to know the most.I have lived 5 miles from Butla for over 30 years and still know nothing.But this high water is not keeping the fish from biting.Some of the best years I've had we're being high water.When water starts heading to winter pool may get a little better but I don't have high hopes.

Well put Big C

Where the hell is butler?

You got some kinda special vision or Something to weigh fish under mirky water and see shad from the bank??!!!

Right before and after Butla or better yet Arkabutla

Originally Posted by ducker

You got some kinda special vision or Something to weigh fish under mirky water and see shad from the bank??!!!

Water is fairly clear and Ive gotten better at guesstimating

Its one big chit sandwich and were all going to have to take a bite (run mine threw the garden please)

this has gotten old, it is what it is. All 4 of the Big 4 go in cycles, last year Butla had the misfortune of getting drained due to a tree blocking the gates at the spillway and it never recovered due to lack of rain. Fishing became easy and when it did folks went fishing, this has been going on for years and will continue to go on. Did it hurt the lake? Most likely. Did it kill it, hell naw. I lived closed to Butla gowing up and it was and is a tuff lake to fish, when its on there is no better but when its off it can be a son of a gun.
Saturday morning I will be fishing Enid, closer to go to Grenada but Enid is where I'll be. Why, its pretty simple, I can catch a mess of fish there. Will try Nader again in a week or so and when I get on fish there its where I'll be but I am gonna go where I have the best chance of catching fish.
For some its just about being out there but for me I fish to catch fish, we eat em and enjoy em.
Butla will return, maybe not this year but it will return. Wish it were closer to me so I could fish it when it is on, some of the best fish in the state in that lake.