Thread: Arkabutla. Today.

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Some people are just plain silly

Originally Posted by feelay

Get 'em while ya can. The only detriment to the lake will be finding a parking space. This hurricane blows some weather in and butla jumps 5-10 feet, it'll look like a ghost town. Those fish will hide in the grass and you'll swear she is fished out! Everybody will hit the next bite at Sardis, Enid or wherever. All the while in fished out butla, fish will be feeding and growing like they always have.

If you want to help the resource, build habitat and only take what you need. No since getting worked up over what the other guy is doing, as long as he is obeying the law. If you witness an abuse call the possum cops. There are always the greedy who will hoard limits. But that is usually offset by all the gewbers out there that can't catch a limit. (wb)

Go fishing, be safe and courteous, smile and have fun.

i agree. if/when all this grass gets pretty well flooded, its gonna be hard to catch a fish till its gone. jmo

Originally Posted by mississippi

i agree. if/when all this grass gets pretty well flooded, its gonna be hard to catch a fish till its gone. jmo

That's true to a point. As long as the grass and weeds are green the fish will be in it for sure. But when the vegetation starts dying the fish will be forced back into open water because decaying vegetation uses up the oxygen in the decomposition process.
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Gotta Work!

I fished Butla for the 2nd time in my life and the 1st time this year on Wednesday. Had the poles in the water and fishing a little before 7 and fished till 5. In 10 hours we managed 21 keepers and probably caught 75-80 fish. It was a great day in my book and I have never seen such healthy fish in August in my life. Heck, they looked like they were full of eggs. That being said I will be glad when it cools off a bit and I head a little farther down the road to the dink whole known as "Sardis" and take up the battle with those fish that I left off from this spring. Good luck to all this weekend and be careful cause it's going to be crowded.


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Originally Posted by BigRiverMarine

No, it's Specks fault!!! Lol


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Thank you for finally giving me my credit due!!!!
I think the problem is all you local guys going out every day catching all of my fish!!!!
Truth be told, I couldn't tell you how many hours I've fished sippi this year and how many fish I've caught but it's a bunch on both parts. That being said, I have not taken one single fillet back home with me yet this year. Y'all should follow suit.

I am with Feelay if that lake jumps up 8-10 ft the fish will hit the grass on top of that this winter when all that grass starts dieing off and the lake fills up ,there wont be any spider rigging or crankbait pulling,the dead grass will be floating around so bad that you wont even be able run a boat in it.Bout the only way to fish is single poling.When that happens not a lot of fish get caught,so maybe butla will get a 1-2 yr. break.