Thread: Fort Gibbson archives

Originally Posted by Frank300

Not any more. The new owners of what used to be the restaurant /fishing dock floored over the inside fishing dock and expanded the restaurant. In the last heavy rain/flood all the boat slips and restaurant broke loose. They are still working on damage repair. I have not been able to launch my boat on the ramp there. No idea when things will return to normal.

Well that's a bummer, are there any open docks nearby that may be baited and open to public? Doesn't need to be covered and heated.

Originally Posted by dicksenn

Well that's a bummer, are there any open docks nearby that may be baited and open to public? Doesn't need to be covered and heated.

Not that I know of. You can fish from the North Shore of Sequoyah Bay across form the slips with a slip bobber. If they have moved in shallow that would be a good spot . Cypress trees are just off shore.

Caught a nice mess of fish, enough for dinner anyway. I caught these on 4-6-16 started fishing just before 5 pm and the bite was over by 6 pm. They all came off the same brush pile, couldn't get bit on any other piles. All were on a 2.50" salt & pepper tipped with Crappie Nibbles: Neon Chartreuse with a blue 1/8th jig. Surprisingly the two 12 incher's are males, the biggest is a female at a little over 13 inches with three 10 incher's to boot.

Hit Chouteau Creek today for round 2 of Sandbass slaughtering. Water dropped another 2'. Down approximately 5'-6' total in the last week. Slaughter never happened. Caught 1 Bass around 4.5# on my 30th last cast after fishing for 3 hours.

I feel your pain. As long as the Corp fiddles with Gibson's lake level Chouteau and Brushy Creek will suck. I've fished those two creeks for years and in that area I don't know where else to go when the creeks aren't producing. I have never found a source for data on the Neosho River levels between Gibson and Hudson. Sure would be nice to be able to find that data before I drag my boat to that part of the world.

A couple a guys that fish out of the same marina as me did pretty good trolling for sandy's between whitehorn and toppers yesterday. I'm not sure when the run usually starts up to Chouteau Bend but I keep hearing people say that it's still early, even though the nicer weather has us thinking that it should be going hot and heavy.

Lonnie, I think you're right about that. In the absence of high water the fish will be on time. It's nature that has us fooled.

There was crappie being got last evening off of the bank between 5 and 6 pm in 2 fow about 15 yards off of the bank, seen about 10 all together between 3 fishermen.

I'm so used to seeing high water on this lake and now it looks like it's about to go dry when in reality it's still a little over 1 foot above normal at "Pool elevation is 555.11 feet on Wednesday 13 Apr 16 Time: 0700 hours."

Put 1/2 dozen in the freezer last night 5 males and 1 female, still scattered in 2 to3 fow.

It's On!!!!!!!!!

If your not catching your probably not fishing, 15 all were 1+lb crappie. Black and chart on 1/32 lead head in 3 fow dragging bottom, the key seemed to be pulling along the bank horizontal not casting to it. This keeps your bait in the "nest zone" during your entire retrieve. Plan on the same today, and will post pics, phone/camera died last night.