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I caught 4 decent crappie late in the evening (last week) fishing from a friend's dock here at Arrowhead. Snagged 2 more that were really nice fish, lost both of them. Must be out of practice or something because it seemed I wasn't setting the hook good enough on the 2 large rascals. Fished on a couple more occasions since then and came up blank, nada.
I think things will pick up pretty soon, right now we're going through the transition of warm weather into cooler/cold weather and the crappie seem really picky on their eating habits.
I've been using strictly minnows, but will add jigs to the formula the next time I go. We're looking at some nice weather next week (2nd week of November) so I hope they will be biting.
Good luck everyone.:)
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Tried jigs yesterday evening around the same time I caught them last week using minnows and didn't do any good. Switched to minnows and caught 3 decent crappie, but they shut down just as it got dark and I came home. Best time I have found lately to catch them is about an hour and a half before dark.
I think they are biting early in the mornings, but I have been working on my house in the mornings and not fishing til late in the evenings. Still fishing from my buddy's dock and they are biting around 8-10 feet. The water is muddy/murky and your jigs/minnows disappear after going down only a couple of feet.
If anyone else is doing anything differently and having any luck, drop a reply in this thread, thanks.:)
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I was down at the lake this weekend. Sad day when u put the boat up for the winter :(
Still had a few minnows left in the bucket from last week so I used them up and got 7 nice crappie in about an hour.
Wont be back down for a few weeks now,, Maybe I can get into some more then.
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Has anyone been doing any good in the Gaines Creek area?
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Hello Everyone, I was able to get on the water yesterday for couple of hours. It took me a little while to find some fish I just run out of daylight. The water visiblity was around 8 inches up around the I-40 area, and the temp was 69 degrees. I stayed on the rip-rap to long then finally decided to move and ended up finding some fish in 16-18 FOW down around 12ft on main lake points. The reason I stopped to fish them was because I saw shad flippin pretty heavily in the area. I was spider-rigging minnows and jigs. The fish were much deeper than I thought they would be. It was a beautiful day to fish! I am looking to get back out there will post a better report next time! EB
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Hello everyone, I was able to get out this evening on the north end. Caught around 25 from 3:30-dark. Spider-rigging minnows in 12-15ft of water. I as using 3/4 ounce sinkers and 2 minnow hooks above. If you weren't on the bottom you were not getting bit. Good Fishing! EB
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Same for us too, had to be within 1' of bottom at least. All but one had empty stomachs? You would think they should be feeding heavy right now?
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Hello everyone, I thought i would get the board fired up a little. With the lake levels down the fishing on the big E is very good. we fished this weekend and kept 64. The biggest was 2.2lbs with and average of 12inches a fish. We had had spider-rigged minniow for the first 4 hrs and only had three to keep. Then we switched to jigs with the rods in our hands (Huckabee style) and keept 61. Big big healthy fish the best bunch of fish I have caught in a while. We were fishing on the south end of the lake, using beavertails and vibra king tubes. Black and pink was the hot color. The fish were in 8-12ft FOW, you had to have your jigs right off the bottom to get bit. Good fishing! EB
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Thanks for the report Brian and from everything I'm hearing lately, the crappie are staying really close to the bottom. Glad you did well and thanks again.:)
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We fished today and bo was it cold, if we couldn't have gotten out of the wind I would have stayed home. We kept 30 nice fish. Had 6 fish around a pound and a half, we were jigging blk/pink and lime/chart vibra king tubes in 8-10 ft of water right on the bottom. I had the opprotunity to use the T-minus 9.6 rod today made by Cherokke rod company and let me tell you it is just right. The bite right now on the north end and soth south is a jig bite not a minnow, believe me I have tried. When the water temp gets on down there into the 40's they will start on minnows. EB
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We caught over a 1000 crappie in 5 days. The fishing was absolutely unbelievable. I am only talking an average of 3 hours each day of fishing. We were using the new Garland minnow mind'r in firefly color. We were fishing the creek in 12 FOW and ranged our cork from 1 foot to 3 foot. If you can find those creeks that are low and almost closed in from the lake you can do the same. Warmer overcast days were the best, we caught them Dec.20, 21, 26, 27, and 28. :)
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Was there any size to them?
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Nice fish little Larry, not bad for an ole football coach! Larry Russell told me you come out to the shop the other day and bought some baits, I told him that you were little Larry Newton. He didn't belive the little part! I laughed! He said it was freezing outside and you were in shorts and a t-shirt. I said yup that was little Larry. I told him that big Larry was your dad! EB
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I been hearin the creeks are on and your report just varifies it, thanks for the pics, those are some big blacks in there as well!
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These are the kinda fishing reports I live for and love to read. Thanks for sharing and especially for posting the pictures. Inspired me to go fishing. :D
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Nice bunch of fish Rodbender.
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Wow, that's some serious cold weather slab slayin.
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Same thing has been happening here over at wister up in the creeks, 2 to 3 feet deep up in the creeks. Any ideas why this shallow with this water temp? By the way great bunch of fish?
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Nice batch of fish Rodbender, when's the fish fry?!! :D Looks like you caught them on an Oak ridge...I knew I was fishing in the wrong place :rolleyes:
@Tucker
It's my bet that the water is warmer up the creeks. Probably a lot of baitfish up there as well.
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Hey Bryan, yeah I get that all the time. They look at me and say LITTLE? Dad was with me when I went into Crappie pro the last time and talked to Larry Russell, Dad told him I was little and he was Big. Larry Russell said yeah Bryan came in and told me but didn't understand why. make sure you keep ole Rick Thompson in check that guy will run a set of coon hoiunds to the ground chasing those bandits. LOL We will have to get together sometime, I want to learn this spider rigging. I normally just hold the poles in my hands to fill the thump.
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I wish you would have called me when you were down ya'll had some nice fish. I guide alot of different techniques but my favorite way to cath them is with a cork! I learned from the best ( Mike "Slabman" Reynolds). As for Coach Thompson he's huntin' every night, training a young dog here lately. I have taken him fishing with me a couple of times, he ain't bad for a coon hunter. Give me a call sometime would love to visit! 918-617-0362! Brian
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Weekend Report
A friend and went fishing Saturday and we decided that we were going to walk the banks with jigs and corks. So we started thinking of every back water creek and slew and went and tried three different places. We ended up catching over a hundred fish keeping 41 on the day. We never caught a fish deeper than 3ft and the bigger fish were caught after dark with a latern on the bank. If you don't want to mess with the boat on those cold windy winter days try walking the bank in some of those backwater creeks sealed off from the lake. You would think they wee spawning in January! LOL EB
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We gonna hafta follow you EB, our creek didn't produce.
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Hey EB do you have any ideas why that technique in that water depth? Same thing in wister creeks. Friend in Arkansas catching them 18 inches deep!
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I might be totally off base here but I believe it has to do with the creeks that we are catching them in are not affected by a thermocline. Allowing the fish to be at various shallow depths.
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EB was Graves creek one of the creeks you found fish in Saturday? I was introduced to the crappie in that creek last year about late February. I had a blast just seeing the size of some of those slabbers we caught. I wondered if it was too early for em there.
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Guys I am really just trying this pattern because of MrRodbender. We were thinking of creeks that are sealed off from deeper water(the lake). I think it is a pond effect, meaning you have to get in places where the fish are trapped. Back water slews and creeks. Basically where a man could kill some ducks this time of year fish it! Remember fishing the lake is entirely different that fishing the creeks, ponds and slews. By no means am i an expert on this pattern. Just love to get out and try new stuff. Look at Odie's reports on Oolagah, he is catching boat loads in the lake by locating balls of shad near the bottom in 20-25 FOW. Then we have an entiely different report cathcing fish no deeper than 3ft deep. The next thing I will try is getting out on the lake and locatng shad balls on the channel drop offs. What makes me ahppy is i have two ways to catch fish one for nice sunny days and one for nasty days.
Froggie yes we were in graves some caught a ton of little fish though. I think the big ones are in the just need a boat to get to them.
Tucker are the wister creeks sealed off from the lake? If they are they are trapped! If they are not the water temp is probably slightly warmer which shad love and crappie follow the shad.
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Oklahoma National Audio Fishing Reports
This is probable old news but was new to me when searching for a fishing report. Seems to be updated at least weekly maybe more.
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Thanks Tles1. Very good info on Lake Eufaula. I had a guy call me yesterday and tell me they were catching a bunch of fish on Eufaula on river ledges. I hadn't talked to him in a while and he didn't know that was the way I been catching them on Oologah. So any of you fishing Eufaula may want to try getting on a ledge with at least a 3-5 foot drop. On Oologah the best depth has been 18-25 ledges. Brush is not neccasary, but if you find a ledge with brush it can be deadly. Look for balls of shad and the crappie will be in the ball of shad feeding. A ball of shad suspended off the bottom is even better.
Odie
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Hey Bryan
Its been a while since Ive seen ya, This is Larry from down at eufaula cove marina J Dock.. Good to see your still chasing these crappie.. reading this post and using a cork in the winter can really pay off, Ive fished graves creek a many of times in the winter using a cork.. You know in the winter with no rain like this year some of those creeks can get very clear, We always thought the boat was spooking the fish in the shallow water So we used a cork fishing 2 to 4 ft deep depending on water depth.. It really pays off.. good post..
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No EB they were not sealed off, matter of fact couple of hundred yards from main lake. Water temp 40-42 degrees. like I said just trying to figure out if this is a fluke or if a natural occurrence and if so why. Good pattern to try and figure out. Thanks for your help.
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Anyone been fishing on the gentle giant? Water is down so I was thinking about heading up the creeks but would like to know if anyone else has been out and at em? Was hoping to spider rig a little.
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Awesome, I am ready to move south...
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Going to bump this thread back to the top. I am ready to head out and I am sure the crappie are hungry somewhere on the lake. Anybody been out since the snow and ice?
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I have talked to 2 people that fished Sat./ Sunday and they both struck out.
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LR....hate to hear that. Where they on the lower end of the lake or do you know?
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Blocker and Bristow point.
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I see that the water is down 5 feet so maybe that's affecting them? Have you heard anything from EB? He hasn't posted in a while that I've seen.
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EB and I fished together on Eufaula Sat. and got skunked. Very limited in where we could fish due to the ice. We found very few shad and when we did no bites. It will only get better from here.
Odie
