Are there any good Tackle/Bait shops down in that area? I did not see to many!
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Are there any good Tackle/Bait shops down in that area? I did not see to many!
The Marina itself carries minnows and has some BG baits. Crappie Pro is over toward Belle Star. If you're coming from the State Park, take a left when you come out of the Park and to the main road (Hwy 150), go down until you have to take another left (you'll be headed East then), go under Hwy 69 and continue East until you come to the Belle Star turnoff and Crappie Pro is just past the turnoff on the right.
OkieDon,
I will remember for next time, we may go down in Summer, I was honestly shocked that there was not alot bait shops round. Ya we've been to the marina twice now and truly enjoy it, but more so when catchin, we get our Minners there. Stopped by Tanners, and not sure if they were restockin or what but there was not alot of anything in there.......I heard some other fisherman talkin bout a place that made there own lures there somewhere in Eufaula but did not catch the name. Thanks again!!
AC
Sooner there is one tackle shop in Eufaula called Canadian River outdoors, they are stocked pretty well! If your looking for crappie baits in plastics and jig heads, Crappie pro is right down the road from Tanners. Larry is stocked to the walls. Then there is Todd Huckabees store/cafe in Crowder he has got good stuff in there as well!
Saturday Report- Fished around Crowder and ended up with 22 keepers, the day started off pretty, but it got cloudy and windy that evening, most of the fish we had were 10 inch fish nothing great! The fish did move up shallow towards the late evening. We caught are last few fish in 4-8 fow! Water temps 56-59
Sunday Report- We went south and caught around 30 nice fish, we had 3-1.5's, 2 1.75's, and 1-2.00lber.We only kept fish over 12 inches. When we started it was raining pretty good but the fish were biting. We were spider-rigging jigs and minnows over channel breaklines over 10-14 fow. Water temps 55-58. We tried a few shallow areas and caught some but for the most part they are still relating to the main channel. "I was on the phone with Odie when we caught the 2lb fish LOL" EB
Ever notice that fish seem to bite more when you are on your cell phone?
Kept 4, threw back 5 or 6 over a two hour period from 5:15 to 6:15 this evening fishing at 14 feet deep off my buddy's dock. Water temp is 56 degrees and should be warming up even more through this week. My buddies that usually fish from this same dock tore em up over the weekend while it was raining. Things are getting better every day.
"over a two hour period from 5:15 to 6:15" - is this another one of your tests?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stinkfinger
It's that "dad-gone" daylite savings time. It will do it to ya every time !:bashQuote:
Originally Posted by Scott S
WOW!! were we surprised about several things yesterday. The first thing was how stained the water was in the Coal and Rock creek area, 2-3 inch visibility at best. Then the water temp was already 63-65 degrees in the creeks on March 14th. The biggest surprise of all was that there weren't any cooperating crappie up in the creeks with those water temps.We have fished these areas for years and can't ever remember crappie not being up in these creeks when the water temps got above 55, much less 65. My journal showed that also. We talked to 3 other boats and they said the same thing. We fished from 1100-1445 in this area and had 1 crappie that was 3 inches long. We finally had enough and moved out toward the main lake area and found a little clearer water, maybe 5-6 inch visibility. We marked some brush in 10-14 fow and immediately started catching fish. We fished until 1830 and ended the day with 25 keepers, biggest ones were around 13inches with most being 10-11 inches. Electric chicken, Blk/pink, and red/char were the best colors. I am going to give it a few days and head back down on Monday to see if it clears up any. The water temps are right, there must be some other reason why they are not in the creeks yet. That is why they still call it fishing!!
Odie
Decided to hit Graves again today. Didn't make it down until about 3. Buddy and I fished till about 7 and had 4 keepers. Some people had been there all day and didn't have that many. Water temp was 63 to 64 and the water was stained up the creek to a tad muddy near the mouth.
We caught most of our fish at 6 to 8 ft in 10 to 14ft of water. We used minnows tightlined over brush.
We fished brush from 2 ft to 14ft but it seemed they liked the 6 to 8 ft. range. I would have bet they'd been on fire with that water temperature, but it wasn't so! Go figure.
I suspect there will be a drove of fishermen hit Lake Eufaula this weekend. I've been seeing quite a few fishing around the Crowder area and also Blocker bridge but haven't had time to stop and talk to any of them. I plan on going in the morning if nothing happens, will be on call all day Sunday, so tomorrow or nothing this weekend.
I am hoping that a lot of those boats your seeing have plans to fish the tourney next Saturday. The more the better.
Hope you're right young man, hope you're right. Makes a bigger pot for the fishermen that have a good catch. I ended up with around 22 keepers for the day, one really nice crappie close to 2 pounds, the rest in the 1/2 to 1 pound range. Fishing from the dock using minnows in 10-12 feet of water. Bite was strong early this morning, then this evening it was very light........ hardly able to know if you had a fish on or not. Caught one blue cat fishing right off the bottom in 18 feet of water, weighed around 2-1/2 pounds and for a brief moment, I thought I had caught a really nice crappie. Now excuse me while I heat of the cooking oil........cheers to all.
Put in at Crowder and headed up Rock Creek. Found them way up the creek in the laydowns. Cleaned 14 big females and 1 male. Egg sacks full and getting bloody. They are ready anytime. Rain will be a game changer for awhile.
The fish bit really good today when that sun came out! You have to fund that good water color. If its muddy it hasn't been very good but a little clearer we caught fish ;)
I was down there last Sunday OkieDon, had the same experience, fishing 4'-5' deep on the channel edges where there was structure. I saw a family fishing off shore North of the boat ramp who had a dozen of so on the stringer, everyone else was working hard to get bites. They are in there, you can see them in pockets with shad here and there but loads of fish on the locator but I don't think they are crappie.
I was kjnd of surprised not to catch some sandbass this time of year as well.
On your post about Copperheads, the only good snake is on a pair of boots as far as I'm concerned.
I did see that someone killed a couple of big Mocassins at the boat ramp though.
Good fishing, might see you there sometime, I'm a regular on weekends.
Through the cold wet rain today the fish didnt care they bit really good. We had wind and rain from every direction. We kept 29 decent fish. The hot colors today were black/pink whasshoppers with 5/32 chart crappiepro jig heads!EB
As Odie would say I TROTLINED today midlake and found fish in 8' to 15' and hot colors was minners...cleaned 24 but not many good fish. Had like maybe 7 to 8lbs, all females but 4..So its got me thinking savin the best for tomorrow.......Ranger
Well yesterday Odie was begging to catch one on a trotline Ranger!
Today we started at 8:00 and didn't catch a crappie until 1:00. We were having a big sand bass fish off! I lost 5-1! But now Odie knows how to handle a sandie on a spider rig! Lol
We ended up catching a few tho but nothing to brag about! EB
When will Eufaula be ready again. Looks like they are releasing a lot of water. Not for sure where to head. We fished towards Gaines creek from 31 landing last weekend and finally found a few on the bank. I had it in my mind they were still deep. After a couple of hours, I put on a jig and cork.....getting a little slower in figuring them out for some reason.
Dont wait on the water to go down or clear up. We fished the tourney today and caught fish all day. Granted we caught some small fish but we also caught some really nice fish as well. Were in fish all day. The bite was steady from 10am til after 3pm. We fished lower Gaines around Blocker and Arrowhead......Ranger
Ranger, are they still shallow or have they moved out?
we caught them from 8' to 15' but also saw a few fisherman dipping buckbrush and floating jigs under corks. hope this helps,,,,,Ranger
Been waiting to hit up my spot on eufuala might try to sneak off this mornin..
Hit the water after church yesterday. Fished from 3 to 6:30 PM and only caught 2! Hit the buck brush with cork and jig and nailed a beauty female whwn we first got there....seems to be a bad sign recently to catch one when I first get there. Anyway, fished buckbrush for a couple of hours and no more luck. Decided to go to deeper water and spider rig a little, nothing there either. Loaded up boat and headed home. I did talk to a few that had caught fish earlier that morning at the ramp. But they were leaving when we were putting in....should have told me something I guess. Back to the grind and hopeful for next weekend now.
I was out for 4 hours yesterday and only had 15 keppers. With no wind at all the bite gets tougher and the little ones love to bite. You have to cover water and stay moving to maintain steady bite! Todd H was struggling as well! EB
Fished the crowder area and blocker area today and the bite was really slow. Water was alot dirtier than Saturday and had current. Ended up with 14 keepers and twice that of dinks. Slab Bandits today in blk/chart and Blue Boy were the colors. Everyone was having a terrible bite today. Only good thing that came out of it was I marked a dozen more brushpiles in 8' to 12' of water. Had to keep moving to get a bite today and if there was a fish on wood he would bite first time thru....Ranger
Anybody hearing any turkey out there while fishing?
The turkeys were gobbling 2 weeks ago over at Cookson
Hadnt heard any turkeys yet....Fished the crowder and rock creek area today..was terribly slow for this time of year. Wasn't anyone catching anything even the guides today werent doing very good either.. Ended up with 14 very nice crappie 9 females and 5 males...caught more than I could count as far as dinks go.. water temp was 71 degrees at 7:30 this morning and got up to 73 degrees before I loaded at 5:30pm...slab bandits in the 2 3/8" size worked today in blue/chart and blk/chart..its got to kick in pretty soon I hope.....Ranger
Good to see your still after them Ranger!
Got on water today at 1pm and left at 5:30pm..unloaded at Crowder and water temps were in the 70's no matter where you went from there. Long Poled today with 2" Yum Beavertails in blk/chart, blk/pink, pumkin/chart...all caught fish. Ended up with 19 big females and 2 males all came from 6' to 8' DOW. Talked to alot of different fisherman today including Todd and Barry. Both guides were working and both were catching a few fish also, but most were dipping minnows and tied up in 1 spot and not doing very well. Even talked to 2 waders fishing the flooded buckbrush and were catching some really small males. I was amazed that I didn't catch a single throwback today using those bigger baits, which yesterday I threw back like 100 small fish. Seems to me its better fishing in the afternoons and evenings right now....Ranger
Ranger 09
Thanks for the report, you and EB keep us folks that are not close informed, I will be down on the 11th for a four day campout at Hickory, hope they have moved in by then.
Fished the Blocker/Crowder area today unladed at 8am and the early bite was pretty slow..as the sun came out and the wind layed alil the bite picked up and fish were holding in 6' to 8' of water. Caught 5 by casting and dragging brush but most came from longpoling yum beavertails and 3" chart/sassy shads.ended up with 27 crappie and caught alot of dinks today..caught several just a 1/4" longer of the 3" sassy shad. Water temps got up to 78 degrees in the back of the necks and NO BLACK MALES ON THE BANK YET.....Ranger
Fished twice today, early this morning........it was slow, mostly dinks, and then again this evening..........same story. Lake level is dropping rapidly and only 3 and a half feet above normal. I've never seen the flood gates opened to 60,000 cfs, but did yesterday (according to the corp's website) and all week they have been pouring it out at 30,000 cfs. Water temp on this local dock in which I fish is 70 degrees and warming up daily. Glad to hear you're catching them Ranger, good luck to all over the weekend.
Me, a buddy of mine and a coworker of his hit Crowder/Rock Creek area this morning. The bite was decent right off the bat with the better fish holding on brush in 8 to 12ft of water. In fact, this was the theme of the day. Find brush, even something as simple as a log laying on the bottom, and there would be a Crappie on it. We then hit the Blocker bridge area and picked up more fish until they seemed to slow around 12 or 1 and then we made our way back to Crowder/Rock Creek to hit the piles we had hit that morning.
It was one of the few times I saw Cajun Cricket and Electric Chicken Slab Slayers out perform Blk/Pnk & Blk/Chrt Beavertails, but it happened today. Buddy's coworker used some minnows for a while and did about the same. It was interesting all day. When he wasn't using minnows, he used 1/16th oz jigs most of the day and caught a lot more fish than my buddy or I did. We were using 3/16 and 1/4 Crappie Pro heads and while we didn't catch as many dinks as the 1/16th oz heads, the ones we caught were very decent fish with fewer dinks. The biggest fish of the day (just shy of 2lbs) came off of a blk/pnk beavertail with a Orange 1/4oz Crappie Pro jig head.
Ended the day keeping 40 fish over 10". We probably caught well over 100 fish today with the dinks being about 3 to 1.
Any advice if a man were to try them tomorrow..hickory point..crowder/blocker bridge? Also the boat I have doesn't have a high tech fish finder to find the brush piles or lay downs.
Fish the Blocker Bridge area, look for an ol fart with grey hair and a grey beard, (my fishing buddy) and anchor up close to him. Just don't tell him I said so...........he hates the forum and the idea I share info on here.......... hahahaha.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunc
ha ha, I'm definitely not in any shape to make any enemies. Just moved to the surrounding area and looking for some helpful advice. I know all this rain kind of messed things up for the time being.
Look for the marked brushpiles. They'll be marked with an ODWC buoy. While they do get fished a lot, most of them are large piles spread out over an area. Take your time and find all the brush, some piles are 100 feet or more from the buoy. The ones in the blocker bridge area are good, especially the one on the East side of the cove on the North end of the bridge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunc