That grey headed bearded old fart scratched my boat with his ice chest taking all those tournament crappies and he didnt seem to mind loading up on all the free fish. So let him be grummy....lol..........Ranger
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That grey headed bearded old fart scratched my boat with his ice chest taking all those tournament crappies and he didnt seem to mind loading up on all the free fish. So let him be grummy....lol..........Ranger
Don I thought that was you unloading at Crowder yesterday morning...wish now I had walked over and said something...my bad buddy.....Ranger
You must have been in front of us Ranger. I didn't notice anyone behind us...but of course when I'm putting in, I'm usually not paying attention to the people around me...I just wanna get out there after 'em...lol. I don't think I've ever seen your boat, what color is it, what do you drive? I'll be lookin' for ya next time!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger09
Yes Don we were on the ramp when ya'll pulled up. You I believe were with 2 other men gettin things together in the boat getting ready to unloaded. When ya'll headed out from the ramp we were long poling the point straight south of the loading dock. In my buddys Champion red and white. Now on the other hand I drive a White 2500 HD Chevy diesel and fish from a red and white Ranger 188VX Commanche with Yahama 175 HPDI..will not be in such a big hurry again without saying HI.....Ranger
Started in the Crowder area this morning and the bite was slow. Fished for about 3 hours and Odie and I decided to head South searching for a better bite. I should of known something was up since there was only a few boat trailors in the parking lot and only 2 at Rock Creek. After getting to our next location after a long truck ride we started catching fish as soon as we got there. Ended up cleaning 28 crappie and while I was doing that chore Odie caught 5 more. We were slow trolling with rod in hand today in 5' to 8' of water using the biggest baits we had. Super Wasshoppers, Yum Beavertails, and Slab Bandits in the bigger size. Water temps got up to 78 degrees in the backwater and was a constant 76 degrees in the open water. The females eggs had large blood veins but not ready. The egg rows were small and light in color. Looks like maybe a week or so off. We did catch 2 males that had their coat on but the other males were light in color...If the rain doesnt get carried away and with the full moon hitting in the middle of the week its gonna be dynamite.......Ranger
Bingo! I'm ready to hear those 70-100 count days.
The fish will be in on the banks this weekend! Thats a Eufaula boy Guarantee! Look for the cranes hunting the buck brush! LOL That water is perfect for those fish to stack up like stove wood! Can't wait! EB
I am driving 200 mile round trip fri., based on EB GUARANTEE. Thanks for heads up EB.
EB- what does buckbrush look like? Any kind of bush in the water?
Can't wait! I am out of school Friday so 3 days of fishing!
Peke
Im not good at posting pictures on here but it is basically bushes along the lake shore of Eufaula. Especially on the south and North ends of the lake! Those males like to lay in the root wads of the bushes! They may be anywhere from 6inches-3ft deep. EB
Any reports from the Longtown area yet?
Fished the far south end today and the water temps were 69 degrees when I unloaded at 12 noon..after the sun came out it got up to 73 before I left at 6pm...long poling in 6' to 8' of water using Slab Bandits, Beavertails, Wasshoppers, and Shassy Shads. It didnt really matter. Cleaned 68 crappie today and got a late start. Caught 1 crappie on cork and jig in really shallow water so its gonna be gettin right real quick. The water has got alil more stained from last nights rain but fishable......Ranger
Ranger, they're starting to come in to the banks. Had some friends catch several short bobbing close to the bank using jigs this afternoon. I fished on the dock and only caught dinks. Almost ran home to get my other fishing pole so I could get in on some of it before it got dark. But I figured they'd only be getting better in the next few days and then explode with activity next week. Spawn is on it's way.
Fished the south end today and ended up with 15 keepers. Caught about 5 doodlesocking shallow buck brush and the rest came off of brush in 7 fow. If we could have found more brush at that depth then we probably would have caught more because they were stacked up on the couple piles we found. We caught them all on 2" beaver tails and road runners. We didn't catch a fish until the afternoon when the sun came out. Shouldn't be too long now for them to really hit the banks.
Thanks, EB. I think I know what brush you are talking about.
Peke
We fished the Crowder area today from about 8:00 til noon. Still no fish on the bank. Caught everything off rip rap and 6-8 ft of water. Only had 10 keepers out of 25-30 fish. I wish they would hurry up!
Doddlesocked hickory today, caught one male and let one get off right at my legs. Water was pretty muddy . I tried every size and color of jig I had they just weren't there.
fished there from about 10:30 til 3:00 and had the same experience except we caught a lot of fish about 10' deep, and on the spiders about 5'.Quote:
Originally Posted by JPTJR8
Ran over to Blocker and looked around. According to everyone fishing there it was really sorry.
Fished the south end today and ended up with a limit of 37..started off really slow since the water had cooled off since Wednesday by 5 degrees. was 67.8 when I started and got up to 72.3 mid afternoon. Had 12 fish at noon and most were really good ones about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2lb'ers. Caught em in 8' to 12' DOW. When the sun came out and over the timber its got alil better and they moved up closer to the bank in 6' to 8' DOW. After 3pm saw a crappie chasing a shad in really shallow water and I decided to throw a cork and jig. Glad she showed me she was close. Needed 12 fish to make a limit and caught those 12 in like 20 casts. Left em sittin on the bank in 18" of water and hittin anything you threw at em. Long poled early with beavertails and Pumkin/chart was the color they wanted today and they were picky to say the least. Tried blk/pink and blk/chart and maybe I caught 1 or 2 on each color but pumkin/chart out done en 10/1. Got to give em what they want......Ranger
crafty you are Ranger....crafty you are!
Gonna have to go back to work to rest Dunc...I fish harder than I work I can garantee you that.....Ranger
Went Thur. and Fri. thinking those slabs should be jumping out of the lake onto the banks, but was very disappointed. Fished Thurs from about noon until 5 in the Crowder and Rock Creek area and only had 3 keepers and around 20 or so < 10" fish. You could almost catch those little pest at will.
Fri. put in at Buds Point around noon and due to engine trouble, staid in the Blocker area. Fishing started off slow with us catching most of our keepers on Elec Chicken slab slayers. When the sun finally came out, they picked up a bit and we started getting them on Blk/Pnk 2" beavertails. It never got really good and we ground it out until around 6:30 with 26 keepers over 10" for the day and probably 3 times that of <10" dinks. All the fish came off of brush in 8 to 12 fow or break lines and points near spawning areas. Tried the ole jig and cork in the brush several different times and they just weren't home yet.
Went out thursday and friday. Thursay went way down south and ended up with 23 keepers. Most of these were caught doodlesocking buckbrush...they were keying on the roots of thd thicker bushes and most of the males were black. All caught on black/pink black/chart beavers. Friday we decided to go to longtown area. First we tried going way up the creek, i had no idea it went back that far...only ended up catching 1crappie and some bass. We tried some other areas in longtown without much luck.
EB - Is this buckbrush? Attachment 87502Attachment 87503
No crappie yet by my dock or near the brush. We are right by the northernmost part of Arrowhead Estates.
Peke
Thats exactly what those are..BUCKBRUSH...just thought I would chime in..Peke I caught some really black males alot further south than you yesterday from the base of those bushes in alil deeper water though..they were in 18" to 2 1/2' DOW...Ranger
We went down south on Thursday and fished. We got on the water about 0930 and fished until 1500. We kept 32 nice crappie, several 12-14 inchers. Caught all of them in 5-8 fow and best colors were blk/pink and electric chicken. All females but 2. Eggs didn't look very close to spawning on most of them. I think it is just getting ready to get good.
Odie
I was there around 1:30 and looked around but didn't see anybody catching fish. Where were you fishing there?Quote:
Originally Posted by OkieDon
Fished off and on today on my dock. Finally caught 6 keepers between 7:00 -8:00 p.m. I used jigs and minnows 7-10' DOW, and I only got bites on the minnows. I took a picture of my first crappie caught on our dock. I didn't measure it, but my foot is 11 inches long and the fish was longer than my foot.
Now can somone tell me if it is a female or male? It didn't have any black on it.
Attachment 87607
It appears to eb female, but it is hard to tell from the pic. Did it get darker after you caught it?
Why Peke, don't you know you have to look under their tail to see if they're male or female? RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by peke
Congrats on the first fish off the dock. Hoping you have many, many more!
now Okie Don, it wasn't wearing a dress so how was I supposed to know!
Smokie Okie, no it didn't get darker. Are they supposed to if they are male? It was a light silver/green.
Peke
The males start showing a lot of black on the tail and the underside in and around the spawn.Quote:
Originally Posted by peke
Well we packed up the boat and headed south, showed up Friday morning at Eufaula. Started out at Crowder on Friday and caught some good fish, ended day with about 30. Saturday we went farther south and found some better fish, ended up with about 70. Had a great trip and love the hospitality of the OK Bunch:highfive Special Thanks go out to deerhunterodie, and Eufaula Boy for there input on what was going on:highfive:highfive Ya'll got a great lake, wish I lived closer! We catch a lot of goodun's here in Mo but them Eufaula crappie's got shoulders on them like no other:yikes
Back to the south end today. Had a guest for acouple of hours too. EB came and fished with us for awhile and enjoyed the company and a big thanks for the lime/chart beavers too. We ended up cleaning 68 QUALITY crappie. EB did catch a 2lb'er and we had a few more sisters in there also. WT was 69 degrees when we got there but quickly warmed up into the 70's. Water color is perfect right now barring no more down pours in the near future. Long poling was the tactic today using pum/chart, lime/chart, blk/pink beavertails and blk/pink and blk/chart slab bandits.
We fished the Blocker area on Fri. SE, SW and NE side of rip rap and both ends. Finding the brush piles in 8 to 12' fow was key. We have several big ones marked. We also hit the ODWC piles on the North side as well as the points and shale banks on the North end, East side. The trick was to keep moving and pick up the active fish and then move on. Saw Todd pull up on a BP between two boats and put 3 nice ones in the boat within 15 minutes and in typical Huckabee fashion, moved on.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmokyOkie
It was nice fishing with Ranger and Charlie Monday I had to cut it short because I had a baseball game at Haskell that evening. But what a great day I caught a 2lb crappie then my baseball team scored 14 runs on 15 hits beating Haskell 14-3.
Thanks for the invite Ranger I had a alot of fun! EB
Hey guys, myself and 3 of my cousins are coming to Eufaula next week for our annual "cousins weekend", we try to hit a different lake every year. Any advise on where to camp for the best fishing, as well as catching slabs we also like to run jugs for big kitties! This will actually be my first visit to Eufaula & I cant wait! Any points in the right direction are appreciated! talk to yall soon.
Brandon
HeadHunter Jigs
Well guys im finally done with all my hunting duties and am ready to get after those eufaula crappies ,,went for the first time yesterday and ended up with maybe 20 keepers and a bunch of throwback dinks ,,, fished the bugtussel area fish creek and massey and elm creek the bite started out good but the later it got the worse the bite got for me and started noticing that the water was falling some shallow but most were in about 4-5 fow the good fish anyway "tough start for me " guess i need to sharpen my skills and get fine tuned cause it looks like you guys killed em in the last couple days,, anyways hope to see you down there ,, i will be in a black and white vx19 ranger if you see me you are more than welcome to give me some pointers cause it looks like im gonna need all the help i can get from the looks of yesterdays trip
Thanks and good fishin
Ranger, I saw you on monday evening. I was in the purple and silver triton around 3 pm coming under the bridge. We, the wife and kids mostly, tossed jigs under corks for a couple of hours and we kept 12 nice ones. Threw back a few and they had a good time. They seemed to be still out off the bank some. We caught most of them in about 8-10 fow fishing 2-3 feet deep.
You folks that are sacking them up while I can't get out on the lake are beginning to torque my jaw:bash
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