I agree about this being a "favorite" thread for me as well. I hope to get back down there soon. Keep the updates coming guys it gives us that live too far away good information.
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I agree about this being a "favorite" thread for me as well. I hope to get back down there soon. Keep the updates coming guys it gives us that live too far away good information.
That's only because it's been brought back from the dead several times after being dormant for long periods at times. Don't know why it happend, but normally, folks tend to let threads go there own way. Personally, a thread that goes back 8 months or more does not interest me. Then there is the Stinkster, he'll stir up a stink that everyone eventually smells:rolleyes:.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stinkfinger
This being one of those threads that has weirdos involved would explain it's longetivety.
I like this thread to,It's the first one I read, I enjoy the post from all you guys down there. And apparently It's popular with a lot of folks. It don't matter how old the thread is the post are always new. I hope ya keep them comming.
Stink ya gonna take that:D
Actually, I can't argue with that statement of reapers and don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to denying it.:DQuote:
Stink ya gonna take that?
My son Josh fished for awhile Wed., he caught 6 all shallow with the largest an egg laden female @ 1.5lbs. and he said the males are very dark colored.
I caught the fire out of them at the dock at Crowder last night, but except for two, they were all "dinks".
Went again this morning by the ramp here at Arrowhead and caught two..........dinks....... :rolleyes:
Water temp is around 72
Keep up the good words, Stink, you put a smile on our faces at times anyway. And in this day and time we need some humor to go along the way.:)
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Originally Posted by Stinkfinger
Hello, Males are still on the bank and now we are catching fish on the spawn and post pattern. Lots of current around all the bridges in the lake and the sand-bass and crappie are stacking up. The next few weeks we are going to be catching fish around bridges and rip-rap. Maybe all summer long.When the water starts to go back down the fishing will get really good. Anytime there is some stability to the water high or low you can pattern fish much easier. We fished this pattern 3 or 4 times in the last 5 years.We caught fish from I-40 all the way to Buffallo in Gaines. Most fisherman have trouble fishing when the water is high because much of the visible cover is under water. None the less finding the wood in the proper depth can take some hunting and searching. Many techniques can be used this time of year: Spider-rigging, long lining, Huckabee style, dippin, double dippin, crank baits, pulling or pushing etc. So get ready guys when the water starts to settle, the freezers will fill up. "I love May, June, and July" Good fishing EB
I don't know how much it rained last Friday night but the lake was still rising. We fished 8 hrs on Saturday and we had one of the toughest days I have ever had crappie fishing. It felt like there wasn't a pattern at all. The fish were spread out all over the place. We had rising water, rain, the wind blowing out of the north and northeast, and currents everywhere. Every bank that we fished by I heard water flowing. Most of the the fish we did catch were small and the bigger ones were reaction bites. We were spider-rigging jigs tipped with minnows and the good bites were when we were hauling ass. The lines would almost go horizintal to the water and the fish would hit on the rise or the fall. We tried 2 different areas and only kept 16. I have experienced this on the north end of the lake but never on the south end. I believe that the fishing will pick back up when the water starts to go back down. Anytime we have some stability in the water high or low the fish are much easily patterned! I had a client call me Sunday and ask me where to go in all this high water. I told him you are asking the wrong guy. LOL My advice was to fish rip-rap and fish all you can. He called back and gave me a report yesterday and said they caught aroung 80. But only 6 of them were big fish.They Spider-rigged all day! So if you are fishing right now and struggling don't worry about it we have all been humbled here lately. Good fishing! EB
EB, Thanks for the report. I'm ready for the weather to settle down for awhile.
QUOTE=Eufaula boy;801582]I don't know how much it rained last Friday night but the lake was still rising. We fished 8 hrs on Saturday and we had one of the toughest days I have ever had crappie fishing. It felt like there wasn't a pattern at all. The fish were spread out all over the place. We had rising water, rain, the wind blowing out of the north and northeast, and currents everywhere. Every bank that we fished by I heard water flowing. Most of the the fish we did catch were small and the bigger ones were reaction bites. We were spider-rigging jigs tipped with minnows and the good bites were when we were hauling ass. The lines would almost go horizintal to the water and the fish would hit on the rise or the fall. We tried 2 different areas and only kept 16. I have experienced this on the north end of the lake but never on the south end. I believe that the fishing will pick back up when the water starts to go back down. Anytime we have some stability in the water high or low the fish are much easily patterned! I had a client call me Sunday and ask me where to go in all this high water. I told him you are asking the wrong guy. LOL My advice was to fish rip-rap and fish all you can. He called back and gave me a report yesterday and said they caught aroung 80. But only 6 of them were big fish.They Spider-rigged all day! So if you are fishing right now and struggling don't worry about it we have all been humbled here lately. Good fishing! EB[/QUOTE]
Went out yesterday. Took my 76 yr old dad and my oldest son who recently graduated from the University of Arkansas in Electrical Engineering. We started out hitting the flooded timber with no luck at all. Then we moved to some rip-rap and all we could manage was a bunch of sand bass. They were schooled up all along the rip-rap and we only managed 2 crappie there. One keeper and one dink. Moved over underneath the bridge and saw tons of fish under the bridge, but only caught 2 dinks. All fish there that showed up on the graph were around 22-29' deep. Then we decided to move into some standing timber and try Hucklebee style. I was fishing around 11' while my son decided to go down deeper at around 18-20' and within the first 5 minutes he misses one so my dad went down further and no longer did he flip his bail closed one hit. It was a 11 1/2" crappie, so we all started fishing deeper and then we finally started catching fish. Only ended up the day with 11 keepers, but at least we didn't get skunked. All caught on pumpkin/chartreuse and black/pink beavertails. Caught many dinks to. Did see a few boats tied up to some standing timber near the bank catching some, but again allot being thrown back because of size. They were all using minnows and corks.
The Corps of Engineers started releasing water thru their flood gates yesterday at 2:30 pm and for some reason that is when we started catching fish. I know where we were fishing you could see the current starting to flow around the standing timber. The lake has peaked and is now starting to fall.
was EB's unlucky client saturday and can testify to ever thing he said. But can also say that the man literally worked his ass off to try and put my daughter and me on fish. As bad as the conditions were, it was a pleasure to see that the work ethic is not completely dead. Save me a spot in July, Brian.
Hey mark, thank you for the kind words. It seems like everything we tried was wrong that day. Sometimes we think we are really good fisherman and got it figured out. But then we fish a day like that and we are humbled. If there is a fisherman out there that catches fish every day no matter the conditions I want to meet him, maybe he can give me a few pointers. Mark I promise when the water stabilizes we will have much better reports for the board. Good fishing! EB
Amen! If Brian had a bad day it had to be way off, he's been averaging 40-65 crappie per trip. If you know someone that can do that consistent I'll shake his hand!
All I can say is everyone BE CAREFUL this weekend......as you know the nuts will be out in force.....Happy Memorial Day
Hello everyone, Here is a good report for Monday May 25. We fished from 11-7 and had 93 keepers. We spider-rigged beaver-tails, power trolled minnows (Spider-rigging moving much faster 1-2mph), and long lined curly tails fishing 6-8ft in 10-25ft of water. We spider-rigged up the creek the first 4 hours and had 60 then we decided to long-line jigs the rest of the time. Let me tell you that we must have caught 200 fish all day long. Big George told me how to long-line jigs and we had a blast that evening with this technique. We caught crappie of all sizes and catfish up to 5 lbs. The biggest crappie we had was 1.5lbs the rest were good keeping size. Most all of these fish were suspended over deeper water. Thanks to Big George for teaching me a new technique. Good Fishing EB
EB...What is "long lined jigs?"
I spider rigged Saturday and caught over 50 with 10 nice keepers from about 10 to 3. Found them suspended in the creek channel fishing about 8' deep.
Heading the Eufaula Saturday and was wondering if I should go ahead and spider rig around the creek channels or head under the bridges? Anyone have a report they would care to share?
Thanks!
Would someone share info. about Oak Ridge Rec. Area boat ramp & any info about fishing the bridges & or rip rap in that area?
thanks
Fished Eufaula today. Crappie were scattered and near shad. Cleaned 21 nice ones. A lot of dinks too. Bite was on jigs. We used minnows also, but most were caught on black chartruese jigs.
We saw several boats fishing the 9A-bridge Memorial weekend, that one is good when their pulling the lake down {current} Later on into summer the double bridge on 69 is hard to beat.Quote:
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Hello here is a report for friday and saturday. We long-lined jigs in the creek channel running them about 6-8ft in 10-25ft of water. We must have caught 300 fish in both days. We kept 41 keepers friday and 47 keepers saturday. We caught tons of 7-8inch fish. Long-lining jigs is just pulling jigs 40-50ft behind the boat at 1mph. We spider-rigged a little and caught a few that way but we mostly pulled jigs. This is only the third time that I fished this technique and we had a blast. It definatly has its place,when fish are scattered and eating everything in sight. Good fishing! EB
EB - Were you pulling tandem jigs? What weight were the jigs?
Thanks for the good report, I've never tried long-lining, but will when I get back on the water.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eufaula boy
EB, I to am curious as to what size jighead or weight you are using. I have long lined before on Tenkiller, but with no success. At the time I didn't know it was called long lining till you stated it.
Thanks for the report. I am off for the next 10 days and plan on hitting some water somewhere during that time.
Hi all,
We would like to spend our vacation at Lake Eufaula this summer, but don't know where to stay or fish. We do not have a boat so we would be fishing off the banks. Is there a place to stay that would also be a good place to fish? Cabin, campground, anything would work.
Thanks
Patti
Went out today with my dad. We did some Huckabee still fishing. Run and gun stand up timber. I bet we caught over 100 crappie today on pumpkin/chartruese and black/pink beaver tails on a 1/8 oz jig head. Fished in 12-20' of water anywhere around 8-17' deep. The bad thing is we only managed 17 keepers. Should of had more, but I couldn't get my dad to lift his pole straight up so we could land them all he wanted to do was slide it backwards in his hands. He lost around 10 keepers that I know of because of this. The bite was good when the wind was blowing then it went still and so did the fish.
You know it doesn't matter how many we caught or kept the main thing is I spent quailty time with my aging dad, doing what we like to do best.
Plan on hitting it again before I have to head back to work, but have to rebuild the rear end on my truck first. Well better get off here to get that done. The fish are waiting for someone to came pay them a visit and I can't do that sitting here watching my truck not get worked on.
Good luck to anyone who hits Eufaula this weekend.
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Originally Posted by crappie_jiggin
I'll agree, the quality time with your dad was worth the whole trip! Lots of people are too busy to enjoy times like these. Good luck with your truck.
My brother puts metal lures/jigs (?) with treble hooks on them when trolling in the pontoon boat. Is that the same as long-lining? His drags them about 100 yards behind the boat. Usually he catches sand bass in shallow water. Does it sound the same?
Thanks
Patti
Did they drain the lake dry? Where are the reports?
Thanks: love to hear from someone
My buddy and I went out last Friday with Brian Young, aka Eufaula Boy. The day started by us waiting for the big T-storm to pass. Once on the water he took us to some rip rap and we started catching a few here and there.
Then the wind switched from the South to coming out of the North, NE. I figured our day was shot at that point, but Brian kept us on the fish.
We ended the day with 40 keepers and probably caught 2 or 3 times that many of dinks.
White/Chart and Black/Pink seemed to be the hot colors of the day. It seemed we caught most of the fish 5 to 7 feet deep.
This was my first trip hiring Brian, but it won't be the last! He really knows his stuff and was very forthcoming on how to use different baits, where to find the fish and tactics to use.
At the end of the day he even cleaned the fish (not all guides do). He made the comment that it had been a "slow" day. I wish all my slow days could be as successful as this one!
Don
I went to Eufaula near the 3 bridges area last weekend. We tried trolling for sand bass, and tried casting for crappies. Nothing! What was going on? Was it the weather? Was it the front coming through? We finally set out a trot-line and caught some nice sized blue cats and channel cats. (About 15)
Did anyone else catch anything? Were we in the wrong places? (Southern part of the lake from Hwy 69 and 9-A bridges to Crowder area.
Patti
I also live in Coweta and consider Brian my friend and he is a very nice guy and can catch fish We talk weekly about what is happening I hang out around Jims One Stop if ya ever need anything Okie Don
@ Patti,
I don't know why you didn't score on the Crappie. The best advice I could give anyone trying to learn the patterns on a lake is to invest in a few trips with local guides. Eufaula has at least 3 (that I know of) Pro Crappie guides who can show/teach you how to catch them year round. It will shorten the learning curve greatly and save you a lot of time and frustration. In the long run you'll save money and catch a lot more fish!
@ George
I appreciate the offer. Is that the 66 Station by the turn-off to Porter..across from the Kum & Go? I get by that side of Coweta every so often.
Don
i fished with eb this spring he is a very good guide he will put u on fish had a great time
Thanks! We may try a guide when we get a boat...probably next year. Economy is too bad right now for a new boat purchase. We also need to find a good place to stay on Lake Eufaula close to good fishing spots. My husband goes with me "under protest", but he does go. Fishing is not his thing. Camping is out too! :(
Any suggestions on where to stay that is close to good fishing since we don't have a boat?
Patti
(I have been keeping a list of guides at Lake Eufaula. Thanks to all.)
That would be it Don the old rock store by the way they are catchin a few on the river had a friend catch 80 or so the other day in the cuts above the bridge
Thanks George, I'll be looking for ya when I stop by.
Appreciate the tip about the cuts off of the Ditch. But those Crappie will have to wait until I get a boat to be terrorized by me LOL
I've heard lots of good things about the river. Can't wait to fish it on a regular basis.
Don
I'm in the gentry creek area of lake eufaula and was wanting some tips of where to fish and what type of bait/colors to use. Thanks for any information you can give!
Dusty,
Been catching fish on the north end (Deep Fork arm), mainly in relatively shallow water, 6 to 8'. Colors are pumpkin/char, brown orange, green/orange, black/char, red/char ... depends on the day and sometimes it changes throughout the day.
In the Gentry Creek area, I would go west up the lake and dip the timber. Motor carefully, though :)