Lake Eufaula archives

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Originally Posted by MontanaBoy

Rick,


The last few post have been awesome... Thanks for the good information and picture of the fly. This is what this website was made for. Congrats on the crappie you caught. I hope you have many more to come.

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Thanks allot. Looks like my trip may be over. The place where I was hammering the crappie has gone south with no action. Measured the water temperature this pm and got a solid reading of 68˚ F. I have been seeing fish caught in other areas, but too deep to wade and looks like mostly males. I kept a spread sheet of the days I fished with water temperatures and weather conditions. Hope this will help me in the future. I ‘m planning on buying new waders. Mine are getting real old and worn out. Lots of crawling in and out of Wind River Canyon and Lake Eufaula. I lost the big crappie when the opportunity came. Just have to be smarter than the fish. Learned allot about crappie behavior in shallow water. Hopefully, I will be back in Wind River Canyon this fall and return here again next spring. Thanks Rick

Gosh, I can't believe there haven't been more reports coming out of Eufaula lately!!

Well, I fished Thurs. at Graves Creek and cleaned 7, fished Friday at Gentry Creek and cleaned 9.

But today, got up early since we didn't have to take our daughter to school (and pick her up) and made it to Coal Creek by 8. Put in at Juniper Point.

Dang, are they every going to fix that hole in front of the ramp?

And when will that place get a courtesy dock! Geez!

Anyway, went up coal creek and had 7 or 8 fish by 1 p.m. Just couldn't find any huge numbers. Fished the West side of Hwy 69 bridge, North end. Then went to the South end, picking up a few males along the way.

Had a little picnic lunch in the boat with my daughter and then got back to business and headed up the creek.

We were slow trolling down the shore for a couple hundred yards moving at about .5 mph using jigs and minnows. Started catching big females in 3 to 6 fow fishing 2 to 4 feet down.

Second trip down the shore we started catching the males. We caught them in the same areas as we caught the females plus up on the bank in water that was a foot or less.

Water temp was 63 in the a.m. and hit 70 in one area. It had cooled to 65 when we left.

Hot jigs were 1/4 ounce Crappie Pro Chart. jig head with Yum black/pink body and Orange Crappie Pro 1/4 ounce jig head with BG Electric Chicken. Wife used Rosies to catch her fish. The water temp got too high in the bucket and they all died but she still caught a bunch of fish off here dead Rosies! It seemed the Crappie didn't care!

Ended the day with 48 Crappie plus 3 Sandies.

Here's a pic of my Minnow Girl showing off one of the Big Gals. This one weighed 1.9 pounds and fell for one of my Wife's dead Rosies!

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A very productive trip. Thanks for sharing. Good to see you taking the youngster along! How did you get the picture that size? When I post a picture it takes up the whole page. :(

WTG, Don! How do you like C.C. now? Are you goin back there next?

Fished Eufaula Saturday, caught 111 cleaned 92. Biggest was 1lb 10 oz. Had several wieghing between 1lb-1.5 lbs. Minnows and jigs. Jigs were electric chicken with pink head and electric ghost with pink or plain lead head. Fishing in 9ft water 5-7ft deep. Was fishing around Jones Creek area (Elm Point boat ramp)

61 total, largest 2.2 lbs.

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Nice mess of Crappies Speck. Looks like someone has a big cleaning chore to do, but that's a very good thing. :)

Well geez, I replied to LR and RigRunner but don't see the reply now. :mad: I may have started posting before engaging the brain!

@ RigRunner

I don't know how the pics get resized. My wife takes them on her cell phone and then emails them to me. I just download them into a file until I'm ready for them. I'll see if I can find a setting on her phone.

I love taking my daughter fishing, but she doesn't have much patience. I suppose most kids her age don't. I probably didn't at her age either. I'm just glad my Wife brings a lot of stuff along for here to do!

@ LR

I love fishing CC, but Juniper Point is a tad over 100 miles from my home or I'd be there more. I fished it twice last Summer with EB and a few times last fall with a buddy after I bought my boat. The fall trips were crappie/catfish trips and we did well every time we went.

The whole reason I chose it this time is because I thought there would be less people there because it's not as easy to get to as Rock Creek or Crowder. I saw a lot of people on CC yesterday, but I guarantee you Crowder and Rock Creek were zoo's!

After about 6 p.m., we nearly had the whole creek to ourselves. Except for the guy who camps out on that point where the secondary creek comes in on the North, just below the power lines. There's an old overhead Camper there. He has a good thing going!

I noticed he had about 20 yo-yo's out and some jugs. I'm betting he was filling the freezer! Every time we came by, he'd have Crappie on the yo-yo's. Weird seeing Crappie heads pointing up out of the water :eek:

Also a real nice Tom on the side of the ridge on down the creek late in the day, but he was hush mouth and not telling anyone where he was spending the night :(

@ Speck and CWilson

Nice job, looks like ya'll were on the fish also! Love those big ole females (Crappie that is :p )

On another note, I broke my last B'n'M rod yesterday. It wasn't even a year old. Set the hook on an average male and it just bent over. This will probably be the last one I buy. Now that I know Leland and Crappie George, I don't see any reason to buy from them anyhow :D

Caght 35 sockin buck brush 8in-2ft. Will post pics-when I can figure out my blackberry. C-ya down there crappie guru. Man do u have people fooled. Ha!

We fished Saturday and caught 60 keepers, spider-rigging, in 4-8 ft of water with beaver-tails and vibra king tubes. The wind haunted us a little but we still manged to have a decent day. Then Sunday we caught 99 in 5hours, We spider-rigged 4-8ft of water fishing 4-5ft deep, we had 8 fish identical from 1.55-1.68lbs it seemed like the females were near deeper areas instead of the 4-6ft breakline near the spawing areas. We saw 2 guys fishing the buckbrush all day and they said they ha 98 keepers and 905 of them were males. 90% of the fish we caught were females, some had dropped some hadn't. Good Fishing EB