Lake Eufaula archives

Thanks for the heads up MrRodBender. The whole idea of catching crappies that shallow is foreign to me. That shallow of water up here is weeds so thick you'll never recover your jig most of the time. So you're reccomending staying shallow, real shallow. Key on brush, or just work shorelines? Look for drops to main lake and creek arm I'm assuming.

As for water quality I am aware, lol. Its a whole different experience on most of ya'lls lakes. Up here our dirty lakes still have 2-5' of water clarity, and some of the clear lakes have 15-20' plus.

As for hitting the Rainy, you gotta come up during the spring right about now sometime and hit it. I have a bunch of buddies that fish it on a regular basis (some who are guides). When the ice is coming off of LOW, the bite is amazing! Last week one of my buddies had 8 eye's between 27-29" (8-12lbs) in one afternoon. Plus about 30-40 nice eaters mixed in. At the same time the sturgeon bite is going nuts, and catching fish that range from 40-60+" is routine! Most of my buddies are headed up there this weekend for an annual get together and I'm sure it will be a blast.

We weren't able to make it out till Sunday. Fished I-40 just long enough to figure out it wasn't going to happen there. Moved over to Emerald bay and started working the bank. We went west from there, all the way over to Elm Grove Creek. We found a few nice males tight on the shallow brush, and I mean tight. We weren't set up for doodle socking, but we should have been. The fish were so tight in the brush that we couldn't really get at them with our corks and minnows.

It was another of those "You shoulda been here yesterday " stories.:rolleyes:

Finally got back to Coal Creek today with a buddy. We were on the water by 9:30 and it was overcast with light rain. Rough ride from Juniper Point to Coal Creek but it seems it's always worth it.

Had 11 in the boat by noon and waited out the first heavy rain under the 69 bridge. We tried to judge when the rain slowed down and go out and fish. We did this a couple of times and finally gave up around 2:30 wet and cold.

The weather didn't bother the Crappie, they were still biting when we left.

We were catching them in 4 to 6 feet of water right off the bank with 3" Slab Slayers in Cajun Cricket and Chart. Crappie Pro 1/4 ounce jig heads.

Ended the day with 16. Not bad seeing how we spent the last 3 hours under the bridge more than we fished!!!

Guess it's time for a good rain suit! :o

Sorry Meatdragger...I agree. As I said in my first post, Spent Wed - Sat down at Rock Creek. Got our limit everyday. Pushing homegrown jigs in 1-4 fow. Cold and rain Sat night and Sun. kept us off of the water.

cleaned 18 yesterday in the Massey Point area. Females still had eggs.

Smoky Okie, I was in the same boat....uh, well our boat was in the shop too. Our boat is out now, and my husband and I are heading to Eufaula in the morning. They saved the best fish for all the people who had boats in the shop! Don't ya think? We'll fill our boats tomorrow! :D

Jason21, What is "pushing jigs"? Is it trolling in the front of the boat instead pulling the lines behind you? I may be way off! What size jigs did you use? Do you get hung up on structure and break the line? Do you stop trolling when you have a fish on or keep going? I know where the housing addition Rock Creek is, but I don't think it is the same place you were fishing.

Smoky Okie, What is a double down seat pedestal?

Anyone else have info on Eufaula fishing from today (Friday)?

Thanks,
Peke

got a nice mess of crappie mid-lake in Euf 2nit, a little of structure in 1-2ft. :)
im getting the hang of this doddle-socking thing
-fishingrl

We did ok there 2 or 3 weeks ago but then they kinda quit. Dunno why, shouldn't they be in the creek still?

Fished the small cove north of Arrowhead today. That little cove next to Rock Creek Cove and Rock Creek Heights housing addition to the end of Windsor addition. 15 mph winds with 35 mpg gusts was not fun. Fished with jigs first, but I guess I don't have the knack. Started using minnows and caught some of those green carp and some crappie and even perch. Water was 65 degrees in the morning. Most were caught after 2:00 in 3-5 feet of water, but only 1-2'deep with a cork.

Peke

fished saturday and sunday from my dock and only caught a few keepers...they were hitting in five feet off water and have moved off the bank. The good news is the bass were really hitting....don't know how many of those I caught...lost track....both on minnows and crank baits.....now getting ready for round two...stripers at texoma during the day and crappie fishing all night...woo hoo....i love this time of year.