Thread: Lake Eufaula archives

Your welcome Stink! We struck out on spot #1. Moved to the other area and I saw what looked to be a crappie feeding on the surface, made a long cast across the channel and wham! Stink & I quickly moved over to the other side and began to cork/jig the deeper side of the visable brush, it was every cast for an hour! Pink/pump./chart. Beavertails set @ 1.5' Stink, how do you rate those weighted floats?

They sold me, I like em. Putting them on my shopping list for my next run to the tackle store. I like the action they give the jig, make it more active and life-like.

I waited til this morning to clean the fish, now have 3 quarts of beautiful crappie filets, thanks again Leland.:D

Me my wife and cpd21 went out fished yesterday evening on the north end around Emerald bay. We fished from 5:30-dark and caught 28 keepers had 4 fish over 13 inches and 1/2 of them were black crappie. We spider-rigged every point we could find that was in 5-10 fow. The hot colr was black/pink beaver tails with a pink 3/16th crappie pro head. We trolled points for about a 1/2 a mile and caught fish the entire time. We caught a bunch of little ones as well. My wife caught all the big ones, and had the fish of the day up out of the water and it got off, needless to say she got a little excited! LOL

You are a smart guy EB telling on here wife caught all the big ones that surely will lock up another fishing trip for you in the future !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yup I am hoping! But we gave her a hard time about loosing the hog! We caught some of the prettiest big black crappie you ever seen, you would have never believed they come from the north end. They looked like they come staight out of Gibson. I love catchig them, that's why I started to fish porum and dutchess a little more last summer. But we are seeing more and more through out the lake. EB

Originally Posted by Eufaula boy

Yup I am hoping! But we gave her a hard time about loosing the hog! We caught some of the prettiest big black crappie you ever seen, you would have never believed they come from the north end. They looked like they come staight out of Gibson. I love catchig them, that's why I started to fish porum and dutchess a little more last summer. But we are seeing more and more through out the lake. EB

I have read that they actually overtake the white crappie over time in lakes that they are able to establish themselves.

Originally Posted by Stinkfinger

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We caught around 35 crappie in less than two hours and kept 24. All these crappie are nice crappie, a few weighing over a pound. The females did not have any eggs left.

For what it's worth,
A friend and I were fishing Elm Point area a couple of weeks ago and caught what we thought were some really nice sized spawned out females. They were thin in the belly and white like you would expect a female to be. Later when we cleaned the fish that were still alive in the live well, we notice we had some large males, black spawning colors, that we could not remember that we had caught. We realized that they were the fish that we thought were spawned out females. The females that we cleaned still had eggs but my freind said they didn't look right. The next day a was talking to Todd about where I had been fishing and the fish we had caught and he told me that area had been hot a couple of weeks earlyer and that most of the fish had finished spawning. I mentioned the big males turning color and the females having funny looking eggs and he said "that was common this time of year for the males to turn colors in the live well and the females retain eggs all year long. They never drop all their eggs. I catch fish year round and the females always have eggs." If you think you caught a spawned out female with no eggs check closer for the male sperm sack, the little white sacks, and let me know what you find.
A couple of days latter my friends and I were cleaning fish at Todd's store and he showed us the difference between not yet spawned and female fish that had finished spawning with eggs. The finished spawning fish with eggs had lost that bright yellow and bloody look.
This might need to be put into a thread of it's own.

Headed back out to Eufaula today with my 77 yr old dad and what a time we had. Oh I bet you thought I was going to say with all the fish we caught. Well we did manage 23 keepers all over 10" and biggest 14.5". The wind is what we a had time with. He hit the Longtown Area thinking I might get out of the wind a little better. Caught around 75 total so the bite wasn't near as good as yesterday. Sorry I didn't get any pictures of our fish today. Mom and dad were in a hurry to get home before any storms from out west showed up.