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I hold 2 rods in hand one on each side of the boat at different depths....Ranger
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I hold 2 rods in hand one on each side of the boat at different depths....Ranger
Perfect, thanks.
Who needs rod holders when ya can hold two rods in each hand? I bet those one rod, one bait tournies are almost boring for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger09
Read it again. I think he means one in each hand on each side of the boat. (i would need a skinnier boat!)Quote:
Originally Posted by Crappie Reaper
Craig you so need to be MULTI TASKED when crappie fishin!!! Just Sayin...LOL.....Ranger
Ranger could probably do 3 rods in each hand if he really wanted to! rotfl
Thanks for the tips and the updates guys. Bobo
Guys if you don't have a GPS for speed on your unit, just watch your line. 45 degree angle is the speed right now. EB
Hit Eufaula yesterday, store was out of minnows and there was one boat trailer in the lot (both bad signs). I really had to look to find willing fish. There were crappie at different depths, the most active were at 11-13 FOW deep right on the bottom. I think those fish were after the shad, that was the lowest depth of the schools I could see on the finder. Lots of shad this year in the Crowder area. I fished old 69, the rip, rock creek all the way over to both sides of Crowder bridge. If I found brush at 11-13 FOW half the time it held a few fish willing to bite. After the storms blew over, I found some small ones had moved to 6 FOW. Caught maybe 25 from 12 to 8 pm. Only one really good one, most were 8-10 inches. Best jigs black/pink and black/chart wooly bees. If anybody cares to tell me were the majority of the bigger fish go on Eufaula after the spawn, I would love to hear it. PM me if necessary LOL.
Main lake banks and points Fishers. I haven't been for over a week now due to a mini vacation before my wife heads back to the classroom. If you have woodpiles in that depth of water on the main lake it helps in filling your LW too. EB has been catching some fish from wood and we both were also pulling jigs rod in hand in the DOW you mentioned but you have to cover lots of water to find like you said willing biters. Will be hitting the water no later thanThursday getting ready for several trips coming up. Not saying you can't catch some fish in the creeks but for my time and money this time of year it's main lake with the lake being above normal.......Ranger
Gaines Creek has been good to me the last couple of times I've been down. I come down and stay in my trailer at Belle Starr for three or four days, once or twice a month. I always try to get a full day in at Gaines Creek as I really like it there (just a little far from where I stay.) The last couple of times I've caught quite a few smaller fun fish and enough keepers to make the drive worthwhile. My best luck has been in the creek channel for suspended fish, although they will move up on the trees ever so often. Last trip was especially good with one 14" and two just under 15". They are still there as I usually only keep 11-13" fish, occasionally a 10". My personal limit is 15 of that size and I usually don't fill it but always get enough for a couple meals. It's easy to keep enough in the freezer with just my wife and I. BTW, I've had better luck lately with BG minnows, smaller Slab Bandits and Thump Buddies (especially the Midnight Special and Swamp Thang.) It's not hot and heavy - have to spend most of a leisurely day there for what I get, but it's my favorite area to be anyway. Gonna go down again next week.
Thanks Ranger. What pattern is best as we move into fall? ("go to ft Gibson" doesn't count as an answer!)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger09
Wow your getting picky in your old age..lol..Fall fishing is a blast. If you fish wood fish the same cover you fish in the spring due to the crappie as the water temps cool off they will head for the same spots on the lake you caught them in the spring and be very hungrey. For me I will be on (ok here comes the ugly word) Ft Gibson or Tenkiller doing the samething I was doing in March and April. My favorite technique which is cast and drag thats what I will be doing and wearing the bark off the wood. The fish will move shallow......Ranger
Hey I don't mind it. Last year I was introduced to the big black slabs on Gibson and I am looking forward to it again this year. I was asking about the pattern at Eufaula to get an idea of the yearly cycle the crappie go thru, helps me fish better if I understand where they are coming from and where they are going. To be honest with you, if the water comes down this fall at Ft Gibson, when I am not bow hunting I will be there not Eufaula. Forgot to mention at the big E yesterday I caught one smallmouth and a 3.5 lb largemouth, both shallow chasing the shad late in the day.
Ranger at what water temp. do find crappie in the Fall and Spring cycle? Thanks
I start looking when the water drops into the mid 70's and when it's in the mid 60's it's should be on fire......Ranger
The temps keep dropping, that could be next week! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger09
Leave for a mini vacation and hadn't fished for 10 days. Get all excited about getting back on the water and my fish have moved. Don't ask me where cause I have looked for them for 2 days now and they are no where to be found. Caught about 20 yesterday riggin minnows and mostly small. Today I caught about the same number dippin wood but had better fish. Not much to show for 30 gallons of boat gas. Gonna have to make the drive and head to Wister....Ranger
Ranger, you want to meet me at skiatook on Sunday, I'll let you play with my HDS-12 touch. ;)
Thanks Achiro for the invite. Had better stick around and take a few guys fishin here, and if I played with your 12 I would certainly want one. Then my wife would say what's wrong with your 8 and yautia yautia yautia. I hate those yautia's....lol.... Hope you have a great day on the water.....Ranger
Let us know how you do Archiro, tight lines!Quote:
Originally Posted by Achiro
Heh, I know about those yautia's! I'm trying to talk mine into a new chessie pup...that's not going very well, and there is no way I would have gotten a 12 if it wasn't already on the boat I bought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger09
Fished today with Greg Martin from Moore Oklahoma and his 3 son's. We caught 50 to 60 crappie today and had 30 to 35 keepers. Easiest trip I ever had since they don't eat and didn't want to keep any fish at ALL!!! Went against my grain to throw back and watch those big puppy's just swim away like that. LOL . We started off dipping wood on main lake in 10' to 16' DOW with Slab Bandits in BLK/PINK, BLK/CHART, BLK SHAD in color. All caught fish with no favorite color. Later in the day when the wind picked up and the white caps were rolling we pulled jigs down protected banks and rap in 12' DOW, pulling BLK/PINK and LIME/CHART Beavertails and caught some of our bigger fish. WT was 82 when we started and got up to 86 before we left at 5pm....Ranger
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Looks like a great day Mark
Glad you had an easy trip, and they caught some fish!
Back to fishing after taking most of the summer off due to the heat. Been catching a few on minnows off the local dock. Finding them at 8-10 feet and the best time of the day so far is in the evenings right before dark.
Welcome Back Stinkfinger (JIM) ....Ranger
Glad to see your back Stink, been missing those pearls of wisdom!
caught fish on the north end today after church.....12 fow water double dippin jigs.....pink and black worked best beaver tails on crappie pro heads....gave away 21 good fish....probably caught 50
What was the water visibility?Quote:
Originally Posted by cpd21
All right guys, I need some insight if you will. I moved to OKC last August, deployed in January until mid May so didn't fish much before I left. I'm here now, trying to figure this state and these waters out but all I have at my disposal now is a canoe with oarlocks I rigged up and no electronics. I'm debating travelling to Eufala this coming weekend. Any suggestions on where to put in and what to look for as far as land marks to jig up some slabbers or should I just stay at dirtybird? Thanks for your thoughts.
~J. Babcock
With a canoe it would have to be one of the many creeks on Eufaula. Then to be using a paddle or oars thats another limitation. If you have to get away from DIRTYBIRD I would say Gaines Creek arm east of Krebs America on Hwy 31, and put in at Hickory point and fish the main creek area. Find and fish any stumps, standing timber and laydowns you might see. You can go down or up and see all the above mentioned structure. There is also Mill Creek west of the town of Eufaula on HWY 9 that has alot of structure in it also but it should be somewhat dirty right about now but again I havent been in there for sometime to give you a good heads up. Let us know what you decide and how you do...Ranger
Fishers....its not too bad....I cant see the bottom of the livewell but its not bad by any means....probably see your jig 4-5 in under water
Went back again yesterday....wife and I took my Mom and we kept 17....didn't get on the water till after we got off work at 4....fished for 2 hours
Hey thats good, I would gladly take that most days! Thanks for the report. I have never fished above interstate forty in a boat before, I am going to have to get in there and check it out. Thanks for the posts cpd.Quote:
Originally Posted by cpd21
Fished from 9am til 1:15pm on the North end today and had 18 keepers with the biggest being 1.52lb and the smallest was .91lb. Only caught 21 crappie and missed 5 fish so you do the math. No little fish bit today. Guess Andy (cpd21) gave em all sore lips. DOW today was 7' to 15'. Most fish came out of wood dipping blk/chart Slab Bandits. WT was 82.4 when I started and got up to 86.6 when I left. Water Clarity was about 8" to 10" in spots.
Ranger...most that we kept were good fish....most that we threw back could have been keepers but I really didn't want to clean them....laziness I guess...didn't catch very many dinks......but I did catch a goldeye.....had never seen one of them before and if you look in their mouth its kinda scary....I don't think you would want to lip one of those, or if you did I bet you would only do it once...lol
Give it a try Fishers....just make sure you got blk/chart and blk/pink jigs...I had bought minnows and only caught two on them....everything else was on jigs...and when they hit it they were thumping it....for us we did better in about 12 fow moving at about .3 mph according to GPS along the rip rap just off the bottom
Makes for a bad finger day Andy lipping one of those. Have caught several below Ft Gibson and Tenkiller in the rivers. I tried all depths today and the only bites I could get along the rap was shallow in 7 to 8 ft but all but 4 of my fish came from wood in 15' to20' but only 10' deep. They were in the top pod the piles and not all wood held fish......Ranger
Got it, good info. I think I will be able to go Friday.Quote:
Originally Posted by cpd21
Today was one of those days to forget. Unloaded at Arrowhead around 7 this morning and hit a few piles close by where we caught em good last Saturday and NOTTA..2 really small ones is all...It started raining and it rained and rained and the North wind blew. Moved up to the rap where we caught em last Saturday and NOTTA..3 small crappie and it rained and rained...Moved up the lake to around Massie dipping wood, 11 piles in all and NOTTA..and it was still raining...Ran down to Elm and fished a few spots there and NOTTA..just a few small fish is all that would bite...Left Elm and ran to Coal Creek and dipped timber and Stumps that I could see all the way to the Electric Lines and NOTTA..had 2 keeper fish...well this is a day to remember and I can't relate it to anything except the front that blew through. I left a 3:15 and the North wind was still blowing and was hearing Thunder to the East..Just One Of Those Days......Ranger