Lake Eufaula archives

Hey Bryan, yeah I get that all the time. They look at me and say LITTLE? Dad was with me when I went into Crappie pro the last time and talked to Larry Russell, Dad told him I was little and he was Big. Larry Russell said yeah Bryan came in and told me but didn't understand why. make sure you keep ole Rick Thompson in check that guy will run a set of coon hoiunds to the ground chasing those bandits. LOL We will have to get together sometime, I want to learn this spider rigging. I normally just hold the poles in my hands to fill the thump.

I wish you would have called me when you were down ya'll had some nice fish. I guide alot of different techniques but my favorite way to cath them is with a cork! I learned from the best ( Mike "Slabman" Reynolds). As for Coach Thompson he's huntin' every night, training a young dog here lately. I have taken him fishing with me a couple of times, he ain't bad for a coon hunter. Give me a call sometime would love to visit! 918-617-0362! Brian

A friend and went fishing Saturday and we decided that we were going to walk the banks with jigs and corks. So we started thinking of every back water creek and slew and went and tried three different places. We ended up catching over a hundred fish keeping 41 on the day. We never caught a fish deeper than 3ft and the bigger fish were caught after dark with a latern on the bank. If you don't want to mess with the boat on those cold windy winter days try walking the bank in some of those backwater creeks sealed off from the lake. You would think they wee spawning in January! LOL EB

We gonna hafta follow you EB, our creek didn't produce.

Hey EB do you have any ideas why that technique in that water depth? Same thing in wister creeks. Friend in Arkansas catching them 18 inches deep!

I might be totally off base here but I believe it has to do with the creeks that we are catching them in are not affected by a thermocline. Allowing the fish to be at various shallow depths.

EB was Graves creek one of the creeks you found fish in Saturday? I was introduced to the crappie in that creek last year about late February. I had a blast just seeing the size of some of those slabbers we caught. I wondered if it was too early for em there.

Guys I am really just trying this pattern because of MrRodbender. We were thinking of creeks that are sealed off from deeper water(the lake). I think it is a pond effect, meaning you have to get in places where the fish are trapped. Back water slews and creeks. Basically where a man could kill some ducks this time of year fish it! Remember fishing the lake is entirely different that fishing the creeks, ponds and slews. By no means am i an expert on this pattern. Just love to get out and try new stuff. Look at Odie's reports on Oolagah, he is catching boat loads in the lake by locating balls of shad near the bottom in 20-25 FOW. Then we have an entiely different report cathcing fish no deeper than 3ft deep. The next thing I will try is getting out on the lake and locatng shad balls on the channel drop offs. What makes me ahppy is i have two ways to catch fish one for nice sunny days and one for nasty days.

Froggie yes we were in graves some caught a ton of little fish though. I think the big ones are in the just need a boat to get to them.

Tucker are the wister creeks sealed off from the lake? If they are they are trapped! If they are not the water temp is probably slightly warmer which shad love and crappie follow the shad.

Oklahoma National Audio Fishing Reports
This is probable old news but was new to me when searching for a fishing report. Seems to be updated at least weekly maybe more.

Thanks Tles1. Very good info on Lake Eufaula. I had a guy call me yesterday and tell me they were catching a bunch of fish on Eufaula on river ledges. I hadn't talked to him in a while and he didn't know that was the way I been catching them on Oologah. So any of you fishing Eufaula may want to try getting on a ledge with at least a 3-5 foot drop. On Oologah the best depth has been 18-25 ledges. Brush is not neccasary, but if you find a ledge with brush it can be deadly. Look for balls of shad and the crappie will be in the ball of shad feeding. A ball of shad suspended off the bottom is even better.

Odie