Thread: Lake Eufaula archives

Tried jigs yesterday evening around the same time I caught them last week using minnows and didn't do any good. Switched to minnows and caught 3 decent crappie, but they shut down just as it got dark and I came home. Best time I have found lately to catch them is about an hour and a half before dark.

I think they are biting early in the mornings, but I have been working on my house in the mornings and not fishing til late in the evenings. Still fishing from my buddy's dock and they are biting around 8-10 feet. The water is muddy/murky and your jigs/minnows disappear after going down only a couple of feet.

If anyone else is doing anything differently and having any luck, drop a reply in this thread, thanks.

I was down at the lake this weekend. Sad day when u put the boat up for the winter
Still had a few minnows left in the bucket from last week so I used them up and got 7 nice crappie in about an hour.
Wont be back down for a few weeks now,, Maybe I can get into some more then.

Has anyone been doing any good in the Gaines Creek area?

Hello Everyone, I was able to get on the water yesterday for couple of hours. It took me a little while to find some fish I just run out of daylight. The water visiblity was around 8 inches up around the I-40 area, and the temp was 69 degrees. I stayed on the rip-rap to long then finally decided to move and ended up finding some fish in 16-18 FOW down around 12ft on main lake points. The reason I stopped to fish them was because I saw shad flippin pretty heavily in the area. I was spider-rigging minnows and jigs. The fish were much deeper than I thought they would be. It was a beautiful day to fish! I am looking to get back out there will post a better report next time! EB

Hello everyone, I was able to get out this evening on the north end. Caught around 25 from 3:30-dark. Spider-rigging minnows in 12-15ft of water. I as using 3/4 ounce sinkers and 2 minnow hooks above. If you weren't on the bottom you were not getting bit. Good Fishing! EB

Same for us too, had to be within 1' of bottom at least. All but one had empty stomachs? You would think they should be feeding heavy right now?

Hello everyone, I thought i would get the board fired up a little. With the lake levels down the fishing on the big E is very good. we fished this weekend and kept 64. The biggest was 2.2lbs with and average of 12inches a fish. We had had spider-rigged minniow for the first 4 hrs and only had three to keep. Then we switched to jigs with the rods in our hands (Huckabee style) and keept 61. Big big healthy fish the best bunch of fish I have caught in a while. We were fishing on the south end of the lake, using beavertails and vibra king tubes. Black and pink was the hot color. The fish were in 8-12ft FOW, you had to have your jigs right off the bottom to get bit. Good fishing! EB

Thanks for the report Brian and from everything I'm hearing lately, the crappie are staying really close to the bottom. Glad you did well and thanks again.