Thread: Lake Eufaula archives

A buddy wanted to get out and go fishing Sunday, since it was his only day off. So we had planned on trying Rock Creek, but the forecast of heavy South winds made me change my mind and try Gaines Creek, even though it is 93 miles from my house!

We pulled up around 10 O'clock and I was kinda amazed that we were number 5th or 6th in line and the parking lot was nearly full! I also noticed a white Carolina Skiff motoring off as we drove up. Yep, it was EB just leaving the ramp, so I had a little hope that the fish were still biting there.

Anyway, we finally got into the water and headed up the creek. Started fishing in 10 to 12 FOW using jigs, any colors so long as they were blk/pnk and blk/chrt! We hit a few banks but the wind really played havoc with my boat. We decided to try down the creek to see if we could find a place out of the wind. Hit the rock bluffs down toward the mouth and kept adding a few at every stop. Nothing huge, but solid 11 to 12" fish. The wind just kept us moving out of the zone all the time and it was hard to work the trolling motor and concentrate on fishing.

As the afternoon wore on, we decided to go back up the creek and while working a bank, met EB coming down the creek. He said they were having good luck with a slip cork and jig, about a foot to foot and a half down. At that point, we'd picked up a few in the 6 to 8 FOW, but the largest were still coming at the 10 to 12 foot range.

Worked our way up the creek as it was getting late. I put on a cork with a Blk/Pnk Beavertail about a foot below it and started hitting the stuff on the bank. Put about 6 or 7 more in the livewell using this method.

Water temps started out around 64 in the morning and we found spots that were as high as 71 later in the day. The jig and cork bite ended for us later in the afternoon as the Bass moved in. I bet we caught nearly a dozen 10 to 14" bass on one stretch of bank where just an hour before we had pulled out some Crappie. It's been my experience that when those Bass move in, the Crappie move out. We never caught another Crappie up shallow after that.

Ended the day with 27 that would go between 11 and 13.5". Not what I had expected, but better than nothing at all!

Here's few waiting on their turn under the fillet knife for their filletotomy's.



Black and pink ruled the day! 98% come off of this combination right here. Lime green Crappie Pro 1/4 oz head (I think this may be what they call a chartreuse color) black and pink beavertail.



On a final note, I did manage to break the "indestructible composite shaft" on my Minn Kota Terrova. Apparently they never field tested that shaft in Lake Eufaula on a 20' Aluminum boat when the wind was howling out of the South. Something those MK engineers might want to consider next time when they're putting their products through stress testing! I have cracks 2 to 3 feet long from mid shaft all the way to the head. Glad it has a lifetime warranty!

Fished Gaines creek on Sunday and kept 45 mostly males off the bank! We ahd tried that deper water but couldn't get a steady bite! So we got the jig and cork out. Once I figured out the pattern within the pattern we caught fish on every bank we fished. I had the trolling mottor in 2 ft of water the rest of the day. Almost all of our fish came out of 2-3ft of water. We were fishing blk/chart vibra's.

OkieDon, you know the back I seen you fishing? We caught 25 keepers off that bank in 2-3 fow over nothing. Not much structure just had to have on the right drop off! EB

Bugtussel area...morning bite was slow only 12 in the lW at 10AM..water temp was 61.3 nothing on the banks. bite was in 10'to 12' DOW..had to be bumping rocks or brush..as the noon hour arrived the bite picked up..fished a stretch of bank with a few brushpiles on it about 100yds long..fisnished up cleaning 54 very respectable fish..nothing really big but alot of 11" to 13.5" crappies..today with the dinks my partner and I caught over 100..great day even with the wind..blk/chart. and blk/pink super tubes 1/16oz lead heads,, when we finished up the water temp had dropped to 60.2..

The last few days here on Lake Eufaula I seem to be having better luck with minnows than jigs. Ran into this last week while fishing Coal Creek and the Crowder area. Once I switched over to minnows, I began catching fish.

The best time for catching them has been shortly after sunrise and about 30 minutes to one hour before dark, then for around an hour after dark.

@ EB

The bank you're talking about is where we caught our biggest fish Saturday. They came at each end of it. It's also where we caught our biggest fish when we went out with Todd. Sumtin' special about that bank!

Where was that bank again?

Originally Posted by OkieDon

A buddy wanted to get out and go fishing Sunday, since it was his only day off. So we had planned on trying Rock Creek, but the forecast of heavy South winds made me change my mind and try Gaines Creek, even though it is 93 miles from my house!

We pulled up around 10 O'clock and I was kinda amazed that we were number 5th or 6th in line and the parking lot was nearly full! I also noticed a white Carolina Skiff motoring off as we drove up. Yep, it was EB just leaving the ramp, so I had a little hope that the fish were still biting there.

Anyway, we finally got into the water and headed up the creek. Started fishing in 10 to 12 FOW using jigs, any colors so long as they were blk/pnk and blk/chrt! We hit a few banks but the wind really played havoc with my boat. We decided to try down the creek to see if we could find a place out of the wind. Hit the rock bluffs down toward the mouth and kept adding a few at every stop. Nothing huge, but solid 11 to 12" fish. The wind just kept us moving out of the zone all the time and it was hard to work the trolling motor and concentrate on fishing.

As the afternoon wore on, we decided to go back up the creek and while working a bank, met EB coming down the creek. He said they were having good luck with a slip cork and jig, about a foot to foot and a half down. At that point, we'd picked up a few in the 6 to 8 FOW, but the largest were still coming at the 10 to 12 foot range.

Worked our way up the creek as it was getting late. I put on a cork with a Blk/Pnk Beavertail about a foot below it and started hitting the stuff on the bank. Put about 6 or 7 more in the livewell using this method.

Water temps started out around 64 in the morning and we found spots that were as high as 71 later in the day. The jig and cork bite ended for us later in the afternoon as the Bass moved in. I bet we caught nearly a dozen 10 to 14" bass on one stretch of bank where just an hour before we had pulled out some Crappie. It's been my experience that when those Bass move in, the Crappie move out. We never caught another Crappie up shallow after that.

Ended the day with 27 that would go between 11 and 13.5". Not what I had expected, but better than nothing at all!

Here's few waiting on their turn under the fillet knife for their filletotomy's.



Black and pink ruled the day! 98% come off of this combination right here. Lime green Crappie Pro 1/4 oz head (I think this may be what they call a chartreuse color) black and pink beavertail.



On a final note, I did manage to break the "indestructible composite shaft" on my Minn Kota Terrova. Apparently they never field tested that shaft in Lake Eufaula on a 20' Aluminum boat when the wind was howling out of the South. Something those MK engineers might want to consider next time when they're putting their products through stress testing! I have cracks 2 to 3 feet long from mid shaft all the way to the head. Glad it has a lifetime warranty!

Nice catch! I see your using a Crappie Pro Jig Head.... Nice!!

That is all I fish with Crappiepro jig heads! Larry Russel has a great product, He makes somany that he doesn't have time to fish! EB