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Went out yesterday. Took my 76 yr old dad and my oldest son who recently graduated from the University of Arkansas in Electrical Engineering. We started out hitting the flooded timber with no luck at all. Then we moved to some rip-rap and all we could manage was a bunch of sand bass. They were schooled up all along the rip-rap and we only managed 2 crappie there. One keeper and one dink. Moved over underneath the bridge and saw tons of fish under the bridge, but only caught 2 dinks. All fish there that showed up on the graph were around 22-29' deep. Then we decided to move into some standing timber and try Hucklebee style. I was fishing around 11' while my son decided to go down deeper at around 18-20' and within the first 5 minutes he misses one so my dad went down further and no longer did he flip his bail closed one hit. It was a 11 1/2" crappie, so we all started fishing deeper and then we finally started catching fish. Only ended up the day with 11 keepers, but at least we didn't get skunked. All caught on pumpkin/chartreuse and black/pink beavertails. Caught many dinks to. Did see a few boats tied up to some standing timber near the bank catching some, but again allot being thrown back because of size. They were all using minnows and corks.
The Corps of Engineers started releasing water thru their flood gates yesterday at 2:30 pm and for some reason that is when we started catching fish. I know where we were fishing you could see the current starting to flow around the standing timber. The lake has peaked and is now starting to fall.
Last edited by crappie_jiggin; 05-19-2009 at 10:33 AM.
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was EB's unlucky client saturday and can testify to ever thing he said. But can also say that the man literally worked his ass off to try and put my daughter and me on fish. As bad as the conditions were, it was a pleasure to see that the work ethic is not completely dead. Save me a spot in July, Brian.
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Mark
Hey mark, thank you for the kind words. It seems like everything we tried was wrong that day. Sometimes we think we are really good fisherman and got it figured out. But then we fish a day like that and we are humbled. If there is a fisherman out there that catches fish every day no matter the conditions I want to meet him, maybe he can give me a few pointers. Mark I promise when the water stabilizes we will have much better reports for the board. Good fishing! EB
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Amen! If Brian had a bad day it had to be way off, he's been averaging 40-65 crappie per trip. If you know someone that can do that consistent I'll shake his hand!
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All I can say is everyone BE CAREFUL this weekend......as you know the nuts will be out in force.....Happy Memorial Day
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Weekend Report!!
Hello everyone, Here is a good report for Monday May 25. We fished from 11-7 and had 93 keepers. We spider-rigged beaver-tails, power trolled minnows (Spider-rigging moving much faster 1-2mph), and long lined curly tails fishing 6-8ft in 10-25ft of water. We spider-rigged up the creek the first 4 hours and had 60 then we decided to long-line jigs the rest of the time. Let me tell you that we must have caught 200 fish all day long. Big George told me how to long-line jigs and we had a blast that evening with this technique. We caught crappie of all sizes and catfish up to 5 lbs. The biggest crappie we had was 1.5lbs the rest were good keeping size. Most all of these fish were suspended over deeper water. Thanks to Big George for teaching me a new technique. Good Fishing EB
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EB...What is "long lined jigs?"
I spider rigged Saturday and caught over 50 with 10 nice keepers from about 10 to 3. Found them suspended in the creek channel fishing about 8' deep.
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Heading the Eufaula Saturday and was wondering if I should go ahead and spider rig around the creek channels or head under the bridges? Anyone have a report they would care to share?
Thanks!
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Would someone share info. about Oak Ridge Rec. Area boat ramp & any info about fishing the bridges & or rip rap in that area?
thanks
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Fished Eufaula today. Crappie were scattered and near shad. Cleaned 21 nice ones. A lot of dinks too. Bite was on jigs. We used minnows also, but most were caught on black chartruese jigs.
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