Thread: Oologah Archives

Tried a night stalk last night and couldn't get anything going. Spencer Creek area, timber and a few brush piles. A few dinks and one keeper(released).

I went below the dam with my dad and we used minners and jigs around the ramp as well as some shad and shrimp for cats. The only thing we caught was our minners in the bucket. Apparently the shad were hard to come by today as several people mentioned having a hard time finding any.

I thought I saw an aluminium boat with a crappie.com sticker on it today but I didn't get a chance to say hi.

I'm pretty new to nightsalking but thought I would give it a try at a place I caught a few fish at last week. Went out last night from 9pm - 1am. We caught 3 keepers near the dam before dark and then went to our other spot. We set out some lights and fished a brushpile at about 15 fow. We used both minnows and jigs and never caught another fish. Kind of frustrated I got up this morning and headed back out to try again. I went back to the same exact spot and started catching fish immediately. I had to wade through the dinks but ended up with about 12 keepers.

So all of you experienced night stalkers - especially the Oologah fishers...what's the deal? Do they move or feed differently at night? Had lots of minnows gathered below the lights...figured we should have been tearin' 'em up. I noticed the previous post by Coyote who nightsalked last night and didn't do any good either...maybe the fish just weren't biting for some reason.

Here is a pic of some of my catch from today.

Originally Posted by dnchance

I thought I saw an aluminium boat with a crappie.com sticker on it today but I didn't get a chance to say hi.

You did see an aluminum boat with a C.C sticker on it. It 'twas Me. I did a little catfishing this morning and the shad were thin. The ones I found were upstream from the ramp above the cable. I tied the boat off to a willow and hoofed it over there. I spent 45 minutes netting 10 shad and most of that time was spent mending the cast net.

The bait theives were out and I ended up with 6 mississippi whites with the biggest around 3lbs. I've already got enough Crappie in the freezer and didn't feel like putting up with the jetski crowd. Next time hollar and introduce yourself.

Originally Posted by Crappie Reaper

Next time hollar and introduce yourself.

I will definitely do that.

You have a pm dnchance

Well, my brother and I took my 2 nephews up to the lake Saturday evening for a little camping trip. We put out a few jugs and only caught 2 fish but Sunday morning we grabbed some minnows and headed for one of the corps brush piles in 14 feet of water and proceeded to put on a clinic. We fished for 2 hours and kept 62 over 10 inches. I had to pick my family up from the airport at 2:00 otherwise we would have sat there and caught 4 limits. They were hammering it and all of them had full bellies, they were eating some kind of bug. It's the same bug that the fish I catch at Blocker are always eating. It kinda looks like a crawdad but it's a bug. Anybody know what those are? I'll try to get a picture next time. Anyways, the boys had fun, they have no idea how lucky they are to have an uncle so skilled in the ways of the crappie:rolleyes:!

Here's a picture of the catch.

Wow Meatdragger! You put those boys on some slabs, I bet they loved that trip. I think the "bug" your referring to is the same one E.B. posted about on the rip-rap trip they had the big limits on in June one year. I think he said they were dragon fly larve.