Thread: Tulsa fishing

Went to Lynn Lane Reservoir last night looking for sandies and all I could manage were 4 small crappie. I watched a guy hook a 20+ pound flathead catfish, only to break his rod and line right at the bank and lose it. He put up a good fight for 5+ minutes only to swim another day.

I've been catching those little crappie for the past week there at the spillway. I'm going out there probably Friday night to try to get a catfish to bite. The softball complex across from it provides a lot of light for night fishing.

I have caught lots of good crappie at keystone 4 weeks ago I limited out 3 times. some very large crappie this year. sigh no three pounders yet. Roofs in OKC are badly damaged and I am working non stop. So my future fishing is impeded for now. Holes in some of these roofs big enough to put my foot through.

Flyguy - The fish pictured appears to be in fair condition and starved. The fish is a LMB and not a spotted bass. The comments about all the small crappie tells me 2 things: 1) the crappie are probably white crappie and 2) they are stunted because of overpopulation and the lake is out of balance. This is typical when an unknowing person with good intent wants to create a fishery. Just my 2 cents. Best thing I have seen posted about this lake is a possible 20 pound flattie being caught. A few more of them in the lake and the crappie numbers might go down. Flatties like crappie:D

Originally Posted by cricket george

Flyguy - The fish pictured appears to be in fair condition and starved. The fish is a LMB and not a spotted bass. The comments about all the small crappie tells me 2 things: 1) the crappie are probably white crappie and 2) they are stunted because of overpopulation and the lake is out of balance. This is typical when an unknowing person with good intent wants to create a fishery. Just my 2 cents. Best thing I have seen posted about this lake is a possible 20 pound flattie being caught. A few more of them in the lake and the crappie numbers might go down. Flatties like crappie:D

If you are talking about the crappie in the Lynn Lane resivoir we are have been discussing then I think some clarification is in order. The reservoir is not like a typical lake, its a feild that was bull dozed about 30 years ago to a flat clay surface, it has a burm completely around it with concrete banks... its a city drinking water facility holding area. (1BN Gallon Capacity)

It gets its water (and fish) directly from a series of 4-6' pipes from Oolagah lake. There is absolutely no structure in it (aside from the inlet spillway, and the facility that lets the water go into the plant) so I don't think the fish do much spawning or if they do its not very effective since there's not a lot of room for the fry to hide.

I did catch a 1lbish crappie there but most of my catches by the spillway have been 6-8".


The bass in that picture I caught from a local storm drainage pond (there are about 7 or so in Tulsa) and the reason we thought it was a spotted bass was due to its jaw hinging directly under it's eye socket. It's possible that it was starving though it was caught in a 1 acre pond. I did catch about a 1 1/2 lb one this morning in a different pond and it looked similar and had some dark discolorations on it. It was either spawning or eating the green sunfish that were spawning as I caught it in less than 1' of water near where I saw some spawning activity.

Here's an iphone picture of it.

Cricket George, the pond MS6 (where the bass in question was caught) is definitely overpopulated with crappie. Unfortunately, the flathead was in Lynn Lane. However, there are almost always people fishing the pond and keeping large numbers of crappie (small crappie). Do you think this itself could balance the ecosystem or are predatory fish necessary?