Thread: Tulsa fishing

Originally Posted by CrappieThug

Has anyone fished this pond. It is directly east of the Creek Turnpike between 51st and 61st st. I think this picture was taken when it was first built because everywhere where you see sand in the picture is now covered up by water. You can access it on 51st street through an old dirt road. Someone told me that it was owned by allied waste management but it doesnt seem to be used for dumping purposes. This pond is huge.

Even the updated views like "Google Earth" it looks to be fairly shallow.

Anyone can fish it as there is a road leading right down to it. A bunch of idiots dumped a bunch of trash on each side of that road too. I wonder if there is any fish in there. I have been meaning to get out there and try it but I've been way too busy.

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?

Holy hatch day!

I was out at the Lynn Lane reservoir tonight and the Mayflies were out swarming... and the fish were gorging. I noticed something different when I had my float get hit several times. The roads were just covered by them for a couple of miles. The other people were complaining that the fish were so preoccupied with the bugs that they wouldn't eat anything else. The only thing we could get to bite were turtles