Bixby Creek Area Report

[crappie_jiggin]

Finally a day I got to go fishing. I hit the lake at 1245 this afternoon and headed for bixby creek to fish in and out of the boat houses. I found the crappie to be in about 4-5' of water. I would have the boat sitting in about 9-12' and was casting towards the bank, but not completely up against it. I was letting my lure fall to bottom then slow rolling it back to the boat. They were hitting it from about 2-3 turns of the reel to half way out to the boat.

I literally caught around 150 fish today. That is counting all the small crappie, bass and sandbass. I left at 530 and had know idea how many keepers I had in the livewell. Once I put my rod up I decided I better count my keep. I ended the day with 26 keepers all of which where 10" or bigger. The biggest measured in at 14". Caught many 9 3/4" crappie, but I will not keep any smaller than 10". Let em go and grow for the next years catch.

All the females still had eggs and very bloody. Only one had some gray colored eggs.

I guess I should have stated bixby creek is on lake eufaula in the thread header.





This is the lure I was using. It is a 1/8 road runner with a 3" tripple ripple from bass pro. Pumpkin/chartruese with the red head. This is my go to bait when they are on the bank.

[rigrunner(236)]

I know you had a blast. Thanks for sharing the photos. Good mess of crappie!!

[OkieDon]

Nice catch there Jiggin! Love to see those slabs!

[CrappieThug]

Ketchin em on the ol classic roadrunner!

[The Lip RIPPERS]

Thanks for the report, I been thinkin of fishing Bixby creek east side of the bridge. You got into some blacks too! So did we, but only a couple were keepers.

[BAOKBOB]

I am familiar with Bixby Creek near Bixby Oklahoma.

Where is this Bixby Creek you guys are speaking of? What Bridge.

Thanks

[Bigmarv58]

Check out this report. Crappie Jiggin gives very good directions on how to get there.

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/oklah...oken-cove.html

[crappie_jiggin]

Pull up a map of eufaula and I am assuming you know where dutchess creek is. Head south away from the bridge at dutchess creek like you are heading back to the main lake. You have to make a left handed turn heading to the main part and there is a creek straight in front that keeps going to the east that is bixby creek.

Go to yahoo maps and put in porum, ok. Zoom out till you see the lake then left click on the far left side of the map and hold the button down and drag the map to your right. That will get a better view of the lake. then click on the satellite in the upper right corner. You will see where I am talking about.

The Bixby Creek I am referring to is on Lake Eufaula and I did make a mistake by not adding that to my thread header.