Me and a friend went to Big Creek yesterday to give them a try. He likes minnows, so I got him some shiners at Jim's Bait in Nowata and we were on the water around 09:00. We were looking for 12 - 14 feet of water, but had a hard time finding any place over 10 in Big Creek! Now I am not a minnow guy and only jig fish, and on our second stop I picked up a BIG one! That was it? We went to another spot, I picked up one and my friend picked up one; both nice very large models, and then nothing? That was the story of the day; run and gun, because we could not find them stacked up anywhere. However, we were fishing as the cold front hit. Very nice fish, just not big numbers. Total catch over 5 hours was 18 large ones.