Lake Wister

I fished the poteau arm yesterday for 5 hours, my first time on wister. Lots of people fishing where I was for a friday, I counted 8 boats in that channel. I caught about 25, kept ten biggest from 10-16 inches. Five were really nice fat healthy fish. All the females were spawned out and the males losing their color already. Great looking water and lots of cover, I wish it were closer so I could learn the lake. The fish I caught were in and above cover in 4-10 fow. I used various BG slab slayers, bold colors worked best.

Attachment 116689Attachment 116690Attachment 116691 Fished Wister Tuesday, kept 25 with several nice ones. Water was 50 and the fish were active, had some hard thumps. Fish were on the shad, had some fish spitting them out as I landed them. I was spider rigging minnows on 10-20 foot break lines. The fish were at all depths, I used the finder to target what appeared to be the larger fish that were a little bit away from the main schools of smaller crappie. I think it paid off, I sacrificed some numbers but I probably caught more big fish.

Nice post Fishers. Looks like a Grand Ole Time....Ranger

Way to go Fishers, we should nickname you the traveling man!! Seems like you go to lots of different lakes !!

Man fishers we need guys like you fishing with us on the tournament trail! I told you that those big crappie eat better than those trout! EB

Your not kidding Brian, those bigger ones were smacking it. Hey check this out, I took some of those crappie last night, dipped in them egg and rolled them in a 50/50 mix of crushed Jalapeno Cheetos and Parmesan Cheese and baked them in the oven on 500 for 20 min. Oh man, it was like orange roughy or red snapper from a good restaurant!

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Originally Posted by Eufaula boy

Man fishers we need guys like you fishing with us on the tournament trail! I told you that those big crappie eat better than those trout! EB

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Thats awesome! I really think out tournamnet trail will be visiting Wister next year! EB

E.B. I seen a post the other day on what line you use for certain things I would like to see it again thanks Jim

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Originally Posted by Eufaula boy

Thats awesome! I really think out tournamnet trail will be visiting Wister next year! EB

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Fished Wister Thursday. It was pretty cold and windy, limited where it was comfortable to fish. Water was flowing with some trash in it. Caught about 25 or so, mostly small ones, kept 10 biggest with 3 really good ones. Fished minnows in 10 -25 FOW wherever I could find a good drop on the bottom or heavy cover for the fish to get out of the current. The shad were very difficult to find.

Glad you got to go Fishers! I want to take a trip down there.