I wanted to share some info on the times that the fish will be "On the bank". I know we have lots of factors to include every year including, temperature, water level, water clarity, moon phases etc. We are all chasing the fish to the shallows in March and back out to the lake by June, from the shallows watching a crane take a 12 inch male out of the buck brush 6 inches deep to the 25ft brushpiles on Tenkiller on the south end of the lake where its 15ft visibilty (Blows my mind). Maybe we can get some of these experts on there lakes to talk spawn by lake.

Lake Eufaula: Its called the "Gentle Giant" for a good reason, at 102,500 surface acres this can be a challenging body of water. When the water temps reach 57 the you can find several big males on the bank. Its starts first around the last week of March down in the creeks. Graves, Gentry, Mill, Rock, Coal, and the infamous Gaines creek. The creeks will warm up very very quickly it may be as much as a 12 degree difference in the creek than in the lake. Then around the second week of April the main lake on both the North and South end will start to fire up. North of North 69 Bridge and South of Number 9 bridge. I would say that the last 2 weeks in April to the first 2 weeks in May is the peak of the spawn on the lake. Then the mid lake parts and east to the dam the month of May is very very good. With Eufaula being so big the spawn here last about 10 weeks most years. But its 2.79 ft below normal which means it will need to come up 3ft for some of those spawning hot spots. When it comes up it will be muddy for a little while which means tough fishing and shallow fishing. I hope this was helpful to everyone. EB