Thread: Perch Jerkin Time

Originally Posted by 64stang

How deep were they jerker?

Most of them just off bottom in about 8'.

When the lakes rose I put the crappie rods up and switched to my perch rods. Pawhuska is the lake of choice, no problems with high water. They have big blue gill and red ears you can locate all summer. I used to go Lake Lone Chimney to chase big red ears until the lake dropped because of the drought the last couple of years. I checked with the lake office the other day and it is sill 6 feet low even though it has risen about 10 feet in the last month.

Originally Posted by bosshog

When the lakes rose I put the crappie rods up and switched to my perch rods. Pawhuska is the lake of choice, no problems with high water. They have big blue gill and red ears you can locate all summer. I used to go Lake Lone Chimney to chase big red ears until the lake dropped because of the drought the last couple of years. I checked with the lake office the other day and it is sill 6 feet low even though it has risen about 10 feet in the last month.

Hey Boss,

I have never been to Lone Chimney. Does it have a good population of redear compared to Pawhuska? With what it has come up recently, would that make any of the ramps useable for a small boat/trailer?

Originally Posted by cricket george

I finished up a photo shoot for an upcoming magazine article over the weekend and managed to harvest about a dozen 9" bluegill.

George,

9" blue gill are dandies. I think your management plan is a success!!! I know you've put a lot of work into it. Must be very satisfying to see 1st hand what all your effort has produced. Congratulations.

Lone Chimney was my #1 red ear lake in the state before the drought couple of years ago. For almost 20 years I have fished it for red ears and it was tops (6-12 inch range consistently). It was average for bluegill. Pawhuska was a close second because it has a good population of big blue gill and red ears and the water is clear. I am sure some would swear by American Horse Lake but Lone Chimney was tops in my book.

As a side not L. Chimney is full of flooded timber. It was a great lake for huge bass an catfish. I have caught several of both over the years in the trophy category. Also, tried for crappie one morning a few years back and caught three of the largest crappie I have ever caught (2.74, 3.05, 3.25) at one time.

Both ramps are still out of the water at Lone Chimney. Hopefully they get enough rain to fill it soon.

Originally Posted by bosshog

Lone Chimney was my #1 red ear lake in the state before the drought couple of years ago. For almost 20 years I have fished it for red ears and it was tops (6-12 inch range consistently). It was average for bluegill. Pawhuska was a close second because it has a good population of big blue gill and red ears and the water is clear. I am sure some would swear by American Horse Lake but Lone Chimney was tops in my book.

As a side not L. Chimney is full of flooded timber. It was a great lake for huge bass an catfish. I have caught several of both over the years in the trophy category. Also, tried for crappie one morning a few years back and caught three of the largest crappie I have ever caught (2.74, 3.05, 3.25) at one time.

Both ramps are still out of the water at Lone Chimney. Hopefully they get enough rain to fill it soon.

I went up there Saturday after the BBQ cookoff in Cushing to check it out. Drove all the way around the lake. Must say, that is the most HIDDEN lake of any I've been to! No signage and lots of wash-boardy gravel roads. The ramp on the East side really isn't very good now, although there were some people camping there that had a boat. Don't know if they tried to put it in or not. looked awful shallow. On the West side, the water is even with the bottom of the concrete. It looks like it drops off pretty well past the concrete and the ledge isn't too high that a trailer would bottom out, so I think it would work. I took a few crickets and fished off the ramp a little bit. Only caught a handful of very small sunfish and a little channel. It does look really good though. Reminds me of American Horse with all the standing timber, just not as clear. May have to make a trip out there after the next batch of rain. Which ramp/area of the lake did you fish in the summer time for the redears?

I use to use the road on the south side of the lake (pre bass boat days) that runs out into the lake until they built the east ramp. It is much to shallow for that now. Anything close to normal lake levels the east side is the easiest to get to otherwise the west will have to do. Most of redears caught over years on southern part of lake as it heads west. There is lots of submerged timber and flats next to deep drop off's. Redears will roam the flats in 3-8 fow in summer and also tree lines. Of course all of this info specific to normal lake levels. Caught as many under boat as casting. When casting I usually drag it slowly on bottom back to boat. I have some old pics I can post if I find them.

L. Chimney has a lot of timber. It can be dangerous to newbies so be careful. From a distance most suspected I was a bass fishing because I moved around so much. Also, it used to have huge Florida strain bass.

Yeah Boss,

It looks like it should be fishy, fishy fishy. I don't have to worry about moving around too fast, as I just fish out of a 10' Buster with 2 trolling motors. Looks like now, just fish the edges of the tree lines and the channels. How bad does the wind tear it up? It's supposed to be gusts to 25 Saturday. That means Pawhuska will have 35+. That's a little much for that lake. Pawhuska is the only place I've ever had my little boat where I was concerned about being able to get back to ramp.