Thread: Big tourney report

George and I had a great time fishing our first Crappie.com tourney at Oologah today. It was great to see so many turn out for the event. Congrats to the winners James and Zac. They had some great fish. Thanks to everyone who put the event together and participated.

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Great turnout for our Oologah Tournament, 17 boats. I want to first thank Dean at WINGANON BAIT AND TACKLE for doing a great job of hosting us. He had breakfast going around 5 am and stayed all day to help with the weigh in. Thank you to all who came out and fished with us. It was a very competitive tournament with less than a pound separating the top 7 teams. Congratulations to all the winners!! Don't forget our next tournament on Aug 29th on Ft. Gibson Lake. Our tournament directors will get a post up about check in and weigh in soon.

Here is a recap of Brian's and my day. We started out fishing brush in 16-18 fow but found the fish had moved shallower with the cool morning. We caught tons of fish all day, but like everyone else found out " a 12 incher was hard to find", unless you are KEVIN! We caught fish on standing timber as well as brush piles. I drop shot minnows all day and Brian used jigs most of the day. I will say our biggest 2 fish did come on a jig. Pearl and pumpkin/chartreuse were our best colors. We must have caught 125-150 fish, the fishing is going to be real good on Oologah in a year or 2.

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These fish everyone was catching were in the 11" range. It's the same group that was 9" this last fall. Oologah had one heck of a spawn for this particular batch of Crappie. It's the older fish that seem to be so elusive. I think we were all trying to find at least a couple of those fish and those that did were in the money. This tournament played out pretty much like those who fish Oologah on a regular basis predicted.

Thanks Doug and Brian for doing such a good job in organizing it!

What part of to lake is producing the best ? Upper end, mid lake or lower end ? My boat and I are OLD and can't cover the while lake in one day.

Welcome to the forum KCMasterpiece! I look forward to your posts and just ask that you go easy publicly on my fishing, boating and electronics disorders! You guys better hope we don't show up for the Gibson tourney- we learned enuf in this one to move up to eighth place next time! Thanks to the organizers and I hope that more of the winners ( and others) will post as Doug did, some info about how you went about it- coordinates optional.

Congratulations to the winners James and Zack. Congrats to Jeff and Johnny too for coming up and finishing a strong second on a lake they don't fish very often. Gaston and I had a great time fishing the tourney and getting a chance to see everyone again. Doug, Brian and our host Dean at Winganon Bait and Tackle did a great job as usual running the tourney and providing a great place to meet. As the weigh in showed, the competition was really tough today. Dad and I caught tons of fish all day, but struggled to find the 14 inch fish we needed. We hit some shallower piles early and found better concentrations of fish there. We both fished with jigs but i had a couple of rods rigged with minnows too. I jigged with one rod, alternated that with drop shotting a minnow and had another rod rigged with a minnow to fish straight down. Dad double dipped with jigs all day. The minnows caught more fish but the jigs caught the majority of the big fish we weighed in. Our best colors were pumpkin and chartreuse and blue and chartreuse. Dad caught our biggest 14" fish on blue and chartreuse. We caught em early fishing around 10 ft deep. We moved deeper to 15-20ft midmorning and went back to shallower piles and picked up a few more good fish at the end of the day.