Thread: OK MEN COMING TO OK.

Welcome to Stillwater mikeg! As others have said, you are close to several fishing spots. Lake Carl Blackwell is a great place to fish that is very close to Stillwater. Good numbers of crappie, catfish, hybrids, sandies, saugeye and LMB can be found there. It has a "heated dock" for winter time fishing but don't plan on getting very warm there, the heaters have not put out much heat for several years. It can get very very packed when the fishing is good but it allows for fishing on the inside and outside so if you don't mind a crowd, you can usually find a spot to fish. Cost is $5.00 per day per vehicle (not per person) to enter the park or $8.00 if you have a boat. Yearly passes (good until June 30th, 2016) are $50 and $80. Lake McMurtry is also very close and a nice lake with little traffic but for the last several years it seems you have to catch 20 dinks to get one keeper ( this was still the case just 3 weeks ago). Cost for it is $6.00 per day to enter park with boat or no boat. Yearly I believe is $65 and that includes tent camping. In town there is Boomer lake and it holds some good crappie, but like McMurtry, you have to catch a ton of small fish to get one 10" fish. Keystone lake is a larger lake to the east (maybe 45 minutes from Stillwater) and it has a ton of fishing and a lot of marinas to fish and is free to fish. North is Sooner lake (about 20 minutes) and it has good sandies, hybrids and stripers in it, I have not heard much about crappie for that lake but it does have a lot of standing timber and good channels and humps in areas of the lake. Further north is Kaw Lake and it offers some great crappie fishing and catfishing. Jug lines are very popular in that lake as well as in Keystone. Below the dam in the spring is a top spot for spoonbill (several fish in the 100 pound range are caught each year).

As far as rental properties, really depends on what you are looking for. The Links in Stillwater((405) 780-7167) is a large apartment complex with a 18 hole golf course, driving range, large workout facility, nice swimming pool and so on and it offers several different models and prices, it is on the north side of Stillwater. I am sure you can find several houses but being a college town, a lot of times the rent is a lot higher then if you were to rent something outside city limits or in neighboring town of Perkins. A local property management company is Campbell Property Management ((405) 372-9225). They handle a TON of properties in the area.

Good luck on the move and getting everything taken care of and settled into the new place. Lots of great guys on this Oklahoma board and some excellent fisherman who are always willing to help answer questions, offer ideas and some will even ask you to join them on the water for a day of fishing.

we will call them and see what they have.

mikeg