So far I have bank fished Salt Plains (one carp in the spillway), Canton (skunked), and the pond in Meadowlake park (two yellow bullhead). What other lakes should I be looking at for shore fishing until I find my OK starter boat? Crappie would be great, but any edible fish will do for now.
Canton has crappie and walleye!
Lake Elmer is open now in Kingfisher Okla, It was redone and reopened last year. Good luck hope this helps a little.
Canton has the best quality fish but is so low its tough to fish. Try these two spots next time you go, besides the dam they are the only accessible "fishy" water with the current lake level. Red bluff cutoff is upstream from the lake on an old Beaver river oxbow. Attachment 158106Attachment 158107
At Canton, try the damn by the first fishing turn out from the overlook cafe side of the damn. Left corner facing the lake of that jut out rip rap at about 20 yards from that corner is a big brush pile in 10fow. Slip cork a jig or minnow about 2-6' down and you should hit some crappie. That pile is in about 10fow and is 4-6' tall.
From the that rip rap spot back towards the spillway is always good crappie fishing along the damn.
They put a lot of trees anchored up along the damn this winter. And I mean full grown trees that the tornado ripped up.