I want to go fishing -- how are you guys managing to fish in such cold wind/weather??
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I want to go fishing -- how are you guys managing to fish in such cold wind/weather??
I can't do it when it is like this. I hurt way to bad in the cold to even think about playing in this weather. So I sit at my little work bench and either tie jigs or make jig heads. LOL
Bobo
Bobo....did you get my PM
Not to sure I can handle it, but I'm thinking bout going to tenkiller tomorrow. Dress in layers and you may even want to take a change of socks if your feet are anything like mine. Be sure to have your head covered up as well. That's just what I do when I'm in the cold.
RE-send it Griz. I may have deleted it on accident.
Bobo
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Originally Posted by bowman_1977
I would take a complete extra set of clothes with you, just in case Heaven forbid something happens.
Bobo
No fishing for me in this weather! I just had a bowl of hot homemade stew and I'm sitting on my Navionics app dropping pins on channels, breaks and ledges that I want to check out in a few weeks. Cup of hot tea at my side (could of been chocolate or coffee.) I'll have enough waypoints to check it will take me all summer.
X2! Good advice Bobo! I always (during winter) have a plastic bag with a change of clothes and a towel!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobo Greybeard
Oh I have extra clothes for sure, I have had the luxury of swimming in feb before. Lol. Putting some brush in a few years ago and I think I made a bigger slash than the brush did, boy was it cold. I had extra clothes in the truck that day, but now I take them in the boat with me.
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Originally Posted by Redge
I use to do some underwater recovery. Let's just say I have seen what happens when clothes get wet and the weather is cold. I have also been in these Oklahoma lakes when the water temp was in the 30's it is not a fun thing for sure.
Bobo
Been going as far south as possible, eying Sardis for saturday.
Fishers, have you fished Sardis before? If I have been there it was 25 years ago!
Have never fished it. Just got off the phone with some stores in Clayton and Yanush. Lake is mostly ice free but no minnows due to trucks not wanting to deliver in the cold weather. If I go tomorrow I think I will fish the 4 spots I have circled in red first if the wind permits.Attachment 150218
Fishers - I fish Sardis every year (but I've never been in the dead of Winter, usually go in hot Summer.) The areas you circle usually produce some for me as well as the timber to the west of the rip-rap area you circled. I wouldn't expect them in the timber this time of year. The locals always catch them below the bridge there. Another area that produces even better for me is the creek bed of Anderson Creek as it meanders south of the cemetery road bridge up near Anderson Creek Road. Lots of deep holes there that have produced every time I've been there. It would be a little more of a boat ride tho'. A favorite lake since the 80s for me - just wish I would get down there more.
Is Anderson the tributary that comes from the north east side of the lake?
No, that's Buffalo Creek. Anderson comes in west of Yanush in between Buffalo and the Jack Fork area. Just follow Anderson Creek road west out of Yanush and you will see the Cemetery road going south. Follow it to where it crosses Anderson Creek. It eventually comes out down near where you have highlighted. The best part for me has been Anderson Creek (bed) running south from the Cemetery road bridge. It really sticks out on the Navionics webapp.
Found it, thanks Iken. Have you ever tried the dirt boat launch just to the north of the bridge on Sardis cemetery Rd?
I've seen it but my boat wouldn't work there. The only boats I have seen launched there are flat bottoms.
yeah, that would be a long haul looks about 6 miles
That's about right. COLD!
I chickened out on the trip to Sardis today. Glad I did. Yesterdays forecast for today was 46 and sunny, turned out to be a high of 33 and cloudy. I still hope to make it down there this year if it warms up a little.
I live S.E. of Clayton about 30 miles. When We were coming home from McAlester yesterday, passed lake about 6:00 pm about 2 inches of snow on ground and was still snowing. Think you made the right decision.
Think you made the right decision Fishers! However the fish were still biting !
Thanks for the report Hat. I like your neck of the woods, you live in a beautiful part of the state. Redge, 6 hours round trip drive time + snow + cold + never been there before, it just wasn't adding up!
It is a beautiful part of the state! It would be good to expand the NE Okie tournament schedule to there. Sardis, Pine Creek, Hugo, Texoma, etc. Might be too far for some but would pick up Texans just like Kaw does Kansans. Wister was a start.
IkenI....thats a great idea too. I like the idea of expanding the tournament trail to new lakes. Get several of us away from our home lakes and out of our comfort zones. Show up at the get together after classic and toss your thoughts out.
When you guys decide to come down, give me a shout and maybe we can hook up. When its warmer I hope!!
With the supposed warm up coming I'm going to tbird quite possibly Wed. after work and then Thurs and Fri. cause I'm off! For you guys in the know, how should the bite be based on the weather pattern being that its warming up more each day? Did that make a bit of sense? lol I've been out a few times the past couple of weeks checking on the boat and relaxing/killing time around the marina and talked to a few guys that caught a few but not many and myself not even getting a nibble a couple of times. Will it take a couple of days for the fish to adapt to the weather change?