Copan lake crappie fishing report

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OK, on this past Friday (3/20) I fished Cotton Creek for 2 hours with medium shiners from 6' up to 2'. NO bites at all. Next I fished Osage Plains in the creek for 3 hours. Tried 3 different spots, again with medium shiners, and roadrunners. ZERO crappie and no crappie bites. Caught one 2 lb catfish on a yellow roadrunner and 2 small 12" largemouth on white/blue tube jigs. NOTE, there were a lot of shad up top at both Cotton and Osage.
Also, there were only a few other people fishing and I only saw one very small crappie actually caught.
POST SOME REPORTS FOR COPAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Went out on boat Wednesday the 19th tried many areas and many depths with nothing at all fished about 5 hours. Not an experienced crappie fisherman but all other boats on water did not look like they were catching anything either.

I was there the 19th also. I put in at copan point. I searched the entire lake and never got a sniff. I also never found a shad. I did not go north into the boat lane, so everything was south of washington cove. the best thing i saw on the graph was the brush pile at loading dock on the north west corner. It showed fish n down scan, but i didnt get them to bite. I was in lightning creek on oologha earlier that day with same results.

I hope to get be on Copan this weekend, I will report back if I have any luck ot not.

Still no luck for me on Copan but there was a few fishing Cotten Creek yesterday.


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I went for a drive by at Osage Plains Tuesday evening. 3 people fishing, one guy had a pair of fish. he was the only. said they had been catching some the week before. I bet OHP was grinning ear to ear!

I have been picking up a few but nothing to talk about.

The trooper just gave warnings.

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Originally Posted by fishn_a_ledge

I went for a drive by at Osage Plains Tuesday evening. 3 people fishing, one guy had a pair of fish. he was the only. said they had been catching some the week before. I bet OHP was grinning ear to ear!

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Fished cotton tonight not much luck seen a few that pulled some out but most like myself went home hungry

I was at Cotton as well, not even a bite and did not see any others having luck either

Had a good time vertical jigging woods today. Caught a number of crappie over 1-1/2# in 6 - 8 FOW. water temp was 68 degrees.

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Originally Posted by A_LOTA_NOTA

Had a good time vertical jigging woods today. Caught a number of crappie over 1-1/2# in 6 - 8 FOW. water temp was 68 degrees.

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What was the number? Kidding you, but seriously tho, what was the number?

Most of them were 1-3/4# and better

I really need to get a boat lol stuck on the bank for another year lol great to hear they where starting to come in. Wonder how this weather will affect them

Caught some nice ones last Saturday they turned on in the afternoon.I will try again Saturday and will let u all know

Let us know some details. Depth. Main lake, coves, creeks, timber or ??? Minnows or jigs or ?? Depth. I personally need all the help/tips I can get. I just got home from Copan, getting ready to post, and it's not good.

OK, took the boat and launched at Washington Cove at 2pm. Fished up in Wash. Cove then a main lake cove. Then just outside the entrance to Endicott's. Then in some standing timber in 5 feet of water. I caught 2 small bass. Zero crappie. Zero crappie bites. I could of done better at the Duck Pond. Used medium shiners and threw a roadrunner on the side. I fished from 18" deep to 3' deep. I saw 1 keeper crappie caught in 5 hours. As Cartman says "I'm pissed off".

We were catching them in cotton creek after noon past the bridge in brush.They were all females with bloody eggs going to run and gun for some tomorrow!They have been moving up shallow in the afternoons and I think they r spawning a little at a time the males just play with our jigs and move them not really taking them but the females hammer them.I haven't been there since last weekend it should be on about this time cotton creek and Osage plains gets everything going first.

Thanks Gun, hope you did well Saturday, nobody at Osage Plains did. I caught 2 in 7 hours. One keeper. I moved all around and even fished the concrete by the road. I'm giving up on Copan right now until I hear some consistent reports. Boat goes to Birch today.

Attachment 159393Fishing at copan was tough Saturday we ended up jumping the pond dam at Websters to come up with what we had the lake was dropped 10 inches from the last weekend

I fished Copan Saturday, ended up cleaning 14 fish. Still in 5-7 FOW

Well, damn. I've been fishing way too shallow then. On the side, I launched at Birch on Sunday. Fished from 1:30 -7:30 with medium shiners. All over the place, except up the main creek/river. Score was 7 Largemouth, all small except one 2 1/2 lbs. ZERO Crappie.
Copan has to turn on with this weather pattern, one would think.

A guy I know tore them up last saturday at Copan! He and his buddy both limited out! Haven't heard any details about where and how - but they sure got into them somewhere at Copan! Hoping to find some like that myself... soon!

Went to cotton creek yesterday fish were moving up and down through out the day.We ended up with 31 total mostly with big females wanting to spawn in a foot of water.Attachment 160269Attachment 160270Attachment 160271

Runngun, I'm assuming you were walking the bank, it was a windy son of a gun yesterday

I have a 17 ft weldbuilt with a Mudd buddy mud motor its a blast to drive at copan and hulah.It only needs 3 or 4 inches of water the next 2 weeks should be awesome!

That sounds like a fun boat.

Fished all weekend

We fished both days this weekend and caught a total of 70 keepers most were staging Saturday and moved up to spawn saturday night .Sunday about 2 out of five had already spawned and they were super shallow.

What end of the lake did you fish? I cleaned 21 yesterday, all still had eggs.

Went to copan Friday. I fished in the cove with the fishing docks. Dont know the name. It was loaded with nice sized fish and shad. the cove is 10' deep. I was only able to catch 1 fish out of it. I dont understand what my trouble was, bc they were stacked in there. I ran on north to the standing timber. I caught lots of short fish 4-6' down in 15 FOW. I was fishing the edges of the river channel. Also got into the small Blues in a big way. I hate catching them on my jigs! Water temp was 83 and air temp was 103! the lake is much murkier than it was 3 weeks ago. There was also NO thermacline throughout the lake. Could it have turned over? I did not hardly any fish or shad on the graph except for that one cove. What are your thoughts of the water turning over in the end of august?

Well I can tell you there was a thermocline on killer last 2-3 weeks, this weekend it was gone?? Lots of gas bubbles escaping on upper lake and the water looked dinghy. Don't know if it turned over, or if they are drawing so much water to make power that it killed it? Is that even possible? The more I learn the less I know!

Redge - I dont think that the power pull will overpull and kill a lake.

I think he meant that it killed the thermocline General CG. But maybe Redge will straighten me out here.

The General was a wee bit overly tired when he posted the subject message plus he had been enjoying a couple of cold adult beverages with friends. He regrets if his post has caused any misunderstanding, pain or agony. Sir Redge and the General have discussed this malady and are in accord:biggrin

Glad George and Killer got that settled! LOL