2015 Spring Crappie Camp Dates

Mark your calendars now! The 2015 Oklahoma Crappie Camp is schedule for June 5 - 7 (Friday - Sunday), 2015. The final decision on the Lake or location is still being discussed. Also being discussed are three "mini-Camps" to be held in the Summer, Fall and Winter months. Specific dates will be coordinated with other activities. The "mini-Camps" will be more "laid back" and will have more fishing and visiting time. More on the "mini-Camps" later. Remember to mark your calendars for June 5-7 2015 for the 2015 Oklahoma Spring Crappie Camp.

Time to get me a 2015 calendar! Thanks for the notice Dave!

Got it marked! Interested in the mini camps also!!

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Time to get me a 2015 calendar! Thanks for the notice Dave!

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Merle, your phone has one of the best calendars going.

Thanks Dave. Interested in the mini camps also.

Odie

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Merle, your phone has one of the best calendars going.

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Floyd, I know, but since my previous 2 phones ended up at the bottom of a lake, they are really hard to read! So I have a paper backup!

WW back your phone up to the computer, or cloud, and you won't have to worry about how many phones you loose!

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WW back your phone up to the computer, or cloud, and you won't have to worry about how many phones you loose!

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Redge, good idea except sometimes I feel like I'm in the cloud! :cheers2

Looking forward to next year's camp. We have put this on our calendar now.

Well, Summer is here and Fall is nearby. I'm already thinking toward the Winter mini-camp. Summer is tough camping, Fall is usually great, and Winter can be rough but also can be very good. I've bird hunted in Oklahoma in January in a tee shirt. Any ideas or preferences?

Fall or winter, maybe both sounds good to me!!

Fall camp does not need to scheduled on opening day of muzzleloader. Me and Redge have a plan, well I do. Gotta con Redge in to it!

We got a plan alright!

I did not know you hunt whitetail. Where do you sight in?

Out my back door!

Off the front porch!

Ha Ha. Hook Line and Sinker. I was going to offer to take you to a range with 100 to 600 yd burms. 100 - 200 concrete bench rest. Handgun range as well. Ok. I will exit.

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Fall camp does not need to scheduled on opening day of muzzleloader. Me and Redge have a plan, well I do. Gotta con Redge in to it!

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Some years ago a group of about a dozen of us camped at Panther Creek on the upper end of Broken Bow every year for the opening of black powder. We called it the annual "Black Powder and Blueberry Pancake Fest." Some fished and some hunted and everyone ate alot. There were a lot of good fish caught and a couple of monster bucks taken over the years. Good times!

We always like to burn powder!

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Some years ago a group of about a dozen of us camped at Panther Creek on the upper end of Broken Bow every year for the opening of black powder. We called it the annual "Black Powder and Blueberry Pancake Fest." Some fished and some hunted and everyone ate alot. There were a lot of good fish caught and a couple of monster bucks taken over the years. Good times!

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Hmm Broken Bow in the fall. Brings back allot of good memories. We may need to make plans for that to happen soon.

Okay... I give up!! When is "Black Powder Season"? Deer Season and Turkey season??? Hunting and fishing at the same camp does sound interesting!! Although I not sure I want to be in camp if Woodworker42 has a loaded weapon....

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Okay... I give up!! When is "Black Powder Season"? Deer Season and Turkey season??? Hunting and fishing at the same camp does sound interesting!! Although I not sure I want to be in camp if Woodworker42 has a loaded weapon....

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No worries there--I'm not allowed loaded weapons or sharp pointy objects (other than my head)! Seriously, I don't think we can schedule around all the hunting seasons-bow, black powder, rifle, duck hunting seem to run on and on, IMHO! But then I'm sure I'm mistaken about something!

Seriously, you do need to avoid the hunting seasons. Hunters have their own areas they want to be at so it just conflicts with a scheduled mini-camp if it's the same dates. You really can't avoid archery season as it runs 3 1/2 months (Oct 1 - Jan 15.) Black powder and gun deer can be worked around but that's why we need to be in serious planning for the fall now. Black powder is 10/25-11/2 and gun is 11/22 - 12/7. That really makes the best fall camp dates to be Oct 3,4,5 or 10,11,12 and in Nov 7,8,9.

I would suggest no camps between the start of deer gun (11/22) and the end of the year due to holidays and family activities. That would put the fall mini-camp around the dates above. I would recommend the winter mini-camp be in Jan and the spring mini-camp be in early Mar. June (for the annual camp) is really in a summer month.

Since I'm throwing out recommendations I would also say we should have all the camps at different lakes and we should all nominate and possibly vote for the lake. It is important that the lake be a decent crappie lake at the time of the year the camp is held. I have my recommendations for the locations of the winter and spring mini-camps in the back of my mind now. I wouldn't try to lock in the dates (just the month) for the winter and spring camps so we could be flexible with the long range weather forecast.

I cannot be at the camp on one of the weekends I listed for the fall camp but I'm not going to disclose the dates so as not to influence anyone in their choice. I have plans for a camp of my own with several friends during that period (and also several short camping trips of my own till Thanksgiving and after the first of the year.) We need to be planning now. It's not very long till hunting season.

Floyd

Oct 3,4,5 only one I can't make. Looking forward to all I can make.

Hey Redge and CP, if there is a camp near me during hunting season you two are welcome to a morning or evening hunt at my houseAttachment 168090Attachment 168091Attachment 168092Attachment 168093. have several deer there. Here are a few bucks from last year that came in a few days. two of them have been there for 3 years now. Nothing huge but they will fill a buck tag and put meat in the freezer. No hunting pressure on me, if I get time, I fish. :)

What a generous offer SC. Will have to talk to you about this!

Thanks SC, I appreciate the offer, those are some pretty deer!