Took a trip out to Heyburn this afternoon. Hit some brush in 12' of water caught around 50 no huge fish. Kept 7 for dinner
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Took a trip out to Heyburn this afternoon. Hit some brush in 12' of water caught around 50 no huge fish. Kept 7 for dinner
Do you ever hit the spillway for Crappie or Sunfish? Was planning a making a trip out there from Tulsa in the next week or so to try it out.
Has never looked like enough water to fish to me but let us know how it goes
Those look like nice fish to me Dino. Nice job!
Thanks Ciller.
tmosley38 are you looking to find a mess of "keeper" size fish or just looking for a close place to wet a hook that you can catch some fish? Depending on your answer I maybe able to point you to a better place.
Looking for a mess of keepers. I found some information saying that area would be a good place to start. Where would you suggest?Quote:
Originally Posted by dinobot
Can't really help you on bank fishing for keepers till late spring. However if you're out at Heyburn and see a maroon Grand cherokee with crappie.com stickers all over it towing a 16' mod v with a 60hp Merc tiller stop me I usually have an extra vest or 2 in the boat.
Awesome thank you, will do!
Never thought about fishing Heyburn for Crappie. Hmmmm, Wonder how that got by me...
They can be hard to find and almost as many dinks as Sahoma but with a few more bigger fish mixed in.
Finally got a chance to take the USS POS out this afternoon. The boat performed perfectly (thanks again Craig). When I got to the ramp I saw 1 trailer and thought sweet pretty much got the lake to myself. Unloaded and shot of across the lake to my favorite spot on the north end of the lake. As I got within eye shot of my destination wouldn't you know it the only other boat on the lake is sitting right on top of the brush I was headed for. As my disappointment was about to set in with one of those "well now what" moments I realized the other boat was a family with a little girl about my daughters age and she has a good one on the line and she's yelling for daddy's help. With some help from her dad she landed a 10 or 11 inch slab that she proclaimed was her biggest fish ever. My "well now what" was suddenly replaced with "That's freaking awesome" So I decided to troll around but stay close enough to see if she caught anymore. She caught a few more small ones and in the meantime I rolled across a brushpile I didn't know about right on the other side of the channel about 50yds away in almost the exact same depth so my fishing day proceeded. It was very slow for the first hour only catching a few now and then but my finder was saying the pile was packed with fish so I backed off of the pile and tied on a jig head with a spinner and put it about 6 feet under a bobber and started casting over the brush and slowly reeling it back. On my second or third cast my bobber slowly sank a couple of inches under the water and stayed in typical crappie fashion so I set the hook and the fight was on I had a monster it was giving my ultra light rod heck. When i turned its head and it surfaced I saw that dreaded black stripe down it's side before it dove again. I had about a 3 1/2lbs. large mouth on my 7'6" ultra light now that was fun. After I removed the trash fish from the area the crappie bite was on. As usual with Heyburn it was dinks o plenty with the occasional bigger fish in the mix. I fished 4 piles in 10 - 12 fow caught 19 over 10" with biggest being just shy of 13".
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Awesome! Thanks for the report.Quote:
Originally Posted by dinobot
Really love the part about the little girl catching and hollering for her Daddy! Great job Scott!
Dino, you are a consistent fun read. I'm glad that Craig bequeathed the USS. Piece of Sparkles to such a good home tho I think he is still grieving over the transaction- grounded like he is. Pretty fish and Fishers finally has some hand model competition- nice job.
Hey dino you go past the fork into Browns or Tiger?
I fish around the fork but don't ever go very far up either creek. Never found any deep water back there.
Hung one on the left fork in the first cove on the left he would have went close to 4 # but my son had taken my dipet out ofg boat tried to lip him and lost him.
I hear that's a good spot
The whole lake looked like chocolate milk today. Sonar couldn't read anything but bottom. Only managed 6 and 2 of those were short.
Well the little one wanted to do laps around the lake today so we took the boat out but it was a "dad you're not fishing" day. I talked her into a short snack break in which time I managed these.
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Dino, you need to take more of her favorite snacks for sure- nice fish!
How did the high water affect Heyburn Dino? Never been there so I can't picture it at all tho I have a friend who says the banks are mossed in pretty bad. Is he just looking to discourage me from going there? Lol.
I've had no luck out there since the flood. the water is so muddy cheap electronics can't even "see" through it. Better electronics (4000 watt range) can locate structure and show fish all over it but I can't get 'em to bite anything.
Thanks for your quick response- sorry the bite is off but glad the fish are still there at least. Heard that the water is like peanut butter right now and you confirmed that.
Try switching from watts to volts. I hear tell that volts work better
Fished Heyburn for the first time today so we spent a lot of time looking for brush and then wading thru the dinks to find a few good fish. Ended up with 18 over 10" and one 13" to put in the pond. Maybe 2" visibility which explains the albino crappie. Water was so muddy that I could just barely see the fish in my white live wells. But they thumped it as hard as any I've ever caught and some of em fought like sand bass, making hard runs away from the boat. Lots of humps, really shallow water and floating logs so we took it slow and caught all of our fish in 9-13 fow tho we fished up to 20'.
Nice job C2!
Caught 98 today with Dennis fishing from 9:30-6:00. 35 keepers including 2 14" fish. Pretty windy- threw out a couple anchors for the first time in over 2 years. I am truly converted to no anchors as I hated being tied to one spot tho it did make lunch nicer when we broke out the tri tip sandwiches!
that's twice you been in my area with a holler? how dare thee. just kidding, glad ya'll found some fish. I ain't been out there in a couple months. My fishing time has been cut down so much lately that I've been fishing Sahoma cause it's 7 minutes from my door to the ramp.
Just trying to stretch my wings a little bit from my oologah rut Dino. Are you doing any good on Sahoma? Can you launch a boat there? What is the clarity like? Lot of questions for a poacher- ha ha!
Sahoma has A LOT of stunted crappie with very few big fish caught. it's a small shallow lake but has a nice ramp and on site bait and snack shop. For me it's a nice place to go launch and feel a tug on the line if I only have a couple hours to fish. the visibility is usually a couple feet unless it's been raining. It has both black and white crappie. Tom the lake caretaker is a great guy and always willing to tell you where they're biting and on what though his reports are often only as accurate as I am honest when I'm giving him the info. :Rofl
Where is the onsite bait shop I have not seen one for twenty years ?
VH have you been out there since Tom Chandler took over? He actually has the shop open when it's scheduled to be open unlike the last lady that ran it. He didn't have minnows while they were adding on to the building but had worms and an assortment of hand tied jigs as well as plastics sinkers, hooks, bobbers, etc. Now the add on is up and he has minnow tanks inside the main building instead of out in the shed where he couldn't regulate the temperatures. There will be times the shop is closed for a few minutes while he is up at Pretty Water checking licenses and things since he is pretty much a 1 man show but I can't say enough good things about how he has turned that place around over the last few years. Now if the city would quit draining the lake every couple of years it might turn into a nice fishery.
(Sahoma Lake Bait & Concessions)
(918) 227-1534
Hours of Operation:
Closed Mondays & Tuesdays
Wed -Fri: 6am-10am/ 2pm-6pm
Sat - Sun: 6am - 6pm
OH your talking about Sahoma on this Heyburn thing.Yes I know Tom.
Yes CC had asked me a few questions about Sahoma. Sorry to get off topic.
NO problem .There used to be bait shops out around Heyburn , but the ones out that way now don't always have bait.
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Caught 25 in a couple hours at the most. All in 14" FOW in brush. BF 13.75 inches. First time on Heyburn in years. Pleasantly surprised.
Used to have some of the biggest fish in it. Look at the past gill net surveys. I was able to catch 3-6 biguns a day with no small fish. dinobot has got me thinking it may cycled thru and it be worth fishing again! Maybe I can make use of the 20+ piles I put in that lake years ago. 2 problems with that lake tho. 1 mercury levels 2 its always low visibility.
It's still a dink factory with an occasional keeper. About a 10 dink to one keeper ratio when I fished it last November. You hid those brush piles well Fishers!