I know this is a crappie thread and I don't mean to hi-jack it by discussing other fish, but I love to catch and eat bluegills. I'm curious if anyone knows of any good bluegill lakes in the State. Thanks in advance.
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I know this is a crappie thread and I don't mean to hi-jack it by discussing other fish, but I love to catch and eat bluegills. I'm curious if anyone knows of any good bluegill lakes in the State. Thanks in advance.
I've always heard lake eucha. Seen lots of older folks in pontoons with baskets of them hanging off the side in yrs past.
Beggs city lake has some big Ol blugill. West shore with any small popper . I use a Beatle imitation on a fly rod.
Lone Chimney just south of Pawnee stocks hybrid bluegill. As big as Fishers hand I kid you not! Water level up there I hear is pretty low
American horse now that is open! Cricket George should know
Pawhuska city lake has big bluegill and some giant redear, possibly hybrid bluegill as well, its a small lake you cant run big engines on it but its a super clear awesome lake. since its so clear it has a lot of moss and weeds growing up to the surface in the summer.
Birch lake outside Barnsdall.
Get in touch with some land owners and ask permission to fish their ponds. Farm ponds hold some monster bluegill. These are not monsters, but all taken last week out of farm ponds. this is just some of them. We cleaned prob 80 more then what is pictured. They sure do taste good.
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Swollen, those are nice fish in anyone's book. Thanks for posting and thanks to everyone else for pointing me toward finding some of these guys. I love to fish for "bream" with a fly rod and I will surely give those places a shot.
American Horse does have some really large bluegill and redear.
CG - Have you been out there since it's back open?Quote:
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Get on them every now and again
Perchjerker 101 - not yet, I have a pond much closer that is loaded with big bluegill and redears.
Those redears appear to be pigs ,Machine
They wereQuote:
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Machine - How long were they? 9" - 10"?
Never put a ruler on them.Quote:
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We just happened up on them.
Went back next few days with proper equipment and just killed them.
Machine - what lake?
The bowQuote:
Originally Posted by Perchjerker101
Claremore Lake and Bristow city lake are good for numbers of fish. I fished Claremore Lake this morning for two hours just walking the bank with a Brim Buster Pole and a box of worms and kept 50 Bluegill and 10 Red Ears between 6 1/2 and 7 1/2 inches. Once in awhile I catch one 8 or 9 inches but most are in the 6 1/2 to 7 1/2 inch range. If a person was so inclined he could catch hundreds in a day from either lake, just few really big ones. Lake Dahlgren in the ODWC wildlife management area over at Lexington used to be managed for trophy sunfish but I haven't heard any reports from there in several years.
Life is good with a "3 notcher" ;)
Thanks for that report bigjon. I've fished Claremore Lake a few times and I really like that place. Great and well maintained facilities, easy launch and great bank access. I think I'll give it a shot. I'd love some fresh bream.
American Horse is where its at. I fly fished a popper out there all day one day and caught over 100. About half of them keeper size.
Meaning Broken Bow? I had never thought of it as a bream spot.Quote:
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That's the dickins of it all.
We catch huge gills trollinf late summer also.
"3 notchers"
What does " 3 notchers" mean?
2 notchers are full grown gills
3 notchers BIG GILL
Count notch from mouth to top
Well, I hit Claremore Lake today with a friend. We went with ultra lights and beetle spins and fished the west side of the lake and after hitting 3-4 spots off the side of the road we got no hits. Several people were fishing that side of the lake and none of them were showing any results but we did see one guy dump a bass or a catfish into a basket. Drove all the way north on the west side of the lake that we could but no cigars. From what we could discern no one was catching much of anything from the bank or from the crappie dock.
After that we hit several spots on the east side of the lake and my bud did catch and release a very nice female black bass that ran around 4 pounds. Spent the rest of the afternoon driving around and looking at the lake and I have to confess that although I've been on the lake in my boat several times I had no idea of how large and pretty it is. No fish but the trip was great and as usual, the weathermen didn't come close to their forecast from yesterday.
Perhaps later….