Hit and miss crappie on arkabutla with fry everywhere. Do you think the spawn has come and gone?
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Hit and miss crappie on arkabutla with fry everywhere. Do you think the spawn has come and gone?
Don't think its really started.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dieasportsman
Waded Arkabutla yesterday, caught nothing but eggless females. Fattest crappie I have ever caught. Caught only one male and only three shorts.
I have fished Butla this year on several occasions and didn't do so well myself,,,, after the draw down last winter,,, I'm surprised to see any fish this year,,,,, They drew that dude down Low Low..I would try either Hurricane creek or opposite end way down deep in those river channels,,,
That's my point. Catching eggless fish and fry around every tree you fish. Seems like the spawn has come and gone. I'm new to crappie fishing catching 5-10 fish a trip but never 2 fish from the same hole. Lol
What's the water temps like there?
No fish there due to pole fisherman during spawn.......but hey it still a good catfish lake....lol
The Dead Sea and just rose like a couple feet. Was on a slow fall and jumped back up!
With a lake doing this, it makes it very challenging to figure out for sure. Been my experience, Butla usually spawns out after Sardis and I don't think the Sardis spawn is really in full swing yet--based on my fish counts!!!
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I caught some this weekend and 5 out of 6 i cleaned had eggs.....half of them were caught in 18 FOW
They are just now getting ready at Arkabutla. If the dang water will settle down. Boy it was windy there today. I bet Sardis was plain rolling.
I have a feeling Butla is on the back side of the spawn. I have caught good numbers of fish (for Butla) on certain brush piles. The fish being big females with eggs oozing out and dark black males all in one brush pile. I was on this pattern for about 7 days two weeks ago. Yes there is new water now and hopefully it is not over yet. Just gotta stay on em...who knows. My 2 cents
Leave them Butla fish alone for a few more years. Be back to PIG city again!!!
I if you catching 8-10 fish a trip right now on Butla you got nothing to complain about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dieasportsman
ill still fish.....regardless. be glad when its done and things can quiet down.
Sardis was blowing/going 6 weeks ago . Seems like the last few years that they spawn in waves . Been three times caught 15, 12, 0 in that order . go figure .I would say the 0 day was a bit of a stretch even to be there . was the old man and the sea , actually the chocolate sea .
Fished Enid and Grenada and Arkabuta last Friday and Saturday, Todd and I caught total of
16 keepers, no keepers at Butla but had a lot of bites from mosquitos.