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I hear will soon be open again. It used to be an excellent bream lake and had lots of 3/4 lb crappie. G, have you heard any info about the quality of the bream? I know this was one of your old haunts and I bet you are chomping at the bits to go there again.
Man yeh....I am ready .... Before they closed it down I used to fish for red ears there about three or four times a week...year around. It will be interesting to see if they use the same general locations as before. They have Trace State Park drained down real low now working on the dam. They made a one lane temp boat ramp but its not very good....just red dirt and some gravel....and with all this rain its really unusable.
I cant wait to try lamar bruce....its only about 10 minutes from the house....anybody ever done any good crappie fishing there? I read where it is stocked with magnolia crappie
Never caught a magnolia there buy I have caught crappie there........jigs around the outlet structure and pushing crankbaits in open water. A friend of mine has done good with a float and fly rig up at the upper end around structure. But yeh, I heard that the only crappie they stocked it with this time is the hybrid magnoila crappie because of the small size of the lake.
Got a brother that lives in a cabin there . He says if as many people come fishing opening day as have been by to look they will need to restock soon .:Rofl
I caught a lot of pre spawn and spawning crappie there years ago. We had actually going to catch spawning shellcrackers, we missed that but found out about the overpopulation problem with the crappie. We did our best to alleviate the problem. I am sure they do not want a repeat of that problem and the magnolia is the answer
What happened to lamar bruce? Wasnt it poisoned or somethin?
They drained it to completely rebuild the damQuote:
Originally Posted by Erin Brewer
Oh.... I had some friends that used to go there chasing the gills but I never had the pleasure of fishing it. Glad to hear they have it back up and going!
So if hybrid magnolia crappie can't reproduce...do they spawn? lol or take spawn patterns? Also how many do u think they put? Would they be worth pursuing after if they won't be reproducing after a year they may be far and few between
They will probably add some along......actually I think they are not completely sterile.....I think about 4 percent can reproduce.....think I remember reading that somewhere. You could call the State fish hatchery at Enid and ask them.
Have spent a many a day on the lake it is some fun ultra lite fishing a lot of specks and red ear glad to see it back open gonna go sometime next week for sure
It will have regular spawing crappie in it shortly. People are gonna turn them loose in there that they catch from other lakes. I read an article the other day about our state lakes and it said the MDWFP has NEVER stocked a crappie in any of our state lakes. They are now stocking the magnolia crappie because of vey low reproductive rates.
The crappie that people have been catching out of these lakes for years are some that people have just turned loose and they have reproduced for years and years......
Yeh.....Somebody put some yellow bass in Lamar Bruce years back....the state said if any fish like that caused a problem that they would drain it and start over. I hope nobody puts any other crappie in it....the lake is too small for that and you will wind up with tons of small stunted crappie.
I hope they stocked plenty of crappie because its the closest lake to my house and I would love to have a place to run after work in the afternoons
Elvis Presley has good crappie
I went twice in April and caught 12 but all were 10" or lessQuote:
Originally Posted by "G"