Heading that way in morning. Would anyone be willing to give a person some pointers on either of these lakes or another. Would like to put the sister and brother n law on a few for a fry while we are there for the week. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks from Susie
From what I'm reading on the site cranks are starting to catch fish. Bout all I can tell you. Good luck !
Worked hard this afternoon for three good fish at Arkabutla pulling cranks. All post spawn crappie and they are scattered and hard to locate. Bumping thru submerged brush 8' -10' deep or so in 17' - 20' of water. Been skunked at sardis twice this year during the spawn. Haven't tried Enid, but heard some are doing decent well pulling or long lining. Grenada the same from what I understand. Post spawn can be difficult and pulling cranks offers the opportunity to cover more area. Don't know how your setup to fish, hopefully some other locals on these lakes will chime in for you. May wanna take note of the winds tomorrow as well.. good luck!! Sorry I couldn't be of more help to you :-(
Pulling a 1/8 & 1/16 near river channel three keepers, about forty 11 3/4 inch short fish. Another boat I talked with had 16 keepers.
You did better than us.. We had 1 keeper.. Quit at 5, went up cane and back out, around the island and into hurricane a good ways!Quote:
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I would go to Enid. Troll minnows right outside the bank/bushes. You will catch a bunch of short fish but will scratch threw a few keepers. Try deeper water for bigger fish but they are lil harder to come by in my experience post spawn but I'm just a weekend angler no expert. Good luck an give us a feed back. I will
Be going to arkabulta since it's close to house am not much time to fish in the am.
I fished yesterday (Enid...like it would be anywhere else) morning from 6 to 12pm and caught an estimated 4000 fish-some no bigger than the shad I use for catfish bait. Came home with 3 keepers in 6 hours. I was fishing shallow, in probably 2 to 5 feet of water, casting a jig and cork in toward the banks (really towards the bushes...with the water as high as it is there aren't many actual banks). Best of luck to you wherever you end up.
I fished Enid all last weekend. I started catching alot of fish once I started long linning road runners with a paddle tail grub. Purple/chart did decent but Cajun Cricket took the prize for color of the day. I trolled in 16-18 fow with the road runners. Im not sure how deep I was but I will say i was using my line counter reels and 80-100 feet back was the best. Most of the fish i caught were in the 6-8 inch range. Not big at all. Only had 2 keepers out of the 50-70 I caught. If you wanna catch fish go to Enid. If you wanna catch keepers go somewhere else. Last 2 sentences are just what I experienced. Someone else may really be in the keepers. I wasn't tho I promise ya! Good luck!
[QUOTE=ducker;3220417]You did better than us.. We had 1 keeper.. Quit at 5, went up cane and back out, around the island and into hurricane a good ways!
Wasn't ignoring you Ducker, just didn't wanna jack no thread... lol. It's been days on a post an OP left it hanging so here goes. I'm glad to hear of one being caught on the north end of the lake, gives me some hope.. my two mile loop has runs it's course, I reckon. And been a time or two since last Friday, white bass and a few small cats.. Arkies are a white bass magnet on Butla it seems.. I went back to bandits, but still no luck with the crappie.. I think the post spawns may be reluctant to bite (cool front?) or theymoved on to greener pastures.. but who knows with them critters :-)
Sounds like Enid to me.Quote:
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From what I've heard Enid is the lake right now.
I fished Enid yesterday, and if it's better than the other lakes, it's a great time to garden.
All this advice to fishnb and no report back? Folks wonder why others have become tight lipped. No ill feelings toward fishnb. They might be busy catching so many don't got the time to report back. This stuff goes on all the time. Don't want any hot spots or honey holes. Just wanna catch a few big slabs for a cook out. Bringing my deaf mute long lost brother of 20 years on his death bed with 1 week to live. Stuff like that makes me laugh everytime. Again no ill feelings toward fishnb. Just wanted to put it out there on one of these kind of threads.
Fished Arkabutla Sunday and got 4 nice keepers and had one throw back. Should be a good year for butla once they get in the summer pattern
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Well, here's how it went. Didn't make it to any of the big lakes. Kinda scared of the wind. Fished the lower lake at Sardis. Best bite for what it's worth, was just below the spill way. In a weeks time we caught 3 at 15.5"., a whole bunch of small crappie and cats, a couple of drum, a couple of UNWANTED Gar. We had a great time, but not enough to fry. All were caught on minnows around 3 to 4 ft. range at a slow troll. I will say this, you all have a beautiful state and you grow the crappie big. Thank you to everyone who helped us out!!! We will go back next year only a little earlier. FISH ON!!!!
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