|
FISHING REPORT FOR JANUARY 31, 2007
CENTRAL
Arcadia: Elevation below normal, Catfish being caught
on cut shad. Crappie being caught at 10-15 ft. around heated docks on red
and white jigs. Report submitted by Tim Campbell, game warden stationed in
Oklahoma County.
Hefner: Crappie being caught in early mornings on
jigs off the dam. Report submitted by Kelly Roberson, game warden stationed
in Oklahoma County.
Thunderbird: Elevation 9 ft. below normal and clear.
Crappie good on minnows at 7-10 ft. around structure. Report submitted by
Tony Woodruff, game warden stationed in Cleveland County.
NORTHEAST
Birch: Elevation 3 ft. below normal and clear.
Crappie fair on minnows and jigs deep around brush piles. Report submitted
by Paul Welch, game warden stationed in Osage County.
Carl Blackwell: Elevation 4 ft. below normal, water
42. Crappie fair on jigs at 20-25 ft. Report submitted by Jon Cunningham,
game warden stationed in Payne County.
Greenleaf: Elevation 1 ft. below normal and clear.
Largemouth bass slow. Catfish fair on cut bait on bottom. Crappie fair on
minnows and jigs around fishing dock. Report submitted by Lark Wilson, game
warden stationed in Muskogee County.
Keystone: Elevation slightly above normal, water 40
and clear to murky. Largemouth bass, smallmouth bass slow on jerk baits and
jig and chunk at 8-15 ft. along bluffs, points and ledges. White bass slow
on jigging spoons and minnows at 12-20 ft. in the river channel. Striped
bass slow on red fins and topwaters from the surface to 3 ft. below the dam.
Channel catfish fair on worms at 8-15 ft. in creeks. Blue catfish fair on
shad at 15-25 ft. along channels and around humps. Flathead catfish slow on
shad at 15-25 ft. along bluffs. Crappie good on small jigs and minnows at
12-25 ft. around brush piles and docks. Saugeye fair on pink and chartreuse
jigs at 4-8 ft. in deep holes along the Arkansas River below the dam. Report
submitted by Larry Sellers, Woody's Bait and Tackle.
Oologah: For the last two or more weeks, Oologah was
frozen solid on the northern 1/3 of the lake, and all the boat ramps were
ice-packed. The parks were closed. They opened back up this week. Elevation
1 ¼ ft. below normal, water near 40 and clear on the south end but near
freezing on the north end. Crappie fair on jigs around brush piles at 20 ft.
Report submitted by Brek Henry, game warden stationed in Rogers County.
Skiatook: Elevation 12 ft. below normal, water 47-50
and clear. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs around docks and other
structure. Report submitted by Greenwood Fishing Center.
Sooner: Striped bass hybrids fair on sassy shad, shad
and topwaters in the discharge channel. Report submitted by Doug Gottschalk,
game warden stationed in Noble County.
Webbers Falls: Elevation 1 ft. above normal and
murky, Catfish fair on cut bait and stinkbait. Crappie fair on minnows and
jigs at 12-15 ft. around brush. Report submitted by Lark Wilson, game warden
stationed in Muskogee County.
NORTHWEST
Canton: Elevation 7 ft. below normal. Crappie fair on
minnows and jigs near brush piles. White bass, striped bass hybrids and
walleye fair on minnows and jigs on lake side of spillway in river channel.
Report submitted by Mark Walker, game warden stationed in Blaine County.
SOUTHEAST
Blue River: Elevation above normal, water 44 and
clear. Largemouth bass slow on minnows and flies. Channel catfish fair on
liver and worms. Trout good on power bait, super dupers, rooster tails and
meal worms. Report submitted by Charles Baker, technician at Blue River
Public Fishing and Hunting Area.
Eufaula: Elevation 2 1/2 ft. above normal and murky.
Largemouth bass, white bass and blue catfish slow. Crappie fair on minnows
or jigs at 15-20 ft. around boat docks. Report submitted Ed Rodebush, game
warden stationed in McIntosh County.
Hugo: Elevation 3 ft. above normal, water 47 and
murky. Blue catfish fair on liver and dead minnows. Crappie fair on minnows
in the lake and good below the dam on light-colored jigs. Report submitted
by Wendell Smalling, game warden stationed in Choctaw County.
Konawa: Elevation normal, water 41 and clear.
Largemouth bass good on crankbaits at 15 ft. in the discharge channel.
Report submitted by Daryl Howser, game warden stationed in Seminole County.
McGee Creek: Elevation 6 ft. above normal, water 47
and murky. Largemouth bass fair on soft plastic lures and jigs on submerged
humps. White bass fair on grubs off windy point. Report submitted by Larry
Luman, game warden stationed in Atoka County.
Lower Mountain Fork River: Trout fishing has been
fantastic in the park. The other zones have been flooded nearly all the
time. Generation schedule is 24 hours of continuous generation. Any bead
head fly is good. Report submitted by Sid Ingram, Beavers Bend Fly Shop. The
newly constructed Lost Creek stream channel has recently been stocked for
the first time, and fishing is reportedly excellent. Trout have been stocked
along the stream, so anglers should find good numbers of fish in most
accessible areas. Report submitted by Paul Balkenbush, southeast region
fisheries supervisor for the Wildlife Department.
Pine Creek: Elevation 6 ft. above normal and murky.
Bass good on spoons in creek channels and crankbaits around points. Crappie
fair around tops on minnows. Catfish fair on cut shad on trotlines. Report
submitted by Mark Hannah, game warden stationed in McCurtain County.
Robert S. Kerr: Elevation above normal, water 44 and
murky. Largemouth bass at 8-10 ft. using plastic baits fishing the
rip-rapped areas. Crappie fair at 10 ft. using small minnows fishing the old
creek channels. White bass slow at 10 ft. using jigs fishing below Webbers
Falls dam. Blue catfish fair at 10-15 ft. drift fishing using fresh cut bait
along the old river channel. Report submitted by Rick Olzawski, game warden
stationed in Haskell County.
Sardis Lake: Elevation is normal. Largemouth bass
slow to fair off points and around islands on crankbaits and crawdads. White
bass good around islands trolling rattle traps and below the dam on grubs.
Catfish fair on trotlines and juglines baited with cut shad in deep flats
and channels. Crappie good on minnows around bridges and tower. Walleye fair
on jigs and grubs below the dam. Report submitted by Allen Couch, game
warden stationed in Pushmataha County.
Texoma: Elevation normal, water 48 and clear. Striped
bass fair on live bait and sassy shad at 10-20 ft. in the coves. Channel and
blue catfish slow, with some fish being caught on cut bait at 10-20 ft.,
above the Highway 70 bridge. Report submitted by Danny Clubb, game warden
stationed in Bryan County.
Wister: Elevation 7 ft. above normal and murky.
Largemouth bass slow. Crappie good on minnows and jigs below the dam.
Channel catfish fair to good on cut shad. Report submitted by Randy Fennell,
game warden stationed in LeFlore County.
SOUTHWEST
Ellsworth: Elevation 13 ft. below normal and murky.
Crappie fair to good at Ralph's Resort at 12-15 ft. Catfish fair on cut
bait. Report submitted by Mike Carroll, game warden stationed in Comanche
County.
Foss: Elevation 5 ft. below normal, water in the
lower 40's and clear. Crappie good around fishing dock and structures.
Striped bass hybrids good on slabs in deep water with slight winds. Walleye
fair off the bottom. Catfish fair. Bass slow. Report submitted by Eric
Puyear, B & K Bait House.
Ft. Cobb: Elevation 2 ft. below normal. Crappie slow
to fair around marina and boat docks. Report submitted by James Edwards Jr.,
game warden station in Caddo County.
Remember Take a Kid
Fishing !
Just look at the
Striper Ole Trey Caught a Texoma !

|