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WEEKLY
FISHING REPORT AUGUST 18, 2010
CENTRAL
Arcadia: August 13. Elevation below normal, water 90 and clear. Channel
catfish fair on punchbait at 10-12 ft. along south central streams in the
mornings. Bluegill excellent on plastic worms at 1-2 ft. along north cove in
the mornings. Report submitted by Linnie Mason, gate attendant.
Hefner: August 17. Elevation above normal, water 88-89 and clear. Largemouth
bass slow on crankbaits, jigs and soft plastics at 8-20 ft. near deep banks.
Smallmouth bass slow on jigs and soft plastics at 10-20 ft. along weeds,
wood and rocky shorelines early and late. White bass slow on crankbaits,
lipless baits and grubs at 10-20 ft. Striped bass hybrids slow on crankbaits
at 10-20 ft. trolling drop-offs in the lake. Channel catfish slow on cut
bait, shrimp and punchbait at 20-25 ft. off the dam. Blue catfish slow on
cut bait at 20-30 ft. off the dam. Flathead catfish slow on live bait at 20
ft. off the dam. Crappie slow on jigs at 15-25 ft. off the dam. Walleye slow
trolling crankbaits at 10-20 ft. Sunfish and bluegill fair on worms and
small jigs at 2-6 ft. Report submitted by Lucky Lure Tackle.
Overholser: August 15. Elevation normal, water 90 and clear. Channel catfish
slow on stinkbait, liver, shad gizzard and cut bait in the lake and tail
waters. Report submitted by Joey Rushing, game warden stationed in Oklahoma
and Canadian counties.
Thunderbird: August 15. Elevation 1/2 ft. below normal, water clear. White
bass good on jigs and sassy shad off points, surfacing early mornings.
Report submitted by Tony Woodruff, game warden stationed in Cleveland
County.
Wes Watkins: August 16. Elevation slightly below normal, water 92 and clear.
White bass fair trolling the main lake. Channel and blue catfish fair on cut
shad along deep drop-offs. Report submitted by Mike France, game warden
stationed in Pottawatomie County.
NORTHEAST
Bell Cow: August 15. Elevation below normal, water 91 and clear. Channel
catfish fair on doughbait. Crappie fair on minnows. Report submitted by Gary
Emmons, game warden stationed in Lincoln County.
Chandler: August 15. Elevation below normal, water 91 and clear. Channel
catfish fair on cut bait and doughbait. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs.
Report submitted by Gary Emmons, game warden stationed in Lincoln County.
Copan: August 16. Elevation normal, water clear. Channel catfish good on
chicken liver and worms below the dam. Crappie fair on jigs in deep water in
the flooded timber on the north end of the lake. Blue catfish fair on
juglines in the evenings and at night. White bass being caught on jigs and
rattletraps. Report submitted by Joe Alexander, game warden stationed in
Washington County.
Eucha: August 17. Elevation 2 ft. below normal, water 86 and clear. Crappie
good on jigs and minnows around brush and structure at 10-12 ft. Largemouth
bass fair on crankbaits off rocky points. Bluegill fair on crickets and
worms around grass beds. Report submitted by Dwight Moore, City of Tulsa.
Ft. Gibson: August 15. Elevation normal, water 90 and clear. White bass good
vertical jigging white spoons and roadrunners in deep water along structure.
Largemouth bass good on spinnerbaits, jig and pig and crankbaits at 5-15 ft.
around structure. Catfish slow on juglines in the deep channels and rod and
reels baited with cut bait below the dam. Report submitted by Rick Stafford
in Wagoner.
Greenleaf: August 17. Elevation normal, water clear. Largemouth bass good on
spinnerbaits and crankbaits along shorelines and creek channels. Catfish
good on fresh cut bait on bottom. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs around
fishing docks and brush structure. Report submitted by Lark Wilson, game
warden stationed in Muskogee County.
Hudson: August 17. Elevation normal, water 89. Largemouth bass good on
topwater lures and spinnerbaits early and late. White bass good on rooster
tails in running water and the lake and on small lures when they are
schooling. Blue catfish good on cut bait in running water below the dam.
Report submitted by Steve Loveland, game warden stationed in Rogers and
Mayes counties.
Hulah: August 16. Elevation normal, water clear. Flathead and channel
catfish fair on cut shad and worms below the dam. Blue and channel catfish
fair on juglines near the mouth of Hulah Cove. Crappie fair on jigs around
structure in deeper water. Report submitted by Joe Alexander, game warden
stationed in Washington County.
Kaw: August 16. Elevation normal, water 95 and stained. The lake has been
dropped down for aerial seeding of Japanese millet; extreme caution should
be used when operating boats in the upper end of the lake. Even experienced
boaters can become stranded on mudflats as they have drastically changed.
Bear Creek boat ramp is inaccessible, Coon Creek boat ramp is only
accessible with small/light boats and trolling motors or push poles should
be used to get into the main lake. All other ramps are open and usable.
Crappie slow on minnows and jigs at 15-25 ft. under Washunga Bay Bridge.
White bass fair on topwater lures, crankbaits, slabbing spoons, shad colored
jigs and minnows around Sarge Creek Bridge and Washunga Bay Bridge. Blue
catfish excellent on juglines with shad and drift fishing in the Arkansas
River and Beaver Creek arms. Channel catfish excellent on stinkbait, worms
and cut bait near rocky banks with quick drop-offs. White bass, striped bass
and striped bass hybrids being caught on topwater, bucktails, streamers,
sassy shad and drifting live bait below the dam. Blue, channel and flathead
catfish slow on cut shad, carp, live bluegill, shad and goldfish below the
dam. Most anglers are catching shad for bait near the Coon Creek boat ramp,
and near the Washunga Boat ramp. Spotted bass slow on crankbaits at 3-8 ft.
on rocky points and chunk rock banks south of Kaw City Bridge. Largemouth
good on chatter baits and spinnerbaits along riprap near bridges and the
dam. Rough fish are plentiful on surface throughout the lake and below the
dam presenting good opportunities for bow fishing. Report submitted by
Spencer Grace, game warden stationed in Kay County.
Keystone: August 16. Elevation above normal, water murky. Largemouth bass
fair on plastic baits around structure and drop-offs. White bass good on
rooster tails at 3-8 ft. near the dam. Channel catfish good on cut shad in
the lake and main channels. Blue catfish good on shad heads at the dam.
Flathead catfish good on juglines baited with sunfish. Crappie fair on
minnows at 3-6 ft. along the dam. Report submitted by Woody’s Bait and
Tackle.
Lower Illinois: August 16. Elevation normal, water 55 and clear. Largemouth
bass good on topwater lures in creek channels and coves. White bass slow on
jigs at 1-2 ft. all along the river. Striped bass slow on live shad at 1-3
ft. below Gore Landing. Channel catfish excellent on cut bait on bottom all
along the river. Crappie slow on jigs and spinnerbaits at 1-2 ft. all along
the river. Trout excellent fly fishing the surface, on rooster tails at 1-2
ft. and on power bait on bottom above Gore Landing. Report submitted by D.
Tracy, Town of Gore.
Oologah: August 17. Elevation 2 ft above normal and slowly falling, water
lower 80s and muddy north and murky on the south end. White bass fair on
crankbaits at 10-15 ft. trolling flats near the main lake. Largemouth bass
fair on soft plastics around flooded vegetation. Crappie fair on minnows and
jigs at 15-20 ft.suspended around standing timber. Blue and channel catfish
fair on juglines baited with shad at 15-20 ft. on flats near the river
channel and on shad below the dam. Report submitted by Brek Henry, game
warden stationed in Rogers County.
Skiatook: August 17. Elevation 1 ft. below normal. White bass and striped
bass hybrids fair on live shad at 15-20 ft. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs
along creek channels and standing timber. Report submitted by Paul Welch,
game warden stationed in Osage County.
Spavinaw: August 17. Elevation slightly below normal, water 88 and dingy.
Crappie fair on minnows and jigs around the dam area. Largemouth bass fair
on spinnerbaits. Report submitted by Dwight Moore, City of Tulsa.
Webbers Falls: August 17. Elevation normal, water murky. Largemouth bass
fair on spinnerbaits and crankbaits along creek channels and riprap. Catfish
good on fresh cut bait along mudflats on bottom. Crappie fair on minnows and
jigs around brush structure and bridges. Report submitted by Lark Wilson,
game warden stationed in Muskogee County.
NORTHWEST
Canton: August 16. Elevation normal, water 87 and clear. Channel catfish
good on grasshoppers and shad in the upper end of the lake. White bass and
striped bass hybrids good drifting shad and slabs near drop-offs. Report
submitted by Mark Walker, game warden stationed in Blaine County.
Ft. Supply: August 17. Elevation normal, water clear. Channel catfish fair
on stinkbait and cut bait all over the lake and below the dam. Report
submitted by Mark Reichenberger, game warden stationed in Woodward County.
SOUTHEAST
Arbuckle: August 15. Elevation normal, water mid 80s. Channel catfish good
on cut bait and doughbait at 18-20 ft. Bluegill excellent on fly rod poppers
along deeper banks. Crappie good on minnows and jigs over brush piles at
night. White bass surfacing near the dam at night. On topwater lures and
shaky head worms early morning. Report submitted by Jack Melton.
Blue River: August 17. Elevation normal, water 83 and clear. Smallmouth and
spotted bass good on topwater, plastic grubs and shallow diving crankbaits
around falls or structure in deeper pools. Channel catfish good on stinkbait,
liver and minnows in larger pools around current. Flathead catfish fair on
live sunfish around structure at night. Sunfish excellent on small
spinnerbaits, flies and crickets. Report submitted Matt Gamble, biologist at
the Blue River Public Fishing and Hunting Area.
Broken Bow: August 15. Largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass fair on dark
plastic baits Texas or Carolina-rigged early morning, late evening and after
dark around structure and rocky points. Catfish fair on juglines and
trotlines baited with cut bait and shad. Crappie good on minnows and jigs at
18-20 ft. around structure. Report submitted by Dru Polk, game warden
stationed in McCurtain County.
Eufaula: August 16. Elevation normal, water 86 and clear. Largemouth bass
fair on crankbaits and plastic baits along deeper flats and windy points.
White bass fair trolling windy points. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs
around standing timber and under bridges. Report submitted by Ed Rodebush,
game warden stationed in McIntosh County.
Hugo: August 15. Elevation 3 ft. below normal, water 85. Crappie and white
bass fair on minnows at 12-20 ft. along the river channel. Catfish fair on
juglines and trotlines baited with sunfish and cut bait. Watch for submerged
stumps. Report submitted by Jay Harvey, game warden stationed in Choctaw
County.
Konawa: August 16. Elevation normal, water 99 and clear. Largemouth bass
fair on plastic worms and topwater lures at 5-8 ft. along weed beds. Channel
catfish fair on chicken liver at 10-12 ft. around points and the south cove.
Report by Daryl Howser, game warden stationed in Seminole County.
McGee Creek: August 16. Elevation 7 inches above normal, water 90 and clear.
Crappie fair on minnows and jigs at 12-20 ft. around cedar brush off main
creek channels. Largemouth bass fair on dark colored soft plastic lures and
topwater lures early and late in shallow water; schooling bass being caught
on topwater baits in open water. White bass fair on sassy shad and topwater
baits around open points. Report submitted by Larry Luman, game warden
stationed in Atoka County.
Murray: August 17. Elevation slightly below normal, water 85 and clear.
Largemouth and smallmouth bass good early morning and at night. White bass
being caught on topwater lures trolling and when surfacing at night. Channel
catfish fair on minnows, worms and chicken liver at night. Crappie fair on
minnows and jigs at 15-20 ft. around structure. Report submitted by Jeremy
Brothers, game warden stationed in Carter County.
Pine Creek: August 15. Elevation extremely below normal, water clear. Bass
great on spinnerbaits around structure. Crappie good on minnows near creek
channels. Catfish fair on chicken liver. Report submitted by Mark Hannah,
game warden stationed in McCurtain County.
Robert S. Kerr: August 17. Elevation normal, water 90 and murky. White bass
fair trolling the mouth area of the Big Sans Bois Creek and the junction of
the Arkansas River. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs around submerged brush
structure. Report submitted by Leland Sockey, game warden stationed in
Haskell County.
Sardis: August 15. Elevation 1/2 ft. below normal, water 93 and murky.
Largemouth bass fair to good on crankbaits, spinnerbaits and swim baits
along humps and weed beds early and late and on 12-inch worms at 12-14 ft.
off humps at midday. Channel and blue catfish good on cut bait. Crappie good
on minnows and jigs at 14-18 ft. Report submitted by Dane Polk, game warden
stationed in Pushmataha County.
Texoma: August 15. Elevation 1 ft. below normal, water 88 and clear.
Largemouth and smallmouth bass fair to good on surface lures and deep diving
crankbaits at 5-15 ft. in the creek channels. Striped and white bass fair to
good on surface lures, live baits and sassy shad at 1-20 ft. from Platter
flats to Burns Run and to the west in Caney Creek. Channel and blue catfish
fair to good on cut shad, worms and stinkbait at 5-15 ft. from the Hwy 70
Bridge to the south. Crappie fair on minnows at 5-15 ft. around the fish
attractors. Sunfish good on worms and shrimp at 5-15 ft. around the fishing
docks and riprap. Paddlefish fair below the dam. Report submitted by Danny
Clubb, game warden stationed in Bryan County.
Wister: August 16. Elevation 1 ft. below normal, water 87 and murky.
Largemouth bass slow on topwater lures, worms and jigs early and late.
Crappie slow on minnows and jigs around structure early and late. Channel
catfish slow on juglines with cut shad and liver. Flathead catfish slow on
live sunfish and night crawlers. Report submitted by Randy Fennell, game
warden stationed in LeFlore County.
SOUTHWEST
Foss: August 17. Elevation 1/4 ft. below normal with gates closed, water
high 80s. Striped bass fair on live bait and surfacing early mornings.
Walleye fair. Catfish fair. Report submitted by Eric Puyear, B & K Bait
House.
Tom Steed: August 17. Elevation 3 ft. below normal, water 85 and slightly
murky. Catfish fair on juglines with live bait. Report submitted by David
Smith, game warden stationed in Kiowa County.
Oklahoma Spoonbill Fishing
Dustin Newer
April 2010
These were
caught near the Twin Bridges State park fishing with Dempsey’s Guide
Service…My fishing partner is a well known OkieFish contributor but I
will let her send in the pics of the 60 lber she caught.
Huge striped bass hybrid takes lake
record spot at Canton
Lifelong Oklahoma angler James Wesley Jones, Jr. of Canton said
he loves fishing because it is a relaxing activity, but there was likely no
relaxing going on April 19 when he landed a 23.2-lb. (23 lbs., 3 oz.)
striped bass hybrid from Canton Lake. The huge fish qualifies as a lake
record for Canton
and falls only about an ounce shy of taking the state record spot as well,
which is held by Paul Hollister and his 23-lb., 4 oz. fish caught April 1,
1997, from Altus-Lugert
Lake.
Jones caught his fish in the evening using a 1-oz. rattletrap.
Though the hybrid fell short of the state record, it reminds anglers that if
they catch a potential state record fish, they should contact an employee of
the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation for procedures on
certifying state records. Lake
record fish are weighed on scales through lake record keepers registered
with the Wildlife Department, but the weighing of state records must be done
on certified scales with a witness from the Wildlife Department present.
Jones said the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s
new Lake Record Fish Program does more than just recognize fish, but that it
also encourages the sport of fishing. Before the program was in place, his
near state record fish could have gone overlooked by anglers across the
state, but the recognition his fish received through the Lake Record Fish
Program reminds anglers of the potential that Oklahoma’s lakes hold for
producing monster-sized fish.
“It gets people motivated to fish knowing that there are larger
fish in the lake,” Jones said.
He said it is common in discussions among anglers to wonder
about the sizes of the largest fish caught in lakes across the state.
“You don’t have to wonder anymore,” he said. “You can just go on
and find out.”
Jones is referring to the Wildlife Department’s Web site,
wildlifedepartment.com, which includes an easily-operated search feature
that allows those interested to view a wealth of lake record fish
information, ranging from the size of record fish caught to what kind of
bait or rod and reel was used to catch them. And right now, lake records are
being set and broken on a regular basis, which means the wealth of
information on the Web site is updating and growing regularly as well.
Other recent lake records include a 4.8-lb. smallmouth bass
caught by Derek Thurman of
Collinsville. His fish went down as a record
smallmouth for Skiatook Lake, but that record was broken just days later, on
April 5, when angler Jim Horn of Cleveland landed a 6.6-lb. smallmouth bass
from Skiatook using a bait casting rod and reel set up with a jig.
Lakes included in the program include Arbuckle, Broken Bow,
Canton, Eufaula, Ft.
Cobb, Grand, Kaw, Keystone,
Sardis, Skiatook, Tenkiller, Texoma and Thunderbird.
Species eligible for spots in the lake records book include
blue, channel and flathead catfish and largemouth, smallmouth and spotted
bass in addition to crappie, paddlefish, striped bass, striped bass hybrids,
sunfish (combined) walleye/saugeye and white bass. Minimum weights are set
for each species are detailed on the Wildlife Department’s Web site at
wildlifedepartment.com.
Anglers who catch a potential record from a participating lake
should contact designated business locations around the lake that are
enrolled as lake record keepers. A listing of official lake record keepers
is available on wildlifedepartment.com.
Once it has been determined that an angler has landed a record
fish, the media is notified and the public will be able to view information
about the catch on the Wildlife Department’s Web site at
wildlifedepartment.com.
All past and current state record fish are registered in the
Lake Record Fish Program as records for their respective lakes.
To see the complete database of all lake record fish caught, or
to learn more about the Lake Record Fish program, log on to the Wildlife
Department’s Web site at wildlifedepartment.com.
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