Oklahoma Reports

[Buckhunter2323]

Nice Wnspain... Thanks for the pictures and the updates.

I take it you were fishing farm pond?

 

[wnspain]

Yes, the Hugo area is chuck full of em  

[lectricbassman]

Finally got to put the yak on the water today and got skunked. The wind was up and the water was murky. Temps were 57 to 61 degrees at the surface. Tried chatterbaits and swim jigs plus creature baits, craws, and lizards in the pockets that were protected from the crazy wind.  Wanting to beat she skunk, i tied on a rooster tail.  I fully expected to catch at least something but no such luck. Oh well, such is the life of a fisherman. 

[wnspain]

Had a good day on the water last weekend. Caught a few in 6-10 FOW

No farm pond this time, Elmer Thomas

 

[lectricbassman]

Nice fish wnspain!  What were they biting on?  Im heading out to okemah this weekend, hoping to put together a good stringer for a kayak benefit tournament. 

[wnspain]

Threw Keitech swim baits, jigs, squarebills, and roboworms. All fish came via the roboworms, nose hooked, drop shot.

[wnspain]

Wife's first bass

 

 

2nd

She's pretty happy now

[lectricbassman]

1st bass?!, Shes ruined!?

[wnspain]

On 4/4/2016 at 11:37 AM, lectricbassman said:

1st bass?!, Shes ruined!?

Yep, that's for sure!  I think she really doesn't care for the fishing part, she loves the catching part though 

[poisonokie]

I know, that wind has been crazy lately and the water's not warming as fast as I thought it would. Fished a pond in yukon for 3 hrs last weekend, got one nibble early on and finally caught a pounder on a flick shake worm right before I left.

[lectricbassman]

Fished okemah lake on saturday and sunday. Wind was high and the water was 59 to 60 degrees and murky. Caught 2 that were around 4 pounds and 1 dink in 2 days fishing. It was tough because of the wind, hopefully this wind will give us break soon. 

[poisonokie]

I saw where people were slayin em at Prague back in march. Need to go check it out.

[Buckhunter2323]

Went out and fished Lake Eucha last Friday... Tough fishing water was still only 56 degrees real windy... Only caught 1 off a zoom plastic worm in about 10ft of water... Hoping the water gets to about 62-65 degrees so they start spawning. Might try to get back out this week not sure where yet. But I will let everyone know if I do get out.

Good Luck

[poisonokie]

On ‎5‎/‎13‎/‎2015 at 10:20 PM, lectricbassman said:

Since I started it ill go first. Im in the oklahoma city area and primarily fish small ponds in the area from shore. Because of the recent round of storms the bite has been slow. I am finding a lot of success with small poppers even though the water is high and muddy. Im looking forward to some more stable weather patterns but it looks like it may be awhile.

which ponds do you haunt? I usually just go to the Yukon park because it's fairly close and there are some decent fish, and I know a few others in office parks and such.

[lectricbassman]

Sportsman lake, seminole ok. Water was 59 to 64 and very dirty. Soft plastics were the only thing that seemed to work. Caught 4 fish over 2 days, lost 3. I didnt see any beds and all the fish i caught werent spawning yet so theyre probably somewhere in the middle of pre/spawning. 

[Blackjack8234]

I fish the kingfisher area. I got the fever pretty bad last year but didn't have much luck. I've had a little better luck this year but I'm still learning to use plastic baits. Everything I've caught this year has been on a j-5 rapala crank floating. They have all been small. I'm hoping once I figure out how to use worms/lizards/frogs the fish will get bigger 

[j bab]

The topwater bite was absolutely on fire yesterday at the pond in Bethany that I fish...

I've never seen such an active topwater bite, it was a blast. Nothing big (all less than 2lbs), but it was fun!

[flyingmonkie]

Looking to head down to Kanawa later this week... hoping that all the rain hasn't messed things up too bad.  Anybody been down there lately?

[wnspain]

Do you mean Konawa??  Haven't been there but that fishery is on the list, along with Arbuckle and a few others.

[flyingmonkie]

15 hours ago, wnspain said:

Do you mean Konawa??  Haven't been there but that fishery is on the list, along with Arbuckle and a few others.

Yes, sorry... typo.  It's about my favorite place to fish.  

Today was the first time I've ever been skunked at Konawa (and I've fished there in January!).  7 hours, and 0 hooksets.  Ran into a local that caught a few, but said they all still had eggs.  Said they had a great day last week. Water temps where I fished were in mid to upper 70s.  Best I can guess, we were fishing in immediate post-spawn areas and fish were out recuperating.  Locals must have found some cooler water where the spawn was still on.

 

[lectricbassman]

Ive beem wanting to get down to konawa. Never fished it but ive heard good things about it!

[Okiefisher29]

On ‎7‎/‎3‎/‎2015 at 10:20 AM, BassThumbAddict said:

Been fishing Purcell Lake alot lately. I've been having a ton of luck on my bluegill swimjig from siebert. Also catching them on the Cavitron buzzbait right before the sun goes down. 

I know this is from last year but have you or anyone fished Purcell lately?   I just got a 2man boat was gonna give it a shot...it being so close to the house.

[flyingmonkie]

7 hours ago, Okiefisher29 said:

I know this is from last year but have you or anyone fished Purcell lately?   I just got a 2man boat was gonna give it a shot...it being so close to the house.

I've never fished Purcell, but have thought about it several times.  I live in Newcastle so it's only about 20 minutes from me.  Never really heard much about the lake.

Welcome to the forum, btw!

[Okiefisher29]

8 hours ago, flyingmonkie said:

I've never fished Purcell, but have thought about it several times.  I live in Newcastle so it's only about 20 minutes from me.  Never really heard much about the lake.

Welcome to the forum, btw!

Thanks!   I'm in goldsby so it's even closer for me.  Purcell used to hold big largemouth but Im not sure what its doing lately.  I did hear someone was tearing up the crappie there recently near the dam.    I'm trying to get my 2man boat tagged this week so I can go check it out. 

[BassThumbAddict]

On ‎4‎/‎27‎/‎2016 at 3:44 PM, Okiefisher29 said:

I know this is from last year but have you or anyone fished Purcell lately?   I just got a 2man boat was gonna give it a shot...it being so close to the house.

Purcell has been my big project this winter/spring. I live in slaughterville so it is close to home. There are good size bass in Purcell, but sometimes they can be a little tricky to figure out. I have caught up to 6#ers out of Purcell. I have noticed I don't catch that many dinks. I don't catch them often, but when you do they are good size fish.