Sports
Southeast Oklahoma weekly fishing report
By Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
Jun 27, 2008
Arbuckle: June 23. Elevation normal, water 84 and mostly clear. Crappie good on brush piles. White bass are chasing shad on top in mid lake. Bass fair to good using drop shot, Carolina rigged lizards and topwater early morning hours. Channel catfish good on baited holes. Report submitted by Jack Melton.
Blue River: June 24. Elevation normal, water 80 and clear to murky. Bass fair no minnows and flies. Catfish fair to good on liver and worms. Report submitted by Charles Baker, technician at the Blue River Public Fishing and Hunting Area.
Broken Bow: June 23. Elevation 3 ft. above normal, water 83 and clearing. Largemouth bass being caught schooling topwater in late evening. Catfish fair on juglines and trotlines with cut baits and shad. Crappie good on minnows and jigs at 30 ft. around structure. Walleye fair after dark around points and islands with the full moon. Report submitted by Dru Polk, game warden stationed in McCurtain County.
Eufaula: June 22. Elevation 5 ft. above normal, water murky. Largemouth bass good on plastics flipping the flooded brush. White bass good on jigs in riprap around bridges. Blue catfish fair on shad around rocky areas. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs under bridges. Report submitted by Ed Rodebush, game warden stationed McIntosh County.
Hugo: June 23. Elevation normal, water 77. Crappie fair on minnows around creek channels. Largemouth bass fair on spinners and buzz baits around button brush. Catfish good on sunfish and shad. Blue catfish good on cut bait and shad in the tailwaters. Report submitted by Jay Harvey, game warden stationed in Choctaw and Bryan counties.
Konawa: June 23. Elevation 1 ft. above normal, water 83 and clear. Largemouth bass good on topwater lures and plastic worms at 4-8 ft. in weed beds. Channel catfish good on stinkbaits at 5-10 ft. along points. All other fishing slow. Report submitted by Daryl Howser, game warden stationed in Seminole County.
Lower Mountain Fork River: June 23. The river has cleared nicely and is almost back to normal. The Powerhouse has been releasing water for most of the daylight hours for the last few days. This is making zone three unfishable for the wading angler. Zone 2 appears to be fishable for maybe a couple of hours very early in the mornings. That leaves zone 1 in the Park, which has been fishing only fair for the past few days. No one seems to be able to find a fly pattern that will work consistently. There have been lots of midges hatching and some very small mayflies. Grasshoppers and ants are abundant and available, especially on a windy day. Report submitted by Beavers Bend Fly Shop.
McGee Creek: June 22. Elevation 2 ft. above normal, water 78 and clear. Largemouth bass fair to good on plastic craws and crawfish colored crankbaits at 6-10 ft. along windy points. Crappie fair on minnows at 12-18 ft. over cedar brush. Report submitted by Larry Luman, game warden stationed in Atoka County.
Murray: June 24. Elevation normal, water 82 and clear. Bass excellent. White bass good trolling crankbaits and topwater lures. Catfish good on worms, chicken livers, stinkbaits and minnows. Crappie fair at 10-15 ft. around fish attracters. Walleye good on jigs, minnows and crankbaits. Report submitted by Jeremy Brothers, game warden stationed in Carter County.
Pine Creek: June 23. Elevation slightly above normal and murky. Bass fair on pumpkinseed colored plastic worms and baby brush hogs. Crappie fair on minnows. Catfish fair but slow on chicken liver. Report submitted by Mark Hannah, game warden stationed in McCurtain County.
Robert S. Kerr: June 23. Elevation above normal, water 82 and murky. Largemouth bass fair from the surface to 6 ft. using topwater baits early and late and plastic baits during the day fishing the rock, woody and weedy shorelines. Crappie fair at 8 ft. using minnows fishing the edge of the old creek channels or over brush shelters. White bass fair at 6-8 ft trolling crankbaits in the Applegate cove and Cowlington point areas. Blue and flathead catfish good at 3-6 ft. using live and cut bait on trotlines and juglines along the rocky areas around the lake. Report submitted by Rick Olzawski, game warden stationed in Haskell County.
Sardis Lake: June 22. Elevation 1 ft. above normal and slightly murky. Bass good on spinners, off points in plastics and in grass beds on spinners. White bass fair trolling islands. Catfish excellent on shrimp and cut shad on jugs and trotlines. Flathead catfish fair on jugs baited with live bait. Crappie excellent on live minnows at 10 ft. from the bottom under bridges and around timber on jigs. Walleye fair on plugs trolling the islands. Report submitted by Alan Couch, game warden stationed in Pushmataha County.
Texoma: June 23. Elevation normal, water 79 and mostly clear. Largemouth and smallmouth bass fair to good on spinnerbaits and crankbaits around the riprap. Striped and white bass fair to good on live bait, sassy shad and topwaters from Catfish Bay south. Channel and blue catfish fair to good on live bait, cut bait and worms above the highway 70 bridge. Crappie fair on minnows in Little Glass's creek. Sunfish fair to good on worms around the fishing docks. All other fishing is slow. Report submitted by Danny Clubb, game warden stationed in Bryan County.
Wister: June 23. Elevation 2 ft. above normal and murky. Largemouth bass good on soft plastics and spinnerbaits. Crappie good with minnows, small spinner baits and jigs. Channel catfish and blue catfish good cut shad and liver. Flathead catfish excellent on live sunfish, upper Poteau River. Report submitted by Randy Fennell, game warden stationed in LeFlore County.