Thunderbird 2/27/2010

Was a nice day on the water, the wind was low and it was in the mid to upper 50's. Water temp was around 41.8 degrees. I got there before Greg and looked at the humps we fish for sandbass, there was no activity on them. We bass fished for a little while with no luck and even looked at the brush for crappie with no luck there either.

We just couldn't seem to find the fish, I have no idea where they were, we didn't even see any shad anywhere. It was a tough day without a single bite but it was nice to get out on the water.

Thunderbird

Went to Thunderbird today. Was a nice change from the long drive to Okemah. When we got to the lake it had started raining on us so we went ahead and unloaded the boat and headed out. We trolled around our normal path and by the time we got to the other side of the point the rain had stopped. Greg picked up a small sandbass and I picked up a small crappie while we were trolling. We decided to come back to the bank and do some bass fishing. No sooner than we go back to the bank and the sandbass started busting the top in front of the boat. I was able to get one cast into them before they stopped and picked up one small one. We then went to the southwest end of the lake and started bass fishing again. I picked up a small saugeye on a crankbait and then I switched to a watermelon lizard to fish the upcoming sticks. My lizard netted me one nice 22" saugeye. We were able to pick up several small bass throughout the day and later in the day the bass started busting on top in the sticks, unfortunately all the ones we saw were small. Overall it turned out to be a nice day and I got a meal out of it.

Hefner today

Spent the middle of the day on Hefner today, didn't do very good today, there was no wind and we were trying to fish the dam for smallmouth but these small knats were everywhere. Normally this wouldn't bother me but there were millions of them and they were getting in our eyes, ears, inside your shirt everything. Was very annoying.

Anthony caught a small bass and I mean no longer than his lure small. I caught one small crappie on a small spinnerbait. Maybe next time.

I'm still here

I've been neglecting making posts lately and I'm making an effort to be more active with posting.

Thursday I went fishing with Dad on Oolagah lake and it was tough, we tried Bass, Sandbass, and Crappie. The lake appears to be turning over, the water level was 3ft high and falling and the water temps are cooling now that fall is taking hold. Not exactly the best conditions however, we were able to pull some very nice slab crappie out of some brush piles. Oolagah is full of monster crappie. We fished from about noon until around 5:30. We had to work for the fish we caught but ended up with 1 sandbass and about 5 big crappie.

Friday we went back to Oolagah at the crack of dawn and attempted Bass, Sandbass, and Crappie again. This time we were not able to turn up anything worth keeping. We were not even able to get a Bass to strike. Trolled for Sandbass to no avail and hit the brush piles again but only turned up a few small crappie.