The corps is sponsoring their annual brush pile day on Lake Oologah Sept 13th at Spencer Creek. I'm sure someone has more info if you need it you can call the corps office 918-443-2250.
Last year I won an Outlaw 12' crappie rod for a door prize.

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I wonder if the corp has brush pile days on any of the lakes in the OKC area? Has anyone ever heard of them doing this?

this is just about the only one I know that does it they do something up on Grand also but not sure the corps do that one one thing for sure it helps I wonder what ever happened to the big poontoon boat that basss pro donated to the Wildlife dept it was designed just for dropping habitat never seen the thing anywhere after grand opening at Broken Arrow

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I was in on the last one they had at Spencer Creek. They do give out lots of things. The day I was out there, there were 95 new piles created and dropped. There were a few that showed up in there own boats, took part in the food, drink and prizes, then did nothing to help drop brush. They did however follow the "Brush" boats so as they could mark the areas on their GPS units where they were being placed. If it was because of health problems, I can understand. If it's because they didn't feel like helping, shame on them.

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they do it on keystone, but they're not as consistent. Here is the link to the keystone piles: KEYSTONE Brush Piles

I know of one thing they use the pontoon boat for. They use it during the Wildlife expo. They put bleachers on it and let people,(of which I was one) ride on it, following the boat they do the electro shocking with. It was pretty neat to see how they do that along with other methods to collect their fish data. Just thinking, I guess if the guy got the notion he could have hit the button and dumped the bleachers in the lake ....nice attractor im thinking!!

The wildlife department brought the "big pontoon boat" last year and the guy running it was a guy they called Sparky. He is the fish biologist for Northeastern Oklahoma. Some of my buddies and I were on the boat with him and wore him out with questions. We would build two 4ft square crates with brush weighted down with rocks and then take to a spot, your choice, and simply push the button and in they would go. Most of the time we dropped them one at a time but on one occasion both crates went in. After fishing them this past year I'm thinking that two is the way to go. By the way, our best stringers came within the first two weeks of sinking them. Larger fish and more of them, after that the fish got smaller and fewer, at least for me. Some of the other guys I talked to on the lake said they were doing better than I was but then that is normal.

At the tackle show in Claremore last Feb, there was a group passing out lit for a brush build on Lake Hudson. They had a come and go weekend for building pvc structure and then the next weekend a sinking party or something to this effect.

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Is this something you have to sign up for, or just show up?

Just show up. They will give you food and drinks. Hand out prizes. It is work, those who can safely work a chainsaw will run them while everyone else is a grunt.

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Man. we sure could use some structure on Gibson.
Everything that was there is gone now except a couple rock piles.

Oolagh sure seems to get a lot of attention! Not complaining about that though.