Thread: Oologah brush pile day!

Talked to Jason at the Oologah Corp office today and the day for the brush pile work day is Sept 12 at 9:00am. Meet at Spencer Creek ramp and bring your work gloves along with your life jacket. Lunch will be provided along with some door prizes. As always this is a rain or shine event. Call ahead and let them know your coming so they will have plenty of eats. The number is

918-443-2250

Look forward to seeing you there!

I sure hope its a nice cool day for the volunteers to work and I wish them good luck.

How long do you thank you can catch crappie off these brush piles? 1, 2 or 3 years.

I really have a problem with poison Ivy but would like to help is their anything I could do.

I'm catching crappie on brush piles put in back in 2006.

minnowtime,,,they say it'll take a year or so ta attrack fish,, I have proved that different,, I drop'd some structure at Bluff Landing and had fish on it in 3months and still catch'n fish off of it....

JAKE

I have been able to catch fish on them next week. This was in 20ft of water and the fish were suspended 10ft down over the brush with a thermocline at 16ft. Some of the guys come back the next day and wear them out. It usually takes about 3 weeks for the corp to post the gps cords but if you go out on a boat you can go back and fish the ones you put in. You have a say so on where the the bush piles are dropped. Take your gps and mark them for yourself and you can go back and fish them before they are posted on the web.

Minnowtime,
I don't like the ivy myself. We use downed trees or cut some fresh ones, clean, form the bank. The corp provides chain saws, gas, rope, and pallet boxes or other means to secure the piles together.

If I may I would like to express some thoughts on things I have learned. Three years ago I fished 3 year old piles in Oct and Nov in 20-25ft of water that had broken down and caught some really nice fish from them. They were hard to find on the locator and many times I simply dropped a marker at the gps cords and started fishing. When a fish was hooked I dropped another marker on top of the spot before I even put the fish in the boat and I managed to catch a few more. The last two years I have participated in brush pile construction we have made some really big piles with lots of width and height to them, very easy to find. I have caught small fish and lots of them. The bigger fish are hard to find unless I can get right down on the bottom next to the cover which can be hard with so much stuff sticking out around them. The better fish I have caught, this is in Oct thru Nov, came off of the bottom with some having mud on their bellys. I am ready to try some smaller isolated cover laying horizontal to the bottom maybe only a foot or two off of the bottom. Until the lake turns over the fish won't be any deeper than the thermocline so I am thinking some brush in 16ft of water for summer and some in 20 to 30 for fall and winter.

Small isolated ones are the best for sure Kenny to get bigger fish up there I am sure of that the bigger and bushyer the tree the smaller the fish, I would not think twice about putting some in say 8-13 feet that are smaller

Try a Kentucky rig for the brushpiles...I FEAR NO BRUSHPILE! My good buddy Chatt Martin turned me on to this technique Saturday. I am sold on it, it is very, very hard to get hung up with this rig. Go over to the Kansas board to find it. I think they made it a sticky.

Chatt Martin dont know squat !!!!

Have you called and ordered lunch yet? High of 80 and a chance of rain. It has rained the past 2 years at some point during the day. Two years ago it was in the morning, last year right at the end.