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T-bird was good to us yesterday !!!
Caught 14 fish yesterday. Was a mix of crappies and perch and bluegill using worms and minnows. The crappies and bluegills weren't anything to brag about size wise but holy batman the perch were the biggest I've ever seen. I gurantee they weighed prolly a pound each. Kids and I had fun, so mission accomplished.
Also saw 3 does, an Armadillo and a huge water snake. That snake was about 5ft long and getting attacked by a cloud of perch. I never knew perch ran off snakes but there were so many perch attacking this snake that it was a red mud cloud in the water everytime the snake tried to get to shore. Pretty cool to watch.
All of this in the Willow Branch cove arm of the lake. There was also allot of dead and floating white bass all over the lake. No idea what killed them but every one we looked at closely was a white bass.
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Fished today. . . Cold north wind. . . Go figure. Caught lots of dinks, 10 twelve inch fish in 14 feet.. . . Lots of dead sand bass. . . Thinking they must have gotten into something when they went up little River or maybe got hung up shallow in hog creek and washed back down in the recent rain. Not sure, but they sure are smelly.
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I saw a few dead sandies last Thursday also. ODWC is looking into it.
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Let us know if you hear anything back about itOriginally Posted by Mingo
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Seems the sandbass die-off is something that has been happening at other lakes around the country and in Oklahoma. It's very hard to determine the cause because you are usually examining fish that have been dead for days.
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I've heard boat ramp tales of golden algae at t-bird. Come up from murray. Some people think that's the cause but that's above my scientific knowledge. They died right after the big storm is all I know so there has to be something too that?
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supposedly they died from a rough spawn. State biologists investigating massive fish kill at Lake Thunderbird | Oklahoma City - OKC - KOCO.com
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Good find! Hopefully we see no more dead fish.
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With all my postings about "Thunder-dink" I have to admit I am catching more 11" and 12" fish this year than in the last 3 or 4. You still have to wade through the dinks to get there but the dinks now seem to be 7-8" instead of the 5-6" in years past. Caught a 50 pounder yesterday. Bea got her first hook in her paw. Luckily, it was easily pushed thru and clipped off. She just licked it once and went back to watching my jigs. She's tough for a "girlie bird dog."
Okie405 - you need to bring those kids to the summer family crappie camp at Eufaula! See the info on the camps sub-forum. They will have a ball!
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