Thread: Fort Gibbson archives

Originally Posted by RBC

=just a old retired guy but always willing to help with permission to fish them latter ,, good looking attractors seems like I always do better with some wood mixed in ,, how about you??

I do prefer to add wood. I found some cedar 1x2 laying up on my garage rafters I used last time. Placed them there so I would remember next time, apparently that did work! Anyone that is wiling is always welcome to fish them.

Caught a nice mess of fish, enough for dinner anyway. I caught these on 4-6-16 started fishing just before 5 pm and the bite was over by 6 pm. They all came off the same brush pile, couldn't get bit on any other piles. All were on a 2.50" salt & pepper tipped with Crappie Nibbles: Neon Chartreuse with a blue 1/8th jig. Surprisingly the two 12 incher's are males, the biggest is a female at a little over 13 inches with three 10 incher's to boot.

Hit Chouteau Creek today for round 2 of Sandbass slaughtering. Water dropped another 2'. Down approximately 5'-6' total in the last week. Slaughter never happened. Caught 1 Bass around 4.5# on my 30th last cast after fishing for 3 hours.

I feel your pain. As long as the Corp fiddles with Gibson's lake level Chouteau and Brushy Creek will suck. I've fished those two creeks for years and in that area I don't know where else to go when the creeks aren't producing. I have never found a source for data on the Neosho River levels between Gibson and Hudson. Sure would be nice to be able to find that data before I drag my boat to that part of the world.

A couple a guys that fish out of the same marina as me did pretty good trolling for sandy's between whitehorn and toppers yesterday. I'm not sure when the run usually starts up to Chouteau Bend but I keep hearing people say that it's still early, even though the nicer weather has us thinking that it should be going hot and heavy.

Lonnie, I think you're right about that. In the absence of high water the fish will be on time. It's nature that has us fooled.

There was crappie being got last evening off of the bank between 5 and 6 pm in 2 fow about 15 yards off of the bank, seen about 10 all together between 3 fishermen.

I'm so used to seeing high water on this lake and now it looks like it's about to go dry when in reality it's still a little over 1 foot above normal at "Pool elevation is 555.11 feet on Wednesday 13 Apr 16 Time: 0700 hours."

Put 1/2 dozen in the freezer last night 5 males and 1 female, still scattered in 2 to3 fow.