Sounds like a blast. Looking forward to this lake.
Congrats on some great fishin' fun. Good report and glad you were able to get out amongst 'em. Maybe the bite will spread.
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Sounds like a blast. Looking forward to this lake.
Carl Blackwell has always been a good crappie lake. I use to fish it when I was in college at OSU in the early 70's. It has also been known as a good flathead lake too.
Have been blackwell hard the last few days and have been tearing up the crappie. Took two friends this morning and left with 90 crappie and several hybrids. The crappie were following the large schools of shad. Found a lot in coves and along damn in 10 foot of water. Baits of choice today were all bobby garland baby shad in Blue Ice, Devils Grin and Las Vegas. Water temp was 84.
bro n law and I went over there Sat morning, caught 40 or so but not one over 8 inches long. I assume there are bigger fish there though, LOL. It is a nice little lake and one of the closer lakes to me so I plan on fishing it again(maybe friday morning if I can find someone to go with me)
Achiro...Blackwell has a large amount of dinks. The shad and ghost minnow population has exploded this year so hopefully in a year or two we will see a lot larger fish. The smallest fish we kept today was 9.5 inches. Most fish average between 10 and 11 inches. We will be out friday morning in a green 18' SeaArk. Come say hi. If we are catching anchor up beside us!!!!
Didn't see you out there on Fri but I ended up catching around 30 and kept 17 all right at 10 inches.
Man..we were there on friday from 7am until 12. We fished south of turkey hollow. Found two huge schools. Kept 102 fish that day. 3 of us in the boat.
I was in what I think was turkey hollow(furthest north east cove) and went South down the dam into that cove to check it out, then went west past the bouy line and into a south cove with timber. Caught most of the fish on one tree in the first cove and the rest on one tree in the south west cove. I must have been looking for the wrong type of boat. I'm in a red and white Ranger Reata.
Fished yesterday evening alone for a couple hours. went straight to some spots that had been holding a ton of fish over the last month, NOTHING. didnt see them on the Fish Finder, but fished it anyway with zero bites. Went to a big rock formation that had held tons, NOTHING, went to a tree i had sunk a couple years ago, NOTHING. ended up heading across the lake to another tree in 16 foot of water and BINGO....the bite was on. every cast I got bit, it didnt take me long to have my limit of 37 fish, with all of them between 10-11". bait used was a blk/chrt YUM F2 tube on a weedless 1/16 ounce jig head. the fish were suspended between 5' and 7'. go below that and you never got a bite. Water temp was 76.8. I ended up finding a couple guys that drove from Elk City to fish so I gave them all the fish. It was a great couple hour trip!!!!