Thread: Lake Eufaula archives

A friend and I ran out for a couple of hours yesterday afternoon. Caught about 15 or so good keepers on the rip rap, 4-7 fow on Beavertails and Crappie Pro solid body jigs. A bit breezy, but had an enjoyable time. Thanks, EB ;-)

I see a lot of references to fishing riprap, and I see boats on it all the time. Being new to the lake and area, I was just wondering the techniques used to fish it. Do you anchor and fish a particular depth, or do you slowly troll along the riprap?

Also, when jigging along the riprap, do you cast toward the bank and reel it in, or do you vertical jig down in the rocks. I've read back through this thread quite a few times and have picked up some great tips, but really didn't see specifics on how to fish the riprap.

By the way, I fish the south end of the lake, usually around the Crowder area.

-Scott

Scott, to answer your question, yes to everything. If you will go out and watch the folks fishing the rocks you will see that different people fish all the tactics you described. Some guys anchor, others troll. Some guys cast to the banks and reel it in, some guys fish straight down. Some guys use minnows, others use jigs. There is no right or wrong way. When the fish are there it seems everyone is catching their share no matter the technique. I personally prefer to slowly troll jigs in a specific depth along the rocks. I try different depths until I start catching them but 8 to 10 feet is a very good bet for a starting point. If you want some first hand knowledge, book a guide trip with Eufaula Boy or Barry Morrow. They will show you how to catch fish on the rocks for sure.

Good luck, Robert

Thank you for the good reference meatdragger. What we look for when fishing rip-rap is clusters of bigger chunk rock. Most of the time the bigger rocks hold more fish because the fish can get in and around them, the smaller rocks hold fish to, but not as well as the bigger stuff. We fish rap on Eufuala because we have miles of it to fish in all depth ranges.

I was able to take Larry Russell from CrappiePro fishing yesterday evening, I think we kept 12 nice fish before the lightning run us off the water. We were fishing rip-rap. Brown and orange was the hot color! We had a couple of 1.5lb fish. EB

I'm still hearing that the fish are biting really good since it has cooled off! EB

Was able to get out for a couple of hours Monday evening! We were fishing rip-rap in 6-10 fow we caught some good fish! The numbers are not high but the size is really been good! I fished rip-rap on the north end and south end and the fish patterned pretty much the same! EB

I've been out on (3) different occasions, on various days, and have fished from the bank with minnows. Each trip was a bust with zero bites. Crappie are not up along the banks at this time. Getting my old boat ready so I can get out along the rip-rap and brush piles. Hopefully will get out by this weekend and catch a few, will post my results, good or bad.

Okay, put the boat in the water but it was to windy to fish on the south end today (from elm point to blocker bridges) could find a calm spot at all.