Thread: Lake Eufaula archives

Well went out today on one of the toughest days weather wise I have been on in a while. Headed down to try it out around the ole Stinkfinger area. Yeah that's right stink Arrowhead State park. We went out of the main cove from the ramp headed back to the east from there to try and find some calm water. We did find a little pocket that was out of the wind some what. Didn't manage anything there so we moved around to a west facing bank out of the wind and started spider rigging in about 10-11' of water. My oldest son caught one small crappie about the first 100 yds down the bank. After that it was nothing for another 600 yds or so. I then I decided to pick up a road runner and throw while we were spider rigging and all I could catch on it was blue cats. I had 4 of them in the next 50-75 yds down the bank. Then the rain came and then the lighting and thunder. I told my son that I wanted to hit a small pocket down the bank before we left. Upon entering the small pocket we had 2 of the 4 poles we had out SR and managed 2 real fast, but they were dinks. Moved about another 10 yds and I had another hit and missed. After hitting the pocket and the rain coming down even harder I told my son let's hit that spot again we caught the 2 at. Caught a couple more dinks then finally I managed 3 keepers in the boat. Hit it for another 30 minutes and that was it. We loaded up and headed to longtown creek to try and get out of the rain and the wind. Pulled into a cove that has produced before for us and my son caught 1 bass in the back of the cove then we started to SR again and found a few dinks scattered. Only caught 1 keeper here. Fished from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm and that was it. 4 keepers and about 8 dinks.

Yeah I know strong NE wind, rain, lightening, thunder and we were crazy enough to go out. Well you have to understand my son just graduated from college and he was tired of hearing dear ole dad catching fish and he couldn't go because of all the projects and finals he had to do, so he said we were going no matter what. Atleast he now has an electrical engineering degree and all that is left now is to find a job and learn how to catch fish again.

Next time you know you're going to be in the area, drop me a PM and let me know. I'll be glad to run by and shake your hand.

CJ - When your son gets a high paying job with a company in the future then he can pay to take YOU fishing and repay all the trips you paid for while he was growing up Time to share the love

I wished it worked that way, so far........ no pay backs from my son.

Will do Stinkfinger. Hey atleast I found a few coves with some standing timber for the summer bite down that way.

CR-That would be great, but the question where is this high paying job going to come from? He has applied for several jobs and hasn't even had a bite yet. Hey maybe he can build electric cars since that was his final senior project of the year. Here's the link to view it. YouTube - jcaudl00 there are 5 clips of them test driving it. One thing I can say about my kids is they have all been raised to learn to appreciate the things in life and fishing is a big part of it.

Same with my kids:D

Had a trip on Staurday, we got on the water at 10:00 and because of the storms we didn't start fishing until about 12:00. We fished for 8 hrs and caught 40 keepers. With the water rising, the weather and rain the bite was pretty tough.Lots of current everywhere. It is more feast or famine. We caught one and two keepers all day long. The fish we caught were mostly spawned out and spread out. We Spider- rigged half the day and Huckabee fishe dthe othe half. Had a few good fish but most were nice keepers. We fished in 4-8ft in 6-10ft of water. Fishing Beaver tails, and vibra-king tubes. I had a buddy who was in the right place just before on of the storms came through and they caught 111 keepers in 1hr 40 min. Godd Fishing EB

Going to be more current running Wed. from what I've heard the Corps is gonna start running flood gates then.....dont know the flow rates yet.