Thread: Lake Eufaula archives

Decided to get up early and drive a little while down to Crowder and see if I could find a Crappie or two. I'm told you can sometimes catch them every now and then down there :rolleyes:

I was on the water by 7:30 a.m. and there was little to no wind. The water was muddy and the temp at the Crowder Park was 72.

Decided to head off to Blocker Bridge and give it a try first. I noticed there were boats on the South side so I decided to start there a little ways down the rip rap on the West side.

As I was trolling North, boats kept coming and cutting me off. Just pulling up and anchoring or simply using their TM to hold their boat in place.

I looked over on the North side and there was no one over there. Since me and the Wife had caught some good ones there a few weeks ago, I went over there.

I noticed that the current was really ripping through there. But as I worked my way around the rip rap, I noticed that there was an eddy current. I started working this area and I started catching Crappie.

To be honest, it was some of the best fishing I've had in a long time. As long as I stayed in slack water or in the eddy current, I caught Crappie. Get near the main current and I would catch Sand Bass

I knew what was going to happen any minute. It took about 15 minutes for the first boat to show up from the other side. Fortunately I don't think they understood what was happening because they were fishing up current and catching sand bass.

I used my TM to stay next to the bank/rip rap and was catching Crappie at a pretty ridiculous pace. I happen to look up and there were two guys in a bass boat coming up on me casting what looked like RoadRunners. I thought I'd be polite and let them troll by so I moved my boat out of the way.

They wasted no time moving their boat where I was and parked there!

No good deed goes unpunished I thought to myself.

So I worked the other areas of the rip rap. Finally the pulled back from the bank aways and I trolled through the area I'd been sitting, picking up more Crappie. I started going further and further out away from the rip rap and I was still catching Crappie!

I was fishing 6 to 12 ft down using a 3" Slab Slayer in Cajun Cricket and a 2" Yum Bevertail in Blk/Chtr. I don't know why, but I couldn't buy a bite on a blk/pnk beavertail today.

I kept moving further out over 30 to 40 fow, still fishing 6 to 12 ft and I was still catching Crappie! (as long as I stayed in the slack water)

I heard something behind me and I looked up and it was my friends in the Bass boat! Apparently they saw me catching Crappie out from the rip rap and decided to join me out there.

Now there were more boats showing up and it was getting crowded really fast.

Finally at 11 a.m. I had had enough and counted the fish in my Livewell. I had 34. There were now 5 to 6 boats in that small area and it seemed everyone was just trying to horn into any area they could.

I headed to Rock Creek to finish my limit. It took nearly an hour, but I finally caught 3 more keepers around the bridge.

All in all, I probably caught nearly 100 fish today. For every keeper I caught, I probably caught 3 or 4 dinks. At one point, I had caught a one pound Sand Bass and netted him, When I pulled him into the boat, a 13 inch Crappie was on the bottom hook! :D

I had multiple fish on at the same time on several different occasions.

It was truly a rare day for me. It's not often I find fish stacked up like that. It was being at the right place at the right time during the perfect conditions. If it hadn't been for the inconsiderate boaters, it would have been a perfect day. I bet Todd H. puts up with this crap all the time.

But it's hard to get PO'd too much when you have a cooler full of Crappie.

Most of the Crappie were 10" to 13" I had 5 over 14".

Here's a pic of my 37 "Crappie" friends in the cooler



And here's one of my Office, getting ready to go to work...LOL



It's a "Crappie" job but someone has to do it!

BTW, there was a guy fishing on the North end, East side about halfway down. He parked his boat on the bank and was fishing out the back of it. He was throwing a cork with a baited hook using shad. He was catching some pretty nice Blue cats in the 4 to 8 lb range. Even after another boat came and anchored up within yards of the guys corks!

Looks like a great day even with all of the company. One question though. Where did you get the desk that's in your office?

Great report Don; Sorry all those boats crowded you...sometimes thats just part of it. Anytime you can find current like that the crappie are there somewhere. But as you found out so is everything else!

OkieDon, although I throw a roadrunner and have shown it on here, I promise you it wasn't me crowding you out. I have been at work and plus I would never do that to anyone who is catching them like you were.

I hate it when others crowd me out and therefore I would never to it to anyone else. I mean if someone has located them and is yanking them out as you were, I would get a little upset and might not have kept my mouth shut.

Great post and great catch there OkieDon. Keep up the good work and hope to see ya out there some time.

@ Slavenst,

I got the table at Academy a while back. I got tired of using a cutting board on my tailgate. I still do that if I only have a few fish, but when I have quite a few, I use my table and a comfortable chair. It's a little high, so I just push it down into the ground a little.

Here they are at academy. Blackstone fillet table


@ LR/Jiggin'

You know, it was kinda pathetic to watch those guys trying to crowd their boats into that one little area. Looked like kids fighting over free candy.

I've actually seen boats follow Todd around. All these type of people care about is catching a fish. They don't bother trying to figure out why Todd went to the place to begin with.

I've watched Todd fish and once he leaves (which is usually pretty quick if he's not catching fish), I've ran over the spot with my electronics to try and figure out what he looks for in a point, because that's nearly all I ever see him fish, points. I've come to a conclusion that it's a point with a good break into deep water. I plan on fishing with him this year and I'm going to ask him about that!

At the end of the day, we're suppose to be out there enjoying ourselves. That's kinda hard to keep into perspective when you have other boats crawling up your behind, but I'll go and find fish in another area and leave the losers to fight over that spot.

Or...I'll turn my boat sideways and throw my anchors out!

We fished today from 10:30-5:00 and thw wind was really hard to deal with but we still managed to have 44 keepers. I started down around bugtussell this morning and didn't get a bite for 2 hours, so I decided to go back to the Blocker area and fish some rip rap. We found fish 6-8 ft fin 8-25 FOW. They were pretty much spread out all day long. The biggest fish we had was 15 1/2 inches which weighed 1.85lbs. We spider-rigged all day. I also fished Blocker Thursday and caught one that was 15 inches as well we had 26 on that day!

Is anyone catching any from the banks as my boat is down right now and dont know when it will be back up and running. I will be down there next weekend for a family deal and may have to break off and go fishing if its been good. Thanks

Mason; You might try Bixby creek as the main lake fish are last to spawn.