Thread: Lake Eufaula archives

Got up this morning and finally made a decision on where to go fishing. Decided to try Crowder again since I did well there last week. I was on the water by 7 and made my first stop at Blocker Bridge. The water was just as muddy, if not more so, today as it was last Fri. But there was little to no current to speak of and the fish were scattered.

I started catching dinks right off the bat. After several passes I let out more line and started working the drop offs. That's when I started catching the larger Crappie.

I put two 14 inch plus Crappie in the boat there and after a few hours it seemed to slow down so I started hitting some main lake points. I was targeting 10 to 15 fow fishing 8 to 12 feet down. The magic color of the day was Blk/Pnk and Cajun Cricket.

After I hit a few points, I decided to make a run to Coal Creek. Hit some places there and landed 2 more 14 inch fish plus some smaller ones.

Water temps around Blocker was 78 to 84 and I had several readings up Coal Creek of 84 to 88.

Overall, I probably caught 50 or 60 fish today, most being in the 6 to 9 inch range. Seemed like the dinks were above 8 ft and the better ones were in the 8 to 12 ft range.

I ended the day at 2 p.m. with 17 keepers and 1 black bass that weighed just a little over 2 lbs. The average size of the fish were much better than normal. I culled hard because I have plenty of fish in the freezer and only kept 3 that were between 10 and 11 inches (due to deep hooking). The rest were good solid fish! :D They were also very aggressive with some awesome thumps! Several times I thought I had a big Sandie or Black Bass on and it turned out to be a pig Crappie! Now them are surprises I like.

I also hooked several gar, but thankfully all three spit the jig out before I had to go postal on 'em. One was about 4 foot long

Here's a couple of my 14 inch friends getting ready for a nap in the freezer.

Just got back from Eufaula. Only caught a few crappie because it was too darn HOT! We decided to put some jug lines in and caught about 30 catfish. 20 of those were keepers...blues and channel cats. Smallest one was 5 inches long and largest were blue cats about 26-28 inches long. (Three of those!)

Caught some guys helping themselves to our jug lines on Saturday night. They had turned off their boat lights. We were sitting on the dock and heard the boat, but couldn't see it. It was about 2:30 or 3:00 a.m. After they had hit the 7 jugs closest to us, they turned on their lights and we saw them head off toward our other jugs around the point. Took us a few minutes to figure out what they had done. My brother and nephew jumped in the boat to see where they went. They had already cleaned one of the jug lines and were stopped at the second when our boat came around the point and headed toward them. They took off quickly and left the area.

It really doesn't cost much to make a jug line or bait it. I just don't understand why some people would steal other people's fish. On Friday night, someone took five of our jugs a long way away from where we put them. No way could they float against the current. We found them on Saturday morning after looking for 2 hours.

If we hadn't stayed up that late, we would have never known some low-lifes were running our jug lines. Boy, that was a long night. Finally went to sleep at 4:00 a.m. and back up by 7:00 to run lines.

You know, at least the low-lifes could have rebaited our hooks after they took the fish! :D:D

Anybody catch any crappie this past weekend?
Peke

Peke, your braver than I am! I stayed home this weekend, like I do most holiday's. I let the crazies have the lake for a few days. Glad to hear you caught some fish!

Those were some scumbags alright! Some people are just lazy and want to just run other peoples gear, take the fish and move on. One of the best things you can do is get their registration number on the side of their boat and report them. I know, hard to do at night, but a 1 Mil or better candlepower spotlight will help you keep up with 'em!

I've gone to strictly using floating jug lines. I don't anchor mine up any longer. I just pick 'em up and go when I'm done. You can get some night sticks and tape them or insert them into foam jugs for night time. Nighttime juggin' can be loads of fun, especially when you see a foam jug with a night stick on it scooting away from you!

Made it home last night about 11...talk about awesome holiday lake weather....can't remember a nicer one....caught around 300 crappie Friday night and saturday...around half would have been keeps for most...around 60 were 11 inches and bigger....Couldn't get them to bite much on Sunday....Caught around another 50 or so on Monday...all from my dock on pink/white/black, red/chart, and cajun cricket...the cajun cricket did the best....I made a run to blocker bridge on saturday but only caught 5...figured I would head back to the dock where they were biting...drove the boat over to the concert sunday night and wow....let me just say that those spotlights aren't just used to find jug lines!!!!!!!....all in all ....pretty darn good trip!

We fished last night from 10:00-2:00am and had 27 keepers. We were fishing with minnows 10-12 ft deep in 45 fow. The fish were 10-14 inches. We had two green lights down around 10 ft and some flood lights around the boat for seeing poles. It was really nice last night around 74 degrees. We got tired of catching them so we left. We also caught a ton of smaller crappie and sand bass. 25 were black crappie and 2 white crappie. 14 inch white was the biggest.

Okie Don, what do you mean floating jug lines? I use the pool noodles with 4-5 hooks on the line and a small weight at the bottom. They float with the current so we really have to keep an eye on where they are going. Is it the same thing?

Also, what are night sticks and where do I find them? Glow in the dark? We tried reflective tape, but you still need a spotlight to find them at night. Shoot, I have to make it easy for the low-lifes to run my jugs for me! LOL Thanks,

Peke

Originally Posted by peke

Okie Don, what do you mean floating jug lines? I use the pool noodles with 4-5 hooks on the line and a small weight at the bottom. They float with the current so we really have to keep an eye on where they are going. Is it the same thing?

Yeah, it's real close to the way I jugline. I only use 2 hooks per line. I don't like a lot of hooks around me when I'm trying to get a big Cat in the boat. I generally use a 2 to 4 ounce weight on the bottom of the line.

Also, what are night sticks and where do I find them? Glow in the dark? We tried reflective tape, but you still need a spotlight to find them at night. Shoot, I have to make it easy for the low-lifes to run my jugs for me! LOL Thanks,

Peke

Glowsticks or nightlights like these are what I'm talking about.

Glowsticks

But I prefer these 8 inch glowsticks and I can get them in a box of 100.

You can insert smaller glowsticks into the foam or tape them on. I generally tape them most of the time, but Wild Wolf's jugs have a place to insert the sticks.

OkieDon, Thanks! I think I will order some of those glow sticks for the next time I go fishing.

I can see that having 5 hooks would not be good if we caught a really big catfish. Most of the ones we catch are 15 - 20 lbs. Don't know what we'd do with a bigger catfish!

I am also buying some of the 1.5" glow sticks for rod tips.

Peke