Thread: Lake Eufaula archives

Congratulations, Fishing a good way to stay healthy!

Minnowtime; Thats how you do it! Keep moving using a search bait to cover water and eventually your going to find fish on the banks somewhere. Dont pay any attention to the crowds, most of e'm are just gettin a tan anyhow! I always say after a day of hard fishing if I didn't find them it's not for lack of trying.

I usually see several anchored up and bobbers everywhere. Playing the waiting game like that can be unproductive this time of year. Move along till you find some, then fish like heck.

Here is the report for the weekend. The water temps. ranged from 59-64 degrees. We caught 61 keepers saturday and 67 keepers sunday. We Spider-rigged 3-5ft in 4-10ft of water. We had about 30 keepers get off on sunday. What was weird is that we caught several fish in the bottom lip and outside the mouth. Don't know if the were not biting it well or that we were fishing a little below them. I also had a buddy fishing the bank they had 137 keepers on saturday fishing 6inches to 1ft deep doodle-socking. We caught all of our fish on beaver-tails, vibra-king tubes, and 3' slabslayers tipped with minnows. The colers were white silver-flake and chart and Lime-Chart. Good fishing. EB

Just a note that it is beginning to pick up the pace on the north end of the lake. A buddy and I kept 53 big crappie yesterday from the Gentry Creek area. Probably caught 80-90 fish total. Highest water temp was 57 and we pounded slab females and males in 12" to 4' of water.

Originally Posted by rednchartreuse

Just a note that it is beginning to pick up the pace on the north end of the lake. A buddy and I kept 53 big crappie yesterday from the Gentry Creek area. Probably caught 80-90 fish total. Highest water temp was 57 and we pounded slab females and males in 12" to 4' of water.

Thanks for the update! I been wanting to go back to my old wadin areas up there to see how big the males are runnin this year...any 15"-16" ers? Has that end got a Deep Fork stain on it? Thanks for the info. The Rippers.

Yes the good 'ol Eufaula "Fat Backs" as I call em. Had 3 males in this class but the majority of our really big fish were females. I went out Thursday evening and fished two creeks and one bank of the main lake hoping it was time but didn't get a bite. Took the boat yesterday started in 8' of water with minimal luck, moved shallow and BAM. I like being there when the are moving in makes the last 3 trips of getting skunked shallow worth the effort.

Yeah, with the weather stabilizing about the only thing to run e'm off the banks will be the Corps dropping the lake. We are pre-fishing Wed. for a Thur. guide trip, will post results Wed. night.