Thread: Lake Eufaula archives

Started out yesterday morning at Gentry Creek fishing the culverts. Caught a few dinks but nothing worth keeping. Gave up just as the storms arrived. Got home, at lunch and took a nap. Woke up and Wife said it was clearing and wanted to go fishing.

Buddy called shortly after and wanted to go also. I said how about some night fishing on Graves creek and everyone was for that.

Got to Graves about 5 O'Clock. Water at the ramp was muddy from the rain, but it hadn't made it all the way down the creek. We tied up near the mouth of the creek and immediately started catching some small males.

The water temp was 63 to 67. We were fishing inside bends wherever we could find brush in 10 to 15 of water. A lot of people were fishing the buck brush that extends out over the deeper water, but weren't catching anything. When I'd go over the same spots, I could see no brush below them. It seemed like the key was that there had to be brush on the bottom.

We were catching the fish from 2 to 6 feet over 10 to 15 fow.

The best bite came the last hour of the day and the first 30 minutes of dark (when you had to have a light to see) In that short amount of time we landed several big females.

The bite shut off about 30 minutes after dark. We stayed a little longer and didn't catch anything for a while so we called it quits. It also seemed like the current had picked up and the muddy water from the upper creek was finally making it's way down. This may have been the cause for them to stop biting.

We ended the night with 10 good sized Crappie up to 1.7 pounds.

We were back at 8 a.m. this morning. The entire creek was really muddy. We found some more submerged brush near where we fished the previous night.

Tried nearly every color jig but they preferred minnows, and Rosie's at that.

Fish were really slow and we tried several areas. None were solid producers and had to leave at 3 p.m. We took home 7 average sized fish with an exceptional one weighing 1.11 pounds. At about the same time this ole girl hit me, my buddy had one bite him that went 1.3 pounds.

Water temp was 60 when we started in the a.m. and had jumped to 71 near the mouth when we left. It was 63 back at the ramp. Can't understand why we weren't killing them on the banks...or anywhere else for that matter. Didn't see anyone else catching many either and a lot of people were leaving when we did.

Wife sit in the back of the boat and caught a few and snapped this photo on her phone.



Seems there has to be a wise acre in every bunch!

We fished yesterday evening from 3:30-Dark and had 40. Our biggest fish was 6 over 14 inches and 2 over 15 inches. We were spider-rigging jigs in 4-6 fow, fishing 3-4ft feet deep. We lost as many as we caught and a few more over 13 inches. There were people wading the buck brush and flippin corks and jigs and evryone was catching fish. The water temps were 64.8 degrees, perfect spawning temps. EB