Thread: Oologah Archives

I had been couped around here long enough. It'd been nearly two weeks since I went fishin'. Since I'd been hearing good reports from Oologah, I headed that way after dropping my daughter off at school yesterday (left the boat at home due to the wind). Made it to Spencer Creek around 9 a.m. Since I'm not familiar with that area, I just drove around until I found a place that "looked good". Which happened to be the North side of the cover where the swimming beach is located.

Started casting with a 1/16th oz RoadRunner that had the bronze willow leaf blade, red hook, chrt head/greenish body/yellow tail. Had a hit on the 3rd cast and on the 5th, nailed a little 10" male at the bank. Didn't get another bite for a while so started trying different colored jibs. Finally started getting bit on a 1/8th oz SlabDaddy jig with an orange head/black body/chrt tail fished 1 foot beneath a cork. My technique for the day was to throw parallel to the bank, upwind, and let the wind push my cork/jig along until I got bit. Seemed to work better than using a steady slow retrieve. My guess is those Males couldn't stand that orange headed monster bobbing around them!

Kept working that bank and bringing in a fish now and then. Not anything huge except for the 14 1/4" Sow I pulled in right after landing a 13 3/4" male from the same spot. Rolled up 2 other big ones right where I caught these two, but that tiny hook came out and they lived another day Most fish were the 10 to 12" males.

People on the other side of the bank were doing about the same. Looked like most of them were fishing with minnows. Saw a lot of them leave early.

Stopped a little after 1p.m. with 17 keepers and probably that many throwbacks. The bite seemed to die off after noon. Most of the fish didn't hit real hard. In fact, it was a little hard to detect bites with the wind the way it was.

Since I wasn't in the boat, I don't know how deep it was or what the water temp was, but I imagine the depth was around 2 to 3 feet. Only four females out of the bunch. All had eggs and they didn't even look like they were ready.

Im new to fishing Oolagah (new to the area), where is the best boat ramp to use to access these creeks and where is the best place to get bait? My wife and I will be coming up Saturday from the Skiatook/Collinsville area. Hopefully looking to finally catch a fish or two! We moved here in January and have had little to no luck so far from the bank - but we finally got our boat finished and are looking forward to getting on the lake. Thanks guys, I appreciate the help!

fished south end of oologah yesterday and ended up with 35 keepers threw back about 12 .all caught 0n minnows. had a fun time, tried to drag for a walleye with no luck.most fish were black males and the only whites i caught were females with still under developed eggs.

I made it out after work last night for about 3 hours. I fished any shallow brush I could find in 5 to 8 feet of water and ended up with 39 keepers. Every last one was female and they were exploding with eggs. We caught some really good ones and through back a bunch of little ones too. We started with minnows but when they ran out we switched to jigs and did just as well. We used Yum beavertails in black and chartruese and black and pink. It was good to get out and get into them, unfortunately I think this cold weather will jack them up again.

Me and a friend went out day before yesterday. We started at the Winganon riprap with our long rods. We fished for about 30 minutes and couldn't get a bite. We jumped in the truck and went to Kaw and got there around 1230/1300. We started fishing the Kaw riprap with the same technique. HOLY COW!!! Did we hit the jackpot! It was fish on about every 60 seconds! A mix of males and big fat females with a few small throwbacks. We were filling our stringers up fast and it was a good thing, because suddenly the sky turned black and lightening started crackling as the storm set in. We grabbed our fish and ran for the truck, getting completely soaked in the process! It was worth it! When we got to the truck it was right at right at 1500. We threw the fish on ice and headed home in the rain. When we got home we realized we had 72 keepers! Now that was some fun fishing! A Super Shad T-BONE JIG was absolutely deadly!

Hit up Oologah yesteday and beared the cold wind. Fished from about 2 till dark and ended up with 14. I had several bites that just didnt take it, they were there but I assume they just werent that hungry due to the cold front. Caught them all in 2' or less. Some were super shallow like in 6" of water. The wind was brutal and spent half the time battling that.

Anyone been up to Spencer Creek since the rain ? Good reports were just starting to come in for

the crappie for the bank fishermen. Wonder if they are still in there ?

This morning, Dinobot took me up on my offer to take him out on Oologah. We met at Vada Point ramp at 5:30 a.m. and headed right out to my "go to" spawn spot. By 11 a.m., we had a count of 44 keepers and I had to give Ranger09 and Stinkfinger a call to see how the tourney bite was going. Neither reported doing so hot. Called Odie too, but got his voice mail and left a message saying that 09 and Stink were tearing them up and him and EB best be bringing in some good fish.RoflRoflRofl I had told Ranger09 and Stinkfinger that since trailing the boat was ok in the tourney, they needed to trailer it up to where Dinobot and I were, then trailer back to win.:rolleyes:

Dinobot and I were using jigs and minnows. Half lb of minnows ran low by noon and we went to jigs with me catching one every now and then with the remaining minnows. Dinobot whipped out the electric chicken and started catching some nice fish in the 14" to 15" range. He caught all of the bigger fish for the day while my biggest might have been close to 14". We gave it up around 4 because he had a graduation to catch this evening. The bite had slowed down considerably where we were which is normal Oologah spawn activity but we stayed in the same place till an hour before we left.

54 keepers was the final tally on my counter and I'm sure I forgot to click a few. All fish were caught in 6" to 36" of water with varying depths below the bobber. We both missed some really nice fish, but Scott had two or three on in the 16" range that got off. I had the pleasure of meeting a new friend and catching a whole bunch of nice Crappie. He has an open invite to wander this direction in the future. As promised, I made him keep all the fish and it seemed fine with him. Maybe next time, we'll get to sit over some brush and do some serious tight line jigging. I look forward to it.

I'm happy he took me up on the chance to join me in catching some Oologah Crappie, 2011 has been a fantastic year so far, I hope it keeps up. Oologah has been very good to me since last summer, it's rare that I can't find some nice fish.

Thanks for joining me Scott!