Thread: Keystone Lake Report 2018

We've been catching them on keystone, anywhere from 3 1/2- 15 foot deep. Some males have had slightly bloody tails. Catching on the banks, and at the docks, not right on the bank but about 20 foot out, and 4 ft down, in 6-8 FOW. Everyone has been doing pretty good at the dock in manford, left with 15 good ones Friday, couple others had the same or more. It's almost here guys!

Anyone have any pointers or reports for Keystone? I am taking my boat and my two nephews on Friday. I have never had a boat on Keystone so I’m going in blind. I will be meeting to pick them up around Mannford. I would really like to put them on some fish and look like a hero. Lol. Thanks!

Originally Posted by trider

Anyone have any pointers or reports for Keystone?

If I was going to Key, I'd message Josh on fb he'd be the one to know.

https://www.facebook.com/josh.jones.359126

This may be too late to help out trider but I agree with Lonnie84 that Josh Jones has Keystone dialed in right now. For 3 years he has tried to get me to fall in love with The Dead Sea and around the first of May I decided to finally give the lake an honest effort. Josh went to a great deal of effort to send me maps taking me from one hot spot to the next and included enough details to put me right on the fish without getting lost in the process. First day out I went alone ( because I didn’t have much confidence) and was culling fish by early afternoon. I haven’t caught fish that big this close to home ever! The next 5 trips I took to Keystone I took guys who love fishing but never really get to go- they are worse at it than I am! And every trip we all caught our limits (usually by noon) and sang my buddies praises all the way home because each time I went he gave me more locations to try and EVERY STOP PRODUCED! We fished brushpiles in coves and open water, docks of course because that’s primary cover on Keystone, bridge pilings, culverts, derricks and shoreline and caught fat healthy females popping with eggs everywhere. Even did what I never do- picked up my son Crappiefool41 after work and kept 43 bigguns in 3.5 hours. Like many successful guides Fabio stirs up his share of detractors and even a few haters I think but this is what I’ve learned about him. He is a weird guy who just loves putting people on fish-teaching people new techniques with the latest technology or using methods he learned when he was a little kid fishing with his dad. I have honey holes that I swallow hard before I share em with family but this oddball draws me maps leading me right to his! Sorry- didn’t intend to make this a JJ appreciation rant but when we run into someone this good at what he does who is this helpful maybe it’s ok to give em a little shout out. I hate slowing down to take pictures but I’ll share a few.


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The picture with Claude holding up two 12” fish is deceiving. I had buried 4 fish between 1.68-1.79 lbs under 70 nice but not newsworthy crappie and I didn’t feel like digging em out for a picture. Kept this 10.78 lb buffalo to feed to one of my pets and to show my grandkids how awesome I am. Made me a believer in Viscous 6 lb test hi vis mono- man that thing was a puller!


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Keep those pictures comin', Cc. And nice comments about JJ. I almost called you for advice this weekend, since we were at Skiatook, but graduation and graduation parties kept us pretty busy. We did catch at a few at Skiatook Saturday AM when fishing with a friend of the son-in-law.

Good job CC and a the nice comments on Josh Jones.