Hefner: Elevation 3 ft. below normal, water 76 degrees. Channel catfish are being caught at 4 to 8 ft. on the west side of the dam on cut shad. White bass are being caught on the north east side of the lake. Oklahoma City will be observing Free Fishing Days.
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Thunderbird: Elevation 5 ft. below normal and clear. White bass good early mornings off points on minnows, jigs and spinners. Largemouth bass good in coves with structure at 3 to 5 ft. on tandem spinners, medium divers and plastic worms. Crappie have slowed down and moved to deeper water, but can still be caught on minnows and jigs at 5 to 7 ft. around structure. Saugeye fair to good early and late day on green jigs and medium divers off points. Catfish are starting to bite fair late evening and night time on stinkbait, minnows and cut baits.
Wes Watkins: Elevation 2 to 2½ ft. below normal, water 74 to 82 degrees and murky in creek areas and clear in the middle of the lake. Catfish good on chicken livers, worms, minnows and shrimp shallow. Crappie are being caught on minnows and jigs along Fishmarket roadbed area at 8 to 10 ft. around structures. White bass fair to good while trolling with diving crankbaits. Largemouth bass fair on assorted dark-colored soft plastics and tubes early morning and evening.
NORTHEAST Bell Cow: Elevation 2 ft. below normal, water 71 degrees and murky. White bass good on minnows and jigs off the fishing dock. Channel catfish good on stinkbait. Crappie good on minnows and jigs.
Birch: Elevation lake is ½ ft. below normal lake level and clear. Crappie fair off the docks on minnows and jigs. Catfish good in the creek channel and near the flats on cut fish and shad. Striped bass hybrids good on live shad. Largemouth bass fair in the lake and in the creek on plastic baits.
Carl Blackwell: Elevation normal, water 78 and murky. Largemouth bass fair on plastic baits and crankbaits. Striped bass hybrids fair trolling with crankbaits. Channel catfish excellent on punch bait and cut bait around rock structure. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs at 12 to 15 ft. Saugeye fair trolling with crankbaits.
Copan: Elevation normal and murky. Gates below the dam are closed. Catfish good on juglines or trotlines using cut shad. Crappie slow but still biting on minnows.
Eucha: Elevation 6 ft. below normal, water 77 degrees and clear. Crappie good on minnows and jigs around brush and structure at 6 to 10 ft. Largemouth good on Carolina-rigged plastic baits off rocky points. Catfish good using shad and night crawlers. Bluegill good on crickets and worm in coves.
Fort Gibson: Elevation 3½ ft. above normal, water 78 degrees and clear. Largemouth bass good on spinnerbaits, doughbaits and soft baits in. flooded grass and timber. White bass good on spoons and white, silver, gray and chartreuse twister tails. Channel catfish good on cut bait, shad, worms and liver.
Grand: Elevation normal and murky. Crappie fair to good at 10 to 15 ft around brush piles and fishing docks on minnows and jigs. Channel and blue catfish fair in the river channel on cut or whole shad. White bass being caught around rocky gravel points and near mouth of lake tributaries.
Kaw: Elevation 3 ft. above normal, water 78 degrees and stained. Channel and blue catfish are good around riprap at 2 to 5 ft. on worms, shrimp, and stinkbait. Flathead catfish fair on juglines and trotlines baited with live bait. White bass fair trolling crankbaits at 10 to 20 ft.
Oologah: Elevation 3 ft. above normal and falling, water in the 70 degree range and murky to the south and muddy to the north. Channel and blue catfish fair on juglines baited with shad at 10 to 15 ft. Channel catfish fair on worms along rocky banks in the Winganon area. White bass fair trolling shad colored lures on flats at 10 to 15 ft. Channel and blue catfish fair on shad below the dam.
Sooner: Elevation 1½ ft. below normal, water 74 degrees and clear. Striped bass and striped bass hybrids good on live shad on mid-lake humps at 23 to 33 ft. Largemouth bass good using shad-colored soft baits on jigs.
Sooner: Water 80 degrees and clear. Largemouth bass good on buzzbaits early and late around weed beds and good on Carolina rigs in weed beds. Striped bass hybrids good in main lake on live shad at 15 to 20 ft.
Tenkiller: Elevation ½ ft. above normal, water 74 degrees and clear. Largemouth bass slow some action on gravel points drop offs. Crappie fair around brush piles on tube jigs or roadrunner jigs midday. Catfish fair 15 to 18 ft. on points with stinkbaits and drifting the flats with cut baits. Sunfish good around docks on worms.
NORTHWEST Canton: Elevation normal. Channel catfish excellent along the dam on live bait and stinkbait. Walleye good drifting night crawlers over submerged islands. White bass and striped bass hybrids good trolling crankbaits.
Fort Supply: Elevation normal and clear. Channel catfish good on liver and worms and stinkbait at 1 to 3 ft. in shallow water along the edges of the lake.
Great Salt Plains: Channel catfish fair to good on trotlines using shad or grasshoppers and fair in the spillway area on shad and stinkbait. Flathead catfish are slow in the stilling basin using a cast master lure or storm shad lure.
SOUTHEAST Broken Bow: Elevation normal, water mid-70's and clear. Largemouth bass good on Carolina and Texas-rigged dark soft plastics along points. Crappie fair around the north end of the lake by Holly Creek on minnows and jigs around standing timber. Walleye good on Carolina rigged soft plastics between Egypt creek south to the dam midday and after dark on jigs.
Eufaula: Elevation 1½ ft. and clear. Largemouth bass good on plastic baits at 2 to 6 ft. along the rocks. White bass good on jigs at 4 to 10 ft. around bridges. Blue catfish good on shrimp at 2 to 6 ft. along rocks. Crappie fair on jigs at 8 to 15 ft. around brush.
Hugo: Elevation 2 ft. above normal, water 74 degrees and murky. Largemouth bass fair on spinnerbaits. Crappie fair on live minnows. Channel catfish fair on cut bait.
Konawa: Elevation normal, water 83 degrees and clear. Largemouth bass good on topwater lures at 5 ft. in weed beds. Channel catfish good on shad in the south coves at 5 to 10 ft.
McGee Creek: Elevation 1 ft. above normal, water 75 degrees and clear. Largemouth bass fair on soft plastic lures and spinners at 2 to 6 ft. in upper end of lake around standing timber. Channel catfish fair on jugs with live bait along rocky points and riprap.
Lower Mountain Fork River: Water is clear and cool, the powerhouse has been active during most afternoons. The predominant insects have been midges, ants, grasshoppers, and a few caddis and mayflies. There have been some really massive midge hatches lately, and flies imitating these insects have been producing well, if you are capable of fishing tiny flies on fine leaders. Zone 2 continues to be a challenge, but there were some anglers who did quite well in that area of the river.
Murray: Water 73 degrees and clear. Largemouth bass and smallmouth bass good on crankbaits, soft plastics and worms. White bass good on jigs and crankbaits. Channel catfish fair on stinkbait. Crappie fair on minnows.
Pine Creek: Elevation above normal and clear. Crappie good on jigs around submerged timber at 10 to 12 ft. Channel catfish good on night crawlers in the upper end of the lake in creek channels. Bass fair on crankbaits around rocky points and some success has been reported on "brush hog lures" around points as well. Sunfish are also becoming more active around the old bridge and in lower portion of the lake around the campgrounds on red worms.
Robert S. Kerr: Elevation normal, water 78 degrees and murky. Largemouth bass fair at 6 to 8 ft. using plastic baits and crankbaits fishing the riprap areas around the lake. Crappie fair at 10 ft. using minnows fishing the edge of the old creek channels of Dirty, Sallisaw and Big San Bois creeks. White bass good at 10 ft. using jigs and crankbaits in the Applegate Cove area. Blue and flathead catfish good at 3 to 6 ft. using fresh cut bait and live bait fishing the rocky areas around the lake.
Sardis Lake: Elevation normal and slightly murky to the south. Catfish good on cut bait. Bass fair on weed beds. Crappie good around bridges on minnows. White bass good trolling.
Texoma: Elevation normal, water 75 degrees and clear. Largemouth bass fair to good on plastic baits at 10 to 15 ft. around points. White bass and striped bass good on sassy shad and live shad at 15 to 25 ft. at Burns Run. Channel and blue catfish fair to good on cut shad at 15 to 20 ft. above the Hwy. 70 bridge and Washita River. Crappie fair to good on minnows and jigs at 10 to 15 ft. East Burns Run and Rock Creek.
SOUTHWEST Altus-Lugert: Elevation 13½ ft. below normal and murky. Lake level is dropping very slowly. North shore boat ramp is high and dry. Crappie are being caught on minnows. Striped bass hybrids and white bass good. Catfish have been biting on shad. Walleye are fair to good.
Fort Cobb: Elevation normal. Catfish fair on cut baits. Saugeye fair drifting night crawlers.
Waurika: Elevation below normal, water 70 degrees and murky. White bass good on jigs and shad off windy points. Catfish good on juglines or trotlines baited with shad and goldfish. Striped bass hybrids excellent on shad and jigs in deep water. Crappie slow.
