Fishing report for week of Oct. 25, 2009

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Published: October 30, 2009

CENTRAL

Draper: Due to pump failure and the lake’s small watershed lake elevation is below normal. Boat access to the lake is poor and a longer walk to bank fish. The main fishing docks are still floating. One boat ramp is barely usable.

Overholser: Elevation 3 to 5 ft. below normal, water clear. Striped bass hybrids fair. Blue catfish fair on stinkbait and cut bait. Crappie fair. All other fishing fair.

NORTHEAST

Copan: Elevation above normal, water clear. Crappie good on minnows and jigs near submerged structure 6 to 8 ft. Catfish slow below the dam on chicken liver and cut shad.

Eucha: Elevation slightly above normal, water 58 degrees and dingy. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs at 12 to 14 ft. around brush and structure. Largemouth bass fair on spinnerbaits. White bass fair on rooster tails.

Fort Gibson: Elevation 9 3/4 ft. above normal, water stained. Catfish being caught on night crawlers and shrimp in the mouths of the creeks tight lining on the bottom. Largemouth bass fair on crankbaits and spinnerbaits at 10 to 12 ft. around underwater structure. White bass slow jigging swim baits or spoons around structure.

Greenleaf: Elevation normal, water clear. Largemouth bass fair on spinnerbaits, crankbaits and jig and worm. Catfish fair on fresh cut bait on bottom around the spillway and up creek channels. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs around fishing docks and brush structure.

Hulah: Elevation above normal, water murky. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs at 8 to 10 ft. near submerged structure. Catfish fair on worms and cut shad below the dam.

Lower Illinois: Elevation above normal, water 56 degrees and muddy. Largemouth bass slow on topwater lures all along the river in weed beds, coves and mouths of creeks. Striped bass slow on live bait at 1 to 2 ft. below Gore Landing. Channel catfish good on cut bait on bottom all along the river. Trout slow on flies at the surface, on rooster tails at 1 to 2 ft. and on power bait on bottom from the dam to Gore Landing.

Oologah: Elevation 4 ft. above normal, water upper 60 degrees and muddy. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs at 10 to 15 ft. around brush piles. Channel catfish and blue catfish good on livers at 10 to 15 ft around the north end of the lake. Crappie and white bass fair on jigs below the dam.

Skiatook: Elevation normal, water 50 degrees and clear. Largemouth bass good on crankbaits and spinnerbaits around rocky banks. Crappie good on minnows and pink and white jigs at 10 to 15 ft. around brush.

Sooner: Striped bass hybrids fair on live shad and slabs. Catfish fair on cut and live bait around points and channels. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs around brush piles.

Spavinaw: Elevation 1/2 ft. above normal, water 56 degrees and dingy. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs around the dam area. Largemouth bass fair on spinnerbaits.

Tenkiller: Elevation 5 3/4 ft. above normal, water clear and steady. Largemouth bass fair on soft bass jigs in shallow water and on crankbaits in 8 to 10 ft. Crappie fair minnows, tube jigs or feathered jigs at 10 to 15 ft. in docks. Sunfish good on worms at 10 to 15 ft. in or around docks.

Webbers Falls: Elevation 3 ft. above normal, water murky. Largemouth bass fair on spinnerbaits and crankbaits along riprap and creek channels. Catfish good on fresh cut bait on bottom. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs at 16 ft. around brush structure and bridges.

NORTHWEST

Canton: Elevation 1 ft. below normal. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs near brush piles along the dam.

Great Salt Plains: The fishery is recovering and anglers are catching walleye and channel catfish.

SOUTHEAST

Arbuckle: Elevation 2 ft above normal and dropping, water 65 degrees. Crappie being caught on white/chartreuse jigs around docks and brush piles. White bass being caught on spoons at 18 ft. off creek channels.

Blue River: Elevation 2 to 3 inches above normal, water 57 degrees and murky. Bass slow to fair on minnows and flies. Catfish fair to good on liver and worms.

Broken Bow: Largemouth bass good on rapalas at 8 to 10 ft. Walleye being caught on crawdad colored crankbaits and jigs around points and structure in the main body of the lake with the new moon phase.

Eufaula: Elevation 4 ft. above normal, water murky. Largemouth bass fair on plastic baits around submerged rocks. White bass good on jigs below the dam. Blue catfish good on fresh shad below the dam. Crappie fair on jigs around boat docks.

Hugo: Elevation 10 ft. above normal. Blue catfish good below the dam on cut shad and liver.

Konawa: Elevation normal, water 58 degrees and clear. Largemouth bass good on crankbaits at 5 to 10 ft. around points. White bass and striped bass hybrids fair on minnows and jigs at 15 ft. in the discharge canal.

McGee Creek: Elevation 7 ft. above normal, water 68 degrees and murky. Channel catfish fair to good on stinkbait and blood bait.

Pine Creek: Elevation above normal, water murky. Bass fair on crankbaits around creek mouths. Catfish fair on trotlines with cut shad at 12 to 18 ft.

Sardis Lake: Elevation 1 1/2 ft. above normal, water mid 60 degrees . Largemouth bass good on spinnerbaits up the creeks. Crappie good on minnows and jigs in the timber. Channel catfish fair on juglines with cut bait in the main lake.

Texoma: Elevation 2 ft. above normal, water 68 degrees and clear south and murky north. Largemouth and smallmouth bass fair to good in the south part of the lake. Striped and white bass fair to good from Catfish Bay to the south. Channel and blue catfish fair to good from Catfish Bay north. Crappie fair to good in the oxbow lakes with clear water. Sunfish good around the fishing docks.

Wister: Elevation 10 ft. above normal, water murky. Largemouth bass good on soft plastic worms and spinnerbaits. Crappie fair on small spinnerbaits, minnows and pink jigs. Channel and blue catfish fair on juglines with cut shad and liver.

SOUTHWEST

Altus-Lugert: Elevation 24 1/3 ft. below normal and steady. Striped bass hybrids good. Catfish fair to good.

Foss: Elevation 2 ft. below normal and gates closed, water 65 degrees and clear. Striped bass hybrids fair. Walleye fair on slabs. Catfish good. White bass fair.