Beautiful lake with the potential for your best day ever or complete suckitude. I fished it last year about a month after all the spring rains. Maybe we should have waited another couple weeks, but the bass in there were under complete lock jaw. Now there were a couple of exceptions, with one of the bass being a big, fat beauty. The lake can be extremely tough. Agree with waiting a few weeks for the lake and water to stabilize. I have the suspicion that the bass in there prefer clearer water, and get severe lock jaw after muddy rains.
Beautiful lake with the potential for your best day ever or complete suckitude. I fished it last year about a month after all the spring rains. Maybe we should have waited another couple weeks, but the bass in there were under complete lock jaw. Now there were a couple of exceptions, with one of the bass being a big, fat beauty. The lake can be extremely tough. Agree with waiting a few weeks for the lake and water to stabilize. I have the suspicion that the bass in there prefer clearer water, and get severe lock jaw after muddy rains.
I went about the same time, probably a couple weeks before you and the fishing was fantastic, it sucked them close to cover up shallow
I fished it with CCTX, we caught some of the most pitiful, skinniest, sickliest looking fish I've ever seen anywhere. I'm not kidding, some of them looked like they had been filleted and had survived, largemouth and smallmouth. And then a toad that was as healthy as can be. I want to go back in the dead of winter, looks like a jerkbait/a-rig lake.
I fished it with CCTX, we caught some of the most pitiful, skinniest, sickliest looking fish I've ever seen anywhere. I'm not kidding, some of them looked like they had been filleted and had survived, largemouth and smallmouth. And then a toad that was as healthy as can be. I want to go back in the dead of winter, looks like a jerkbait/a-rig lake.
chatterbait, redeye shad, jigs and crankbaits.
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Beautiful lake with the potential for your best day ever or complete suckitude. I fished it last year about a month after all the spring rains. Maybe we should have waited another couple weeks, but the bass in there were under complete lock jaw. Now there were a couple of exceptions, with one of the bass being a big, fat beauty. The lake can be extremely tough. Agree with waiting a few weeks for the lake and water to stabilize. I have the suspicion that the bass in there prefer clearer water, and get severe lock jaw after muddy rains.
I went about the same time, probably a couple weeks before you and the fishing was fantastic, it sucked them close to cover up shallow
I’ll have to revise my theory. They did have the gates way open and the water level was dropping pretty quickly back to normal pool from 15ft high three weeks prior.
We went to Arbuckle because it was the most northern lake in Oklahoma at the time that wasn’t 30ft above pool
I fished Murray on Sunday and they were biting. Nothing big but caught between 30 to 40 on crankbaits. I might fish Arbuckle this weekend and if anyone has a condition report, it would be helpful.
Only time I've fished up there i helped my buddy find some spots and a couple days later get a picture of one over 10 he caught on my rod and football jig!
I fished Murray on Sunday and they were biting. Nothing big but caught between 30 to 40 on crankbaits. I might fish Arbuckle this weekend and if anyone has a condition report, it would be helpful.
front coming thru fri afternoon with rain, sat/sun look to be pretty tough on arbuckle. fished it for years, post front on that lake can have a huge case of the suckola.
" Hop, set the hook"! hopalong 99,999 TexDawg 99,999 FJB! not my president by a long shot!
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