Fishing on Skiatook...

Mike and I went fishing at Skiatook on October 11, 2007.

The water clarity was about 3' where we fished. The surface water temperature was 73 - 74 degrees.

We fished from about 10am until around 2:30pm.

We were mainly fishing creek channel bends but one area that we did fish was a point that had a creek channel that swung in close to it.

The pattern for the day was a ¼ ounce shaky head set up with a Strike King 7" finesse worm. The color was green pumpkin.

The fish that we caught were right where the bank dropped off into the creek channels in about 18' of water. The fish were fairly agressive, eatting the shaky worm almost completely.

If you are not familiar with the shaky head rig, you need to get "The Bass Pros Season 1" at Bass Pro. The first of the eleven chapters has a segment where KVD tells you about the shaky head rig...

Went fishing yesterday...

I was able to get out and do some fishing yesterday. I caught several schooling fish and then found a school of fish at one of my regular fishing spots. I anchored out from various angles and caught fish from each angle. Once they quit biting from fishing one angle I would just reposition the boat and cast from a different angle.

I used a shaky head worm, wacky worm, 6" swim bait, 10" worm, creature baits, flukes, etc. This is the first day in some time that I have caught over 15 fish in a day and I put out at daylight and quit about 10:30am when I had a phone call that I needed to go home to get the information.

Reminder to myself, always turn the cell phone off when you are going fishing...