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...

Skiatook...

Long_Mike and I went to Skiatook on Sunday, September 16, 2007. This trip was more towards getting his boat to running better by running some StarTron through the fuel system and to decide just how far his trailer needed to be in the water for him to load the boat the easiest way.

I did take 2 rods, and some tackle with us to fish a little while the StarTron was soaking into the gum and varnish in his carbs and fuel system. The last trip we went on, his boat would not idle at all. When we loaded his boat on Sunday, the boat was idleling just fine.

We did decide on the proper depth that his trailer needed to be at for him to load his boat the easiest using the bunk boards to control how far left and right the boat went onto the trailer.

We are going to go out again after the StarTron has soaked his carbs and fuel system to see if the motor doesn't run even better.

We discovered that his tach was off. I had told him that it sure didn't sound like the motor was running at 1100 rpm when the tach was showing 1100 rpm. Sure enough when I tapped on the tach the rpms went down. So, when we take the boat out again we will set the idle by sound unless he gets a new tach.

I believe there are a few things going on with his motor. I think that they floats and needles are gummed up and not pivoting correctly. I am hoping that this week the StarTron will dissolve a lot of this gum and varnish out of his floats and around his needles. Making it easier for the fuel to flow through his carbs. I am also thinking that the motor is trying to idle at around 500 rpms and not turning enough rpms for the engine to idle.

The next time we go out, I will reset his idle to where the boat will idle and him not have to bump the throttle to keep the motor idleing.

While at Skiatook, the water was pretty dirty. The visibility was about a foot or just a little more than a foot. This was my first time on Skiatook to actually fish so I was not prepared for the water to be that stained. I was thinking that Skiatook was a lot clearer lake than that. We did have quite a bit of rain that might have muddied up the water.

While on Skiatook I noticed just how high the drift wood was. Skiatook had been way above normal pool from all the rain that we had this year.

Cooler weather...

Now that it has started cooling down the fishing should start picking up. Just to think a couple of weeks ago it was in the triple digits and now in the morning you need a jacket.

The surface water temperature should have cooled down quite bit now. I will know the next time I get to go fishing.

Product Test Report on Papa's Buzzbaits...

I added a Product Test Report on Papa's Buzzbaits. I have been using this unique design of buzzbait for over a month now and am very pleased with it's capability of catching Bass. This buzzbait is not made in the regular "safety pin" shape. It has a shaft that holds the line tie, the blade, the lead head and hook with just 2 slight bends between the blade and the lead head. You can find the full review on the front page of Oklahoma Bass Fishing or in the Product Test Report forum.

The front moved through during the night...

Mike and I went fishing today. I was expecting to have a pretty productive day because we had a front moving through. It was raining when I got up at 4:30am, so I rigged the rods at the house before I left. I did hit rain on the way to the lake.

We were on the lake at daylight and at the first place we fished, all the fish were stacked up on the North side of the point. I threw at the point from all different directions going through the school from various angles. Did not get a bite at all on this point.

We then moved about 20 to 30 yards and fished a through that was beside the point and Mike got one bite in that area.

We then moved to the other side of the lake and found the fish on the North side of those points. We got 2 bites in this area drifting down the bank fishing the points and dropping down into the creek channel.

The small bass weren't even schooling in the middle of the lake today. We saw very little top water action while on the lake today.

It was a pleasant day with the air temps in the higher 80's with the water temp at 84 degrees on the surface and 76 degrees at 15' deep.

We talked to a man when we were about ready to leave and he had not had any luck either. He mentioned that it was storming on Friday night/Saturday morning around midnight. So, that confirmed my thoughts that the front had moved through before we got on the lake today.

Today was just one of those days. We fished where the Bass were, they had evidently fed before the storms moved through last night and just weren't interested in anything we offered them today.

We fished a Gene Larew 4" salt craw, the SlickFISH lure, a worm, a Gene Larew Hoo Daddy Jr, a shakey head worm rig, a Carolina rig, a football jig, a swim bait, a Gene Larew Mega Ring tube and a double bowl stainless steel kitchen sink...

Hot day with schooling bass...

I was at the lake before sunrise and got situated before most of the boats got on the lake. It was comfortable this morning but got down right HOT before I left.

The bass were still schooling in the middle of the lake but you couldn't buy a bite on anything else. I threw everything but the kitchen sink before I gave up. I gridded the area and the Bass were exactly where I thought they would be. They were just inactive or in a neutral or negative mood today. I could have pulled up anchor and went after the schooling bass, but I was hoping to catch a fairly good size bass today.

I talked to another man that put in right after I did this morning and he hadn't had a bite all day either.

I have a couple of projects that I have to devote time to for the next couple of weeks, so I am not sure when I will get back out on the lake. With the weather the way it has been, I really think I want to wait until we have some changes in the weather to cause the Bass to start feeding. Seems that no one is consistantly catching Bass at this time on any of the lakes.