Fish On! Fishonok.com, 11-30-23 Sooner lake trip again yesterday much different conditions with clouds rain and fairly strong wind brought out mass blowups on the main lake with thousands of birds and fish to be had, however found Hybrid were still boat shy and not biting much they may just have a eye for the small lake baits and seem to just rove around all day chasing them, They would push about 60ft away from the boat and hang around about 5 minutes or so before clearing out. I changed positions a lot this morning and finally settled on fishing for Catfish and soaking up perch for fillers along with some nice hybirds, hybirds came on artificial lures as well as shad on freelines last couple days and have been difficult to say the least. Caught hybrids in 22ft of water as well as 30, 60 and 70ft. Water temps were 48, no generation and no fill pump. Thanks Kent for loading up on what we could gather for your family. I've still got a few more trips to grind thru and most of December is open. I'll wrap this up within about a week is what I'm thinking and start doing Catfish trips for winter. Book ahead of time if weather is foul we will move dates. Foul weather on sooner lake is the fishing preference.
Sooner Lake 11/29/2023 Fishing live bait and looking for hybrid stripers finiky 2 days now. Opted to fish catfish and catch as many perch as possible while waiting on the beasts to arrive. Calm glass waters clear bright sky and warm weather didn't exactly motivate the hybrids to bite although we caught a nice one along with a couple real nice saugeye and several catfish. Cleaned a couple gallons of perch about 80. Thanks Kent will see what today brings!
FISH ON! Late post from 11-28-23 been behind on things due to truck failure. We headed out on Sooner Lake today to find a tough bite where I been catchin, even the perch were off. Moved on in search of some action and found some on the Main Lake over 45 to 55ft of water, unfortunately Hybrids were boat shy we had one that took a bait but everything else was perch and they were stuffed full of threadfin shad and it was pretty hard to get them to hit so whatever makes fish finiky was in full swing. We were fishing near some catfish hangouts so I set some lines for those baited with cut perch and shad, they were taking the bait and content just laying there clamped down on it. We would go to move and have a couple on or a single more than once. I think we got 7 large catfish up to 16lbs and that just made our day, One biggin tore off on the way in. We released most of them opting to keep a couple channel cat and blues. Cleaned 60 perch making up couple gallons of good eating fish. There's not any generation on the lake far as I can tell and I think the pump in is still off. A winter pattern is in full swing at this point. Thanks to all my customers and, Mark good to see you and Marlin getting along good, We will do it again sometime. I figured the fish probably started feeding by the time we left. One thing for sure Hybrids didn't like the warming trend with the south wind.
Fish On! Another reeler of a day on Sooner bigger fish were on good this morning easily limiting my customers on overs along with 18 shorter hybrids 25 perch one saugeye and a couple of channel catfish. Fishing in bait schools along the edge of the channel worked just fine. Water temperature was 48° throughout and we caught a Lotta fish on both sides of the lake. Seem like about 33 feet was the ticket on both sides.
Fish On! Reel Fun! We headed out to sooner lake today soon as the temperatures got above freezing we started at 11 AM and fished 30 to 35 feet of water all day water temperature 47° hybrids were up in the middle of the water column most of them stayed out to the side of the boat we didn't try any artificial's but we had plenty of action. The fish would kind of move away from the boat but they were kind of interested as well so we got plenty of hybrids and perch limiting out my two customers got everything bagged up and sent home. Couple 6lbers today. Lotta large fish compared to usual. The power plant is off far as I can tell and has been. Not much surface activity today just a little