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: Oct. 19 — elevation 4 to 5 ft. below normal, water clear. All fishing fair. Report submitted by Ron Comer, game warden stationed in Canadian County.
Wes Watkins: Oct. 20 — elevation normal. Channel catfish fair on chicken livers. Report submitted by Mike France, game warden stationed in Pottawatomie County.
NORTHEAST
Birch: Oct. 18 — largemouth bass good trolling minnows and jigs. Crappie excellent on black and chartreuse jigs at 12 to 15 ft. Report submitted by David Clay, game warden stationed in Osage County.
Carl Blackwell: Sept. 20 — elevation normal, water 77 degrees. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs. Report submitted by Jon Cunningham, game warden stationed in Payne County.
Copan: Oct. 19 — elevation above normal, water clear. Crappie good on minnows and jigs at 6 to 8 ft. near submerged structure. Catfish slow on chicken liver and cut shad below the dam. Report submitted by Joe Alexander, game warden stationed in Washington County.
Eucha: Oct. 21 — elevation slightly above normal, water 60 and murky. White bass good on rooster tails. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs at 12 to 14 ft. around brush and structure. Largemouth bass fair on plastic baits. Report submitted by Dwight Moore, City of Tulsa Fisheries.
Greenleaf: Oct. 20 — elevation normal, water clear. Largemouth fair on spinnerbaits and crankbaits along shorelines, rocky points and creek channels. Channel catfish fair on fresh cut bait on bottom near the spillway and creek channels. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs at 16 to 20 ft. around brush structure and fishing docks. Report submitted by Lark Wilson, game warden stationed in Muskogee County.
Hulah: Oct. 19 — 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. Report submitted by Joe Alexander, game warden stationed in Washington County.
Sooner: Oct. 20 —white bass and striped bass hybrids fair on sassy shad and topwater lures in the discharge canal and on live shad and slabs in the lake. Catfish fair on live bait and cut bait around points and channels. Report submitted by Doug Gottschalk, game warden stationed in Noble County.
Spavinaw: Oct. 21 — elevation slightly above normal, water 60 degrees and dingy. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs around the dam area. Largemouth bass fair on spinnerbaits. Report submitted by Dwight Moore, City of Tulsa Fisheries.
Tenkiller: Oct. 19 — elevation 9 ft. above normal and falling, water 70 degrees. Largemouth bass fair on spinnerbaits and crankbaits at 8 to 10 ft in bushes. Catfish fair on cut bait with flip-flops at 20 to 40 ft. Report by Monte Brooks Cookson Village Resort.
Webbers Falls: Oct. 20 — elevation 2 ft. above normal, water murky. Largemouth bass fair on spinnerbaits, jigs and worms around riprap, creek channels and brush structure. Channel catfish good on fresh cut bait at mud flats. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs at 14 to 20 ft. around bridges and brush structure. Report submitted by Lark Wilson, game warden stationed in Muskogee County.
NORTHWEST
Canton: Oct. 1 — elevation 1 ft. below normal. Channel catfish and striped bass hybrids good on shad on the lake side of spillway. Crappie good on minnows and jigs near brush piles on the dam. Report submitted by Mark Walker, game warden stationed in Blaine County.
SOUTHEAST
Arbuckle: Oct. 18 — elevation 1 ft. above, water 66 degrees and clear. Crappie being caught on chartreuse jigs off docks and brush piles. White bass are being caught on spoons from surface to 25 ft. Bass being caught on Carolina-rigged crankbaits and spinnerbaits in the shallows. Report submitted by Jack Melton.
Blue River: Oct. 21 — elevation normal, water 57 degrees and murky. Smallmouth and spotted bass fair on topwater lures and soft plastic baits. Channel catfish excellent on chicken liver and nightcrawlers. Flathead catfish fair to good at night on live sunfish or minnows. Report submitted by Matt Gamble, biologist at the River Public Fishing and Hunting Area.
Broken Bow: Oct. 18 — elevation rising. 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. Report submitted by Dru Polk, game warden stationed in McCurtain County.
Eufaula: Oct. 18 — elevation 4 ft. above normal, water murky. Largemouth bass fair on plastic lures around rocky areas. Blue catfish good on shad in the shallow flats. Report submitted by Ed Rodebush, game warden stationed in McIntosh County.
Hugo: Oct. 19 — elevation high, water muddy. Blue catfish good on cut shad in the tailwaters. Report submitted by Jay Harvey, game warden stationed in Choctaw County.
Konawa: Oct. 19 — elevation 1/2 ft. above normal, water 59 degrees and clear. Largemouth bass good on topwater lures and crankbaits at 5 to 10 ft. in schooling bass around points and mouths of coves early and late. Report submitted by Daryl Howser, game warden stationed in Seminole County.
McGee Creek: Oct. 19 — elevation above normal, water in upper ends is turbid. Catfish fair on prepared baits. Report submitted by A. J. Young, game warden stationed in Atoka County.
Pine Creek: Oct. 19 — elevation high, water murky. Bass good in flooded flats. Catfish fair on cut bait near rocky points. Report Submitted by Mark Hannah, game warden stationed in McCurtain County.
Sardis Lake: Oct. 18 — elevation 2 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. Report submitted by James Williams, game warden Latimer and LeFlore counties.
Texoma: Oct. 18 — elevation 1 ft. above normal, water 70 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 Platter Flats to the south and west. Channel and blue catfish fair to good from Catfish Bay to the north. Crappie fair in the oxbow lakes with clear water. Sunfish fair to good around the fishing docks. Report submitted by Danny Clubb, game warden stationed in Bryan County.
Wister: Oct. 19 — elevation 12 1/2 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. Report submitted by Randy Fennell, game warden stationed in LeFlore County.
SOUTHWEST
Altus-Lugert: Oct. 18 — elevation 24 3/4 ft. below normal and steady. Striped bass hybrids good. Catfish fair to good. Report submitted by Sue Hokanson, Quartz Mountain State Park.
Foss: Oct. 19 — elevation 2 ft. below normal with gates closed, water 65 degrees and clear. Striped bass hybrids fair on slabs in deep water. Walleye fair. Report submitted by Eric Puyear, B & K Bait House.
Tom Steed: Oct. 19 — white bass and striped bass fair on minnows around the main boat ramp. Report submitted by David Smith, game warden stationed in Kiowa County.
