Oklahoma Lake Report

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Here are the conditions at Oklahoma lakes as reported Wednesday by the state Department of Wildlife Conservation and lake rangers. CENTRAL Overholser: Crappie

Thursday, February 10th 2000, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Here are the conditions at Oklahoma lakes as reported Wednesday by the state Department of Wildlife Conservation and lake rangers.

CENTRAL

Overholser: Crappie good on minnows and jigs over brush piles and at docks. Thunderbird: Elevation 1 ft. below normal, water 50. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs, 6-8 ft.

NORTHEAST

Carl Blackwell: Elevation 2 ft. below normal, water 54 and murky. Channel catfish fair on cut bait; crappie fair on minnows and jigs.

Copan: Channel catfish fair on shad in the main lake; crappie fair on minnows in the creek and river channels.

Eucha: Elevation normal, water 39 and clear. All fishing reported good.

Eufaula: Elevation 2 ft. below normal, water clear. Sand bass fair on jigs below the dam; crappie fair on minnows and jigs, 8-20ft., around boat docks.

Fort Gibson: Elevation normal, water 50. Channel catfish good on whole shad, 20-25 ft.; crappie fair on minnows and jigs, 10 ft., near docks and brush piles.

Greenleaf: Crappie fair on minnows and jigs near docks and
brush piles.

Hudson: Sand bass fair on jigs and various lures; crappie good on jigs, 12 ft.

Kaw: Elevation 2 ft. below normal, water murky. Channel catfish good on stink bait in the upper part of the river; crappie good on minnows and jigs near sunken brush piles and below the dam.

Keystone: Elevation normal, water 40 and murky. Channel catfish fair on cut shad on juglines.

Oologah: Elevation normal. Crappie good on chartreuse and white jigs below the dam.

Skiatook: Elevation 2 ft. below normal, water clear. Crappie good on minnows and jigs near standing timber and deep brushpiles.

Sooner: Sand bass fair on crank baits and jigs in the discharge canal; hybrids fair.

Spavinaw: Elevation normal, water 39 and clear. All fishing reported good.

Tenkiller: Lake elevation 1 ft. below normal and water clear. Black bass good on medium crank baits, 12-15 ft.; channel catfish fair on cut shad on jug lines, 40-45 ft., in the river channel; crappie good on minnows and jigs, 20 ft., near marinas and boat docks.

Webbers Falls: Water murky. Channel catfish fair on cut bait on bottom; crappie fair on minnows and jigs near bridges and brush piles.

SOUTHEAST

Arbuckle: Elevation 4 ft. below normal, water 50 and clear. Sand bass good on silver slabs, 50-55 ft.

Eufaula: Elevation 2 ft. below normal, water clear. Sand bass fair on jigs below the dam; crappie fair on minnows and jigs, 8-20ft., near boat docks.

Hugo: Elevation above normal, water 46. Crappie fair on live minnows.

Konawa: Elevation normal, water 50 and clear. Black bass fair on crank baits, 15 ft., in the discharge canal; sand bass fair on minnows and jigs, 15 ft., in the discharge canal.

Robert S. Kerr: Elevation normal, water 44 and murky. Channel catfish good on fresh shad, 15 ft., in the river channel; crappie good on minnows, 10-12 ft., in deep water at the edge of creek channels.

Texoma: Elevation 4 ft. below normal, water 50 and clear. Black bass fair on salt craws, 5-10 ft., off points; striped bass good on live shad, 15-25 ft., near the islands.

Wister: Elevation normal, water murky. Channel catfish fair on punch bait, 14-18 ft.; crappie fair on minnows, 6-22 ft., in standing timber.

NORTHWEST

Canton: Elevation 1 ft. below normal. Crappie good on minnows and jigs near brush piles.

Fort Supply: Elevation below normal. Crappie fair on jigs.

Great Salt Plains: Channel catfish fair on shad; saugeye fair on minnows and jigs.

SOUTHWEST

Foss: Elevation normal, water clear. Sand bass fair on shad and
small jigs around the marina and off points; saugeye fair on medium-running lures and live shad around the marina and off points.

Fort Cobb: Elevation normal, water murky. Channel catfish good on cut shad on juglines, 20 ft., in creek channels; crappie fair near the marina and brush piles.

Tom Steed: Crappie fair on minnows and jigs, 20-25 ft., near brush piles.

Waurika: Elevation 3 ft. below normal. Channel catfish good on cut shad off windy points.

All fishing is reported as slow at the following lakes: Altus-Lugert, Arcadia, Atoka,Broken Bow, Draper, Ellsworth, Grand,Hefner, McGee Creek, Murray, Pine Creek.