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We went this past December and had luck on the wiggle wart. I also caught several on a jerk bait. It's nice fishing that lake because it fishes like a new lake still. Not much pressure. Very noticeable when I'm running live scope on them. The fish commit at a much higher percentage than they do on Beaver, or any other lake where I live. My heart will always be for straight up jig fishing. Nothing beats it. I'll have a couple tied on for sure. I've never gone into Bee Creek. I've hit Otter, Biggam, Bear, and I finally went to the last long creek up the river South Linson Creek. Linson Creek was very productive. I'm definitely going to try that again. Just have to idle thru there when you get close, a lot of trees just off channel. Thank you for the tips. I'm really going to make an effort to catch a big one this trip. I enjoy catching numbers, but I'm craving a 6+ plus.

Any of you ever fish that beautiful reservoir in South East Oklahoma? No docks(except rentals at Beavers Bend), no homes, just peace and quiet tucked away in Quachita mountains. We try to make it down there twice a year. Once in the late winter/early spring, and once in late fall early winter. We go down there in hopes of crappie and big bass. Every trip I've made we've either been too late or too early on the crappie. I have no clue where they go. I've scoped all over the creeks and haven't had luck. They must go out deep deep when they aren't spawning. The bass fishing has been great all but one time I've gone. I catch great #'s of bass, but no 5+ pound bass. They don't get pressured much. If the timing is right you can go out and catch 50-75 2 lb fish a day. Someone caught a 13.5 there in 2018 I believe. A friend of my dads caught one about 10lbs on a wiggle wart years ago. I know there are some giants swimming around down there, but haven't lucked into one yet in the last 5 years. I think we are planning on the second week of March this year. Maybe it will be perfect prespawn/spawn time. We went last week of March in 2025, and the males were everywhere. Wacky Rig delight.

Ready for the cold air to move out in a week to 10 days. I enjoy one good snow a year, and we are getting it now. Hope to get out there sometime soon.

Edit(The fish weighed 6.2) I've fished just about every arm on Beaver Lake, but there was one arm I had never really ventured in to other than the mouth. I told my fishing buddy(dad) to load up and we headed out that morning. It was the first day after a cold front, cloudy and windy. Water temperature was still running 49-51. Started out in Rocky Branch, and caught a nice 2.5-3 lb large mouth on wiggle wart, couple of additional small keepers and a nice 2.5lb smallmouth(scoped him). Then we headed to the spot I've never fished and landed this beauty. Caught it on a jig in back of pocket 4-6 ft deep. Shortly after that dad landed a 4lber on wiggle wart in same area. Quality fish were shallow that day. We did catch some keepers on points, but not the tournament winning ones. The bite was great all day. I think our best 5 would have gone 18/19 lbs. In true Beaver lake fashion we went out the next day and fished same part of lake and caught 4 fish in 5 hours with only 3 keepers. Largest being 2.5 smallie. It was bluebird skies and light winds. Livescope made it abundantly clear the fish weren't active that day on that part of lake.

I agree with Quillback. If you wanted even more seclusion you could live near Rocky Branch area. It's about 10-15 minutes further east on HWY 12 from the bridge, but there's a couple of boat ramps to choose from. From the ramp area its about 25 minutes from down town old Rogers, and probably 35-40 minutes from Mercy depending on how far out you wanted to live. Really beautiful and quiet in that area.

Saturday's tournament should be a good one. Clear skies but the wind should be 10-15 from the south with gusts towards 25. Curious to see the quality of fish brought in.

54-60 is jerk bait n jig water up there. Also if u want smallies throw the grub.

They are running I'm sure. Shad were everywhere around mont ne

Caught our limit then some. Too bad our biggest 7 only weighed 7 lbs. Leader had 9 when we left. Good day of fishing caught crappie from hickory creek to escaladia. Bass are biting aggressively too.

Can't go wrong with the smoke grub. They also will be hitting the jerkbait and jig IMO.

I'll be fishing it. We've had pretty good success the last couple of weeks so hopefully the big ones will bite.

Weddington has several 8-10lb bass in it. Sure you will catch a bunch of little ones, but there are some toads in there.

I've been catching them in the main lake end for the past couple of weeks. I've been flipping jigs, and that's it. Find some dingy water(which isn't hard) and flip the jig right up in the bushes. The strange thing is, a few of the fish I caught on Wednesday evening had bloody tails. Almost like they were spawning, but I don't see that being the case.