Lost Bridge And Dam Area Week Of June 30

[dgames]

Spending a few days on Beaver next week. Staying at a house in Lost Bridge Village and keeping my boat at Lost Bridge marina. My boat is not a fishing boat. It is a 21 IB/OB runabout and we will mainly be pleasure boating, pulling the kids on wakeboard and tube.

I would be interested in doing a little fishing in the early morning or early evening if there was something that was relatively easy to do that I could pull off with by non-fishing boat. I am mainly fly fish for trout, so I am not a really good at lake fishing, but like to do it when I can.

I have had some success trolling with this boat in the past for sand bass in Oklahoma lakes. It does have a cheap Eagle locator on it, so I can at least tell a little bit about the water depth and some structure.

I read about F&F's report of trolling flicker shad. Is that more appropriate in the upper end of the lake where it is shallower. I know the main lake is really deep down where we are staying. Should I be seeking out the creek arms like the Clifty branches or Indian Creek to find shallower water?

Looking for a little advice and don't really care that much what we catch. Just something that a relatively inexperienced lake fisherman could pull off.

By the way, I plan to be courteous of fishermen when we are pleasure boating during the day.

[zarraspook]

I found Lost Bridge north area tobe great in May/June for a lot of fish .. The troll area, I have caught all three largemouth, smallmouth, and kentuckies.. Plus walleye and an a stray striper...

Out on the long point -- stripers will break on shad some time in the early morning and you can catch ANYTHING with live bait in the 15-25 foot depth.... I could fish a week out of Lost Bridge North and not use a half a tank of gas.....

Good luck and post how things went...

[Feathers and Fins]

Stripers are there. spend some time catching small perch 1 to 3'' then go out early in the morning and just drift them behind the boat about 100ft back with a light split shot and you could hook a striper... Trolling flicker shad will produce as well in 20ft of water for walleye, bass and whites.

[nathanhooper]

Zarra gave you some good info there. I fish this area mostly myself, Indian Creek that is, and I have caught fish in the above area. I have also had quite a bit of good luck fishing up the back of Indian Creek catching white bass(I believe the sand bass is the same thing?).

[nathanhooper]

Now I just wish someone would post a map like the one above showing where to fish for crappie...

[Chillfish]

I was there last weekend and had good luck with walleye in about 20 ft. of water with the pearl flicker shad. Caught walleye and a good hybrid.

[nathanhooper]

you guys running the flickers that deep? or just running the boat in that deep of water?

[nathanhooper]

I have a heck of a time getting my flickers any deeper than 12'

[YAKFM]

I have a heck of a time getting my flickers any deeper than 12'

Long lining 10 lb Fluoro at 150 Ft back I can reach ~18 FOW with a #7, 16 FOW with a #6, and 14 FOW with a #5 FS at 2-2.5 mph. Of course, you get a little less with mono and a little more with braid. If I want to go 20 FOW or more with long lining I use deeper diving baits-Deep Tail Dancers, Cabelas Walleye Runner, or Reef Runners. Recently started using lead core and snap weights and can easily reach 20 FOW plus with a number #5 FS. It is a bit easier for me to fish lead core and snap weights out of the yak than it is a downrigger.

[Chillfish]

We were running about 150 ft. back with braid. As clear as the water was, they weren't having trouble coming up from the bottom and smacking them. It seems I can usually get down to about 14 on depth with my particular setup.