Friday fishing trip

Friday morning started off with my annoying alarm ringing and ringing till I finally decided to crawl out of bed. The plan? Leave my house at 4:30 and hit Oologah Lake about 5:30 just before daylight. We left a little a little after 5:00 (because I am very punctual and not very fast at fixing dinner). Our first jug was in the water about 7:00. Wind was out of the East about 5-6 mph creating a little chop on the water which is good. We had 32 jugs on the water and had a 10+ on one of the jugs after we put them all out.
We ran the jugs after that and pulled 4 fish on that run. The next run we pulled 7 fish off with the biggest being about 13 lbs. The wind switched out of the South which can be very dangerous if the wind picks up. About noon the wind started picking up so we pulled the jugs out. We ended up with a total of 13 fish.
At the present, I am experimenting with different baits, styles of jugs, and circle versus straight hooks. Out of 4 jugs made out of 3" PVC with only 2 circle hooks, we caught 3 fish that day. I am noticing that the jugs which have the best buoyancy hooks the most fish. Last trip we made, I caught 2 fish on 1 jug. Due to the fittings being so costly, I am not making very many of them at once. The next best jug that we use is a swimming noddle with a PVC put on the inside. We cut these at about 16-19" with the PVC about 3" shorter. Overall, we had a fun day and did some exploring at the Wiganon bridge as well as the Big Creek boat ramp. More possibilities are out there for fishing spots.

Oologah Lake

Cleaning blues from our jugging trip.

This was a 28lb. sucker carp we netted on the lake.

Our biggest blue yet!! 35 lbs.

Fishing pictures

Devon and a very nice crappie he reeled in on my pole while I was busy with another one. Landyn is a "dedicated" fisherman. He usually just likes to put his feet or anything he can get his hands on in the water and not worry much about the fishing pole. Usually when he is tired of watching his bobber and starts to do something else, it disappears! (Elk City Lake)

A few channel cats on a stringer.

Devon and one of his catches of the evening.

Friends fishing pics

This is a picture sent to my by a friend of mine, CDW. This is a picture of his friend, Mike, holding a big blue and flathead from their first time out last year. Can't wait to get on the water this year! The blue was caught on a limb line and the flat on rod and reel.