Morning Fishing

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Comment by Keith Owen on April 11, 2012 at 12:47pm

This is our local reservoir, Lake Thunderbird. We have had quite a bit of rain lately and the lake level is rising. This accounts for all the debris along the shoreline. It is located smack in the middle of Oklahoma’s “red-bed”. These are soils characterized by high levels of iron oxide which make them very red in color. Couple the soil types with the fact that Thunderbird is a shallow lake that catches long fetches of our strong southern winds and you get the typical “Too thick to drink, too thin to plow…” scenario. Doesn’t hurt the fishing though.

Thunderbird is very well known for its good Crappie fishing as well as its ever improving Saugeye population. Like most lakes in Oklahoma it has good populations of our State Fish, the White Bass (Sand Bass to folks around here). We also have F-1 and pure strain Florida LMB. Don’t tell anyone but… the Bluegill and Red-ear Sunfish are pretty great as well.

Also, it is hard to beat the fact that it’s less than a fifteen minute drive from the house. On weekends the lake is very crowded with power boaters, skiers and the like but during the week an angler can have the lake nearly to themselves.

Best Fishes,

Keith

Comment by Leo Nguyen on April 11, 2012 at 8:22am

Must be a heck of a storm brewing to create this much disturbance of the lake's bottom. Which lake is this?

Comment by Jen Nayfly on April 11, 2012 at 6:45am

Looks like a red dirt lake?