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Lake Okhissa
Posted on 8/3/16 at 9:22 am
Posted on 8/3/16 at 9:22 am
Kicked my arse yesterday. 4 bass between two fishermen. We're both relatively experienced bass fishermen, but neither in big reservoirs like this. We threw buzzbaits at dawn, beat the banks with spinnerbaits, tx rigged plastics, senkos and trick worms fished wacky style and flukes. Threw deep diving crank baits and senkos/tricks both weighted and weightless out in 20-30 ft in the flooded timber. frick I even trolled a lipless crankbait while we paddled the mile and a half to the dam.
We caught two bass on trick worms and two on flukes. All were caught sight casting. Sight casted at a few more that wouldn't even sniff a bait.
What did we do wrong? That lake looks awesome.
We caught two bass on trick worms and two on flukes. All were caught sight casting. Sight casted at a few more that wouldn't even sniff a bait.
What did we do wrong? That lake looks awesome.
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Posted on 8/3/16 at 9:49 am to gorillacoco
Did the fish y'all caught seem healthy?
Posted on 8/3/16 at 9:56 am to Tino
Yep. The 17" bass I caught was fat. The others were pretty dinky but they seemed healthy to me.
Posted on 8/3/16 at 10:02 am to gorillacoco
Don't feel bad, I made the trip and went in there in April last year and fished from daylight to 11 and never got a bite. I have not been back since.
Posted on 8/3/16 at 10:04 am to gorillacoco
That's good to hear. There were a few reports a year or so ago that the bass didn't have enough food to eat and were not healthy at all
Posted on 8/3/16 at 10:35 am to gorillacoco
It's a terrible lake. When they first built it it was awesome. There were hundreds of boats there every weekend. They simply fished it out. It is still hard to get in there some weekends and there are no fish in there.
They've been talking the last year or two about starting over and completely restocking it. I think that's what it needs.
They've been talking the last year or two about starting over and completely restocking it. I think that's what it needs.
Posted on 8/3/16 at 10:59 am to gorillacoco
I'm not an experienced reservoir fisherman, but I'd think its probably a little hot to be fishing shallow. Others may know better.
I know its hard to go out there without experience and good electronics and successfully catch fish outside of the spawn, not sure how much that has to do with them cutting the federal funding to the lake
I know its hard to go out there without experience and good electronics and successfully catch fish outside of the spawn, not sure how much that has to do with them cutting the federal funding to the lake
Posted on 8/3/16 at 11:20 am to Citica8
Ummm
We did well there recently.
We did well there recently.
Posted on 8/3/16 at 11:33 am to ctiger69
well, go on...
Posted on 8/3/16 at 12:08 pm to gorillacoco
I haven't been in a while but if it's same as years past fish deep. We've caught them so deep we had to fizz them before we turned them loose. Work main lake points with Rapala DT16 or Strike King 6XD in shad colors. Learn to dropshot with light spinning gear and finesse worms. Become strangers with the bank and use fluorocarbon line. I also keep a Lil George ready because they'll school up and chase shad early. I buy my crankbaits from the bargain cave and clearance racks because you gonna lose them or you won't be catching fish. 
This post was edited on 8/3/16 at 12:10 pm
Posted on 8/3/16 at 1:47 pm to 007mag
I heard the grass is pretty bad over there. What does the OP think?
Posted on 8/3/16 at 3:19 pm to 178cajun
A lot of grass on the banks but really not much out in the middle.
Posted on 8/3/16 at 7:52 pm to 178cajun
Grass would definitely be a change from past years.
Posted on 8/3/16 at 8:05 pm to gorillacoco
From past experience fishing Toledo bend during the summer hot months, try fishing at night on a lit moon. Fish plastics in dark colors and look for points near coves that have deep drop offs. Caught many heavy fish that way in the bend. I only fish 5/8-3/4 oz bass jigs in red/black during daytime hrs. Bob Oldam jigs are killer, hand made and sold at Toledo tackle or maybe online...trust me they catch fish!
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