BFL Okie Arkansas River

Posted by ken on March 29, 2014

BFL Okie tournament #2. early prespawn

I came up last year and fished the Okie tournament on the river, just fished Friday and the tournament Saturday and the one thing I discovered was that the Muskogee pool is crowded, and not knowing the sweet spots I felt like I was beating my head against a wall. So this year I came down, again intent was to come down last week but had other committments so I just got to prefish yesterday. Decided to go into Kerr, find the fishiest looking water I could and put my head down. I felt the further south I went the less traffic I would encounter. So I went basically to the Kerr dam and found a little creek with some wood in the water. Got a couple of bites on a blade with no hook and was about to throw a blade with a hook to see exactly what was biting when I had one about 5 1/2 just hammer a chatter bait with a swimming senko trailer. I had the hook bent over and almost had to lip the fish to get him to let it go. I came here hoping to catch a limit and move up in the standings, but these appear to be winning fish. So this morning I lock down, nearly run aground running south, and get to my water to find I'm only sharing with one guy. My coangler puts one in the boat before I even get the trolling motor down. Through the day I catch fish on the chatter bait with the senko trailer and one on a blade. I finish my limit around 10:45 and am starting to worry about the lock schedule since they really didn't give us set in stone times for opening and closing. I've got what I came for, a soild 12 lb limit and we sit down to idle out and start back towards the lock. I have a spot back that way where I had a couple smoke a swim bait yesterday but it was cloudy and now it's clear and just a little wind. I idled about 100 yards out and change my mind. I knew from yesterday that there are some better fish in there and I've really not pounded the area. I tell my coangler we are going to take 1 hour and make one more pass to pick it apart. I pick up a black blue 4.5" Yamamoto Flappin Hog rigged on a 3/8 ounce jig head and cull 3 times to get to 15 even. Solid finish in 14th, moves me up in the points, very happy with the results especially for just 1 day of prefish. Congrats to another new Oklahoma friend Kevin Treece (a really good cook!) that came really close to his second BFL win, great second place finish.