Birch: June 30. Elevation 17 1/3 ft. above normal, water 80s and murky. Crappie, sunfish, and bluegill slow on jigs and minnows below the dam. Channel, blue, and flathead catfish slow on cut bait, minnows, and worms around the dam. All of the parks are closed and boat ramps as well. The only access to the lake is along the face of the dam and at the outlet.
Carl Blackwell: July 1. Elevation above normal, water 80 and murky. Striped bass hybrids and white bass fair on crank-baits, cut bait, jigs, minnows, and rogues around main lake and spillway. Channel catfish slow on Alabama rig, chicken liver, stinkbait, and worms around coves, points, riprap, shallows, shorelines, and weed beds. Crappie fair on jigs, tube jigs, and worms around the crappie dock.
Kaw: July 1. Elevation 30 ft. above normal, water 70s and muddy. Striped bass, striped bass hybrids, and white bass good on crank-baits, flukes, hair jigs, jigs, live shad, rogues, sassy shad, and topwater lures below the dam. Crappie, white bass and walleye fair on jigs and minnows below the dam, and around brush structure, main lake, riprap, rocks, and bridges. Blue catfish, channel catfish, and flathead catfish good on crawfish, cut bait, grasshoppers, live bait, live shad, punch bait, shad, and worms below the dam, and around channels, flats, riprap, rocks, shallows, and shorelines. Report submitted by Spencer Grace, game warden stationed in Kay County.
Keystone: June 27. Elevation above normal, water muddy. Blue catfish fair on cut bait below the dam.
McMurtry: July 1. Elevation 2 ft. above normal, water 82 and semi-murky. Crappie fair on minnows, PowerBait, tube jigs, worms, and beetle spin jigs at 12-15 ft. Small minnows have worked as well. The docks and structures at the dam have been the best locations. Minnows are the primary bait. Channel and flathead catfish fair on live shad, chicken liver, and dough bait around channels, creek channels, river channel, docks, west side docks, and island. Flatheads are being caught with live baits more frequently. The flatheads appear to be on nesting sites currently. Largemouth bass fair on minnows, plastic worms, topwater lures, jigs, and spinnerbaits around west side coves, northern coves with standing timber, and north end of the island. Middle of the day is slower. White bass fair on crankbaits, deep divers, and spoons around dam, riprap, and main lake channel near the sandbar. Several caught on crank-baits this ...
