Hunting
Muzzleloader season coming fast — check regs, dust off the gun. Hoping for cooler/moister weather; unseasonably warm and dry with mosquitoes in the stand. Haydn taking a lot of late Oct–Nov off for deer after a hard guide year.
Paddlefish (Haydn)
Really good this week south of Sailboat Bridge — divers, 150 feet of line, Patricia Island / Port Duncan / Terra Miranda area where the river channel swings. Fish move a lot; Grace Ranch had them a couple weeks ago, then nothing on a group trip and they were stacked at Patricia Island channel and in front of Port Duncan. Fall pattern: stacking in the river channel more than roaming flats. People come from all over the world for Oklahoma Paddlefish.
Crappie (Haydn)
Brush piles, certain docks; clear/low rain means fewer roamers, but bigger fall fish start roaming coves — Live Scope suspended in coves. Main-lake brush still producing 15–20 feet; docks loading up. Once water hits mid–high 60s (~65°), most Crappie move into or to the mouths of coves off main lake. Last week Haydn found more on bluffs with structure than on flats.
Catfish
Dominic Pellegrino on a group trip drifted ~40 feet at about 0.5–0.7 mph on cut shad — lots of fish.
Bass
Facebook posts of Bass toward backs of coves schooling on shad; some topwater on high banks with nice fish. Join grandfishingreport.com Facebook group (~20,000+).
Contact
fishgrand.com for Haydn / Williams Guide Service.
Dealers
Ask area dealers for Fish Lucke — Scrounger, Jimmy Houston Redman spinnerbait, Lucky Bug, swimming minnow.