Thanks
Area dealers carrying Fish Lucke; Patricia at VIP Grand Lake; Haydn at Williams Guide Service / fishgrand.com; Owen Williams at Grand Glass Cleaning; KGVE; GRDA (Bass tournaments, fisheries, water quality, towing — give them a wave).
Weather / inflows
Windy warm end to muzzleloader, then heavy rain — spots 3–10 inches. Jeff hunting Octavia, OK lease and at the plant area; Greenwood AR ~9", Poteau ~7", Wilburton solid; SE Kansas too. Watersheds were so dry ponds/watershed lakes need to refill before big Grand Lake inflows — another soaker could flood once they're full.
Hunting
Strong muzzleloader participation; quality Oklahoma bucks. L&L Outdoors for Shockwave bullets, scope work, breech plug — interested in more Fish Lucke into spring (handy for Jay). Thanks ODWC for liberal antler harvest (two antlered whitetails with firearms vs Missouri's one archery + one firearm). Antlerless harvest feeds families — jerky, summer sausage, chili around the holidays. Huge economic impact; lots of public land if you put boots down.
If fishing
Crappie on brush or shady docks — soft plastics as minnow bite falls off. Bass backs of coves on schooling shad / surface. Drift blues 25–50 feet. Paddlefish Patricia Island past mouth of Elk River into Three Fingers.