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April 17, 2025

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Longtime sponsor since Ivan Martin / GrandFishingReport.com days with Lee Jeffries — wave when the blue lights aren’t chasing you.

Spawn / lake temps

Middle of the lake still cold ~57–58°; coves hit 61–62 and excite everyone, but the big bank push waits for a solid 60–61° morning mid-lake reading. A few fish trying to spawn; not lake-wide yet. Haydn guiding every day (sometimes two) — still lots in deep water.

Crappie with Haydn

Sailboat Bridge coves looking for spawners; Live Scope roaming fish mid-cove. Quarter-ounce jig heads (get down / stay on fish in wind) with 2½" Desert Hero Lucky Bug (brown pumpkin, Haydn’s baby-Bluegill flake design) on chartreuse-and-white head. Grilled Crappie tacos for Patricia: room-temp dry fillets, melted butter (half stick per 15–20), hot grill, season after — works for blues and Sand Bass too.

Bass

Not spawning yet; Jeff caught 3–4 small ones casting bank with 1/8 oz Scrounger + 2½" Moonshine Lucky Bug while hunting spawn Crappie.

Cats

Shallow-water season — blues should rip rods; bay boat in SE Oklahoma for later cat trips.

Paddlefish

Winding down; no big river push yet; weather possible end of week.

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