Weather / lake
Lousy early week — rain slowed fishing and hunting; lake coming up fairly quick. Rising water often sends Paddlefish north of Sailboat Bridge and makes cats/Crappie bite better.
Guides
Haydn mostly deer hunting; Luke Hitt running the second boat (first fall with overflow coverage). Luke on Spoonbill; Haydn fished hard the prior week — good. Spoonbill mostly north of Sailboat; Luke still catching more Live Scope than Dipsys. Cats when Haydn was on: Shangri-La–Bernice, drift 40–60 feet.
Crappie
Coves — docks and brush; channel-swing cove mouths for roamers/suspended on shad.
White Bass
Dinner Spinners on windy points, gravel bars, main-lake rocks in Oct–Nov — heavy vibration like an old Redman.
Hunting
Cameras OK and KS — not full chase yet; scrapes better than corn (big acorn year); rubs/scrapes in creek bottoms not ridges. Next week strong for scrapes. Second weekend of muzzleloader historically wonderful. OK can take a buck muzzleloader and another firearm/bow plus antlerless — quality keeps climbing (Oklahoma Bowhunter page).
Contact
fishgrand.com for Haydn (phone omitted).