Reach
Report heard to Pittsburg KS, south of Joplin, sometimes Pryor, west of Vinita, Decatur AR. Thanks GRDA and KGVE.
Hunting
Modern firearm / gun season weekend — warm, windy, rainy first days then yucky again midweek; still big opener + Thanksgiving afternoon/Friday tradition. Outdoor Oklahoma ~130k whitetails (~40% antlerless) — ODWC doing well; Oklahoma Bowhunter page for caliber. Patricia and Jeff bake deer “salami” / snack sticks (no casings). David Hale at Honey Creek Outdoors now stocks 100-grain Fixpandable broadheads (bow OK through gun season).
Fishing
Early winter same as always. Blues drifting 25–50 feet (often 40–50). Bass in cove-back shad — American-made STX jerkbait; reports of ½ oz Scrounger + 5" Live Motion minnow (Spiced Olive / black) on points. Crappie bunching — structure up-lake, dark docks / big main-lake brush mid–south; Lucky Bugs and swimming minnows. Whites mixed with shad in cove backs and windy points — quarter-ounce Dinner Spinner. Still fish on Jeff’s green monster dock light at night (usually quieter by now). Need cooler weather to lock winter pattern.
Dealers
Dinner Spinners, Redman, STX jerkbaits — dealers, fishlucke.com, Fish Lucke Amazon.