Brice Pope Fishing Trip Reports

We had a nice adventure today With Luke, Holden and David. I went Driving around looking for hybrids or any kind of fish that I could catch. I found some nice Bait schools and marks on our first stop but it yielded no fish just some perch sitting around under the boat. The second stop was much better I dropped off of a sharp incline and marked some larger fish I think the boat spooked them away but they come back. Bobo thumper got them to bite. Along with some cut bait and other things. 8lb fish. 6 and 7. There were sandbass and perch loaded same area they seem to hang out in some cases. I moved on to the 3rd stop and same scenario. Caught several nice fish there as well. We had started a little later than usual it seems like the fish are biting best in the morning of course and then late in the day. Good luck if you’re trying them. Look for fish surfacing. We did ok on some catfish as well but many of them come off the hook they get a little grumpy in the midday sun and don't fully commit.

Brice Pope Fishing Trip Reports
I had Randy Cage Dawson and Grandpa out yesterday. Started off as a cool calm morning and we got a little hybrid action, got a good one on a freeline slow trolling and had another one pull a planer board under and it didn’t slip the line so the fish used it to break off. Uugg! Had a couple pulldowns that didn’t hook up. Trolling fairly large Shad about 1/2mph on 1/8oz freelines away from boat just driving around in open water where fish are scattered. Seems like that bite slowed down about 10am decided to do some catfish for a couple hours they was there but the bite was real slow boats passing nonstop keeping things churning probably didn’t help. Sandbass loved the trolling I reckon had about 8 of those and 5 catfish to go with it. And a nice smallmouth. Worked hard as possible fresh bait and everything I know to do. And that’s what we got.
Did a second trip in the afternoon asked Steve if he wanted catfish or hybrid. And we went for catfish I took a little time looking around and settled on a spot with many on sonar. It took about 15 minutes to start bite then we would pick on off about every 5 minutes and kept getting faster till it was good about when sun shifted a little 4pm approx that’s when hybrid struck as well. Boats never stopped raging Basically fishing boat highway one thing for sure everyone had some place to go. Did 17 catfish and a hybrid.
Brice Pope Fishing Trip Reports

Good day on skiatook with Randy and his family. Thank you for choosing FISH ON guide service. Targeting hybrid striper and blue catfish. Hybrid are difficult and require a lot of patience and time at the moment, we didn’t give it much today. I was hoping to get a few big ones then move on. We seen hybrid surfacing and groups of them on sonar that didn’t want to bite. We caught one reeling in a bait from deeper water. Lot of the hybrids are coming in water up towards the surface on freelines and downlines . Catfish are easy and get busy and stay that way. It’s getting there. Cleaned 36 fish yielded 20lbs of fillets. Fishing at 50 to 56ft. Water temp 66/67 degrees I’m thinking this will turn on at 68/73 but that’s just my theory. Should take just a day or two.

Brice Pope Fishing Trip Reports

Doing CPR today focusing on hybrid striper at Skiatook lake. It was not a crazy feeding frenzy for me I had to work for them but they would come. Keep fresh baits on and stay after them. Starting to see some groups and pairs of fish. Downlines seemed good as well as free lines. Mostly shallow presentations. 5 to 20ft. We boated a dozen striped fish probably could have got more but choose to spend a lot of time exploring. We boated hybrid at 4 locations. Quite a few real nice ones at that

Brice Pope Fishing Trip Reports
Here’s a few real nice fish from fish on guide service today. Sometimes I go to the rivers when it’s windy and this was handy using the fuel efficient boat and truck today as well. I could have thrown up some spoonbill today but we opted to not try them. If your interested call me and let’s get on them, Thanks Steve for choosing my service. Steve is getting familiar with local fishing holes we will be going again to catch some bait and learn more how to catch Oklahoma fish, trophy and otherwise! Call me to check out some fishing just about any conditions or any day we will get on them.