Updated: September 21, 2009, 3:16 PM ET
BT Quick Tip: Don't knock docks
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The dragon-shaped Grand Lake O' the Cherokees in northeastern Oklahoma is known as a grand place to string a bunch of crappie. However, the over-half century-old impoundment on the Grand River has a not-so-hidden fishing secret: the growing black bass fishery.
An old reservoir, Grand Lake is lined with high-dollar homes, summer cabins, resort property and busy marinas.
For a bass fisherman, the prime time to fish Grand is typically the spring season, when the rains come and the lake level returns to the flooded willows in the backwater cover. But that's not the main story.
Shoreline cover most of the year is limited on Grand Lake to "structures" — that is, boat docks and piers. Story
(Editor's note: This article is from the September 2009 issue of BASS Times. Click here to subscribe today.)
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