Lake Tenkiller Late Spring: Points, Crankbaits, and Prime Light Bite

About this episode

This episode provides a detailed fishing report for Lake Tenkiller, focusing on the current conditions and effective fishing techniques.

This is Artificial Lure with your Lake Tenkiller fishing report. We don’t worry about tides here in the hills, but water level and clarity are the name of the game. The lake’s sitting near normal pool, with 2–4 feet of visibility on the main body and a little more stain up the river arms. Surface temps are riding the low‑70s at daylight and warming into the mid‑70s by afternoon, classic late‑spring pattern. Weather today is about as good as it gets: light south wind 5–10 mph early, building a bit mid‑day, mostly clear skies, and a warm afternoon. Sunrise hit right around 6:10 a.m., sunset about 8:30 p.m., so you’ve got a nice long window to work that low‑light bite. A high, bright sun will push the fish tighter to cover once it gets up. Bass have been cooperating. Local anglers this week have reported decent numbers of spotted bass mixed with some quality largemouth off main‑lake points and secondary points in the creeks. Most fish are in 8–18 feet, hanging on chunk rock, brush, and the ends of docks. A few smallmouth are still showing up on windy gravel points near the dam. Best producers have been shad‑patterned crankbaits in the 8–12 foot range, 3.8" swimbaits on 1/4‑oz heads…

People in this episode

Host: Artificial Lure

Topics covered

• fishing report
• Lake Tenkiller
• bass fishing
• crankbaits
• seasonal patterns

Keywords

• Lake Tenkiller
• fishing report
• bass
• crankbaits
• late spring

Mentioned in this episode

Products: crankbaits, swimbaits, finesse worms, topwater

Places: Lake Tenkiller, Oklahoma

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