Lake Carl Blackwell

This was our second trip to Carl Blackwell this year.
We came here at the end of the day after a tournament at McMurtry Lake. It ended in a bust so we left.

The weather was perfect we got to the lake and set up camp at campsite number 47 in the Pine Cove Camping Area. It was really nice. Good flat grassy area for the tent and it has electric and water.

I do have pics on iPhone and I will add them to this page soon.

We took off fishing after I got the camp site set up. It was about 430. The wind had completely stopped. The lake looked like glass, not a ripple on the lake with the exception of the wake from our beautiful bright red skeeter, pushing 150 horse power to the limit. 50 miles per hour in an ultra smooth ride.

I took us the the central cove in the north side of the lake first. We fished there about an hour and caught 4 decent crappie. We then went to the central southern cove where we fished the first time, the last time we came. We caught. Couple more crappie and then headed back to camp for dinner.

I trolled back. We were in 20' foot of water at 3mph trolling speed when I hit a stump, well a tree. This lake is loaded with timber right under the water. I did make it on the gps on the boat if can download the coordinates I will post that hazard to this as well.

Plenty of water hazards on this body of water.

At the end of the fishing day we went back to camp.
I cooked denty moore stew for dinner. I was in bed by 2030 and I crashed so hard. I did not wake up till about 0800.

The evening was so awesome. Only a slight breeze as the sun was setting. The evening clouds turned bring shaders of pink as he sun was setting. The smell of camp fire from adjacent camp sites filled the air. Cool air temp, blue skies, bright lime green leaves on most of the budding trees.. It was a dream day at the lake..





Sunday morning I got up and made bacon and eggs for breakfast. I got the camp site all packed up and we went back out to fish. We knew the wind was going to start blowing from the south soon so we went to the far east side if the lake on the south end of the dam to get out of the wind.

We did catch 4 crappie and a decent catfish. We had a good morning, we watched to our west as the winds were building from gentle breeze to strong gust. The wind advisory said 25-35 mph winds. Dad and I were ready to change spots. We went over to the damn and looked for another spot to anchor. No luck dad wanted to try west. As we went around the bend, it went from gradual waves to 3.5-4' foot waves. We got so wet. It was like watching the deadliest catch on the ocean. Our bright red skeeter is a low center height boat, we went air born a few times.. What an adventure.

Location:Northern Oklahoma