Comments on: More on the former glory days of Purcell City Lake http://blog.newsok.com/outdoors/2009/08/26/more-on-the-former-glory-days-of-purcell-city-lake/ The Oklahoman's Ed Godfrey is your guide to the great outdoors Wed, 15 May 2013 19:50:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: patrick Stewart http://blog.newsok.com/outdoors/2009/08/26/more-on-the-former-glory-days-of-purcell-city-lake/comment-page-1/#comment-780 patrick Stewart Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:18:03 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/outdoors/2009/08/26/more-on-the-former-glory-days-of-purcell-city-lake/#comment-780 I almost fell out of my seat after reading the story on he big bass caught at Purcell lake. Back in 1996 I took the day off from my job at W.H. STEWART . I fished purcell lake a lot during that time. On this perticular day;Oct.24, around seven that morning, I was fishing the first fishing landing just across from the golf course And low and behold I hooked this bass on the south side of the landing just off the bank while throwing a buzz bait ,No skirt just a blue salted crawfish when this monster fish latched on I knewt was a good fish and when I landed him I loaded all my gear headed straight for some scales . I stopped at the grocery store in purcell but they would not let me put the fish on the scale. I proceeded on back toward nornan and passed propane dealer ,who had a set of scale ,the kind where the weight hung above a rolling table scale. The guy commented that the fish might weigh 5 pound or so ,but I knew better having caught more than my share of fish larger that five pound . I proceed down to Denver Corner and placed the fish in the live well until they could go to the house and get the scales. After weighing the the fish , it tip the scale at 11 pounds. Mind you that the fish had now been transported from Purcell to Lake Thunderbird. After taking pictures I released the fish Into the Lake. It swam away but I don’t know if it survived. Little did I know that this was probably a lake record fish. I have the pictures to prove it.

]]> By: Lynn http://blog.newsok.com/outdoors/2009/08/26/more-on-the-former-glory-days-of-purcell-city-lake/comment-page-1/#comment-776 Lynn Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:57:13 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/outdoors/2009/08/26/more-on-the-former-glory-days-of-purcell-city-lake/#comment-776 After the grass carp ate all the grass, fisherman finished it off by taking all the good bass out of the lake. It was easy pickens as the bass went to any cover they could find after the milfoil was all gone, that was in 1995. I went there one day and some idiot had caught several 4′s and 5′s and just left them laying dead in the gravel parking lot.

I personally caught and released an 8# 8 oz fish in that year.

There was an annual mini boat tournament on the lake that I heard drew up to 50 teams. I never fished the tournament, but they say it was just a big carousel of mini boats going round and round the lake. If ya did not have fish by 9 am, there was no shot.

Fishing the outside edges of the milfoil with Sluggos was great. And there were ditches and creek channels where the milfoil grew on the flats and they made great edge cover with deep water near.

It was a great little lake in its day and was not a long drive from the metro. And there were no permits necessary. No over priced fees to pay.

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