Headed to OKC, Oklahoma area

[Wayloncle]

Once again it is time for us to move, we are moving to Enid, OK around August of this year.
We have been in Italy for 2 years, I miss the boat!
I’m excited to get back to the states and be fairly close to family, I’m from AR and my brother lives just across the border in North Texas close to Texoma.

I see a few people on the member map that live in Enid, I was wondering what the closest nice lake would be to Enid. I see several on the map within 1.5-2 hour drive but I don’t know much about the lakes around there.
@Jeffcpeel
@Steve20

Any insight?
@Jay-Jay
@NaughtySailor

 

[Scottintexas]

@djetok

 

[djetok]

Once again it is time for us to move, we are moving to Enid, OK around August of this year.
We have been in Italy for 2 years, I miss the boat!
I’m excited to get back to the states and be fairly close to family, I’m from AR and my brother lives just across the border in North Texas close to Texoma.

I see a few people on the member map that live in Enid, I was wondering what the closest nice lake would be to Enid. I see several on the map within 1.5-2 hour drive but I don’t know much about the lakes around there.
@Jeffcpeel
@Steve20

Any insight?
@Jay-Jay
@NaughtySailor

I am guessing you are going to the Air base in Enid. August it will be HOT and Humid! Be prepared.

Sooner lake

is probably the closest. I have not been on it. I have heard its a nice lake that is not busy at all.

Foss Lake
Its in the Clinton, OK area. I have never been there and its a very large lake (reservoir)
Keystone Lake
Keystone is roughly (Mannford)1.5 hours from Enid. Its a larger lake with a lot of Marinas. Its a fun lake that has deep channels and shallow area just off the channels. It has the Arkansas river as a tributary and is the main channel. You can have homes with docks (non corps lake)
good fishing lake there are a lot of spoonbill, stripers, hybrids, cat fish
Water clarity - murky mud bottom

Skiatook Lake
100 miles from Enid
I grew up on this lake and it is a gorgeous Lake. Its a corps lake so no lakeside homes or docks. There are an abundance of ramps and the best one for you is Black dog park. Twin points is closer but you will be in the tributary system and end up going to Black Dog. From Black dog simply go east and then under the hwy 20 bridge. Once out of the no wake zone there is a Large Island in front of you. On the West side of the Island there is usually 50 to 100 boats floating and partying. On the East side there is a cove that is protected and is great for skiing and wake boarding. You continue to go east to the large open water and the Marinas. Its a decent size lake that is not overcrowded at all. From Black dog to the Dam is about a 30 to 40 minute cruise.

fishing
large and smallmouth , Hybrid (5-12 lbers), crappie, and some cat fish.

Water clarity - 10 foot visibility on a busy lake day. It is a very clear lake with a lot of rock bottom.

Kaw lake

This is a very nice lake that is in between Keystone (larger) and Skiatook in size. All three lakes are good size lakes. This is a great fishing lake for the normal fishing crappie, bass and hybrids. great for floating , camping and fishing

water clarity - ??? I haven't been there is 20 years as it is too close to Skiatook

Canton Lake

is south of Enid , I have never been there , but have heard good things. Its about a third the size of Skiatook.

You could always come slum with us at Arcadia in Edmond. Its a small lake with ramps, camping, parks. With its smaller size there are almost as many boats on arcadia as there are on Skiatook which is 10 x the size.



Here is a wiki list of lakes and sizes List of lakes in Oklahoma - Wikipedia
Lake Capacity Surface acres Depth Clarity

Lake Texoma	2,643,000	88,000 acres (35,612 ha)	30 feet (9.1 m)	average to excellent
Eufaula Lake	2,314,000	105,500	22	poor to excellent
Grand Lake o' the Cherokees	1,515,416[4]	41,779[4]	36.3[4]	average to excellent
Broken Bow Lake	918,070	14,200	65	excellent
Tenkiller Ferry Lake	654,100	12,900	51	excellent
Keystone Lake	557,600	23,610	23	average
Oologah Lake	553,400	29,640	19	average
Robert S. Kerr Reservoir	525,700	43,800	12	poor
Foss Reservoir	437,000	8,800		average
Kaw Lake	428,600	17,040	25	poor to average
Fort Gibson Lake	355,200	14,900	24	good
Skiatook Lake	322,700	10,190	32	good
Sardis Lake	274,330	13,610	20	average
Waurika Lake	203,100	10,100	20	average
Markham Ferry Reservoir (Lake Hudson)	200,300	10,900	18	average
Webbers Falls Lake	170,100	11,600	15	average
Hugo Lake	157,600	13,250	12	poor
Lake Murray	153,250	5,728	27	excellent
Sooner Lake	149,000	5,400	28	excellent
Lake Altus-Lugert	132,830	6,260	21	fair
Atoka Lake	125,000	5,700	22	poor
Lake Thunderbird	119,600	6,070	20	average
McGee Creek Reservoir	113,930	3,810	30	excellent
Canton Lake	111,310	7,910	14	average
Tom Steed Reservoir	109,276	6,400	-	-
Lake Ellsworth	92,500	5,600	17	fair to poor
Lake Stanley Draper	87,296	2,900	30	good
Fort Cobb Reservoir	80,010	4,100	20	average
Lake Eucha	79,600	2,860	28	excellent
Lake Hefner	75,000	2,500	30	good
Lake of the Arbuckles	72,400	2,350	31	excellent
Wister Lake	61,423	7,300	9	average
Carl Blackwell Lake	61,500	3,370	18	average
Lake Lawtonka	56,574	2,398	24	good
Pine Creek Lake	53,750	3,750	14	good
Lake W. R. Holway, formerly Chimney Rock Lake	48,000	712	67	excellent
Copan Lake	43,400	4,850	9	average
Lake Spavinaw	38,000	1,584	24	excellent
Great Salt Plains Lake	31,240	8,690	4	poor
Hulah Lake	31,160	3,570	9	poor
Arcadia Lake	27,520	1,820	15	average
Chouteau Reservoir	23,840	2,270
Konawa Reservoir	23,000	1,350	17	excellent
Shawnee Twin Lake, No. l	22,600	1,336	17	good
Fuqua Lake	21,100	1,500	14	average
Lake McMurtry	19,733	1,155	17	average
Birch Lake	19,200	1,137	17	good
Bluestem Lake	17,000	762	22	average
Dripping Springs Lake	16,200	1,150	14	excellent
Bellcow Lake	15,613	1,153	14	average
Lake Overholser	13,526[5]	1,581[5]	16.9 max[5]	fair to poor
Greenleaf Lake	14,720	920	16	good
Lake Ponca	14,440	805	18	good
Okmulgee Lake	14,170	668	21	good
Wes Watkins Reservoir	14,065	1,142	12	good
Fort Supply Lake	13,900	1,820	8	fair to poor
Lake McAlester	13,398	1,521	9	average
Lake R. C. Longmire	13,162	918	14	good
Okemah Lake	13,100	761	17	average
Elmer Thomas Lake	12,000	334	36	excellent
Lake Humphreys	11,900	840	14	good
Chickasha Lake	11,480 (est)	820	14	good
Holdenville Lake	11,000	550	20	average to good
Lake Yahola

 

[Wayloncle]

@djetok

yessir, we will be at Vance AFB, we will be living on base.
Thanks! I read a lot about Skiatook I’m sure we will go there some.
I’m from AR and have lived in MO, Wichita, San Antonio, and Panama City most of my adult life, so I’m not afraid of the heat and humidity?

I’m surprised to see Sooner Lake in the Excellent range for clarity, I just assumed it’d be murkyish since it’s smaller. I’m excited to check out the lakes and find our “go to”. This has been a long 2 years that I haven’t even been in the states at all.
My brother has kept my boat for me in Whitesboro, TX.

 

[jawsf16]

@Wayloncle
Lived at Vance for five years. In-laws live in Tulsa. PM me and I can give you some detailed info

 

[buckbuck]

Wow @jawsf16 , glad to see you are still hanging around.
@Wayloncle are you concerned about the coronavirus coming back with you?

 

[Wayloncle]

Wow @jawsf16 , glad to see you are still hanging around.
@Wayloncle are you concerned about the coronavirus coming back with you?

I’m not concerned......maybe y’all should be??
We are in the region (FVG North East Italy) that is not affected, yet. There are travel restrictions and schools have been closed for 2 weeks, any event with more than a few people are being cancelled. Theaters are closed.....the base is following the locals on what is closed and restrictions, plus some. My wife’s career field and degrees are in Public Health, so we are aware and take precautions, our kids have grown up not being germaphobes but washing their hands and not touching their face and such, unfortunately not everyone is like that and the culture around here is no personal space so I can see why it spread so quick in Italy.
hopefully it will burn off in the spring like the flu sort of does.

 

[PEARCE]

@Wayloncle first off, thank you for your service. Second, glad ya'll are coming back to the states and your boat is still here waiting on ya.
@djetok thanks for the rundown on so many of the Oklahoma lakes. I know Texoma and Broken Bow pretty good and we've been on Lake Murray once for our gathering one summer when we stayed in the floating cabins. Those are awesome, but expensive! The lake was nice too. Just not real big though.