HI All
Saturday started cool (high 40′s) and moved to cold after noon. My grandson (Josh) and I decided to explore Osage Hills State Park located off Hwy 60 heading West from Bartlesville. OSH is a great little state park deep within the Osage Hills. It comes with cabins to rent, conference room, swimming pool, lake, and Sand Creek which flows on the back side.
Of course with a 8 year old explorer there was plenty of suspense as to what we were going to see and OSH did not disappoint. We came into the creek area around the south bend where a cave was located in the high bluffs and a couple of sets of small water ripples. We did not get to explore the cave as I did not have my waders on, and did not let me little explorer make the trip alone!
We did however work our way around the bend heading more to the rock slabs where several pools of water, and water falls are. Walking through the rocks was treat enough. We did (or I should say I did) some fishing but no hits were noted. There was 1 additonal fisherman (Fly) who was working the area before we arrived and he indicated after 2 hours he had no hits as well. We both tried traditional top water poppers, and nymphs with indicators but not much reaction. Water temp was in the 40′s.
Park ranger did indicate that the water level was up, and we should see some action for crappie/catfish, but we were not serving what they wanted that day.
For those who want to kiddos fishing this is a real good spot, water is very accessable and there are good exploring points up and down for those who look forward to that. Creek is accessable via a short walk from the swimming pool parking lot.
I would think it would be a great place in the Spring and Summer as well – we will be giving it a try for sure!
