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C&T Bay Charters - Fishing Corpus Christi, Baffin Bay and Rockport
Fishing Report for TEXOMA
Water fairly clear; 58-65 degrees; 5.95’ low; Black bass are fair on orange/gold Rouges, black/blue jig-n-pigs, and flukes. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs. Striped bass are fair to good on live shad, slabs, and Pencil Poppers. Catfish are fair to good on nightcrawlers, stinkbait, and cut shad. |
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Subject: Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report. Saturday, December 1, 2001.
Lake level: 617.34. Water Temperature: 58 degrees. Water clarity: Clear.
Generation: 6:00 p.m. till 9 p.m. / one generator
Weather: low 45 / high 70 / south wind.
Fishing time: 6:30 a.m. till 12:30 p.m.
Temperatures were the highest on record for a November. This has kept the water warm. Stripers are feeding all over the lake. December will be an excellent time to try your luck lure fishing for a large striper. Sassy shad are working well west of the islands east to TI Point. From Platter Flats north to Newberry Creek live shad are catching limits of Silversides. We had four days off the lake this last week because of the cold front and icy precipitation. Saturday, Captain Joe Grigar took the Forest Sims group of three for a lure fishing adventure west of the Islands. They returned to the dock with a nice catch of stripers with a couple over five pounds. Captain Mike Blakely with the Thibodeaux brothers fished Newberry Creek with live shad and came in with a limit of silversides.
Black bass continue to be slow to fair to 4 lbs. Buzz baits, spinners, worms and jigs are all catching fish in 2-15 feet of water. Rouges are worth trying around floating structure.
Report submitted by: Tinker’s Striper Guide Service, http://www.tinker.net
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Subject: Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report. Monday, November 26, 2001.
Lake level: 617.28. Water Temperature: 63 degrees. Water clarity: Clear.
Generation: 6:00 p.m. till 9 p.m.
Weather: low 56 / high 71 / south wind / .30 inches of rain in November.
Fishing time: 6:30 a.m. till 12:30 p.m.
Stripers and sand bass are good on sassy shad and live bait. Eight pound and larger stripers are few and far between. Deep water close to the dam, Platter Flats, Rock Creek and the north Washita arm of the lake have been producing stripers for the last week. Captain Joe Grigar took Bradley Sanchez, Robert Stewart and Dennis Appleby out early Monday morning. Using live shad in the Big Glasses area they had boated a limit of silversides by 11:00a.m. plus a few nice sand bass. The Texoma forecast for the next few days: lows in the 20s and highs in the 40s with a 50% chance of perception. The weekend forecast looks much better with highs in the 70s.
Black bass are slow taking buzz baits, jig & pig and spinner baits in shallow water. Crankbaits and flukes are working on sand and points and around
boat houses.
Report submitted by: Tinker’s Striper Guide Service, http://www.tinker.net
To see pictures go to: http://www.tinker.net/fishpics21.html
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Subject: Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report. Saturday, November 10, 2001.
Lake level: 617.25. Water Temperature: 66 degrees. Water clarity: Clear.
Generation: 6:00 p.m. till 9 p.m.
Weather: low 45 / high 67 / light wind / .30 inches of rain in November.
Fishing time: 6:30 a.m. till 1:00 p.m. Homer, Charles, and Eland Turnbow and Jim Waller enjoyed a great morning fishing with Captain Joe Grigar. The Turnbow Real Estate group returned to the dock with 50 silversides to 4 pounds around 12:30 p.m. The silversides were feeding in large schools in the north Washita arm under birds. Drifting live shad in 8 to 30 feet of water produced most of the fish. Get out your cold and wet weather gear for the early bite in the morning. After the sun comes out, fall days are perfect to enjoy the excitement of catching the hard fighting stripers. Black bass continue to be fair to 4 lbs. taking spinners, crankbaits, soft jerk baits and top waters in shallow water on main and secondary points. Sandbass mixed with stripers are good on live bait, sassy shads and topwaters under birds and on windy banks. Crappie good in baited stalls and brush piles. Catfish are good on cut or prepared bait. Report submitted by: Tinker’s Striper Guide Service, http://www.tinker.net
To see pictures go to: http://www.tinker.net/fishpics19.html
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Subject: Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report. Wednesday, October 24, 2001.
Lake level: 617.43. Water Temperature: 68 degrees. Water clarity: Clear.
Generation: 3:00pm to 10pm. Weather: low 73 / high 88 / windy / 4.55 in. rain in October.
Fishing time: 7:00 a.m. till noon, Sunday, October 21. Captain Joe Grigar took the Joe Bowyer family for an exciting family outing. They returned to the dock with 25 silversides around noon. The silversides will be feeding in large schools until the water gets to cold in December. Get out your cold and wet weather gear for the early bite in the morning. After the sun comes out, fall days are perfect to enjoy the excitement of catching the hard fighting stripers. Stripers to 8 lbs. are eating flukes, white spinner baits and Sassy Shad on windy points. Live bait in deep water working well in the afternoon. Stripers were generally slow over the last weekend. Bass are slow to 6 lbs. Buzz baits, jigs and flukes or spinner baits are working best in 1-15 feet of water. Try windy points. Catfish are good on jug lines and cut shad is working well around boathouses on rod and reel. Crappie are being caught off deep ledges and deep brush piles on small shad. Sandbass good in 10-35 feet of water in the mouths of major creeks using live shad and small plastic baits under feeding birds.
Report submitted by: Tinker’s Striper Guide Service, http://www.tinker.net
To see pictures go to: http://www.tinker.net/fishpics16.html
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Subject: Lake Texoma Summer Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report. Sunday, October 7, 2001.
Lake level: 615.96. Water Temperature: 75 degrees. Water clarity: Clear.
Generation: 3:00pm to 10pm.
Weather: low 57 / high 74 / light wind / 0 rain in October.
Fishing time: 7:00 a.m. till 11:30 a.m.
Captains Joe Grigar, Mike Blakely and Doug Smith left the dock around seven A.M. with the Dickey group from Oklahoma City. Drifting live shad in the Washita River arm and anchoring on ledges they caught over 150 stripers before returning to the dock. With the help of the feeding gulls, finding the fish was relatively easy. The stripers aren’t as large as they usually are at this time of year, but are getting healthier each week. Fishing just gets better and better each day. The silversides will be feeding in large schools until the water gets to cold in December. Get out your cold and wet weather gear for the early bite in the morning. After the sun comes out, fall days are perfect to enjoy the excitement of catching the hard fighting stripers.
Report submitted by: Tinker’s Striper Guide Service, http://www.tinker.net
To see pictures go to: http://www.tinker.net/fishpics16.html
Black Bass are slow to fair on spinners, worms and crankbaits to 4 lbs. Brush piles, rock points and sand drops are good in 1-15 feet of water. No reports on crappie. Sandbass are mixed with stripers hitting flukes and topwaters on main lake points in shallow water. Catfish remain good on prepared bait.
Report submitted by professional black bass guide J. B. Webb.
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Tinker's Striper Guide
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Subject: Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report. Monday and Tuesday, October 1 & 2, 2001.
Lake level: 615.99. Water Temperature: 76 degrees. Water clarity: Clear.
Generation: 3:00pm to 10pm.
Weather: low 53 / high 77 / cloudy / light wind.
Fishing time: 7:00 a.m. till 11:30 a.m.
The lake has been rising slowly for the last two months. The water temperature has also been cooling down slowly. With no drastic changes, the fish have been feeding regularly.
Captain Joe Grigar left the dock just before seven both mornings with Randy and Larry Meggison, Todd Bailey and Elmer Eckhoff from Topeka, Kansas. Monday morning they went west to The Cross. By 8:30 they had boated thirty-eight stripers. Joe pulled anchor and headed east to find some larger silversides. Stopping at several spots from Two Rivers to north of the Frisco Bridge the group caught 65 stripers and headed to the dock with 50 fish in the box. This search proved to be valuable for the following mornings fishing. With what they had learned on Monday, Joe headed north, fishing both sides of the Washita River. After landing 113 stripers using live shad in 5 feet to 30 feet of water they headed in with 50 nice silversides in the box. You can see in the pictures, Tuesday’s fish were larger than Monday’s. The stripers aren’t as large as they usually are at this time of year, but are getting healthier each week. A lot of the fish are too small to keep and have to be returned to the lake.
Report submitted by: Tinker’s Striper Guide Service, http://www.tinker.net
To see pictures go to: http://www.tinker.net/fishpics16.html
Bass fishing is fair on white Spinner baits and Topwaters around new flooded weeds and main lake points. Worms- jigs in brush piles and around floats also taking fish. Flukes fished on sand drops also working. Crappie good on minnows in baited stalls. Catfish good on prepared and cut bait.
Report submitted by professional guide J. B. Webb.
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Subject: Lake Texoma Summer Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report. Saturday, September 22, 2001.
Lake level: 614.61 Water Temperature: 79 degrees. Water clarity: Clear.
Generation: 7:00pm to 10pm.
Weather: low 62 / high 79 / cloudy /dense fog.
Fishing time: 6:30 a.m. till 12:30 p.m.
The morning started out great with six boats loaded with anxious fishermen. After less than an hour of fishing a dense fog came over the lake. Before the fog, everyone was catching stripers. When the fog hit the bite slowed and the guides couldn’t see to move safely. The two boats that had made it west behind the Islands before the fog came in caught fifty fish each. By the time the other four boats could get across the lake it was all over and they had to come in without a limit of silversides. A lot of the fish are too small to keep and have to be returned to the lake. If you ever wanted to topwater fish, now is the time to come to Lake Texoma and enjoy the action. We have gotten over five inches of rain this month. As the surface water cools down and the lake is on the rise, the lunkers will start feeding and gain weight fast.
Warning!!! Be careful!!! The lake is coming up, but it is still very low. Watch for the shallow points and floating logs and save a lower unit.
Report submitted by: Tinker’s Striper Guide Service, http://www.tinker.net
To see pictures go to: http://www.tinker.net/fishpics16.html
Bass are good up to 5 lbs. Try fishing shallow early with buzz baits or topwaters. White jigs fished around brush piles and docks taking fish as well as worms and soft plastics. Crappie are fair in baited stalls and over brush piles. Catfish good on live and prepared baits around cleaning stations and deeper points. Report submitted by professional guide J. B. Webb.
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Subject: Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Topwater Action On Lake Texoma. Saturday, September 15, 2001.
Lake level: 613.87. Water Temperature: 79 degrees. Water clarity: Clear.
Generation: 7:00pm to 10pm.
Weather: low 65 / high 80 / cloudy /rain/light wind.
Fishing time: 6:30 a.m. till 9:30 a.m.
The Post Properties employees left the dock at daylight with Captains Joe, Doug, Mike, Kraig, Rex, Mitch and Sparky for a successful morning of striper fishing. Casting into six inches to twenty-four inches of water with weighted bobbers with live bait inches under the bobber produced 196 silversides. A lot of the fish are over twenty inches long and a lot of them are too small to keep and have to be returned to the lake. When you see one fish break the water real close to the bank, stop and anchor or use your trolling motor to hold the boat off the bank. Cast your bait right up against the bank and begin your retrieve. You will be surprised to find out you can catch a limit on one stop. Most of the boats had a limit before 9:30am. It began to rain and all the boats headed for the boathouse where pictures were taken and the fish were cleaned for a fish fry at the PVES community center. Everyone had plenty to eat and most had fillets to take home. If you ever wanted to topwater fish, now is the time to come to Lake Texoma and enjoy the action. We have gotten over four and a half inches of rain this month. As the surface water cools down and the lake is on the rise, the lunkers will start feeding and gain weight fast.
Warning!!! Be careful!!! The lake is coming up, but it is still very low. Watch for the shallow points and floating logs and save a lower unit.
Report submitted by: Tinker’s Striper Guide Service, http://www.tinker.net
To see pictures go to: http://www.tinker.net/fishpics15.html
Bass are good up to 5 lbs. Try fishing shallow early with buzz baits or topwaters. White jigs fished around brush piles and docks taking fish as well as worms and soft plastics. Crappie are fair in baited stalls and over brush piles. Catfish good on live and prepared baits around cleaning stations and deeper points. Report submitted by professional guide J. B. Webb.
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Subject: Topwater Action On Lake Texoma
Topwater Action On Lake Texoma. Saturday, September 8, 2001.
Lake level: 613.14. Water Temperature: 81 degrees. Water clarity: Stained.
Generation: N/A
Weather: low 66 / high 84 / cloudy /windy.
Fishing time: 6:30 a.m. till 11:30 a.m.
The Ingersol-Rand employees left the dock at daylight with Captains Joe, Rex, Mitch and Sparky for a successful morning of striper fishing. Each boat found a rocky point that the wind was blowing into and anchored in about three feet of water. Casting into six inches of water with topwaters or weighted bobbers with live bait a few inches under the bobber produced limits of silversides for every boat. A lot of the fish are over twenty inches long and have to be returned to the lake. “What a problem to have”. When you see one fish break the water real close to the bank, stop and anchor or use your trolling motor to hold the boat off the bank. Cast your bait right up against the bank and begin your retrieve. You will be surprised to find out you can catch a limit on one stop. If you ever wanted to topwater fish, now is the time to come to Lake Texoma and enjoy the action. We have gotten over three inches of rain this month. As the surface water cools down and the lake is on the rise, the lunkers will start feeding and gain weight fast.
Warning!!! Be careful!!! The lake is coming up, but it is still very low. Watch for the shallow points and floating logs and save a lower unit.
Report submitted by: Tinker’s Striper Guide Service, http://www.tinker.net
To see pictures go to: http://www.tinker.net/fishpics16.html
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Subject: Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Striper Fishing On Lake Texoma Wednesday, September 5, 2001.
Lake level: 613.07. Water Temperature: 81 degrees. Water clarity: Stained.
Generation: one unit 6:00 p.m. till 7:00 p.m.
Weather: low 69 / high 78 / cloudy /scattered rain.
Fishing time: 6:40 a.m. till 11:30 a.m.
Captain Joe Grigar left the dock at 6:40 a.m. with two fishermen. By 9:30 they had caught only eight small fish behind the Islands. After searching the north bank, the north side of the river channel and the Oklahoma Flats area Mr. and Mrs. Robert Phillips finished up their limit using live shad in two to four feet of water against the bank in the Washita arm of the lake. They only caught one twenty+ inch silverside and threw back several short fish. As you can see in the pictures, the silversides are beginning to show stress from the hot summer water. A new spawn of shad is being seen in the shallow water around the banks and boat docks. They grow very fast and as soon as they make it toward the main lake everything should turn around and we will start catching the twenty+ inch silversides that Lake Texoma is popular for. We have gotten three inches of rain this month. As the surface water cools down and the lake is on the rise, the lunkers will start feeding.
Warning!!! Be careful!!! The lake is coming up, but it is still very low. Watch for the shallow points and floating logs and save a lower unit.
Report submitted by: Tinker’s Striper Guide Service, http://www.tinker.net
To see pictures go to: http://www.tinker.net/fishpics14.html
Bass to 5 lb. are fair to good on spinners and worms in brush. Crankbaits on rocky gravel banks shallow are catching some fish. Flukes, Jigs or Road Runners around docks are still working. Smallmouth are good at night with full moon on rock banks. Crappie are very slow. Report submitted by professional guide J. B. Webb
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Subject: Early Spring Fishing On Lake Texoma
Lake Texoma Early Spring Fishing Report
Thursday, March 20, 2003
Water pool level: 614.01, normal annual pool level is 617 feet.
Water temperature: 48 degrees. Water clarity: clear.
Generating from 6:00 to 7:00 AM and 7:00 to 8:00 PM
Today was partly cloudy with a strong north wind, low 46 degrees, and high 54 degrees. March precipitation has been .92 inches. The extended forecast is for cool mornings with afternoon temperatures rising to the higher 60s to lower 70s. There is a 30% chance of rain Saturday.
April 21 is the first day of spring and May is just around the corner. Make your plans early to get out on Lake Texoma and enjoy the excellent spring fishing. One of the best ways to catch fish is to go with a professional guide. These experienced fishermen have modern and safe striper boats with the latest electronics, bait tanks and fishing equipment. They fish nearly every day so they know how to catch fresh shad for bait each day and also keep up with where the elusive silversides are schooling.
Warming water temperatures are getting the stripers excited. They are being caught in water two feet deep to 40 feet deep. Most of the females are already carrying rolls of green roe. If western Oklahoma and the panhandle of Texas get a heavy rain we could see an early spawn in April. As all of you know, when the silversides come back from spawning their bellies are empty and they are very hungry. Jigs, slabs, live shad and cut bait will all catch you a nice striper. I would like to share a story with you about early spring stripers get into a feeding frenzy. It was around 1:00 PM on a nice May afternoon. I had three fishermen in the boat. We were drifting the Oklahoma flats between Mac Creek and Roads End about two hundred yards north of the Red River. The guys had caught their limit before noon and we were catching and releasing small stripers and sandies. The bait was getting low so I started cutting the shad in half. An older gentleman in the back of the boat said “give them fellers the shad. I can catch these thangs on anythang.” I watched as he opened an individual size candy bar, put it in his mouth and to my surprise put the foil wrapper on his hook and made a long cast. He made about six turns on the reel and jerked. Of course, I thought he was just goofing around. The next thing I saw was him landing a seventeen inch striper. He said “see thar, I told ya’ll I could catch one on anythang. Well, I can’t remember his name, but I will never forget that day. If you have a funny or unusual fishing story, email it to tinker@tinker.net and I will share it with the other readers.
The Sooner state blue catfish record was broken last weekend. Ardmore resident Rusty Keeton was using shad gizzards Sunday, March 16 while fishing on Lake Texoma near Briar Creek when he hooked the 87 pound, 4 ounce blue cat. After fighting the fish for thirty minutes on a little inexpensive rod and reel combo with 25 pound line he got the big fish to the boat. Already tired from reeling and pulling he had another problem of landing the big blue without a landing net. He grabbed what he could and somehow rolled him into the boat. Thanks to Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation fisheries technician Randel Currie being able to keep the fish alive, it was weighed on certified scales at the ODWC regional office in Caddo. The big blue cat was 53 inches long and had a girth of 35¼ inches. The previous state record, an 85 pound, four ounce blue cat was taken from Lake Ellsworth in December 1999 by Dale Dennis. The Lake Texoma rod and reel record blue catfish was caught on the Texas side of the lake from the bank at Eisenhower State Park. It weighed 100 pounds.
Largemouth bass are hitting Excalibur Fat Free Fry in Tennessee Shad color, Road Runner Marabou Jigs and Mad Man Lizards. This is the time of the year to try your favorite spinnerbait or buzzbait. Check out your boat and fishing gear and get on the water. Spring is almost here and bass fishing should only get better.
Monday, Justin Baty and his son Landon enjoyed Spring Break spending a morning on Lake Texoma fishing with Guide Chris Campbell. Landon caught his largest fish ever. It weighed eight pounds and was thirty-four inches long. His dad sent it to the taxidermist to have a trophy made for Landon.
Report submitted by: Tinker’s Striper Guide Service, http://www.tinker.net
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Subject: Lake Texoma Winter Fishing Report
Lake Texoma Winter Fishing Report
Thursday, February 20, 2003
Water pool level: 614.22, normal annual pool level is 617 feet.
Water temperature: 46 degrees. Water clarity: clear.
Generating from 6:00 to 8:00 AM and 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Today was partly cloudy with a light north wind, low 44 degrees, and high 49 degrees. February precipitation has been 1.14 inches. The extended forecast is for cold mornings with afternoon temperatures rising to the lower 50s and occasional rain.
Jug line fishing the river channels with cut shad or prepared bait is producing catches of 15 to 60 pound blue cats. Rod and reel fishing from the bank near Rock Creek (Red River) is also producing some large stringers of blue and channel cats. This is also an ideal spot to jug line. Several reports of good catches have been reported just outside of Catfish Bay on the Washita arm of the lake. Using your sonar, locate large schools of shad near the river channel in 35 to 45 feet of water. Anchor your boat as close to the channel ledge as possible. The catfish are coming up on the ledge to feed on the schools of shad. Danny King’s Punch Bait is working very well in this situation.
Black bass fishing continues to be good and getting better with limits over 19 pounds being reported. Shad colored Fat Free Fry’s are working well. Any shad colored crankbait seems to be catching bass along rocky banks, mouths of coves and in marinas. When the shallow water begins to warm the cold blooded bass will run in and out of the shallows. Making a long cast will be the key to fishing the bass when they are running into the sunshine. Check out your boat and fishing gear and get on the water. Spring is almost here and bass fishing should only get better.
A great way to land a big striper is fishing live shad 30 feet deep in 35 to 50 feet of water. Stripers are feeding on the upper ends of the lake where the rivers come into the lake. Our stripers are already forming roe and milt, staging for an early spawn in the mouths of the Red and Washita rivers .Sassy shad are working well west of the islands east to TI Point. This is a good time of the year to start your fishing trip around 10:00 a.m. or later.
Christine Flores from Mesquite, Texas won the free fishing trip plus lodging for two at the Mesquite Sports Show. She and the family came to Lake Texoma to fish February 10, 2003. They left the dock around 10:00 am. The best action started in the afternoon when a 19.1 pound striper was landed by Christine. They ended the day bringing 17 silversides to the cleaning table, except for the big’un, which will go on the wall. Guide Roger Hill had the couple drift fishing live shad in the area west of the Willis Bridge.
The Brent Mills party from Fritch Texas landed 32 stripers to 10 lbs. 11 oz. on Wednesday, February 19, 2003. They were drift fishing live shad with guide Roger Hill.
Report submitted by: Tinker’s Striper Guide Service, http://www.tinker.net
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Subject: Texoma Holiday Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Monday, December 2, 2002
Water pool level: 617.51, normal annual pool level is 617 feet.
Water temperature: 56 degrees. Water clarity: clear.
Generating 5 pm till 8 pm.
Partly cloudy with a light north wind, low 44 degrees, high 65 degrees.
The forecast for the next two days is 100% chance of rain, cold mornings with afternoon temperatures rising to the higher 40s and lower 50s.
The best way to land a striper is fishing live shad 30 feet deep in 35 to 50 feet of water. Stripers are feeding all over the lake. They will continue to feed as long as the water temperature stays in the 50’s. December is a good month to try your skills lure fishing for a large striper. Sassy shad are working well west of the islands east to TI Point. This is a good time of the year to start your fishing trip around 11:00 a.m. or later.
Don’t miss out on this excellent winter fishing for the big catfish. Many people enjoy putting out jug lines with one to three hooks baited with cut shad or live perch, then striper fishing for an hour or so, returning to run their jug lines and land a big cat. On the colder days, put your baited jug lines out and return to the boat house for an hour or so to warm up and enjoy drinks, dominos, cards or just some good ole fishing stories. Run your lines, re-bait and start all over again. A fishing guide can be a big help with catching your bait and showing you where to place your lines. Bring plenty of clothing and wet weather gear. Remember, you can always take a layer off if you get too hot, but if you don’t have it you can’t put it on.
Black bass are fair to good in shallow water on spinner baits, Carolina rigs, and chrome with blue back Rat-L-Traps. Crappie are fair on minnows and jigs over brush piles. Catfish excellent on jug lines to 50 lbs.
Located in the central flyway of the United States, the Red River Valley has acres of forage and flooded timber to enable mallard, pintail, widgeon, gadwall, teal and a variety of geese to use this area for a resting stop on their migration south. Duck season ends January 26, 2003.
Report submitted by: Tinker’s Striper Guide Service, http://www.tinker.net
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Subject: Texoma Fall Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Tuesday, November 5, 2002
Water pool level: 617.25, normal annual pool level is 617 feet.
Water temperature: 66 degrees. Water clarity: clear.
Generating one unit 7 pm till 10 pm.
Partly cloudy with a light west wind, low 40 degrees, high 62 degrees.
The forecast for the next few days is for cool mornings with afternoon temperatures rising to the higher 60s and lower 70s.
The stripers are making a false span run up both rivers. Sixty-six degree water temperature is their ideal spawning temperature and the stripers make these runs early every year. When the water cools down below fifty-five they will return to the main body of the lake to feed on the plentiful shad and form their roe and milt. Then in early spring when the waters warm back up to sixty-six degrees they will make their annual spawn run.
After the sun comes out, fall days are perfect to enjoy the excitement of catching the hard fighting stripers. Check out the pictures on my website and you will see that the afternoon fishing is great.
With the help of the feeding gulls, finding the fish is relatively easy. Fishing under the birds isn’t as easy as it might seem. There are several dos and don’ts to fishing under feeding gulls. I will go through just a few of the most important ones.
DO - look for the direction the birds are headed as they dive and feed. Then move up ahead of them and wait or drift back with the wind. Shad feed into the wind and the birds and fish follow the bait. While there are generally some fish behind them most will be under or just ahead of the flock.
DON’T - run through the birds or crowd in when other anglers are fishing the feeding birds. This will scatter the shad. The birds will leave and the stripers will chase the scattered shad.
DO – look for the big gray and white gulls, they don't often mislead fishermen. When they are diving you can count on fish just beneath the surface and occasionally breaking water. These fish are generally less than 10-15 feet deep when feeding.
DON’T – chase after the smaller white gulls with the black heads. They will often act like they are feeding, circling and diving and there won't be anything under them. Chasing after these small gulls will most likely be disappointing. Very few times you will actually find them over fish.
DO - use a pair of binoculars. If it's a sunny day, as the gulls circle and dive the sun reflects off the gulls and can be seen from a long ways off. Being able to tell if they are feeding or not before you head for them will save you time and gas.
DON’T – chase after gulls that are just circling and make sure they aren't just landing on the water. If they are just landing on the water, I would look elsewhere for some diving birds. The gulls that land in the lake will be sitting over schools of fish some of the time. These schools are generally down deep and not active. If the birds are sitting in the waters edge definitely look elsewhere.
Enough about the gulls, get out your cold and wet weather gear for the early bite in the morning. During fall weather, un-forecasted light rains and fog happen frequently in the mornings. Always bring some type of wet weather gear. Remember, the warm afternoons produce a lot of stripers this time of the year.
The bald eagles are starting to return to Lake Texoma. I have heard reports of a few being seen. They will show up in greater numbers as the weather begins to get colder.
Stay alert and always practice safe boating and respect the other fishermen. Have a fun-filled day on Lake Texoma.
Report submitted by: Tinker’s Striper Guide Service, http://www.tinker.net
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Subject: Lake Texoma Fishing
Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Tuesday, October 8, 2002
Water pool level: 615.41, normal annual pool level is 617 feet.
Water temperature: 77 degrees. Water clarity: clear.
Generating one unit 3 pm till 6 pm.
Light rain with a 10 mph east wind, low 58 degrees, high 69 degrees.
October striper fishing on Lake Texoma is super as usual. Limits are being caught on nearly every trip. Afternoon fishing is as productive as early morning fishing. The silversides are schooling in large groups. They are holding on structure in thirty to fifty-five feet of water. Live shad is the bait of choice now. Stripers are being caught west of the islands, south of Soldiers Creek Marina, two rivers, Washita River and the tabletop. If you have a good bait tank and can throw a net, it will be easy to catch shad and stripers. This is one of the best times of the year to fish Lake Texoma.
The air and water temperatures are excellent now. The rest of October and November will be great fishing. If the warm weather holds out, you should be able to catch fish from now till Christmas.
Blue catfish to 30 pounds are being caught on jug lines in 30 to 45 feet of water using cut shad. Blues are being caught on rod and reel using live shad in fifteen to thirty feet water from the bank or boathouses. After rains when fresh water is running into the major creeks, channel and blue catfish are being caught on prepared baits. One of the best I have found is Danny King's Punch Bait.
Fall bass fishing can be very exciting on Lake Texoma. Try free-lining live threadfin shad off the rip-rap at the dam and along the bluffs between rocky point and Eisenhower Marina for smallmouth. Largemouth and spotted bass can be caught using crank baits around brush and off rocky shorelines.
Remember, you do not need to be an accomplished fisherman to enjoy catching stripers with one of my experienced guides. Bring a Lake Texoma License, a cooler of drinks and wet weather gear and we will provide the rest for a fishing adventure. If you have a long drive or just want to come the day before or stay the night after your fishing trip, I will furnish you one night free lodging with each day of fishing.
Always practice safe boating and respect the other fishermen. During fall weather, un-forecasted light rains and fog happen frequently in the mornings. Always bring some type of wet weather gear. Stay alert and have a fun-filled day on Lake Texoma.
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Subject: Fall Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Friday, September 6, 2002
Water pool level: 616.38, normal annual pool level is 617 feet.
Water temperature: 82 degrees. Water clarity: clear.
Not generating.
Partly cloudy with a light East wind, low 77 degrees, high 92 degrees.
With the water temperature getting as high as 86 degrees, limits of stripers are being caught on a regular basis. Summer fishing nearly always produces a lot of small fish. If you are one of the lucky anglers there is a good chance of landing a large striper. The fish are unusually healthy for this time of the year. Several reports of ten to eighteen pound silversides were landed in July and August. The outlook for October and November fishing is very good. This is the first summer in over 10 years Texoma stripers have made it thru the heat and hot water without losing weight. The water temperature is already dropping, which usually doesn’t happen until the middle of September. The shad population is very high.
The Annual Performance Report for Lake Texoma, prepared by Texas Parks & Wildlife, showed a 31% increase in the population of stripers in 2001 with 10.5% of the sample population greater or equal to 20 inches. These conclusions were drawn from catch rates of stripers caught in gill netting sample sites in the winter & spring of 2001. Electro fishing in 2000 showed Smallmouth Bass decreased 45%; Spotted Bass increased 65%; Largemouth Bass decreased 41%. Gill netting and electro fishing sites were randomly selected. The accuracy percentage rate is very hard to determine from randomly picked sites on an 89,000 surface lake. Electro fishing results for Smallmouth, Spotted and Largemouth bass were not available for 2001.
The prospect for a bumper harvest is in store for fall and winter fishing on Lake Texoma. Come fish in September and October when a light jacket is all you will need to wear or get out the long johns and coveralls and fish in November and December. I always suggest to all anglers to bring some type of wet weather gear when fishing Texoma. A short shower or a little boat spray from a high wave can ruin an otherwise great fishing day if you are not prepared.
Mark Russell and seven friends left the boathouse around 6:30 a.m. with guides Joe Grigar and Matt Anderson. The conditions were just right for striper fishing on this humid September morning. There was only a slight east wind and partly cloudy skies. Joe and Matt had caught plenty of three to four inch shad earlier in the morning on the east side of the lake. It didn’t take long for the guides to find a large school of feeding silversides on the main body of the lake. Everyone baited up with the fresh live shad and started fishing about 30 feet deep. The fight was on and when the smoke cleared the tired fishermen had landed 85 stripers to 6 pounds and caught and released another 23. Everyone had an exciting fishing adventure and plenty of cleaned and bagged fillets to take home by noon.
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Subject: Lake Texoma & Red River Fishing Report
Lake Texoma & Red River Fishing Report
Water pool level: 618.19, normal annual pool level is 617 feet.
Water temperature: 86 degrees. Water clarity: clear.
The Corps is currently generating two units from 8am till midnight.
Airboat fishing the Red River below the Denison Dam has improved over the past two years. Anglers are catching limits of stripers daily. Twenty-plus pound silversides are not unusual. Ten-plus pound stripers are common. Using live shad produces fish faster and usually larger fish than artificial baits do. Landing a fifteen to fifty pound blue catfish while striper fishing with bait gets any fisherman’s adrenalin flowing. You can fish from an airboat or from the bank on both the Oklahoma and Texas side of the river. Remember to purchase an Oklahoma fishing license. All of the Red River is considered to be in Oklahoma to vegetation on the Texas bank. For non-residents, five day permits can be purchased for $10.00. Other types of non-resident licenses are available from the ODWC. The daily limit for striped bass in Oklahoma is five fish per person with no size limit. The combination catfish limit is fifteen. Catching and releasing striper is allowed as long as the fish is alive when released. No culling is allowed. The river can get crowded on the weekends. When planning a river trip, I suggest you pick a weekday.
The US Army Corps of Engineers controls all water flow through the dam. The Corps not only decides when the flood gates need to be opened, they also schedule all generation times. These vary from day to day. Call 903-465-1491 for a recorded message every weekday morning after 8:00 AM to hear lake conditions and generation schedules. You are reminded that unscheduled generation or flood discharge can happen at any time. Heed the warning signs and be aware of sudden water level changes.
There are many factors that affect fishing in the river. When the generators are on, drift fishing near the dam is the best method. This is also the best time to fish from the bank with bait or large topwater lures. When using live bait from the bank, put the bait about three feet below a weighted cork casting upstream letting the current carry the bait downstream. If all the water is off, there are many deep holes down river that hold fish. There are also plenty of rocks and sandbars visible. Walk out on these and use live bait free line or under a cork. This is a great opportunity to fly fish. After a heavy rain, inflow into the river from creeks muddies the water. This usually shuts the fish off for several hours. All water level changes will affect the fishing.
Brush piles around and in the deeper holes are great for catching large blues. The darker water can be seen from the driver’s seat of an airboat, which will identify the deeper water. Always stop your boat before you get to the hole you plan to fish. These holes vary in size from fifty feet diameter to fifty yards long. Driving your boat into the hole spooks the fish. Fish a hole for forty-five minutes to an hour and move on to another spot.
Lake Texoma topwater and slab fishing is good. Surfacing stripers are feeding from the dam to the islands early. Most of the surfacing silversides are small. Finding a school of larger top feeding stripers is very exciting. Sometimes the larger fish will knock your topwater lure eight to ten feet out of the water and strike it again when it hits the water. Several twenty inch+ stripers are being caught with slabs on flats just off the river channels under the smaller fish feeding above them. The best topwater lures are Zara Spooks, Pencil Poppers and Striper Swipers. After the fish are run down by the boats, tie on an ounce and a half or two ounce slab. The better colors have been green and white or chartreuse and white with a red dot.
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Subject: Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report
The lake elevation is 619.04, water temp. is 71 degrees and clear. June fishing started out great. Limits were caught on live shad. The early bite has been in 6 to 12 feet of water. If you didn’t catch your limit by 8:00 a.m. the fish would move to deeper water and it was tough to land one until late in the afternoon. The lake rose two feet in the last four days. It took the stripers a few days to adjust, making it hard to limit. The best places to fish are Platter Flats, McLaughlin Creek, Oklahoma flats and the rocks along the dam. The Silversides have adjusted to the rising water, which will make the rest of June and all of July and August real good fishing until the water temperature rises above 80 degrees. The topwater and slab fishing will get good in Striper Alley.
Black bass are good in numbers, small in size. Bass are taking jigs and flukes in 1-11 feet of water using a slow retrieve. Windy banks and points seem to be working the best. Big gar are causing excitement as they are hitting the same lures.
Always practice safe boating and respect the other fishermen. During hot weather, thunderstorms can pop up fast. Some of these can have lightening and very high winds. Stay alert and have a fun-filled day on the lake.
Report submitted by: Tinker’s Striper Guide Service, http://www.tinker.net
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Subject: Lake Texoma Spring Report
Lake Texoma Spring Fishing Report
Wednesday, May 8, 2002, temperature at sunrise was 69 degrees; high yesterday was 83; lake elevation is 616.83; water temperature is holding around 67 degrees and stained.
Captains Joe Grigar, Mike Blakely, Kraig Brabson and Dan Barnett left the boathouse at 6:15 A.M. Sunday morning with eleven of Hunnington Homes employees. They returned to the boathouse at 11:30 A.M. with our best catch so far this year. The winds were strong and a few anglers got a little wet. The high winds didn’t keep them from catching over 100 silversides and throwing back several fish over the 20” size limit. All of the fish were caught on live shad drifting in 10 to 15 feet of water and anchoring 35 feet deep on the table top.
About half of the fish have completed their spawn. Fishing will continue to get better as the last of the stripers spawn. Striper fishing is proving to be excellent in May. Afternoon fishing with live shad will catch a lot of large stripers in late June.
The Corps of Engineers are operating both generators at different times during the day. Airboat fishing the river is producing limits of stripers and some nice catfish. The afternoon catch has been the best.
Largemouth bass are good in flooded cover and on points. Fish are taking buzz baits early along with Crawdad Bomber crankbaits on points. Tubes, jigs and spinner baits in flooded brush and worms and Carolina rigs are working in deeper water.
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Subject: Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Sunday, April 28, 2002, temperature at sunrise was 70 degrees; high yesterday was 83. April precipitation was 3.96 inches and we have had 19.35 inches of rain this year. The wind started out gently from the SE this morning and changed to the NW at 10 -12 mph around 9:00 A.M.
Captains Joe Grigar, Mike Blakely, Matt Anderson and Shane Cessna left the boathouse at first light Sunday morning with four boats of eager anglers. They returned to the boathouse at 1:00 P.M. with happy faces. All boats had a good day and caught nice boxes of stripers drifting live shad in 10 to 35 feet of water.
The Corps of Engineers are operating both generators around the clock. The lake is muddy on the upper ends and stained towards the dam. The elevation is 617.94. The water temperature has come up to 64 degrees. Striper fishing should be excellent in May and June.
The first 15 days of April produced stripers up to 14.6 pounds. In the last half of April our largest silverside was only 8.5 pounds. The stripers being caught in shallow water have empty stomachs and the fish caught in deeper water are still full of roe and milt. This is a sure sign that the spawn is in full swing. Casting sassy shads into the shallows on points, flats and close to steep drop offs produce fish. Be alert for diving gulls. This is the sure sign that the dinner bell is ringing for schools of striper. Drifting live shad under the birds and on flats in shallow water produced most of the fish caught this last week.
Largemouth bass are good in flooded cover and on points. Fish are taking buzz baits early along with Crawdad Bomber crankbaits on points. Tubes, jigs and spinner baits in flooded brush and worms and Carolina rigs are working in deeper water.
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Subject: Lake Texoma Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
The Corps of Engineers are running two generators twenty-four/seven with the flood gates open to 20,000 CFS. The lake is covered with debris and muddy. At the beginning of March the lake level was 4 feet low at 613 feet and the water temperature was holding around 45 degrees 6 feet deep at the dam. Heavy March and April rains have raised the elevation to 620.55. The water temperature has come up to 56 degrees. Ideal temperatures for stripers to spawn are 57 to 65 degrees. With the water temperature rising 11 degrees since March 1, the forecast is for a normal spawn. Striper fishing should be excellent in May and June.
Fishing in late March and early April has been sporadic with some days great catches, others very few. The first 15 days of April produced stripers up to 14.6 pounds. They were caught on 1 to1.5 ounce sassy shad in water depths varying from 4’ to 20’. The flooded lake and frequent fronts have the silversides scattered. Casting sassy shads into the shallows on points, flats and close to steep drop offs produced fish. Be alert for diving gulls. This is the sign that the dinner bell is ringing for schools of striper. Get upwind and drift in, casting directly into the school. Your 4 inch sassy shad can be fished two different ways. Try letting it sink only a couple of feet and reel it in very fast or let it fall to the bottom and use a medium retrieve to keep the lure close to the bottom. Color choices vary. Glo, pearl, chartreuse and chartreuse with silver flakes have all produced stripers. You can use a permanent marker and put red or blue down the backs of glo and pearl bodies. Try dipping the tail of the glo or pearl body into a chartreuse garlic dye. I have tried all of these variations and found that it does make a difference depending on the water clarity and weather conditions
Sand bass are moving up stream into both river channels to spawn. Heavy stringers of crappie have been reported caught in the Big Mineral arm and around boathouses. Largemouth bass are slow to fair. Fish are hitting crankbaits and spinner baits in 3 to 10 feet of water. Carolina rigs with lizards and jigs are starting to work. Flooded vegetation and sand structure seems to produce best.
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Subject: Lake Texoma Spring Report
Lake Texoma Spring Fishing Report
Saturday, March 30, 2002
At the beginning of March the lake level was 4 feet low at 616 feet and the water temperature was holding around 45 degrees 6 feet deep at the dam. Heavy March rains in Oklahoma combined with 7.88 inches falling on the lake have raised the elevation to 616.25. The water temperature has come up to 53 degrees. We have seen temperatures in shallow water as high as 59 degrees.
Crappie and sand bass are loaded with roe and milt. The stripers are just beginning to form eggs. Ideal spawning temperatures for stripers to spawn are 57 to 65 degrees. Because of the long cold winter in 2001 the water stayed below 57 into late April. This caused a late spawn. May fishing was a little slower than normal. Most of the 10 to 30 pound silversides were caught in June and July. With the water temperature rising 8 degrees this March, the forecast is for a normal spawn. Striper fishing should be excellent in May and June.
The month of March produced several stripers over 8 pounds. They were caught on live bait and 1.5 ounce chartreuse sassy shad in water depths varying from 4’ to 70’. The frequent fronts and wind changes had the silversides moving in an out of shallow water. If the angler could get that first fish on his line in deep water the stripers would pile up under the boat in a feeding frenzy and several could be caught before the school left. If and when you found a few hooks on the sonar getting that first one on could be very hard. When the stripers could not be found hugging the bottom in deep water casting sassy shads into the shallows on points and step drop offs would produce some large fish. Be alert for diving gulls. This is the sign that the dinner bell is ringing for schools of striper. Get upwind and drift in, casting directly into the school. Let your 4 inch sassy shad sink deep and retrieve the lure slowly.
Sand bass are moving up stream into both river channels to spawn. Largemouth bass are slow to fair and getting better. Fish are hitting crankbaits and spinner baits in 3 to 10 feet of water. Carolina rigs with lizards and jigs are starting to work. Sand structure seems better now than rock, but this will change.
Blue catfish to 50 pounds are being caught on jug lines in 30 to 45 feet of water using cut shad. After rains when fresh water is running into the major creeks, channel and blues are being caught on prepared baits. One of the best I have found is Danny King’s Punch Bait.
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Subject: Lake Texoma Winter Fishing Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report.
Lake level: 617.67 / Water: 52 degrees / Clear.
Generation: 5:00 p.m. till 8 p.m. / one generator.
Weather: low 34 / high 60 / north wind.
Fished: Saturday, December 28, 2001
Captain Mike Blakely took three generations of the Gerard Smith family out Saturday at 2:00 P.M. The four endured the cold and wind until after dark to land a nice box of linesides fishing live bait 41 feet deep in the Buncombe Creek area. The full moon has the fish feeding at night, Dawn and dusk seem to be the only time the stripers are feeding. On Sunday it was cold (30 degrees) and windy with gusts to 28 mph out of the north. Before the group could get out of Little Mineral the boat took a couple of waves over the bow. Captain Grigar and his party of 4 decided to come in and re-schedule for a better day when the wind chill is above 20 degrees. Bass are still slow. Flukes, grubs and crankbaits fished slow in 2-15 foot of water are catching some fish. Not a lot of fishermen are out due to holidays and cold, windy weather. Stripers keep you on your toes as they are taking the bass baits.
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Subject: Lake Texoma Winter Fishing Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report.
Lake level: 617.39 / Water: 56 degrees / Clear.
Generation: 6:00 p.m. till 9 p.m. / one generator.
Weather: low 43 / high 50 / south wind.
Fished: Saturday & Sunday, December 15 & 16, 2001
Captains Joe Grigar & Mike Blakely took the Premier Dist., Mt Vernon, MO. group of ten out early Saturday and boated 103 stripers before noon. The silversides were feeding under the gulls west of Wood Island. Fishing live shad 30 feet deep in 35 to 47 feet of water proved to be the ticket for getting a strike on every bait. On Sunday it was cold and rained all day. The rain and cold didn’t stop these eager Missouri fishermen from having a good day of fishing. They returned to the dock with 88 stripers and 2 sandbass. Stripers are feeding all over the lake. They will continue to feed as long as the water temperature stays in the 50’s. December is a good month to try your skills lure fishing for a large striper. Sassy shad are working well west of the islands east to TI Point. Don’t miss out on this excellent winter fishing. Bass are slow to 4 lbs. Best lures are crankbaits, spinner baits and soft and hard jerk baits in shallow water. Grubs fished slow on the bottom are taking some bass also.
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Subject: Lake Texoma Fishing Report
Lake Texoma Fishing Report.
Lake level: 617.44 / Water: 57 degrees / Clear.
Generation: 6:00 p.m. till 9 p.m. / one generator.
Weather: low 32 / high 51 / north wind.
Fished: Sunday, December 10, 2001 / 7:00 a.m. till 1:30 p.m.
Captain Mike Blakely took four brave fishermen out early striper fishing. Most of the fish caught were in the 19” to 24” range on live shad in the upper Washita arm of the lake. Mike reported he had to measure nearly every fish brought into the boat to comply with the 20” limit of two per fisherman 20’ or longer. Catching the shorter fish was a problem.
Stripers are feeding all over the lake. They will continue to feed as long as the water temperature stays in the 50’s. December is a good month to try your skills lure fishing for a large striper. Sassy shad are working well west of the islands east to TI Point. From Platter Flats north to Newberry Creek live shad are catching limits of Silversides.
The Monday morning low on Texoma is 27 degrees. The forecast for this week is for the highs to be in the upper 50’s to lower 60’s. This is an excellent time of the year to start your fishing trip around 11:00 a.m.
Bass are fair to good in shallow water on spinners, flukes and jigs. Try white or firetiger crankbaits on windy points. Catfish excellent on jug lines to 50 lbs. No reports on crappie.
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