Fishing Report from Texoma Lake

[TexomaOkie]

I spent eight days over the past week plus on Lake Texoma. It’s an annual trip that’s become a family tradition. We experienced the typical mixed bag of Oklahoma spring weather. Lot’s of wind and some rain. We fished in three foot swells in cloudy, rainy weather a couple of days. However, that’s perfect striped bass weather. We didn’t catch the big stripers this spring, but lots of fat, healthy four to five pounders.

We also jug lined for catfish. We didn’t do as well as usual on the big ones, but caught more fish than usual. Our biggest was a blue cat that weighed thirty-one pounds. We caught the catfish on live shad in twenty-five feet of water along the edge of the Washita river channel that runs through the lake at forty-five to sixty feet deep.

The pattern on the stripers was to fish windy points or flats. Most of the time, the shad are found on the windy side of the lake and the stripers run them into shallow water on the points and flats. Occasionally, they would force the shad to the surface on the open lake. When that happened, sea gulls were the best indicator to look for. Chrome and black Chug Bug Big Bugs worked best when there was surface action, and a chartreuse ½ oz. Little George worked best when they were feeding below the surface.

We also caught lots of white bass mixed in with the stripers. Just be sure you don’t call them white bass around Texoma. Only the hardcore fishermen will know what you’re talking about. In those parts, they’re known as sand bass.

Texoma Okie

[Quillback]

Thanks for the report, sounds like you had a geat trip!

[Stuartwp]

You have me all fired up to go. Several freinds and I have gone to Texoma for a weekend in the past two years and our third trip is a short five weeks away. Nobody in the group owns a boat so we hire a guide (Capt steve Barnes - txfishingguide.com) but for a bunch of amatures we catch a lot of fish and have more fun than we are really allowed to have. I took my son with us last year and he caught the biggest fish of the boat. It was all he could do to reel it in. The guide said it only weighed about eight pounds, but it looked a lot bigger than that to me, but Dad's are like that I guess.