Lake Texoma in November

[ollie]

Headed over to Texoma to visit with family that will be coming up from southern Texas. Going to stay at a VRBO on the lake or I should say a block away from the lake. Either way access will be easy enough. I hear the striper bit is pretty good in the fall down there but have no idea where to begin other than where we will be. I will probably bring the yak along so I can go out when the wife wants to hit the flea market booths. Anyone fish Texoma before? If so how would you describe it? Might actually hire a guide this time around. I have never used a guide before and never thought I really needed one until now. Only because the lake is pretty good sized from what I remember when I did see it several years back. We are staying over by Juniper Point if that helps. Thanks

[Flysmallie]

Huge water, but not a deep lake. Most of the striper fishing I have done on that lake was trolling. Boring as heck but a fun fish to catch. White bass, or sand bass down there, are abundant and will get up on top in the afternoons. Usually some small stripers mixed in with them. 
 

A guide for a day would be a good idea. 

[ollie]

I had heard it was fairly shallow and a lot of timber I thought. I have hooked onto a couple of wipers down on Grand while fishing for whites and man they can fight hard! That is what I am looking for down there. I know I am going to keep an eye out for gulls as well.

[Flysmallie]

Not much timber in the areas we used to fish. But we mostly stayed on the Oklahoma side around the Caney Creek area and around the dam. 

[Gumboot]

Many years ago a friend and I hired a guide for a weekend down there.  Stripers on Saturday and smallmouth on Sunday.  

He had a big bait tank with fresh shad that he'd caught that morning, he knew about where the schools were.  We'd motor around find a school, get up wind and drift a live shiner through the school.  We caught a bunch, but nothing big.  We also caught several catfish that were in with the stripers.

The smallmouth was live bait as well.  We'd motor into a cove and throw a live shad to cover, watch your line.  No wt, just tight lining.  Wasn't the most fun fishing, but we sure caught some nice smallies.  We pulled into one cove with a really nice BIG house and boat dock that he said belong to Ross Perot.  He dipped out a few shad and would throw them, in a high arc, towards the dock, they would get hammered as soon as they hit the water.  He said he was feeding his pets.  We caught several pushing 4 lbs.

[Lowe 17]

I fish Texoma regularly. A few options, vertical fish with live bait & circle hooks / jig with a spoon or troll A-rigs. If the birds are actively hitting the water, the action will be fast. You can throw a silver spoon - sassy shad - top water.  It is a deep water reservoir , take a rain suit for the spray. It can be very dangerous if you aren’t in a Deep V due to the high rollers. Wind is brutal there and can make it impossible to fish. I used Sparkys guide service once. 
 

bigger fish were caught trolling. Use 30# braid for this. Good luck!