Lake Texoma Striper Fishing Blog

Living by Lake Texoma in one of the many great lake communities is great.  But we just found a means to make it greater.  A Golf Car from North Texas Golf Cars.  You don't have to be a golfer to enjoy the benefitrs of a golf car, now we can tool around the neighborhood, visiting all our friends.  

Read all we learned visiting North Texas Golf Cars.

"FOR THE KIDS 13th Annual Toy Run"

is an annual event held in the Sherman/Denison area of north Texas by a group of motorcyclists, custom car enthusiasts, local law enforcement, and many others who call themselves "Big Kids Helping Little Kids".

Their sole purpose is to ensure every child has a
MERRY CHRISTMAS

The Salvation Army is the beneficiary of all donations.

This year's Toy Run starts at Red River Autoplex at Sunday December 2 at 1pm.  Signup starts at 10am.  Entry fee is a new unwrapped toy and 2 can goods or a minimum $10 donation.

More information can be found on the "For The Kids" website.

Tired of turkey?? Ok you should have had your last turkey sandwich by now. The fishing on Lake Texoma is great. Get outdoors, catch some good sized stripers and check out our recipes page for a great change of pace dinner idea.

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This past two weeks of fishing on Lake Texoma have been really good. We have been catching alot of fish on the drop-offs and ledges using live bait. I have been drift fishing quite a bit of the time just to keep up with the schools of texoma stripers as they are moving very fast. I have also had some very good days fishing on anchor when the fish stay in one place. On other days I have anchored down, baited the lines and the stripers just blow through and keep on going.

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With the water temperatures staying in the 80’s for so long the good fall fishing is expected to last into December. The biologists are predicting Lake Texoma to have more 18” to 24” striper than in the last ten years. With each catch brought in we are seeing bigger and better fish. Catfish are starting to bite at the boathouse. Our fishermen have caught blue cats ranging from 12 to 30 lbs in the last two weeks. The forecast for the next week is for lows in the low 50’s and highs in the low 70’s. It will be partly cloudy with 10 to 15 MPH southerly winds. Thursday and Friday will be a few degrees cooler with northerly winds starting Wednesday afternoon changing to the south by Friday. This will make the weekend temperatures warmer.

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We recently came across and article from one of Lake Texoma's guides.  This article published on the Fort Worth Star Telegram web site at http://www.star-telegram.com/sports/v-print/story/283378.html related that the fishing on Lake Texoma basically sucked while the fishing on the River was fabulous.

We at striperguidefishing.com are not guides.  We do however, know many guides who fish from the Little Mineral of Lake Texoma and from the Highport Marina side of the lake.  We saw this article around the middle of last week.  It had been published on October 28th.

We were surprised at the section that reads….....

"Anglers in the know are racing to the tailrace in the Red River below the dam of the Texas-Oklahoma border lake.

"The fish in the river are in much better shape than the fish in the lake," fishing guide Steve Barnes said. "The river fish are fat and healthy in all sizes, whereas the fish in the lake are healthy in the 8- to 16-inch class, but the fish over 20 inches are so poor that you can't get a fillet off the side of them. And they have little fight when you catch them.

"Texoma is a great lake, but, just like the river, it has its good times and its bad times, depending on water levels and quality. Right now, the lake is the worst I have seen it in five years, and the river is the best I have seen it in five years."

We have been out on the lake two times in the week prior to the 28th and once this past week.  On all three occasions we have flat not seen the dismal conditions reported by Mr. Barnes.  We have caught several good sized fish in the 5-9 lb. range.  The fish we caught were by no means "so poor that you can't get a fillet off the side of them." 

We were wondering if we were just that good or lucky to be in the opposing predicament Steve reported to be in so we asked some of the guides we know what the the size and condition of the stripers fish they were catching was.  All reported that the fish are of good size and in good health, many fat bellied.  

The bigger fish we caught on shad hit and fought hard, just the opposite of "And they have little fight when you catch them.", that Mr. Barnes reports.    Again we asked our guide friends and they confirm what we personally saw.

There is much head scratching going on as to why this report was so negative to the lake fishing.  We have no vested interest in the debate, other than knowing where we like to go fish to put fish on our plate and a desire to provide our readers as much good information on Lake Texoma stripers as we can.  We visited Mr. Barnes web site and saw that he does do a lot of airboat fishing on the red River.

We are not here to make any assumptions of the motives.  We just think it benefits the fishermen who are considering fishing for stripers on Lake Texoma to be given the most up todate correct conditions of the fishing on Lake Texoma.  We think that this gives prospective texoma anglers another tool to help them when they are thinking or planning a striper fishing trip on Lake Texoma.   

Since my last report I have made the move to live bait with excellent results. Although topwater and slabs are still working, we have been flat wearing them out on live bait. The quality and size of the Lake Texoma stripers caught on live bait is now much better than those caught on lures. Topwater fishing is resulting in a lot of hookups but just a little smaller fish.

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