Here's a few pics from this past week or so. The water on the lake has been really muddy and hard to fish with artificials so I broke out my old airboat and started running a few trips below the dam with live bait. Most days are limiting pretty easy and the quality of fish we are getting has been awesome. The airboat is quite a bit smaller than the big boat is, so the max I can take is 3 but its neat to be down there and see all the water. I've had a lot of my lake trips reschedule so I've got quite a bit of availability now and if you've never been on an airboat it is quite a thrill. It's been a great week below the dam at Lake Texoma.

That looks and sounds like a blast! On the air boat, do you drift, anchor or ipilot lock?

Wow! Nice work John. Looks like a lot of fun and some really nice fish.

if anyone needs to add someone on June 27 or 28th I am down to go!

Well like I've said before, I think you could catch em in a manhole. Now I know for a fact you can catch stripers in a mudhole. I find those pictures amazing.

I crossed 69 yesterday and the red river sure looked angry and scary to me. Looking upstream you could see what looked like a huge waterfall where the spillway is coming in. I hope anyone wanting to fish that monster makes the correct decision and hires a guide rather than launching a boat. I also hope some of the yahoo's I've seen wading in that swift water in the past stay on the bank. I doubt a life vest will help much other than to help them find your body in Texarkana.

Are you still using the same gear to catch those stripers in that current? I've fished current most of my life in Northern Arkansas rivers and even a small fish can put up a decent fight with some fast current to assist. Some of these stripers you have look like 20 pounders. I'd be afraid they would spool my reel in that current.

Thanks PK. The river fishing has been great on bait but it's not really how I normally fish so I'm a little out of my element. I'll be glad when the water clears up some and slows down. It's pretty rough below the dam and not easy to fish with the large waves but there are a lot of big fish being caught. I'm drifting the baits in the current and trying to hang with them when you get one on. Some of them get off but lots of big fish the past couple weeks.

Nice fish. Good job.

Great Job John!