Thanks! I live by Lewisville so I end up fishing it. I know a lot of good spots fortunately. Hope to try the leadcore on Texoma too sometime.

Just ordered a 40' and 50' depth running Luhr's Jet Diver. I've only used the 20' foot before and nobody around here carries deeper than the 30'.

Saturday at Texoma, if the fish are deep again, and the new Lake Fork 1 oz flutter spoon, and the 1 - 2 oz Diamond slabs (found in saltwater section @ Cabelas) with gulp jigs tied off above, and A-rigs don't work, I'm going to see if I can get that 50' foot Jet Diver down to 50' pulling a wire-tandem spoon and chartreuse Powerbait curly tail grub behind it.

I'll report the findings back (hopefully with pics!)

I hope it works out for you! When the fish are that deep I find shad seems to be the best option so you may want to try shad fishing for deeper fish and target shallower fish with artificials if your experiment doesn't pan out......but I've never fished clear lake texoma and mainly fish a very dirty lake (lake fort phantom).

Many years ago fishing in a similar situation, I used lead core line, that required using a line counter or tracking the lead line by a color code method, as long as I tracked the line correctly, the sink rate was very predictable. I don�t even know if a similar type of line, is still available. Again, I say this was many years ago. Of course we had to use a long leaders off the lead line.

What rod are you using?

I will willingly and gladly use Shad if I can catch some! My success rate with catching them in my cast net early before I set out into the main lake is very low! All these things I mentioned are basically my contingency plan, which typically becomes my main plan once the shad thing fails... lol

...and then you have to keep them alive.

Yep I know locating shad, catching them, and caring for them is a major pain in the butt but the longer i've fished for hybrids the more I value shad's role in a predictably good day's fishing trip. Now that summer is here catching them on artificial bait has been predictably productive, especially in shallower water less than 20 feet deep. But, shad still continue to play an important role in my trips when the fish are not pushed up shallow on a structure at the time of me scanning the areas. But if you don't have a smart trolling motor I don't know if I would even try to fish with shad if I didn't have the ability to spot lock quickly over a school hugging on a particular contour line of a hump or point.

If you ever get into it enough I can't express how happy I am with my BlueWaterBaitTank 30 gallon at keeping my shad alive even in this 100 degree texas heat. the tank was a little under $600 plus $110 shipping which placed it right around $700 delivered to my house. I fill it up with tap water which has been around 78 degrees. I put a gallon milk jug of frozen water in it and it drops it down to mid 70's all day long with virtually no effort on my part other than maybe adding a second frozen milk jug after several hours. My shad are super frisky for a few days. Change filter out maybe once a day once you got rid of all the extra shad slim and scales they release upon capturing them.

Heres the BlueWaterBaitTank if anybody was interested in looking at it or considering buying a shad tank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CLkwu5jtiQ