Well unless you've been living under a rock you know Lake Tawakoni has been on fire lately with lots of big Stripers Hybrids and Sandbass!! Today was no exception it was fast and furious from the start big hybrids one after another ( 8lbs plus )...then Ronnie said I think this is a big one and he was wright 18.5 lbs striper!!
On the water at 9:00am off at 1:20pm
Don't know how many we caught...but I can tell you it was a bunch!! We had 4 hybrids 8lbs and over and of corse striper to 18.5 lbs with several 10 to 12.5 lbs

If your looking to catch big fish dress warm and get out there Dec Jan Feb is the time!!
Thank you Mike Oser almost all my fish have been caught on baits from www.moestackleshop.com including the 18.5 striper




Heath Ronnie Shellie

What the!!!! Texo-Wakoni!!!

Heres a few more pics from recent trips

One of Shellies 8lb hybrids from today



RD Bryan 12lb striper 10lb hybrid Wendnesday

Great moogally google !!!!

Holy SHI_!!!

Wow way to go Joe!

to the Godfather of Twok!!

Nice. No, really nice.

What a beauty! Very Nice

SWEET!

I notice there are no stumps in the background. Does Tawakoni have alot of water that is stumpless? Is it a big hazard for boating right now? Nice fish btw

Joe thank you for a great day of fishing with my kids.
Best trip ever.

Big props to you Joe!! Well it seems he kept that huge beast, next
Thing is mount that bad boy!! That's not an every day catch, wouldn't you agree?

WALL HANGER!!!!!!!!!!!!

How old do you think that striper was? 4 8 10 yrs. old.
Just curious.

GOOD LORD.... UH JOE YOU WORK OUT

That would have won the TSA tourney by itself.

Great fish.

WOW, awesome set of fishies!!!!!

Great job Joe!

Best part is you got all year to beat it.

That is a beauty Joe! Nice work!

Nice Catch and a very good job!

I think I might have to get in on some of that action. Awesome job guys! Leave me a few.

Worm on the hook

We had another awesome morning no 18 pounders...just some good ole Tawakoni Stripers & Hybrids...caught about 60 stripers n hybrids and 4 sandbass...most was released they kept a few for a fish fry!

Great job Joe. I'm looking forward to getting into some of those again.

Nice catch!!

Joe you're on of the best congrats happy customers there

Well Sunday was another good day on Tawakoni...not many big fish only one 10 lb striper but alot of 6 to 7 lb hybrids...fishing was fast to steady till the wind got to high to fish the spots we wanted to...but still managed to but 50 to 60 fish in the boat...not many boats on the water yesterday we only saw one man with his son fishing for stripers in the same area and two catfish guides...my wife works for the Post Office and has today off MLK Holiday we had planned on going to a movie and dinner but she got a bug of some kind and has been sick for a few days now...the atmosphere a round my house is not to good and it's to windy to go fishing...hoping for a speedy recovery!!

Congratulations Joe! Amazing fish. Also great article in the paper Sunday. I posted about the article on the Forum also. Something occurred to me just now. We all know how a Hybrid is created. I wonder what would happen if someone rented you and Matt and went out with both of you together in the same boat? Now that would be an experiment I'd like to make! May have to run that by Todd, Terry, Jackson, Mike etc... That would be a once in a lifetime deal...

Hey Frank I'm always looking to go fishing! and I probably have known Matt longer than most of you...I knew him before he started guiding from bass tournments and seeing him on the lake...he comes from a very good family I know his dad also...I've seen Matt grow from a boy to a man!...from a fisherman to a superstar!...Matts a very fine man!!

Just don't tell him...his head will swell!!

Then we would all be in the same boat!! Duh!

Sorry cant help it, Frank!! hehehe
Its possbile but that would have to be a BIG boat!

Good stuff Joe! Heard your fishing report on the Outdoor Show while driving to the lake Saturday AM

Joe I agree 100%. In fishing with him found out my wife's cousin taught Matt in school in Wills Point I think it was. Was her cousin's first teaching job. You may know her cousin- Casey Kindle. He has put me on a ton of fish down there over the past 25+ years. Now I'm dating myself. Seriously would love to fish with you both some time- that would be amazing. I'll figure this one out with the boys up here on Hubbard and set it up.

Todd I wish I had an egg roll for every time you made me laugh! BTW one night up at the funeral we ordered about 30-orders of Chinese take out. I thought about you. The egg rolls were like small logs! Have never seen ones that big...

That fish is HUGE!

My buddy and I are fishing w Joe next Monday.

Can't wait!

Will post a report!

WOW! nice work Joe!

Awesome!!! really good teaser Joe! You caught me
If coming from Dallas, what boat ramp is best to access these fish?

Just wanted you all to re-Read this

Joe gave me some of my very first guide trips for hybrid and stripes. That was back in the early 90's when I used to think I was a bass fisherman. I'll never forget Joe asking me to help him out the first time. We were standing in the Minnow Bucket over at lake Fork and I told him I've never guided for hybrid before, what do you do? I wasn't even 20 years old. He looked at me funny and said "You just take 'em fishing." Thats how I got my start.

Yes young grasshopper Matt you remember rule #1 very well

#1 Take people fishing...catch lots of fish...gets you more trips...makes you money...pay bills on time...makes little woman happy...then little woman makes Matt happy!!

This week has been tougher than last week but still managing to catch a good mess of fish...chartruse soft plastics on a 1oz jig head drifting very slow...IF POSSABLE...20 to 30 feet deep in water 30 feet and deeper...mostly deeper.

John and his Dad on Wednesday it was slow but a steady slow we did manage 20 to 30 fish and one 10 lb striper that we released!



Thursday had out first time customers brothers Ed and Jerry still not a great day but it was windy all morning...the wind slowed down in the afternoon and we really started catching fish but a round 1:00 pm Ed decided they better get on the road he had a 6 hour drive.


Today was brutal the wind blew and then it blew some more...drifting way to fast and could not fish many spots...we still managed to catch a good box of fish and this 13.2 Beauty!!
sorry about the hazy pic had fish slime on my phone.

That is one NICE striper Joe!!! The hazy pic even made it look better like a scene from the Deadliest Catch!

...but I bet you were trying to blur out the background and not enough photoshopping, doh!

oops, Greg just told me in East Texas, they use fish slime to photoshop pics?? Thats how they do it!!

Awesome