That striper told him to "fin" off LOL...The middle fin

That video tells it all, those Texoma Stripers never give up!!!

I had a gentleman yesterday who kept trolling through them. I'll assume he just didn't know how to cast.

Awesome report and video - thanks for sharing!

VERY NICE! hopefully getting out there soon!

I still have lots of pics to post. I was going to today but someone wanted to go fishing tomorrow so it looks like Friday I'll post again.

Today was awesome. Some of the Birds were lying. Then I landed on huge fish. Nonstop action for 1.5 hours. Front rolled in and it slowed down.

Clay, 8yrs old, landed a fish of his life. 18.22 pounds @ 31.5 inches

"New Lake Texoma Jr Record"





We landed 19 overs in less than two hours. Doubles were common today. 22-27 ft of water. Mainly on Alabama Riggs with Moes Coho's in white ice. A few hit sassy shad A-rigs but wanted the small cohos more after I was playing around with diff rigs. Every day seems they want something different. Were looking for 5-10 bites a day per person on average. Not a numbers game. Just trophy fish, like the big fish above!





The bigger fish came to my secret hole for about 15 mins, those averaged 12-15. Good thing cause we got our "Eater Overs" right off the bat and released all the other big girls.

A bait boat pulled in, throwing live gizzard shad. 30 mins later after we were bending rods left and right, the bait boat asked what I was throwing. They didn't catch a thing.

Pick up a rod and cast it. It's more fun and then to set the hook into a monster and see line peel off you reel is just plain awesome. IMO.

After opening up the fish to clean, I found a 8 inch crappie in a 8 lbers belly.

But the main thing was: all the shad in the other fish were 3-4 inches long. As I said above, smaller Moes's Cohos ( http://moestackleshop.com ) were they key after I figured out what they wanted. Matched the hatch perfectly today. Just downsized the baits.

The Mom actually hooked a couple on Road Runners too.

That's ( 3 ) Junior Lake Records for Texoma now caught out of my boat, so far.

Flathead 35+ lbs
Channel Catfish 25+(monster channel cat)
Striper 18.22 lbs 31.5

If you want to book a trip with me for Striper on Texoma, please go to StriperExpress.com and book the trip and ask for me. They book all the Striper trips. For all other species in lakes rivers and creeks use my website at TexasOklahomaFishingGuide.com

Lure fishing at its best!

Great job Carey! When you love what you do it shows in bunches and bunches.... Keep it going mr Thorne and StriperXpress

WOW That is awesome. Nice job and keep em coming.

Wtg carey

That's awesome!

Nice work sir.

nice work! I bet it was cold out there! I did not make it. Glad to see you got some!

Pretty cool screen shot here on the Humminbird 2D. The left side of the screen is the old data, and the right side of the screen is new data coming in. On this day, I approached a flat off the river channel and saw some fish literally laying on the bottom. The gar I saw earlier that day were really shallow and in the same depth throughout the lake, so I knew it was not gar. The return didn't really have red heads like a catfish, so I stopped on them. I had the clients send down some dead sticks and told them bounce them like slabbing, and to knock these fish on the heads and wake them up.

Below is the lure, bouncing on the heads of the fish.



Below you can see the fish holding on the bottom. You can actually see what way they are facing by the small red head. Any redder and I might have passed them, as catfish, due to they have a very distinct red head and blob return on my unit.



below right you can see the school I found, lift off the bottom and start to feed on whatever color fluke or swimbait or Road Runner, we sent down. It was ciaos when they started to feed and they were huge fish.





Fishing has been plain hard. But if you keep after it for 4 to 6 hours, you can set the hook into an absolute beast of a fish and watch your line just peel off the spool. Its a battle all the way to the boat. Then when the fish sees the boat, another good hard run happens. Just plain fun.



Everyday has been different. The patterns are constantly changing on how they want the bait presented and even the color changes daily.



Some days they want swim baits. Other days they want a Rooster Tail or fluke.



Some days the fish push up to 15 ft. Then the next day we are fishing in 54 foot all day.



I have learned fast, you have to hunt for them everyday. Its not a relaxing sport at all.



We are looking for under 10 bites per day on average. So if your a bass fisherman, this is definitely your game, but the fish are double and triple that size of a black bass, lol.



I am truly amazed at the size of the fish we are pulling over the rail right now. We have 7 boats in the fleet and one, if not more, everyday, lands a 20 pound plus fish. 10-15's have been common on a trip. But again, your looking for no more than 10 bites a day.

When you connect on one of those bites, the outcome is substantial.



For every person in the boat, we are looking for two huge fish per person. If we can limit out on "Overs", fish over 20 inches, the Capt. is Happy Happy Happy.



Some days we come out of the boat slips and we are on fish within 15 mins with birds and the whole shabang. Other days we have to grind them out till your fingers fall out. When we are grinding them out and you finally connect with a 10-15 plus pound fish, the waiting game and casting pays off with a huge smile!



One day I got on the birds a week ago right out of the gate. We landed 27 OVERS in less than 2 hours. Pulled many off the hook. Most fish in this school were 12 plus pounds all the way to 22 lbs. The next day, same group of guys, I said, "good thing you were here yesterday!" lol. We landed 8 on day 2 trip. The next day after that, we landed 1. The next day after that, ZERO! That major front came in and killed the fishing.



Like I said before, the patterns are all weird. Some days they are deep, some days they will push shad to the surface and up onto the rocks. In the dead of winter. Crazy. I now already have a topwater plug ready for when they do that again.



All the fish you see here in the pics, well- at least the ones we didn't kill to eat, will be smashing topwaters in April. I cannot wait! Imagine a 15-20 lb fish hitting a topwater!



If you have not booked us in April through May, it might be to late!



I was asked what color flukes am I using: White Ice, Natural, Pink, Silver, Chartreuse, White w/ Chart tail. use what ever weight you think holds at the correct depth with the wind and drift speed



We are also using Rooster Tails with a little spinner built in. You can see them in some of the pics and one of the videos I posted: 1/2 oz to 1 oz. White, Yellow, White/Chart, Blue/White. We are attaching a 8 inch bass worm as a trailer in multitudes of colors.



Sassy Shad colors: White Ice and Baby Bass by Bass Pro Shop; chart, glow, silver glitter



I don't stay in an area more than 15 mins with no bite and a boat full of peeps. You can really cover an area fast with 4-6 lures gridding the bottom.



If you catch a big monster in a spot, memorize it. she was there for a reason. Another one might be there or will take the other ones spot to amush another bait rolling by it.