It was an awesome day. 5 to 6 fish are being mounted out of the fish we caught today.

Today was amazing! Today was just big fish day! Within the fleet, we got five fish over 20 pounds that are going to be mounted. Most fish today were 9 pounds all the way up to 23 pounds.

Jimmy Teague of Checotah, OK, landed a 21.70 lb beautiful giant Striper on a hand tied Road Runner I make.



I can't wait to get back to the lake tomorrow!

Your smoking the big fish Carey. Nice work.

I. Need. A. Fat. Girl.

Nice day! Congrats.

Great day, Carey!!

Thanks! Its so freaking fun. I conducted a seminar at Bass Pro Shop today for the sandbass run, and all I can think about are the big striper!!!!!

My clients had enough and their arms hurt from reeling in fish and quit at 9 am today. Caught fish from 9-18 lbs again!



just one of the toads above..... fished 32 ft of water

Good Lord you are killing them up there.

Quit showing those pics or I may have to get up there and fish some.

Haha, your teaching was distracted by big striper fishing.

Fishing has been up and down lately. Somedays we whack em, some days we pick at them. There is no magic depth. .

Fish seem to do as they please. 6 ft to 32 foot.


A-rigs and road runners are still our to to baits.



Some days the birds help out, but lately, they have been worthless to us.




Ledges seem to produce more numbers in 40-20 ft of water on the river channel.



White and chart road runners are my go to baits at the moment.



Fish have been up on top in the am and pm the last week. Big swirls with big fish. Casting weightless swim baits directly on the swirling fish, produces a monster 90% of the time. But u have to get it to the swirling fish before she sinks back down to the depths.



The lake is up now so most places r safe to run in. But there are still sandbars out there that will get you. Pay attention to your gps map.



I watched a guide boat the other day, had two clients, put 11 overs in the box all double digit fish. Your only allowed two fish over 20 inches per person. Guides in OK can keep their limit but not in Texas. So that boat was at least 4 fish over the limit and that's what I saw. Who knows what happened before and after I got there.



Also, once you retain a fish, on Texoma, it's yours. You can not cull even if it's in your live well. Once you keep it you can't switch it for a bigger fish later.



Thread fins are thick! No shad kill this year!

Make sure you book through StriperExpress.com for Striper trips.

Topwater is coming!!!!!!

Unreal out there some days. Especially during and immediately after a rainstorm. The fish have been going absolutely nuts.



Last Friday we boated 51 Overs. Most fish were averaging 9 to 12 pounds that day. A few hit 18.



The screenshot of my fish finder above, was from today in the river channel. Fish were stacked on top of each other.



It's Top Water time! The fish are launching 2 feet out of the air knocking your top water clear out of the water and then pouncing on it as soon as the top water hits a surface of the water. Amazing and addicting.



I had clients in the Panhandle come down and fish with me yesterday. They had so much fun with the top water, they requested me for the next morning to go do it again.



So the same guys, came out on day two and I plum wore them out. They couldn't reel in another fish. The 2-D image on the fishfinder explains why. I took the pic before we left for the dock.



The top water bite starts at sunup and lasts about an hour or two.



Then we're back to sassy shad, roadrunners, and Cohoe



There are some exceptions to top water in the middle of the day. As for today for instance, they started blowing up in 45 foot of water on the surface. We started jumping top waters at the cannonball explosions touching overs effortlessly. You didn't even have to move the top water and they would find it and crush it.



I'm throwing 7 inch poppers. Color doesn't seem to really matter.



Bait schools are no problem finding because it's everywhere. Usually if you find the bait you find the fish. Or the fifth should be somewhere around the bait.



Boxfish are slowly accumulating in bigger schools and getting easier to find.



I still consider this bigfish time. We are definitely not limiting but usually, we're getting all of our overs. . Boxfish are kind of a bonus right now. Except for today was just amazing.

Nice shots, good job