Anyone know if eels are caught in Lake Texoma, or on the Washita above the lake?

I'm checking with my dad.he lives up there and fish's the area his entire life.

I'm pretty sure there are eels in the lake I have caught several in the tail race below the dam over the years.don't see why they would not be in the lake also.

My grandpa supposedly caught them many years ago in the red above texoma. However, eels must travel to the sargasso sea to spawn, and the young then migrate back up the rivers. Texoma was impounded in 1944, meaning any eels above the dam would be over 71 years old. That's unlikely given the oldest captured in the wild was 43 years. Any up there now would've had to be released upstream from the dam.

Weird fish, them eels.....

I'd say there's at least a chance that some eels managed to get around the dam, either in other streams and moved across watersheds during flooding, or through other means of transport. If the crazy fish can spawn in the Sargasso Sea, along with their identical cousins, the European eel, then the babies separate out and go East or West as the case for each species demands, then they might just be smart enough to figure out how to get across some of those dams. However, I'm certain that they'd be a rarity rather than just a curiosity in such places.

Fishing for eels above Texoma would likely prove an exercise in futility.

Uhhh, I'm not sure about that.

I caught eels in Medina Lake back in the 80's. Pretty far from the Sargasso Sea.

Dang! I hate being wrong.

http://www.etec.coop/_documents/LakeLivingston/LL_LicAppl_Draft%20APEA%20in%20lieu%20of%20ExhibitE_033009%5BAttachment%20D%5D.pdf

I caught an eel in the old lake dallas about 40 years ago.

When I was in high school in the 60's, I caught an eel on rod and reel at Luling out of the San Marcos River. Slimy dude.

So did you catch one or not?

We caught one out of a pond in Grand Prairie around 87/88. Nasty slimey thing. Hit a clump of dead night crawlers.

Lake Lavon record American eel: Caught July 5, 2005 by Michael Thiehoff using dead shad. Wt. 4.30 39.00 inches.

I have caught them in elm fork below Lewisville dam on shad gizzards. Nasty things.

As a kid we Frog Gigged in farm ponds, a few of those ponds were full of eels. They had to be reproducing in those ponds. There must be different species of eels.

The Anguillidae are a family of fishes that contains the freshwater eels. The 19 species and six subspecies in this family are all in genus Anguilla. They are catadromous, meaning they spend their lives in freshwater rivers, lakes, or estuaries, and return to the ocean to spawn.

That's all I got.