No I have not. I used to fish with a guide 20 years ago but he fished the main river channel with shad.

There's a fairly large submerged tree about 150-200 yards north of that point. It might not be visible at the current lake level. I don't know why it hasn't been marked with a buoy or float. I tried to mark it last summer with an old life jacket but it was gone by the end of the week. Be careful coming around that point at high speed

Will do. Thanks

This right here is what sets this group apart from the ditch pickle crew. You wouldn�t find a post like this in any other forum. You are awesome Cobia 254!

I was a bass fisherman then I grew up. I have had from a lot of good people on here. There are more striper in Texoma than is imaginable. They need to be thinkers but I throw bigs ones back. Glad I could help.

After fishing Texoma for the last 2days, I'm impressed by the sheer number of stripers and guides out on the water. There was no bait to speak of. We marked tons of stripers with the livescope, but zero bait balls. Guides couldn't get shad, and deadsticking stopped working last week. It was a very tough bite, so we scaled down to smaller soft plastics and managed some descent ones. Using livescope and seeing their behavior helped us pick up a few. I don't think people did spectacularly this weekend.

The lake was red clay color on the north part of the lake. I went out today for 9 hours and came in with the limit. But that's about 1fish per hour, which is not a good catch rate. For my first trip there, I wasn't impressed with the quality of fish. Maybe this was just a bad week at Texoma. Hopefully the next trip is much much better.
Tim

No wind and blue bird skies are nice for the fisherman but usually results in low catch rates. That�s my experience anyway

I was out there Saturday from noon till 6 and I only landed 3 fish. A 7 lb, 11lb and a small 14"er. We could see the 377 bridge approx. a mile or more to the west. Drifting 5" flukes. Only ones I saw catch any numbers were the guides with live bait. Drifting and not using spot lock was the only thing that worked for us. Then the wind died and it was over.

I was with Tim on Saturday. The fish were there in force but were pretty finicky. We did good moving as well, no luck with spot lock but better luck with drifting.

40 years ago, I laughed when the fishing guides were cursing stripers until they changed their tune and the trash fish became cash fish, lol.

Looks like it's going to rain Saturday and Sunday but Friday will be clear. Thanks for all the info everyone. It's be way more than I expected and very much appreciated!!!

What water temps y�all seeing?

You must have been nested inside the 100 guides in that area. I couldn't image drifting in that parking lot . Many of mine and Eric's friends also turned in near skunks too. Congrats on the oversized one.
Tim

The best thing about the trip was Eric's fish fry after. I didn't join, but the pictures , the pictures...yum. Eric, you have to post the picture here...
Tim

Between 49.5 and 51 depending on part of the lake.
Tim