04champ, are you lost?

Everyone is just going have to wait till winter when the stripes gather up . Then all the nay sayers will become heroes catching the elusive stripers.

Sounds like Corey is on the fish and you cant find the BlueSea. I have fished with Corey before and he always puts you on the fish. Maybe you should ask him if he needs a 5th boat to help him out so you can learn how to Guide on Whitney. Dont come on here bad mouthing another Guide just because he is on the fish and you arent.

Hahahahaha bringin that FIIIRRRREEE

Hmmmmm . looks like monitoring


https://www.kxii.com/content/news/F...dUG1DV31d5Htzx7Tlh6z-YJcHM7fzqk-ylLMPZzQ

That is awesome first time I have seen a story like that. Hopefully I can remember to follow up on the case and see what the actual outcome is. I agree with that there should be harsher penalties than monetary

Not mine: But a quote from a friend.
"Well, when Whitney got hot New Guides came out of the woodwork. We went from 6 guides to 26 over night. Young guys quitting good jobs to start guiding, retired guides coming back, guides that left and moved to other lakes returned, and yes, Whitney has been raped so to speak. Was raped and now they've all left to go rape the next hot lake. Pisses me off but what do you do. I wish they'd only allow X amount of guide license per body of water depending in the size. Something, anything to keep lakes from being raped like Whitney has. The OP valid and I've been a part of it. But, LOL, I was here long before the invasion of guides and I'll be here, hopefully, long after. "

First of all I doubt Whitney is out of fish.
Summer thermocline makes for tough fishing.

Fish are a public resource. They belong to all People that purchase a license from TPW.

What you need to remember is they also belong to people who hire guides.

Are guides using public resource to make a living. No
The customer is exercising his or her right to that public resource by using a guide to catch his limit.
I don’t let my customers catch my 5 fish over 18 inches.
I only let my customers catch there limit allowed by law. A limit that they have just as much right to catch as anyone.
TPW puts those fish in Whitney for the public to catch. TPW encourages anglers to fish. They like guides because guides take people fishing that otherwise would never get to experience fishing.

It is up to all of us to protect the resources. The few game wardens can only do so much.
You witness an infraction, record it, report it!
Forums such as this one can make a difference.

No stripers left in Whitney? OH NOOOOOOO!

Wonder why all these posts always seem to come in August...?

Just a little struggle for the weekend warrior and suddenly all fish washed over the spillway at Richland Chambers, too many Texoma guides moved to Towok and destroyed the fishery, Now evil Cory, his two full time, and two part time guides ruined Whitney....

Richland Chambers- fishing amazing with lots of big fish that never "washed away".
Tawakoni- Still fishing amazing
Whitney- Still LOADED with striper (golden algae ruined that lake years ago, not over fishing)

Yet another ignorant assessment with a reactive vs proactive solution. MORE REGULATION


I've met a lot of great people on this forum. Many others might want to visit the doctor about a probable case of low T

Mr. Stanley,
I am the wife of the guide that you so carelessly threw under the bus. I tried hard not to respond to this post, but I really believe you need to get your facts correct before you start badmouthing our business.

My husband started guiding on Lake Whitney in 1998 part time with one boat. After the fish kill, due to the golden algae bloom in 2003, he relocated to Richland Chambers Reservoir still with one boat on a part time basis. In 2005 he quit his job in Telecom work to become a full time guide on Richland Chambers. In 2006 we bought our second boat and hired a dear friend that still guides for us on Richland Chambers. In 2008 we bought our third boat and in 2012 we bought our fourth. We moved back to Lake Whitney in 2016 because we have family land that we always knew we wanted to live on. We brought 3 of our 4 boats to Whitney our fourth stays on Chambers.

Because you think you know so much about our business you said we run 4 boats every morning and 4 boats every afternoon on Lake Whitney. We only have 3 boats here. Not only that, we decided this year that we were not going to promote afternoon fishing because of the extreme temperatures. Our guides can handle it, but we have experienced customers having heat exhaustion and our customers are more important than the money. This year to date we have had 11 afternoon trips most of which were in March and April. We do try to keep our mornings booked as most guides do.

As far as the number of fish we catch, we NEVER allow a customer to keep more that their allotted 5 stripers over 18 inches, NEVER. Not only that everyone of our customers purchases a Texas fishing license allowing them to keep those fish. Our customers are spending that money to support the TPWD. Not only that, about a quarter of our customers have Rvs that they stay in at various parks around the lake which is again supporting the Corp of Engineers and the TPWD. Then another half are staying at the various cabins and hotels around the lake supporting local businesses.

As far as the fishing becoming tough, that happens every year on both the lakes we fish. Something about a thermocline, which I don't fully understand. My grandfather use to say the lake is turning over.

When it comes to the spots we fish, not only do we share that information with our guides, but we share it with other guides on the lake. Guides on the lake are a community and we try to help each other out in any way we can. If you would have called when you couldn't catch fish most of these guides would have been glad to help you, but instead you have ostracized yourself from this community.

Best of luck to you in the future.

I was at Cedron a few weeks back getting bait with the cast net. Nearly every throw I would get small stripers about as long as your finger. Anywhere from 3 to 10 at a time. I'm no expert but I'd say the population is fine.

Found lots of fish today scattered along the bottom in the usual summer pattern areas. The schools are not stacked in the water column but scattred over areas. Artificial bite is tough but did get a few to hit some lead. Lots of small cats right on the bottom under the stripers

If you think it’s bad there try catching striper on lake o the pines

I hear Livingston is about fished out also