Been a weekend part timer on Texoma for many years and finally got my first ever small mouth. Wooohoo! Another check off my bucket list. LOL

I took advantage of the cold snap and fished solo Sunday from 1 to 730pm. I started just outside of HP waiting on a soldier to show up but he texted an hr later saying he can't make it so I ran to my deeper DS spot. My expectation was not high because the water temp showed 55f. Thirty minutes into the drift, not much showing on the graph and this is looking familiar march madness slowness on my logs. Then BAM fish decided to group up under the boat, the mother load, but at  every 15 mins wave-intervals. The first wave I caught 4 overs real quick... Then they stop biting even with the heavy loaded graph. Doh! 

I decided to continue drifting and still seeing good graph every 15 minutes and caught 11 on the drift, with 4 good boxes the rest were overs up to 24". At 7pm the birds showed up in front of Blake Sheldon OK house and i landed another over and TWO SMB near the rocky shore. I heard SM fight "reel" good but i had two SM bit the ARig so they canceled each other out and not much of  resistance haha! My first ever SMB, a 16" and a 12" and still growing for the next lucky angler. 

I tried lime green fluke that Windbreaker gave me, tried pink, and white ice also  and they all caught evenly. I did call a buddy over to drift closely along me, he had 5 anglers on his boat and they were using pink flukes and caught 15 to 20 good fish. He got the livescope and saw the crazy good amount of fish under us and but also saw also the March madness of fish not biting on his livescope as well haha! 

Water temp Sunday was 55f, wind SE at 5 mph. Catching depth mostly 60ft with fish suspended up to 40ft. My ARig and solo fluke caught equal.

For the month on March. I did fished Saturday 3/11 with two buddies for three hours from 330 to 630pm and we only caught two 19 inchers and had a total of 4 bites. Did tried shallow but nada. That was a typical slow March day for me.

Good luck guys.

Nice Smallies Todd. Ifn you want some decent Small Mouth , a trip to Lake Murray just north of Big T is a suggestion.

Thanks for the report!

Congrats on the smallie Todd.
In all the years I fished Texoma I have only caught one smallie. Big fight in a small package.

Texoma may be the best smallmouth water anywhere. I fished for smallmouth all my life growing up in the Ozarks, but the 10 best ones I've caught have come from Texoma.


Here's a nice one I caught at the Eisenhower ramp.


I am amazed you got two of those in on a umbrella rig.

Congrats on your 1st smallie! I caught my 1st ever there in 2020.

Looks like a great day on the water regardless. And I’m sure the Italian Hoagie was delicious!!

Thanks for that info. I actually thought I caught 2 crappies cuz the 2 smallies were playing tug of war with the Arig and gave me very little fight. Lol

Nice pescado pics!

Thanks for sharing that. I had no idea.

It took me 3 years to catch up with you DC. But I did it! Now you have to catch 2 at a time this June to top me

Weather forecast says North wind. But it was ESE wind instead and yes did stop by Buc-ees to pick up delicious Italian Hoagie and the smell must have reached Iowa Park. Lol

That's the 4th time this winter where the wind was 180 degrees different than the forecast. Stupid kpuder! Lol

great job. Love it

Nice job on big t todd. Welcome to the smallie club! Been lucky to catch many 4-5lbers in my youth growing up at the mouth of the Detroit river/Lake Erie. Awesome fishery right their!

DC gets 2 smb on a mepps now I’d be IMPRESSED LOL!!!