we have a cabin on lake texoma and i have been catching alot of 8-14 inch shad in my throw net would shad that big be good on a trotline.

Use the gizzards.

Dixie B - use them!! If you can keep some alive, big blues and flatheads won't turn them down. Cutting them up is great for channels and blues.

how deep do ineed to put the trotlines

around 10' close to a drop off will get you plenty of big fish.

will there be any in around 6'

At night sure they will come up to eat. If you can see shad in the water they will feed closer to the top. The closer you can get to a channel, or structure like a treeline bridge colums, rock boulders, ditch, the better your odds will be.

thanks curtis

dixie basser, what area of Texoma are you fishing....Maybe I can help....Been fishing Texoma for many a year. Structure like Curtis speaks of is kind of rare on Texoma, but there is some other good structure if you know where to look.

Those big gizzards or goldeneyes that you are catching will make good trotline bait, but I would recommend you turn them into cut bait.

we got a place right by the gainesville boat club. i was thinkin about puttin it right in front of the air port on that drop off. would that be good

curtis_catfish_73, there is plenty of catfish in ray hubbard. i caught a ton of fish on trotlines and i even caught a couple of 10-18 pounders out of there.

bassassion , sshhhh !! Don't let everyone else know what you know ! I caught a 42 pound blue juggin, and 36 pound flathead, several in the 20's, bunches in the teens, and thousands 10 pound and less range, out of hubbard in my lifetime, oh i mean out of lavon, or wait it could be cedar creek, or maybe it was fork !

Well curtis, youd be the guy that could tell a frustrated ol' bank fisherman where to fish Hubbard then???? Huh???