What a nice morning ! I have a rare saturday off!!! Didnt have to get up at 2 am, instead roll outa bed at 6am and sitting on the porch having some coffee

Ok here is a multiple choice question

Fishing on Texoma the last two weeks has been ?

1. Awesome
2. Terrible
3. Frustrating
4. satisfying
5. Hot
6. cold
7. all the above

First one to answer the question correctly wins.. (no prize..just wins)

Ok, so the answer is all the above. What a crazy year its been. Water temps now have started to fall since last weeks cold front..lol
Im now seeing surface temps at 86 degrees instead of 89-90 i was seeing last week. I hope we have seen all the heat were going to see. The fish are still fat as footballs and healthy unlike years past when they got skinny this time of year. The huge shad population has really made for some fat fish ! Also appears that this years spawn was good.. although that is not a scientific fact, but rather just an observation from seeing acres and acres of baby fish boiling the water everyday. Yesterday i seriously saw a school of 6 inch stripers boiling the top for 15 solid acres.. it was unreal !!
I have been waiting all summer to get a good pattern on these fish and it looks like it just aint gonna happen. Ill get on a good pattern for a few days then it will blow up and its searching all over again..seems to me that the closest thing i can come to for a pattern is they seem to be on a super agressive feed about every 2-3 days. which could explain the up and down fishing. One day we catch 8 fish and the next we get 50. One day its 10 big fish and the next all small ones..but as i look back im going out on a limb and saying about every 2-3 days its ON FIRE
most everyone has switched over to slabing the last month, but i continued bait fishing until two weeks ago. The last few weeks I have been doing about half bait trips and half slab trips. Bait is still easy to get before daylight and the bait fishing has been producing better numbers of fish than slabs until yesterday. I have beenen able to keep up drifting bait thru the fast moving schools fo fish and on a couple occasionns been able to anchor and keep the fish with me. most days the schools are moving pretty quick and ya gotta keep up with em.
the slab bite for me has been ok most days but a little tricky and although I can catch fish, has been somewhat difficult for some to master the bite. Unless i have really good fisherman i still dont like slabbing with inexperienced fisherman..just too hard when people are expecting, ,miracles.

slab color does not matter. silver,gold,green,white i have caught fish on all of em...tear drop,pear shape,oveal,round ,oblong, doesnt matter either..
But size does matter.. If you want to catch alot of fish ( mostly small) than use as small a slab as you can get. I have some that are the size of a nickle and yesterday had a couple kids catch about a hundred 6-10 inchers..i dont know it was probably 1/4 oz slab.. very small but with no wind and on light line easy to get down.
for less numbers and bigger fish im still using a 2 oz slab.

All my slabs are coming from Moe's tackle..i cant remember the names of his slabs but i can assure you i have them all and a different one tied on every rod and all are producing equally well.

my to most recent trips were Thurs and Friday with the same 4 guys. Thurs we head out fish some big fish busting the top and catch five 22 inchers right off the bat and then they quit.
Then off we go searching.. find a huge school on table top and catch and release about 50 small fish from 6-14 inches. Then a couple hours and $100 dollars in gas later end back at the exact spot we started and catch a few more 18-22 inch fish. ended the day catching a bunch but only cleaning 15.

Friday we head out and within 10 minutes we find the same big fish in the exact same spot busting top..it was mad kaos..one guy tosses a taill spinner,another a coho another a slab and the other maybe a bare hook.. I dont remember.. we had those fish on top for over an hour all by ourselves and by the time the dust had settled we had boated over 30 fish of which only 4 were under 20 inches. Biggest one was just under 30 inches.
Those fish even tho they were busting top would not hit a top water but if you ran a lure 6 inches under they would hammer it. when that fianlly quit we looked a while and fished a while catching a coule more hear and there until we found 15 acres of surfacing small fish behind the islands.. we played with those for an hour or so and did manage to fill our box with some decent 14-19 inch box fish.
I wish i could say Friday was the norm.. but the norm has been more like Thurs.. catch a few big-uns and and bunch of small-uns.
Im really thinking the fall is gonna be some great fishing.. as soon as the weather breaks and the water temps drop just a bit.. all he!! is gonna break loose.. maybe this fall ill be able to get ya a good consistant pattern
But for now, its just real good fishing and inconsistant catching.. but when its on its still the best lake in the country !!

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Cool report!

I was there 3 weeks ago and it was the same. I found a huge school 1 morning that stayed up for 45 mins and was at least 2 acres in size. Told the wife that we had to ga back the next morning because I had found them. We got up early next morning and went to the same spot. Well I might as well have been fishing in the desert. There were no fish to be found. Crazy! The only thing good about that morning is we caught a 20lb blue.

Thanks for the detailed report. That is so much better than the report from last year at this time. I have heard a lot of reports about acres of small fish and I just hope the big fish survive the turnover.

Big fish are as healthy as I have ever seen them , especially for this time of year.
Btw we got another 30 incher yesterday and still fat as can be

It's almost time for some Sept topwater JD. Can your twin brother Jeff make a trip??

Moe Start maing your plans.. maybe a pro staff get together at Hidden acres as well.. lets do it

That sounds pretty good to me! I'm on it!

Lemme know if you wanna lock in a weekend and I'll hold the cabins for us

Tween the cabins and my house we'll have plenty of room

Dang, I wish I was pro-staff!!

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner.

Me too LOL

On second thought , I don't know if I would want to become pro staff. You guys work REAL HARD at what you do. And I can't imagine the pressure on ya'll having to put people on the fish or ya'll don't make a living. So my hat is off to all you pros because ya'll deserve it. I guess I could always show up on the lake and fish next to ya'll LOL The pros deserve a good fun outing

Well if moe doesn't get the pros together , Ruben and George we can just do a semi pro gathering