texoma this mornin

only the fish im going to eat. the rest went back

if you want a bigger pic i can post it.

Nice! I bet that cat put up a great fight!

Imageshack is not very user friendly at least for this user, when its comes to looking at images in a larger view.

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the catfish fought really nice here is a picture that does its justice for that monster

Artan, looks like you did good. I'm a shqipe btw. I've been up there about 6 or 7 times in the past three weeks with my pops, but last time was about a week and a half ago. Everytime we were there though we did really good. Probably gonna go back pretty soon.

we need to go together. ill put you on some fish

I am going to have to go check it out asap. nice fish btw. I wonder how crowded it gets on the weekends up there?

Bad news Scott, the summer weekend crowds start this weekend. But, the lake is big enough that you can always find a place to fish.

Rex

its not so bad on the texas side. and no one really fishs as close to the dam as i do. i never really have a problem. i might might be able to go up there saturday morning. make sure you bring clousers. grey and char. you will lose alot

Whoa that is quite incredible fish!! I know that you didn't just strip him in at once!

Congrats on that conquest!

Below Denison Dam is not Texoma just to let you know in case you do not. A Texoma license does not work.

Artan, we definitely should go together sometime.

i know that. just dont step to far into the water while your fishing, but i said texoma because not everyone knows denison dam

I tie my own clousers so no problem having plenty on hand. From what I read @ TPWD you can fish on the Texas side below the dam to some creek so long as you stay on the texas bank

Yep, keep your feet out of the water and stay upstream from the creek inlet, big Okie brother may be watching.

Artan,
Just one word on the cat:
Day-yum!

So I went out to the dam this morning and caught 3 whites and 3 10-12" stripers before they opened the flood gates @ 11:00. After the gates were opened I only got one hit. The wind was blowing very hard and made casting fun. I caught my cheek on my backcast and it was not fun pulling the clouser from my face SO from that point I was forced to practice my backwards casting.
Nice meeting you Arten, I prolly won't go tomorrow but maybe next weekend if not during the week. I really want to go hit up some of those smallies on texoma as well.

nice to meet you too scott. i skunked out. just one hit. i wish i woulda woke up early enough. but i was sick this morning. it was a mess out there today. big wind. low water level. lots of orientals trying to come right inbetween us. i got a headache and went home

so now we has racist fishermen here.....
Artan...WTF.....im asian..ya i fly fish.....ya i go to the spill way.... why do you have to say racist comments.. i dont say anything about you. Last i saw of your picture, you dont look white. Why cant you say..there are just rude fishermen at the spill way.... i seen black , white , mexican and asian... etc that have no sense on a fishing zone around people..i am pretty offended. Heck a lot of guys cut me off to down there. I will say this Artan, say thing to most of them oriental guys down there will and i bet some of them will put a bullet in your a**.. i am not like that..but i know how most of those guys are..they dont play nice.. ...keep your mouth shut to them if u want some advice.

5wt, I don't think I read that the same way you did.
You should have just let that pass. Your resposesays a lot more about you, than his said.
Remember, that the fish has no idea who is on the other side of that pole. Fish are smart that way. People should be as well.
Peace out.
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it was not ment to affend you 5wt. i should have said fisherman your right. I have nothing against orientals. i dont have anything against any race/religeon. Sorry if i affended you. i hope it did not ruin your day

I here you Artan, I'm not pleased with fisherman that want to fish in my shadow. Cool heads will prevail

Hey Artan, did you go back today ?

i just went to the store and i could not stop thinking about this thread. i read my post over 20 times. and its not even racist. 5wt your the one who brought racist into this thread. i just said oriental. because it was oriental guys that tried to get between us. if it was a black man i would have said black man. maybe i "stereo typed" a little. but in no way is that racist. i think you over reacted, and owe me an apology for that accusation of me being racist.


scott- good thing you did not drive all the way out here. they released water from the flood gates. water was up to the steps. fishing was bad. i saw some black mullet running on the oklahoma side. but i didnt even get a bite. i stayed for an hour. went to have breakfast with a friend of mine that met me up there. and i went home

Don't let it get to you Artan, I'm asian and it bugs me sometimes too whenever other fisherman (even oriental ones) crowd me. I just started fly fishing last year and it actually might benefit others to stay away from me lol.

Artan, like I said in my earlier post, just let it pass. 5wt may be just having a bad day. It happens to all of us. Sometimes we say things first, think later.
Fish, and let fish.

People on this forum are so touchy, whether its racism, bowfishing, or snakes.

seeems like i made somewhat of a mess.. artan..didnt mean to call u a racist..i took it as u didnt like "orientals/asians". you corrected your statement....thanks.

World peace through fishing forum.
What a concept.
Fish on guys, or should I say, gentlemen.

anyways guys. the fishing in the red river is gonna suck for a week. because the flood gates will be open 24rs. thats what the core of engineers say

where do most fly fish at the dam. TX side. at the front or at the end of the rocks

5wt,

I believe that both sides are fished. If you want to wade or fish off of the other shore an Oklahoma license is required.

Be sure to consult TPWD site for exact accurate details on where is Texas and where is not. Can save a ticket.

As far a fishing sucking you fly fishing guys must be missing the boat. I watched a guy fly fishing yesterday below the dam he was hooking up on almost ever cast with either a small striper, skip jack or black mullet (but I do not believe them to be black mullet because Both Oklahom and Texas have skip jack records for Texoma and the River no black mullet record they look alike to me), or sand bass. I mean the guy on fire. I will not give away his location becasue he was the only one I have seen fly fishing were he was. Just wanted to let you know do not let the flood gates scare you off.

Its ok Tim you can give up his location!!! Was he at least on dry land or wading?

i see a minnow bucket in that picture, is this where you keep your clousers? oh, and about the crowded conditions, i tend to fish away from the crowd because i do not go fishing because i am lonely, but a lot of people seem to. life would be a lot better if there were fewer lonely fishermen and drivers!

cabsav. i did not have any minnows. i caught the catfish on shad gizzards. and the stripers on clousers.


hope this helps:

Yep from that picture you have missed the area the guy was killing them. Just move a little closer to the flood gates on the oklahoma side.

looks like I need to get an OK license then

well i left that spot out because of how dangerous it is to fish.

Man what a great picture and lay out of where to fish! thx.

Is it still bad? I was thinking about headind out for a few stripers this weekend. Also want to get a gar and a carpsucker. Maybe I'll go to ray roberts in the kayak instead.

Oh has anyone gone down the red river tubing or in a kayak? Are there smallmouth in there? I saw some dead carp on the bank, I know there are plenty of suckers and I caught a longnose gar but I really want to get a smallie on the fly.

just go to the lake side and fish the rocks on the dam. there are smallies there.

someone told me that last time I was there. I was hoping to get a smallie, striper, river carpsucker, a blue sucker, carp and a spotted gar in the same trip. Whats a good pattern for smallmouth?

crawfish. yea you can catch all those species at the river