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Texoma guided trip yesterday morning (pics included).
Posted on 5/21/19 at 3:25 pm
Posted on 5/21/19 at 3:25 pm
Got together with some of the guys in my family for a trip to Texoma yesterday. Was scheduled for afternoon but the morning booking cancelled due to possible weather.
Weather held up nicely for our 4 hours on the water. Overcast but not a drop of rain.
Action began instantly. I've always been told that Texoma held bigger numbers of smaller stripers than places like Beaver in Arkansas. And it's probably true. But that wasn't the case for a few nice hours yesterday.
Pics are still being sent to me and I will update as I get them. My rod was so busy bending that I couldn't hold my phone long enough to get a single picture.
Lake limit is ten striper per person with only two being over 20" and we only actually kept somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 or 16 but that's only because <20" fish were scarce. We released 20+ fish over 10 pounds. Largest release tipped the scale at 15.2#. 75+ total fish caught with the vast majority weighing 4 to 8 pounds easily. Guide says it was only the 2nd time in his 20 years on the lake that he's seen the action that good for the big fish. Just wanted to share with my OB baws who can appreciate those days when everything just goes right.
(One pic is the guide helping my 9 year old cousin unhook his 11.35 pounder... by far his biggest fish ever. Kid slept the whole way home, he was so worn out
Also included pic of his dad with the biggest of the trip.)
Weather held up nicely for our 4 hours on the water. Overcast but not a drop of rain.
Action began instantly. I've always been told that Texoma held bigger numbers of smaller stripers than places like Beaver in Arkansas. And it's probably true. But that wasn't the case for a few nice hours yesterday.
Pics are still being sent to me and I will update as I get them. My rod was so busy bending that I couldn't hold my phone long enough to get a single picture.
Lake limit is ten striper per person with only two being over 20" and we only actually kept somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 or 16 but that's only because <20" fish were scarce. We released 20+ fish over 10 pounds. Largest release tipped the scale at 15.2#. 75+ total fish caught with the vast majority weighing 4 to 8 pounds easily. Guide says it was only the 2nd time in his 20 years on the lake that he's seen the action that good for the big fish. Just wanted to share with my OB baws who can appreciate those days when everything just goes right.
(One pic is the guide helping my 9 year old cousin unhook his 11.35 pounder... by far his biggest fish ever. Kid slept the whole way home, he was so worn out
Also included pic of his dad with the biggest of the trip.) 
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Posted on 5/21/19 at 3:37 pm to TigerAxeOK
Dang
Posted on 5/21/19 at 3:42 pm to TigerAxeOK
Nice. My cousin Bob is a football coach up there by lake Texoma. They were 2A champions for 2 years running.
Posted on 5/21/19 at 3:44 pm to TigerAxeOK
I’m tired just looking at the pics. That’s a lot of hoistin’ 
Posted on 5/21/19 at 3:48 pm to Hog Zealot
You're not kidding. I have a bruise on the left side of my belt line from the rod butt. The fish were absolutely ferocious and the action was awesome. I hated to leave when they were still biting so good 
Posted on 5/21/19 at 4:01 pm to TigerAxeOK
Looking at the rigs, were y'all just drifting with live shad?
Posted on 5/21/19 at 4:06 pm to TigerAxeOK
I think strippers are delicious if there is zero red meat left on em.
ETA: stripers. Not strippers.
ETA: stripers. Not strippers.
This post was edited on 5/21/19 at 4:35 pm
Posted on 5/21/19 at 4:12 pm to TigerAxeOK
I'm confused, the picture of the fish on the table obviously weren't the ones released.... So how big were the one kept, that are on the table in pic
Posted on 5/21/19 at 4:56 pm to Tigerpride18
The ones on the table ranged from about two pounds to about 11. We had our limit of 20"+ fish within the first 14 fish (5 of us were on the trip, one of whom is not pictured, plus the guide counted as one for 12 total 20"+ fish.)
The other ones on the table were the only legal <20" keepers that were caught the whole time. Literally everything else exceeded the length limit. And there were a bunch.
The other ones on the table were the only legal <20" keepers that were caught the whole time. Literally everything else exceeded the length limit. And there were a bunch.
Posted on 5/21/19 at 5:13 pm to Clyde Tipton
quote:That's what I assumed we'd be doing but I was surprised. He took us midlake and anchored about 200 yards east of a few sand islands on some 26' deep flats.
Looking at the rigs, were y'all just drifting with live shad?
He started cutting big shad into chunks and getting ready to bait lines, so I asked if he was dropping a couple rods for blues... he said "hell no, I only fish for stripers." He then explained that there's been a drastic decrease in baitfish throughout the lake thus far this year, so the stripers were literally hitting anything.
I can't speak for the other guys on the boat but on my rod alone I caught them on cut shad, live shad, live green sunfish, live goldfish, live golden shiners and some kind of chub looking baitfish that looked like an upsized fatheat minnow with a black back and white belly (haven't seen them before yesterday).
But yeah, we weren't drifting at all. Anchored in one spot the whole time. He's got a trolling motor rigged up on the stern next to the outboards that actually sits out of the water barely, and has a single rubber flap on it instead of a prop, that just constantly slaps the water. When he first fired it up he said he uses it to imitate surface feeding and it draws schools to the boat. I thought, yeah, BS..." but when he started the flapper up there were about two or three fish showing on the screen at about 20 feet, and 10 minutes later the whole screen was stacked with fish from 15 feet down to the bottom and they stayed there the whole time.
I wouldn't have ever believed it without seeing it myself.
Posted on 5/21/19 at 9:25 pm to LSUballs
quote:
My cousin Bob is a football coach up there by lake Texoma. They were 2A champions for 2 years running.
But he says they won't be this year no they won't be this year
And he stopped off in Tushka at that "Pop's Knife and Gun" place
Bought a SKS rifle and a couple a full cases of that steel core ammo
With the berdan primers from some East bloc nation that no longer needs 'em
And a Desert Eagle that's one great big ol' pistol
I mean .50 caliber made by bad arse Hebrews
And some surplus tracers for that old BAR of Slayton's
Soon as it gets dark we're gonna have us a time
We're gonna have us a time
Posted on 5/21/19 at 10:14 pm to Capital Cajun
Post of the year in my book
quote:
My cousin Bob is a football coach up there by lake Texoma. They were 2A champions for 2 years running.
But he says they won't be this year no they won't be this year
And he stopped off in Tushka at that "Pop's Knife and Gun" place
Bought a SKS rifle and a couple a full cases of that steel core ammo
With the berdan primers from some East bloc nation that no longer needs 'em
And a Desert Eagle that's one great big ol' pistol
I mean .50 caliber made by bad arse Hebrews
And some surplus tracers for that old BAR of Slayton's
Soon as it gets dark we're gonna have us a time
We're gonna have us a time
quote:
My cousin Bob is a football coach up there by lake Texoma. They were 2A champions for 2 years running.
But he says they won't be this year no they won't be this year
And he stopped off in Tushka at that "Pop's Knife and Gun" place
Bought a SKS rifle and a couple a full cases of that steel core ammo
With the berdan primers from some East bloc nation that no longer needs 'em
And a Desert Eagle that's one great big ol' pistol
I mean .50 caliber made by bad arse Hebrews
And some surplus tracers for that old BAR of Slayton's
Soon as it gets dark we're gonna have us a time
We're gonna have us a time
Posted on 5/21/19 at 10:38 pm to TigerAxeOK
quote:
He's got a trolling motor rigged up on the stern next to the outboards that actually sits out of the water barely, and has a single rubber flap on it instead of a prop, that just constantly slaps the water.
I like it.
Posted on 5/21/19 at 10:40 pm to GulfCoastPoke
Thread's derailed anyway, so what the hell...
Ruth Ann and Lynn they wear them cut off britches and those skinny little halters
And they're second cousins to me
Man I don't care
I want to get between 'em
With a great big ol hard-on like a old bodark fence post
You could hang a pipe rail gate from
Do some twisted sisters 'til the cows come home
And we'd have us a time.
Ruth Ann and Lynn they wear them cut off britches and those skinny little halters
And they're second cousins to me
Man I don't care
I want to get between 'em
With a great big ol hard-on like a old bodark fence post
You could hang a pipe rail gate from
Do some twisted sisters 'til the cows come home
And we'd have us a time.
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