Not much has changed since my last report. Striper are still easy to catch around Mac creek area in 20ft to 30ft. Other areas of the lake are also holding fish along the river channel ledges.

Fished at Mac creek today. Striper were stacked in 24 ft water. No trouble catching a limit. Still drifting shiners three cranks off the bottom.

Drifting 15 to 20 feet deep water around north island having good luck using shiners. As the water warms the catch is getting better.

As most everyone knows fishing is a little ruff right now. After trying bait (Shiners) and drifting between the islands with not much success went to long lining with deep diving thunder sticks. We were able to catch some nice fish along the creek channels but it was slow to say the least. From the radio chatter sounded like just about everyone was having the same kind of day. Warmer weather is coming and with that fishing should improve.

3/19/2010
Started out at 8:30 with no question what I had to do to catch fish. Put out the thunder sticks and long lined creek channels and hit the ledges not much happening so moved to shore lines that were down wind. Started catching fish right away. Long lining is still working.

3/16/2010
Started out fishing west of Willis bridge using shiners not much happening a few small one's but nothing over 15 inches. Decided to long line thunder sticks along some of the creeks channels.The majority of our 44 fish were caught in 18 to 20 feet of water. All the fish were between 18 to 20 inches with a few in the 20 inch plus range.

Fished on 3/6
Started out at 8am long lining areas of the lake that have been holding big fish using blue and silver thunder sticks. The fish are not gathered up enough in our end of the lake to catch a limit on bait or lures. All the fish caught were in 16 to 20 feet of water in creek channels. The big fish of the day was 15 lbs with several fish in the 4 to 5 lb range.

Purposely started out late this morning because time of day hasn't made that big of a difference. Took bait & lures. Headed toward the river channel out West and dropped anchor on fish. Fish just wouldn't turn on with the bait or flukes. We caught 1 fish on bait. A lot of other guide boats were moving around trying to find biting fish, as well. We finally got out the thundersticks and started long lining in the 21 to 17 foot water around ledges and it was GAME ON! Finished with a nice box of fish and smiles on the boat.

2/27/10
Went out in the afternoon with the new owner of Texoma T Striper Guide Service, Larry Kessler. He has even purchased my 2009 Falcon to add to his service. We headed South around the islands on the river channel to look around in shallows and creeks. Didn't find too much in those areas so decided to just hit the river. They were there like they have been. We didn't care about bait, so we dropped some flukes. We had several small bumps and a few takers. The fish were all healthy and nice sized box fish. We serached some different areas and Larry took us over to some humps on the East bank between Highport and Soldier Creek. We put out some thundersticks and long lined. We did very well pulling the lures over fish just sitting around the humps. Produced some really nice fish and had fun doing it. Warmer weather coming should just make it better every day.

Fished on 2/13/2010
We have had a lot of rain and snow. Had a 11" snow on 2/12. The water temp has fallen below 42 degrees which means that the threadfin shad are dying. Bait is all but impossible to find so I did not waste my time after getting reports from other guides and friends.
We fished entirely by deadsticking flukes. With all of the water flowing into the lake from the Red and Washita Rivers, there is a lot of muddy areas where we should be fishing at this time. The muddy water makes that near impossible.
We headed West and fished just out of the mud waters over the river channel in about 60 feet of water. We marked a large amount of fish but they just weren't going nuts today. We did well for Winter because it usually isn't fast and furious. I sprayed the flukes with shad oil and we dropped them down to 40 foot where the fish were hanging out. Caught some really nice fish and some smaller ones. I had 2 adults and 2 kids and if you look at the photo page you can see what we did for the day.