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Lake Texoma Profile

This lake is an impoundment of the Red and Washita Rivers. It covers a huge area that has 580 miles of irregular shoreline. Along with the rivers, Texoma is also fed by 24 major creeks with some of the creeks approaching river size. It has a high salinity and drainage basin that makes for an excellent fishery. This lake is sparse on the natural vegetation with a varying shoreline of cliffs, riprap, boulders, sandy beaches, and cut banks. Oklahoma Dept of Wildlife Conservation maintains about 30 brushpiles for fish habitat which are marked with buoys. Navigation is fairly easy on this lake but be careful of shallow water and shifting sand bars up in the rivers. Also be very careful of the wind on Texoma it can get up in a hurry and very nasty. Impounded in 1944 Lake Texoma has 89,000 surface acres.

This is the top destination for numbers of stripers and also has some good smallmouth fishing.

Location	Found on the Texas Oklahoma boarder take US Hwy 75 North out of Dallas to 2 miles above Dennison Texas to the dam. 75 miles North of Dallas.
Fishing Regulations	To fish Texoma you will need a special license which costs $7.50 and is good lake wide. The fishing regulations are as follows. Daily bag limits for largemouth, spotted, smallmouth, and all subspecies or hybrids is 5 per day in any combination with a 14 inch minimum. Bag limits for stripers, white bass and hybrid/striped bass are 10 per day with only 2 fish 20 inches or greater. Culling of striped bass, and chumming for stripers is not allowed. One more note, there is a minimum length of 20 inches on flathead cats.
Comments	The word that comes to mind when I talk Texoma is stripers. Although this lake has some fantastic fishing for largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted bass this is the king of striper fishing in this part of the country. Due to the high salinity of Texoma it is one of the most productive natural spawning environments in the country. With almost 50,000 acres of drainage basin combined with the saline content it is full of nutrients and supports huge schools of bait fish and can support a very large population of gamefish. The lake is not known for monster fish although brother Bubba has two mounts that go 20 and 21, the sheer numbers of stripers makes for the norm which is, limit out most all the time. We have fished Texoma for years in fact, it was one of my dad's favorite spots and we have caught a ton stripers as well as largemouth. It is one of those striper factories that the top dog is fishing with shad. Although at times the artificial fishing is great especially with topwaters the shad is still king and is the bait of choice among the pros.
Facilities	Here is a one stop for a great time. Just an hour and a half north of Dallas\Ft.Worth, on the Texas and Oklahoma border lies Lake Texoma. Located on the west end of the lake in a secluded cove just off the Big Mineral arm you will find, , (800-832-3052). Whatever is on your mind, be it boating, fishing, swimming, or just plain getaway for you. Get back to the basics in one of Walnut Creeks fully equipped wood frame CABINS. The cabins have everything you will need to make your stay as comfortable as possible. Also at our resort we have 9 boathouses, with over 300 boat slips for rent. A fully equipped Gas Dock, and a store that has most of your camping and fishing needs. Here are some other facilities. Preston Fishing Camp (903-786-2311), Big Mineral Camp (903-523-4287), and on the OK side Willow Springs (405-924-6240). Also there is a resort there with accommodations, fine dining and even golf, named Tanglewood (903-786-2968).
Fishing Tip	We recommend giving Bob Sharp of Sparky's Guide Service a holler at (940-665-8661). Lets talk about the stripers. The best months for stripers is January and February with the big fish starting to move up the Washita and Red River arms in December. The females are starting to fill up on eggs and gaining weight. They relate to structure this time of year and will be found on ledges, ditches, creek channels, and humps. Look to the edges of all the structure and when they start feeding they will move up on the structure chasing the bait. Look for birds this time of year. Best bait besides live shad are sassy shad, white/chartreuse bucktail jig, horse head jig with a curly tail trailer, and a slab in white or chrome. Look for the fish to move back down to the main lake in late spring. Post spawn can be a very active time and look for fish to be all over the lake and very likely to bite a live shad. During the heat of the summer and I do say heat here in Texas, the stripers move to the deeper water and tend to hang out at the junction of the Washita and Red River channel. Use your electronics to locate these deep huge schools of fish and be ready because these deep fish will drive the schools of shad to the surface in a feeding frenzy which usually happens early in the morning at the crack of dawn. Have a topwater of your choice ready for this surface action because most all of them will work. Our favorite is a 7 inch redfin. In the fall when the water starts to drop below 65 the stripers, as most species, get into a biting mood with some great topwater action. Late fall, the wintering birds will start to show up and fisherman chase these feeding birds to topwater fish the schools of stripers that lay underneath, with the fish usually being smaller. One of our favorite lures with a school of feeding fish is to throw a jigging spoon or a little george across the school and let it fall to the bottom them pump it up with a jigging action and let it fall to the bottom again, always staying in contact with the lure and the fish will usually hit it on the fall. A general rule for stripers is fish for some other species if it is a clear day and calm. The best is a cloudy day with a little chop to the water. Good fishing for smallmouth and largemouth is during winter and early spring, with fishing good at Eisenhower State Park, and the riprap along the dam. Other areas are protected creeks such as Big Mineral, Solider, and Caney. Do not forget to key in on the man made structure such as bridges and boat docks. Lets talk a bit about one of the top blue catfishing spots that I know of. In December and January the big blues will move up both rivers in 40 to 60 foot of water with these monsters bettering 50 pounds. Also I find the catfishing great where the guides clean their catches of stripers and there are quite a few guides on Texoma. One more note: The fishing below the Dennison Dam in the Red River for big stripers is also very good.
Lake Records & Ratings
Species	Record	Rating
Largemouth Bass	11.06 lbs.
Smallmouth Bass	6.91 lbs.
Spotted Bass	4.39 lbs.
Striped Bass	35.12 lbs.	* Top Rated *
Blue Cat	116 lbs.	* Top Rated *
Flathead Cat	33.50 lbs.
Links
Texas Parks and Wildlife ~ Fishing Report Bass Fishing Home Page ~ Texas Lake Reports		Texas Parks and Wildlife ~ Regulations
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