Lake Texoma Striper Fishing Blog

While the stripers have moved far out west, I’ve been giving my customers the opportunity to choose whether they want to catch catfish or stripers, and after finding out that 20lb cats are coming in the boat on a regular basis, catfishing has become the popular choice the past few trips. The catfishing is on fire right now and I’ve been catching around 20 per trip with at least one around the 20lb mark. Finding a large school of bait is the key to finding the cats. Most of them have been caught on anchor in 70-80 ft of water fishing a few cranks off the bottom with live and cut shad. Gizzard shad are much more productive than the threadies. 

                        

Thursday evening I tried to catch stripers but it ended up getting too windy to fish where the stripers were, thus I only ended up with 3 fish, I only charged them $100 for their trip. Luckily I had the same 2 guys the next morning and I completely abandoned trying to striper fish. We went straight for the cats and didn’t look back. We ended the day with 20 cats including a 25lber and a 17lber all off of rod and reel. They ended up taking home 30 pounds of fillets.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, my customers were indifferent as to what species so I elected to go catfishing again since it was so good the previous day. Same spot same story, 20 cats to 20lbs and a boat load catfish fillets. 

 

 

I’m not sure how long this catfishing action will last so if you are interested book now at www.stripersinc.com or give me a call at (903)815-1609 and I’ll get you set up. The striper fishing should be picking up soon and getting hot as the water warms up and we head into spring season. Satrudays and spring break are filling up fast.

 

Your Lake Texoma Fishing Guide,

Brian Prichard

Stripers Inc.

(903)815-1609