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Left out of Highport Early Saturday morning and headed to main lake. The waves were huge, the wind was blowing and it was freezing cold out. Waves were running about 3ft or so...HUGE... we had water breaking over the bow at times. Anyways, We started out fishing the southside of North Island and the fishing was slow. We had quite a few short strikes on 1 oz Traps and Lucky strike pointers. I eventually picked up a few overs and that was it, in about three hours of fishing. WEAK!!! Well, we were tired of roughing it in the cold and rough water, so we decide to head west and see whats going on. We knew things couldnt be any worse and also knew that we would have a little wind break along the way.
We arrive at the 377 bridge and birds are all over. We first attempt to slab and nothing. We were marking tons of fish but still nothing. Oh well, we moved to another bunch of birds outside a cove and start marking again. This time I hook up with a nice stripe on first cast using a trap. From here on out, we found schools of fish at every cove on the west side of the lake. The west side of the lake is holding good numbers of fish. We have been hearing good reports of people doing well at little mineral but I was glad we stayed away and fished the opposite end of the lake. The fish were hitting anything that moved from 8 inch rapala X-raps, pencile poppers, Traps, Pointers, slabs, you name it. We caught quite a few stripes with many of them being fat box fish with a few overs. ALso caught quite a few GIANT sandbass.
If heading to Texoma anytime soon, check out the west side of the lake and make sure to check out all the coves and points. I am not sure of our total number caught on the day but we finished well and had more fish than I wanted to clean. (I ended up not having to clean any, Jason took them all....lol) The pattern has changed over the past few weeks. Seems fish are staying in a little deeper water. We did catch quite a few in 6ft of water but most were caught on drops going from 18-39 or so. Good luck to you guys and I will post another report next week. It is nice to be able to fish the west side of the lake, its much closer to home. Cuts our drive down by 30 minutes.
Keith
We arrive at the 377 bridge and birds are all over. We first attempt to slab and nothing. We were marking tons of fish but still nothing. Oh well, we moved to another bunch of birds outside a cove and start marking again. This time I hook up with a nice stripe on first cast using a trap. From here on out, we found schools of fish at every cove on the west side of the lake. The west side of the lake is holding good numbers of fish. We have been hearing good reports of people doing well at little mineral but I was glad we stayed away and fished the opposite end of the lake. The fish were hitting anything that moved from 8 inch rapala X-raps, pencile poppers, Traps, Pointers, slabs, you name it. We caught quite a few stripes with many of them being fat box fish with a few overs. ALso caught quite a few GIANT sandbass.
If heading to Texoma anytime soon, check out the west side of the lake and make sure to check out all the coves and points. I am not sure of our total number caught on the day but we finished well and had more fish than I wanted to clean. (I ended up not having to clean any, Jason took them all....lol) The pattern has changed over the past few weeks. Seems fish are staying in a little deeper water. We did catch quite a few in 6ft of water but most were caught on drops going from 18-39 or so. Good luck to you guys and I will post another report next week. It is nice to be able to fish the west side of the lake, its much closer to home. Cuts our drive down by 30 minutes.
Keith