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Lake Texoma Catfish Fishing Guide

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Fishing for Lake Texoma Catfish

North Texas Catfish Guide Service - Guided Catfish Fishing Trips on Lake Texoma for Lake Texoma Blue Catfish, Lake Texoma Channel Catfish and Lake Texoma Trophy Blue Catfish

Rod and Reel Fishing for Lake Texoma Catfish

North Texas Catfish Guide Service offers guided catfish fishing trips on Lake Texoma located in North Texas on the Texas Oklahoma Border. Lake Texoma is a 74,686 Acre Reservoir that was built in 1944. Lake Texoma is known around the country as one of the premier fishing destination in the United States for Blue Catfish and Striped Bass (Striper).

Lake Texoma is a huge lake that offers excellent fishing opportunities for Blue Catfish and Channel Catfish as well as Trophy Blue Catfish. Lake Texoma is also home to the Texas State Record Blue Catfish and World Record Blue Catfish weighing in at 121.6 Lbs caught in 2004. The biggest catfish ever caught was caught on Lake Texoma and lives today in the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens Texas.

Our Lake Texoma guided catfish fishing trips focus on fishing for Lake Texoma Blue Catfish and Lake Texoma Trophy Blue Catfish and Lake Texoma Channel Catfish. With the former world record catfish caught at Lake Texoma there is no doubt that there are more and bigger fish waiting to be caught from Lake Texoma to shatter the former world record blue catfish.

Lake Texoma is a sportsmans paradise and life around the Lake is definately focused on the fishing. There are numeroous cabins located around Lake Texoma on and around the water as well as numerous hotels so lodging is never a problem at Lake Texoma. (Look below for reccomendations on Lake Texoma Cabins and Lake Texoma Motels to stay at while on your guided catfish fishing trip at Lake Texoma with North Texas Catfish Guide Service).

Guided fishing trips for catfish with North Texas Catfish Guide Service at Lake Texoma begin at either Lake Texoma Lowes Highport Marina or Cedar Bayou Marina at Lake Texoma.

Guided catfish fishing trips are available at Lake Texoma with North Texas Catfish Guide Service all year long at Lake Texoma. The best months to catch a Lake Texoma Trophy Blue Catfish are November, December, January, February and Early March. Fishing trips for blue catfish and channel catfish are available at Lake Texoma all year long, but the colder it is the better your chances are of going head to head with a Trophy Class Blue Catfish, but there is always a chance at other times of the year that you will hook up with a Big Lake Texoma Blue Catfish.

Clients on a Lake Texoma Guided Catfish Fishing trip for catfish with North Texas Catfish Guide Service will need to purchase a Lake Texoma Fishing License prior to your guided catfish fishing trip. The cost of the lake Texoma Fishing license is $12.50 and can be purchased at Wal Mart as well as most convenience stores around Lake Texoma.

Lake Texoma also has a 15 Catfish Limit, unlike the other lakes we offer our guided catfish fishing trips on having a limit of 25 catfish.

On Lake Texoma Catfish Fishing Trips we have a catch and release policy for all catfish over 10 Lbs. If you catch a catfish over 10 lbs we will take your photograph and release the Lake Texoma Trophy Catfish alive after we take your photograph with the fish. If you would like to have a replica mount made of your Trophy Fish will take numerous photos, measurements and information and refer you to a replica artist for your Lake Texoma Trophy Catfish.

Lake Texoma Fishing Guide Catch and Release Trophy Catfish

Launch Locations for Guided Fishing Trips

Lake Texoma Lowes Highport Marina

Launch Location #1 For North Texas Catfish Guide Service

Lake Texoma Guided Catfish Fishing Trips

Lake Texoma Lowes Highport Marina Website: www.highport.com

Direction to Lake Texoma Lowe's Highport Marina From Dallas
Take Highway 75 (North) to Denison,TX. Take exit #69 (Highway 120) and turn left. Take Hwy. 120 approximately 5 miles into Pottsboro where highway 120 will then vear off to the right (north). Continue on Highway 120 approximately 5 miles to Highport Rd. (Mobil station) and turn left. Highport Rd. will take you into the Marina and Pompanos. Welcome to Highport Marina!

Direction to Lake Texoma Lowe's Highport Marina From Ft. Worth
Take Highway I-35W North approximately 35 miles to Highway 82 (exit 498A) and turn right. (East) Continue on Highway 82 towards Sherman and turn left on Highway 1417. Continue North on 1417 into Pottsboro to F.M. 120. Turn left (west) on F.M. 120. After a few miles stay on F.M. 120 as it turns to the right.(North) Stay on F.M. 120 for approximately 5 miles to Highport Rd. and turn left. (west) Highport Rd. will take you into the Marina and Pompanos. Welcome to Highport Marina

Maps To Lake Texoma Lowes Highport Marina

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Lake Texoma Cedar Bayou Marina

Launch Location #2 For North Texas Catfish Guide Service

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Lake Texoma Cedar Bayou Marina Website: www.cedarbayou.com

Maps To Lake Texoma Cedar Bayou Marina

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Directions To Lake Texoma Cedar Bayou Marina from Texas: At the intersection of Highway 82 and Highway 377 is Whitesboro, Texas. From this intersection, go North on Highway 377 approximately 13 miles, look for our huge Cedar Bayou highway sign on the left side of the road. Turn left at the sign and proceed 1/2 block on Cotton Franklin Road, turn left onto Cedar Bayou Blvd and proceed down the hill leading to Cedar Bayou Marina.

Directions to Lake Texoma Cedar Bayou Marina From Oklahoma: Traveling south on I-35, south of Ardmore, Oklahoma, exit off of I-35 onto Highway 70, go east on Highway 70 to Madill, Oklahoma. When the highway comes to an end, turn right and proceed thru Madill on Highway 377/99. At the last traffic light in Madill, veer right and continue to follow Highway 377/99. The road winds south of Madill and eventually you have to make a left at the sign that says Highway 377/99. Continue south on 377/99. After you cross the bridge that spans Lake Texoma, you are now in Texas. Go approximately 3 miles south of the bridge and turn right at the huge Cedar Bayou highway sign, go 1/2 block on Cotton Franklin Road, turn left onto Cedar Bayou Blvd. Follow this road down the hill to the marina.

Lake Texoma Lodging - Lake Texoma Cabins

Lake Texoma Hotels and Motels

If your planning a guided catfish fishing trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service - Lake Texoma Fishing Guides on Lake Texoma the following options are available for lodging.

*Please note, there are other lodging options available at Lake Texoma not listed here. We are providing those options that are closest to the launch locations used by North Texas Catfish Guide Service at Lake Texoma.

Cedar Bayou Marina at Lake Texoma - Waterfront Cabins and Motel

Cedar Mills Marina at Lake Texoma - Cottages and RV Park

Days Inn of Sherman - Motel in Sherman Texas

Flowing Wells Marina Lake Texoma - Lake Texoma Cabins, Cottages and Vacation Homes

Lake Texoma Lodging - Cabins at Lake Texoma

Lake Texoma Lighthouse Resort and Marina - Lake Texoma Cabins

Tanglewood Resort Hotel - Lake Texoma Resort Hotel

Tobin Cabins at Lake Texoma - Lake Texoma Cabins

Lake Texoma Characteristics - Courtesy Texas Parks and Wildlife

Location: A Red River impoundment on the Texas-Oklahoma border northwest of Sherman-Denison, west of US 75
Surface area: 74,686 acres
Maximum depth: 100 feet
Impounded: 1944

Lake Texoma Water Conditions

Current Lake Texoma Water Levels
Conservation Pool Elevation: 619 ft. msl
Fluctuation: 5-8 feet annually
Normal Clarity: Moderate to clear

Lake Texoma Aquatic Vegetation

Not abundant, but there are some stands of water willow, American lotus, floating heart, and bushy pondweed

Lake Texoma Lake Records
Lake Texoma Current Fishing Report
Lake Texoma Stocking History

Lake Texoma Fishing Regulations

Two-thirds of this lake lies in Oklahoma. Anglers with Texas licenses may fish in the Texas portions of the reservoir, or purchase a Lake Texoma license ($12) to fish the entire lake. The following length and bag limits apply to the entire lake:

Guadalupe and spotted bass have a minimum length of 14". Combined bag limit for Guadalupe, spotted, largemouth and smallmouth bass is 5 fish/day.
For striped bass and hybrid striped bass, the combined daily bag limit is 10. There is no minimum length, but only 2 fish 20" or longer can be retained each day.
White bass have no minimum length and a daily bag of 25 fish.
For blue and channel catfish, minimum length is 12" and daily bag is 15 fish.
For flathead catfish, the minimum is 20" with a bag limit of 5/day.
Black and white crappie have a 10" minimum length and a combined daily bag of 37 fish.
For walleye, minimum length is 18" and daily bag is 5 fish.

Lake Texoma Angling Opportunities

Free-flowing current in the Red River makes Texoma one of the few lakes in Texas with a self-sustaining population of striped bass, and one of only eight inland freshwater reservoirs worldwide where this species has spawned. A cousin of the white bass, striped bass were first stocked in Lake Texoma by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation in 1965. They began spawning in 1974.

Lake Texoma Fishing Cover/Structure

While Texoma has little aquatic vegetation, it does offer cover in structures such as rocks/boulders, standing timber, submerged stump beds, channels, rocky bluffs, sandy flats, and rip-rap along Denison Dam and elsewhere. Of the 580 miles of shoreline, there are approximately 9 miles of rip-rap, 50 miles of standing timber, and 50 miles of submersed aquatic vegetation. The remainder is cut banks, sandy beaches, rocky shoreline, and bluffs. A shoreline development ratio of 13.88 indicates an irregular and branched shoreline, which also increases habitat for fish.

Lake Texoma Fishing Tips & Tactics

Channel catfish are taken near the mouths of creeks after a rain, especially in spring and fall. In late spring and early summer, they are found around rocky shores and areas of rip-rap. Best baits are shrimp, blood bait, cut bait, dough bait, and shad gizzards. In summer, try drfit-fishing shrimp across flats. Sunfish and large minnows also pay off here. Blue catfish are caught on many of the same baits; however, these fish migrate downstream or into the main pool area in winter and upstream in the spring.Try juglining with live gizzard shad for bait. A rod and reel baited with live shad on windless winter days works well, too. Flathead catfish are infrequently caught by rod and reel anglers, but most often by trotlining with live sunfish for bait.

Crappie fishing is best in fall and winter, when fish tend to school in large numbers and concentrate around boat houses, submerged trees, creek channels, and brush piles. While minnows are the bait of choice, crappie are caught on a variety of jigs. The spring spawning season, when they move in shallow, is also an excellent time to fill your creel.

White bass are vulnerable to angling when they migrate upstream on the Red and Washita Rivers or the many tributary streams around Lake Texoma. Two to three weeks prior to the migration, they concentrate around the mouths of the tributary streams and become easy prey. At other times of the year they can be found surfacing around the lake and feeding on threadfin shad. Effective baits include small surface baits in silver, white, yellow or chartreuse; silver spoons; slabs; and minnows. Striped bass migrate up both major river arms in February, and can usually be located in or near the river channel in the vicinity of the Willis or Roosevelt Bridges. They may take surface lures, but most often they are caught on heavy jigs, slabs, plastic shad, and live gizzard shad. After the spring spawning run, stripers can be caught with shad over flats near the river channel in the main part of the lake. Trolling with deep running lures can also be productive. Stripers surface frequently in summer, fall, and winter, attracting diving sea gulls, who also like to feed on threadfin shad. Surface baits can produce some mighty tackle bustin' strikes, and so can plastic shad retrieved rapidly just under the water's surface.

Largemouth, spotted, and smallmouth bass can be caught pretty much year round, but they are caught closer to the shoreline and around structure. While largemouth and spotted bass are found lakewide, smallmouths are mostly limited to the bluffs around Eisenhower State Park, Denison Dam and up the Washita River arm to the Willow Springs area. Since all three species spawn in the shallows, that's the best place to fish for them in the spring. Fish around grass and brush with crank baits, surface lures, spinners, and Carolina rigged worms. As the water warms and bass move offshore, switch to Texas rigged worms, deep diving crankbaits, and surface baits early in the morning. Concentrate on submerged structure such as rocks, boulders, stumps, logs, channels, and secondary points. Fall bass fishing can be very exciting on Lake Texoma. Work crank baits around brush and off rocky shorelines for largemouth and spotted bass. Try free-line, live threadfin shad off the rip-rap at the dam for smallmouths, or fish at night by the bluffs near Eisenhower State Park.

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