Pure Awesomeness

Instead of shopping on the day after Thanksgiving, I chose to do some fishing at Lake Texoma. Texoma is located on the Texas Oklahoma border and has an abundant freshwater striper population. I have fished the lake many times in the past, but this was the first time fishing below the dam (technically I fished the Red River). I had heard reports of big catches of schooling stripers. It isn't the prettiest area in the world, but I didn't come for the scenery...


I caught one freshwater drum from shore, but kept noticing people hauling in stripers when they waded farther out into the river. After wading out to where they were, I stood in one spot and proceeded to reel in about 35-40 nice sized stripers in the next 2 1/2 hours. Small fish were in the 2lb range with the average fish being 3 -3 1/2 lbs. But there were many fish in the 4, 5 and even 6 lb range. It was disappointing if you went three casts without a hookup - that's my kind of fishing.

I left them biting at about 5:00 and headed back home. My thumbs are shredded from lipping fish to remove hooks. They were both bleeding pretty badly at one point. But it was the good kind of hurt because I don't know if I have ever caught so many big fish in such a little amount of time. Below is a picture of the fly (bottom one) I was using for the first 25 or so fish. I decided to retire it before I lost it. It was still catching fish believe it or not...Sorry no fish pictures, I was too busy catching them today!!!