Fishing Report
 

August 17, 2004
Water pool level: 617.13, normal annual pool level is 617 feet.
Water temperature: 83 degrees.  Water clarity: clear.
Generating Schedule: 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM.

Sunrise was 6:50 AM and sunset will be 8:10 PM.  There are 14 hours and 12 minutes of visible light during the day.  The moon will be full on August 29th.  The morning started out comfortable with the temperature 70 degrees at 6:00 AM with a light SSW wind. The high for today was 93 degrees. The forecast for tomorrow is a low of 69 degrees and a high of 93. The rest of the week will be partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers thru Sunday. The highs will be in the 80’s and the lows in the 60’s.

Lake Texoma has fallen over two feet since my last report a month ago.  The water temperature has gotten three degrees cooler.  If we would get clouds and showers as forecast, it should be excellent striper fishing this weekend.  

Large schools of stripers are being found feeding on the surface and in the deep water along the east bluffs of the main lake.  The clouds and an occasional shower could make the topwater action last much longer.  The stripers surfaced this morning until 11:00 AM. Then they went into the deeper water.  After the stripers go down, start using jigs or slabs on the huge schools of silversides. Ripping the slabs off the bottom or jigging them at the depth the sonar shows the feeding fish will both produce a limit of fish.  Live shad will always produce fast limits along with double digit weights. We were throwing back 10 pound+ fish by 9:00 AM this morning.

If you want to catch a trophy striper, now is the time to come to Texoma.  Sunday morning customers caught 26, 21.5 and 18 pound stripers along with several over 10 pounds.  Double digit fish are being caught on nearly every fishing trip.

To see pictures of these catches and other fish caught this month by our customers, click on the following link. http://home.texoma.net/~tinker/fishpics04/fishpics08.html

Go to http://www.tinker.net, to read testimonials sent in by our customers and see pictures of the fish they caught over the last year.  Links to both are on the right side of my home page.