Texoma !!!!

rfrank · Posted: Mon, Jun 23 2008 11:32 pm Post subject: Texoma !!!!

I took off work today & pulled my boat & 2 sons up to Texoma for one last fishing trip before Josh heads to Afganistan. We launched out of Highport and head up twards the Lighthouse area looking for some topwater action. NADA! Headed west to check out a small boat show. NADA. Headed south to the Islands. 1 drum while trolling out of desperation

Now it is almost noon, its getting hot & we have no fish. OK, 1 more stop, back to Lighthouse. Marked some fish so we started slabbin, then out of nowhere the sun dissapears behind some clouds. Bam, fish on. A solid 22"er..... Sweet. Soon after that, the water began to boil. 2hrs later we left them biting & headed back to Highport with our 30 fish & released that many more. So we woke up @ 3am to get there by 6am and we could have slept till 9 and done just fine

Oh well, it was a great day to be on the Big Pond.

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briancooper · Posted: Mon, Jun 23 2008 11:40 pm Post subject:

Very nice catch! what were yall using if you dont mind me asking? How deep were they?
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fishin1 · Posted: Tue, Jun 24 2008 06:41 am Post subject:

very very nice ........ aint nuttin like gettin into those babies especially on the top water action ..... congrats

and frank jr. , you take care over there and thanks again for your service to our country....

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JohnnyD · Posted: Tue, Jun 24 2008 11:39 am Post subject:

Made me smile readin' that

. Been a while since we got up to Texoma and just reminded me how much fun it is chasin those striped scaley fish up there! Nice!
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rfrank · Posted: Tue, Jun 24 2008 07:44 pm Post subject:

briancooper wrote:

Very nice catch! what were yall using if you dont mind me asking? How deep were they?

any kind of top water was workin, chugs, spooks, ect. The box fish were up top and the bigger fish were mabey 30' down in 65' of water. I did hook a very, very nice fish that stripped all kinds of line. Got him to the boat twice & it jumped as Josh was nettin it. Needless to say he netted the slab on the side of its mouth and bye bye fishee

It was the biggest striper I had ever hooked & was an easy 30".

Wylie Jeff · Posted: Thu, Jun 26 2008 01:01 pm Post subject:

Nice catch. Thanks to your son for his service.
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flounder · Posted: Fri, Jul 04 2008 03:22 pm Post subject:

Wow, I have to get back up there. Nice catch!
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poolsj · Minnow Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 5 Status: **Offline!**

Nice fish, way to stay on them. I have a friend who is a guide there and he told me they are doing well. I just cant find time to get up early enough on my day off to get out there early enough to catch shad. If slabbing is the ticket and you caught them in late morning sounds like the next overcast day I may need to get out there and stop waiting on my friend to tell me he has a down day to fish.