Fishing Report
 

June 15, 2004
Water pool level: 617.24, normal annual pool level is 617 feet. Seasonal 619.
Water temperature: 78 degrees.  Water clarity: clear.
Generating Schedule: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM.

Sunrise was 6:15 AM and sunset will be 8:39 PM.  There are 14 hours and 23 minutes of visible light during the day.  The moon will be full on July 2nd.  The morning started out warm with the temperature 78 degrees at 6:00 AM with a light southeast wind. The high for today is expected to be a seasonably high of 89 degrees. The forecast for tomorrow is a low of 72 degrees and a high of 83. The rest of the week will be partly cloudy to sunny with the highs in the 80’s and the lows around 70. There is a 20% chance of scattered thunderstorms in the forecast.

A Gift Certificate for Dad is a great last minute present for the man you all love.  Call us by Wednesday at 3:00 PM and we will be able to get one to you by Saturday.  Dad can schedule his fishing trip any time during the next year.  You can never tell, he may want to bring the family with him.

If the weather goes as forecast this week, it should be excellent striper fishing all the way through Father’s Day.  Now that all of the stripers have completed their spawn, they have returned to the main lake in large schools in search of forage to fill their empty bellies.  These large schools can be found from the dam west to Eisenhower Marina and north to Washita Point, then west all the way to the islands.

They will surface during the morning until the sun comes through the clouds. The early clouds stayed over us until 10:00 AM today.  Using topwater lures like pencil poppers, zara spooks, striper strikes or the larger saltwater series chug bugs produced stripers up to eight pounds.

When the stripers went down we started using two ounce slabs on the huge schools of silversides. Ripping the slabs off the bottom or jigging them at the depth the sonar showed the feeding fish both produced eighteen to twenty-six inch fish.

After we tired using slabs we put live shad down and thought we could catch the rest of our limit of under twenty inch fish. Wrong again.  They were all too long.  We came in around noon six fish short of our limit with tired wrists. The Oklahoma flats or Mac Creek area would have produced some smaller stripers, but after reeling in the big ones all morning, we opted to come on back to the boathouse.

The long hours of daylight allow us to fish two trips a day per boat.  I will guarantee afternoon fishing will produce some very large post spawn stripers.  If you can’t get the whole day off, try to take off after noon and fish the afternoon into the evening.  There is plenty of daylight to fish after 3:00 PM.

Always practice safe boating and respect the other fishermen.  During late Spring and early Summer thunderstorms can pop up fast.  Some of these can have lightening and very high winds.  Most don’t last very long.  Stay alert and have a fun-filled day on the lake.

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 few years.  Links to both are on the right side of my home page.

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/fishpics06.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.