Fishing Report
 

June 23, 2004
Water pool level: 617.86, normal annual pool level is 617 feet. Seasonal 619.
Water temperature: 78 degrees.  Water clarity: clear.
Generating Schedule: 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

Sunrise was 6:15 AM and sunset will be 8:39 PM.  There are 14 hours and 24 minutes of visible light during the day.  The moon will be full on July 2nd.  The morning started out cool with the temperature 64 degrees at 6:00 AM with a light northeast wind. The high for today is expected to be a seasonably high of 88 degrees. The forecast for tomorrow is a low of 70 degrees and a high of 88. The rest of the week will be partly cloudy to sunny with the highs in the low 90’s and the lows around 70. There is a slight chance of thunder storms Saturday and Sunday.

If the weather goes as forecast this week, it should be excellent striper fishing all the way through the weekend.  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 9:00 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.

After the stripers go down, start using two ounce 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 eighteen to twenty-six inch fish.

Customers have caught several stripers up to sixteen pounds in the last seven days.  Topwater fishing was excellent this morning.  You should plan your July 4th weekend fishing early.

The long hours of daylight allow us to fish two trips a day per boat.  I 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.

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.