Fishing Report
 

July 21, 2004
Water pool level: 619.19, normal annual pool level is 617 feet. Seasonal 619.
Water temperature: 86 degrees.  Water clarity: clear.
Generating Schedule: Noon to 1:00 AM.

Sunrise was 6:31 AM and sunset will be 8:34 PM.  There are 14 hours and 59 minutes of visible light during the day.  The moon will be full on July 31st.  The morning started out warm with the temperature 74 degrees at 6:00 AM with a light SSE wind. The high for today is expected to be a seasonably high of 95 degrees. The forecast for tomorrow is a low of 70 degrees and a high of 95. The rest of the week will be partly cloudy to sunny with the highs in the 90’s and the lows in the 70’s. There is a chance for showers Saturday and Sunday.

Lake Texoma has risen over two feet since my last report a month ago.  The water temperature has gotten several degrees hotter.  If we would get clouds and showers as forecast, it should be excellent striper fishing this weekend.  Large schools of stripers can be found in the deep water along the two river channels.  The clouds and an occasional shower could make the topwater action last much longer.  Lately the stripers have surfaced during the early morning hours before the sun comes through. Then they go into the deeper and cooler 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.

The long hours of daylight allow us to fish two trips a day per boat.  I took four local fishermen out Friday afternoon at 7:00 PM and we were back at the dock by 9:00 PM with a limit of stripers.  Allen and Neal Crow stayed and fished at my boathouses that night and caught a thirty-six pound blue catfish and several three to eight pound blues.  If you can’t get the whole day off, try to take off a little early and fish the afternoon into the evening.  There is plenty of daylight to catch a limit of stripers after 6:00 PM and then fish at the boathouses into the night for catfish.

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/fishpics07.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.