Lake Texoma
Texas Freshwater Fishing
5 Species You Could Catch in This Lake:
Striped Bass, Largemouth Bass, Spotted Bass, White Crappie, Flathead Catfish
Striped Bass
Regulations: no minimum length, daily bag is 10 fish
Texas Records: 53 lbs, 48 inches
Best way to fish for these:They may take surface lures, but most often they are caught on heavy jigs, slabs, plastic shad, and live gizzard shad.
Largemouth Bass
Regulations: minimum length of 14 inches and daily bag of 4 fish
Texas Records: 18.8 lbs, 25.5 inches
Best way to fish for these:
Largemouth, spotted, and smallmouth bass can be caught pretty much year round, but they are caught closer to the shoreline and around structure.Spotted Bass
Regulations: no minimum length, daily bag of 10
Texas Records: 5.98 lbs, 22.25 inches
Best way to fish for these: fish around grass and brush with crank baits, surface lures, spinners, and Carolina rigged worms.
White Crappie
Regulations:For black and white crappie, minimum length limit = 10 inches and daily bag limit = 37 in any combination. Possession limit = 50 crappie.
Texas Records: 4.56 lbs
Best way to fish for these:
Crappie fishing is best in fall and winter, when fish tend to school in large numbers and concentrate around boat houses, submerged trees, creek channels, and brush piles. While minnows are the bait of choice, crappie are caught on a variety of jigs.Flathead Catfish
Regulations: minimum length is 20 inches and daily bag is 5
Texas Records: 98.5 lbs, 53 inches
Best way to fish for these: Flathead catfish are infrequently caught by rod and reel anglers, but most often by trotlining with live sunfish for bait.
Lake Texoma
3 Endangered Species in Lake Texoma:
Paddlefish, Goldeye, Blue Sucker
License:
- In Lake Texoma, a person may fish in the respective Texas and Oklahoma waters with the appropriate license from the respective state, or may fish the entire lake with a Lake Texoma fishing license.
- Lake Texoma License is $12
ShareLunker Program:
- encourages anglers who have caught 13-pound-plus largemouth bass to lend or donate the fish to TPWD for spawning purposes
- There have been catches in this program from Lake Texoma
3 Major Invasive Threats:
Stocking History
Most recently stocked in 2000 with 324,444 Florida Largemouth Bass