Legendary Bass Fishing at Legendary Lake Texoma

The spring is an excellent times during the the entire year to be on the water. Not counting the breezy times, climatic conditions have at long last calmed down after having a extended winter. Also it truly feels great to be out of doors. Furthermore, typically the day fishing is normally outstanding through the daytime hours. Stripers hit your bait during mid-day like they do through the low light stretches from dusk till dawn. Quite often this does get me in dutch right at home because of the lack of attention to tasks. With that said, the spring really does overlap with back garden care and my flower beds will need cleaning up.



Having said that, Spring is the one time of the year when the majority of the fish in every body of water, move shallow for spawning, making them easier targets for anglers. Texoma, amongst the top striper bass lakes in America is no exception. Just how did Lake Texoma get to be the amazing striped bass fishery that it has become today?



Striped bass are an anadromous species, meaning they live almost all of their lives in salt water, but swim into freshwater rivers for spawning. Once the Santee Cooper Lakes in South Carolina were impounded in the 1940's, many stripers which had headed upstream to spawn were trapped. Not merely did these fish survive, they also thrived in the freshwater. This caught the attention of conservationists who started introducing the stripers in to various other land-locked lakes.



Striped bass begin spawning as soon as water temperatures hit 60 plus degrees Fahrenheit. As their eggs need water current to survive, striper move into rivers for this annual ritual. Ova only will hatch if they are kept from the bottom by a current. The requirement for flowing water means that striped bass in most lakes in the usa will not reproduce naturally.



Lake Texoma, however, provides two lengthy and fast moving rivers flowing in to the reservoir making it possible for stripers to naturally reproduce. Scientists have not stocked striper into Texoma since 1985 making it just one of eight waters around the world where striped bass can naturally. Texoma is now a self-sustaining striper fishing ground that receives worldwide recognition.



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Material for this post given by legendary Lake Texoma Fishing Guide Bill Carey.