Great fishery. Once you figure them out, might not be a better lake in Oklahoma.

Thanks!

These fish with long life spans it’s a good thing to let bigger ones swim on.

Thanks Heath. The bigger stripers seem to have always alluded me.

I haven’t been yet this winter but I’ve heard deadstick bite is on. Good luck! And let us know how you do.

Splasher prop has served us well, thanks!

We get a lot of value out of helping out others catch more fish. So glad we can help out.

Thanks! Hope to see you out there too.

Thanks William! Your comment means a lot.

Thanks!

Thanks Larry. Texoma is huge. And it’s even bigger when you can’t find the fish! Feels like a pond or the ocean.

It’s still a solid lake, one of the best fisheries around.

Thanks Dale! Your comment means a lot hope our videos help you out.

@Bradley Dodrill thanks! I played minor league ball in WV but never got the chance to fish there. Thanks for watching!

Nice work. Thanks for the comment. We were out there Sunday as well and for us the bite was more from 11-3pm

@joeschmoe1301 let’s go!! Thanks for the compliment.

You’re welcome. Thanks for watching!

@Lure Up thanks! I couldn’t hold back the excitement.

Thanks Brad. I hope our videos help you do it!

I have camped a caney creek before. It’s a great place to stay. Did you have to make reservation this time of year?

Oh, looks like winter is over here in SE Texas! Looks like we fished the last cold day of the winter of 2022/2023... Highs in the 80's for a couple days this week and a couple days next week!

Thanks Charles! On those windy days like that the only way to fish are with wind socks. We’ve got multiple 72” socks and a 48”. Every boat is different though on how big of sock you’ll need. Good luck Thursday! Let us know how you do.

@@charlesfoster8814 that’s wild. Pulling out the cast nets and Shad tanks in February it looks like.

@@BooneBoys Looks like I need to start looking into a shad tank now. It would be nice to be able to use the live well on my boat. I can recirculating lake water through it, but it's rectangular with rounded corners. It's big, but I know everyone wants round tanks for shad.

@VitaminD those are the worst days. It’s like a basspro tank’s bluegill swimming in front of a bass or catfish and doesn’t go after it.

Thanks Johnnie. Soldier creek and Caney Creek in open water.

@Michael Teague most likely if your not seeing them in graph they’ve disappeared. Not sure why this happens, but at given times of the year it’s like they are impossible to find. Normally it’s a pattern at that time of the year every year.

But to answer the question on the splasher, I think you should always use it no matter the depth. However the thumper is far more important in the winter in deeper water. On this trip, the thumper was turning off and fish would disappear during that time. Turn it on and they would reappear.

Gotta have it in the winter.

Thanks I appreciate it. So we typically use 4/0 hooks and 1-1.5oz heads. I wish somebody could make me a 2oz and 2.5oz head with a 4/0 hook. Problem now is that I can only find 2oz in 5/0 hooks and those are a little bit big when you are in smaller groups of fish, they miss the bait more than the 4/0 hooks. 1 and 1.5oz is just fine except on those windy days where your drifting .7-.8mph

@@BooneBoys Thanks for the response. You guys are having so much fun. Keep on going...

Texoma has striped bass and white bass but no hybrid bass. Some striped bass have broken lines and look like hybrid bass from the stripes. The lines can full a person. I’ve caught hybrid bass with nearly no line breaks as well.

Yes. Leaving it completely still. Where the name deastick comes from. You can catch them with no movement, but typically it’s .4-.7mph drift or moving with trolling motor.

It can be a really rough lake, but you might pick your spot where there is less wind if it’s a really windy day. There are plenty of bass boats that fish the lake.

Sometimes it’s an early morning bite or late evening. Sometimes it’s all day bite. In winter, generally they are in the deepest part of that area of the lake. One you find them, sometimes small schools drift and let the thumper keep them with you during drift. Most of the time I find them with sonar, and some of the time it’s with sidescan. If they are hugging the bottom, with my sidescan, it’s hard to see them, but if they are suspended pretty much most sidescans will see them easily.

Fished it last year. We didn’t do that well. We caught only small walleye. I’m hoping we can get a kid or 2 on those lifetime fishing licenses at kids fishing derby next year.

@@BooneBoys I was hoping for that for my boys a few years ago too. I really want to make it out there this next year.

Yes. It’s more important to use thumper in the winter, but I use them both in the winter and pretty much only splasher in summer.

I can only afford to by one right now. Which would you recommend to start with? Thumper or sSlasher. Fishing for both hybrids & Stripers less than 50 ‘ of water.

That’s literally all you do. Deadstick fishing is best fishing time of year. It’s only from around Nov-Feb. water temp needs to be below 55

You don’t want to move it. Leave it as still as possible. If it’s really windy compensate for the boat movement trying to keep it still.