Lake Texoma Striper Fishing Season

We get a lot of questions about the best time of year for Striper Fishing Lake Texoma, so we decided to write a short blog post about Lake Texoma Striper Fishing Season. Anglers should Striper Fish Lake Texoma every chance they get. The fishery is the Striper Capital of the World, and one of the only lakes Striped Bass reproduce naturally. Lake Texoma gets stocked with Striper each year, then in April, fish run up the Red and Washita Rivers and spawn. Lake Texoma doubles down on Striper each year, and anglers enjoy catching large numbers of fish, and the lake gives up 10-15 pound pigs too! Yes, too big Striper and yes, too 50 fish days! Let’s dive into the Lake Texoma Striper fishing Season!

January

Weather: Cold and Windy

Water Temperatures: 45-55

Striper Fishing Tactic: Deadsticking Flukes

January is freezing, but Deadsticking Flukes in the winter on Lake Texoma produces our biggest fish each season. Make sure you have proper winter weather clothing and get ready to catch multiple Striper over 10 pounds Deadsticking Flukes and slow rolling swimbaits.

February

Weather: Cold and Windy

Water Temperatures: 40-50

Striper Fishing Tactic: Deadsticking Flukes

If January is freezing, February is frozen, but big Striper are put in the net each season. Keep your cold-weather gear out. Sleep in until 9 AM. Make sure you have sensitive braid line on your reel, Deadstick Jig Heads, 3″, 4″, 5″ Flukes, and some soft plastic scent like Spike-It. Our trips in the winter will start later in the morning to let the sun warm up the water and get the Striper a little more active. If you get cabin fever, Lake Texoma Striper fishing in February can be excellent.

March

Weather: Starting to warm with some wind

Water Temperatures: 50-65

Striper Fishing Tactic: Fishing near rocks!

March is the warm-up month, and we will look for rocks to fish. The sun comes out, warms up the rocks, the shallow water near the rocks heats up, and the shad are looking for that warmer water. If you want to have success Striper fishing Lake Texoma, find the shad. The Striper will follow the shad into this shallow warm water, and it makes for some exciting action. We will drift live-bait in 5-10 feet of water or throw swimbaits to the rocks, and slowly roll them back to the boat! Please dress in layers in March. We can get hot fast, then cold again in a blink of an eye!  

April

Weather: Windy and warmer

Water Temperatures: 60-70

Striper Fishing Tactic: Prespawn Season

Once Lake Texoma water surface temperatures reach 65 degrees or better, Striper fishing gets outstanding. Striped Bass will start to move into the Red and Washita Rivers to spawn. April can be the best live-bait fishing month, but swimbaits and underspins will catch Striper too. Striper will school up around these river channels to feed, then run upstream to spawn. We slow down a bit when the Striper are spawning, but we can always find substantial White Bass schools until the Striper finishes up re-stocking our great lake.

May

Weather: Warm with some wind and rain

Water Temperatures: 65-75

Striper Fishing Tactic: Live-Bait, Slab Spoons, some Topwater Plugs

The spawn is complete, and the Striper are hungry! Get ready for some of the best Striper fishing any lake offers in the USA! The water temperatures are perfect, and live-bait fishing is fantastic all of May! We will also see the first significant topwater activity of the year and can start our slab spoon season as well. Lake Texoma Striper can be on the skinny side in May, but it won’t be long until they are healthy and ready for the long summer. May is our second favorite time of the year to Striper fish Lake Texoma. Please make sure you bring a rain jacket in May, we get some showers on and off, but the fish still eat in the rain.

June

Weather: Warm and windy

Water Temperatures: 70-75

Striper Fishing Tactic: Live-Bait, Slab Spoons, Swimbaits, Topwater

June is our busiest month, and we suggest you book 90-120 days prior. Most Lake Texoma Fishing Guides are booked up in June, so make your plans early. June Striper fishing is fantastic, and most of our time will be spent drifting live-bait or tied up in groups of boats fishing shad. You may see a lot of trolling motors splashing on the water making noise. Yes, these work, and yes, we use a splasher propeller on all of our live-bait trips. June is excellent Striper fishing, and Lake Texoma gets very crowded. If you want to fish slab spoons, we can arrange a lure trip, but 85% of our June trips are live-bait.

July

Weather: Warm and windy

Water Temperatures: 75-80

Striper Fishing Tactic: Live-Bait, Slab Spoons, Topwater

Bring the sun-block and book early. The 4th of July Holiday is the peak of our summer season. Lots of boats, lots of fireworks, lots of people. If you do not like crowds, July is not your season. July is another tremendous live-bait fishing month on Lake Texoma. We can fish lures, but live-bait puts limits of Striper in the cooler. We will drift live-bait more than anchoring up. Striper are moving fast, chasing the enormous schools of threadfin shad.   

August

Weather: HOT not a lot of wind

Water Temperatures: 80 plus

Striper Fishing Tactic: Live-Bait

June and July are very busy, and august Striper fishing gets tough. August is our slow month, and we will take a holiday for a few weeks, but if your only chance to fish the Striper Capital of the World is in August, we can make it happen with live-bait. We try not to harm Striper, and when the water temperatures reach 80 plus, fish can die. Not every month is excellent on Lake Texoma, and not every day is a five-person limit, but we work very hard each trip to make sure our clients become repeat customers.

September

Weather: Warm and windy

Water Temperatures: 80 and moving back to 75

Striper Fishing Tactic: Live-Bait, Topwater Plugs on the Beach

The dog days of summer start to cool off, and the peak of our Topwater Plug season is near. September can be hit or miss, but when ten pound plus Striper move into three feet of water, the action is heart-stopping! Six-inch topwater plugs cast into one foot of sandy water, and you can hardly see the lure because the sun is not up over the tree line, then you hear the explosion! Stop! Don’t set the hook until you feel the Striper….. Excellent work, fish on! The topwater action only lasts a few hours, then we back off of the sandy beaches into 20 feet of water and fish live-bait. September is extraordinary on Lake Texoma, come and join us.

October

Weather: Cooling off with some cold mornings

Water Temperatures: 70-75

Striper Fishing Tactic: Live-Bait, and any lure you like.

Fall striper fishing Lake Texoma can be easy! Lake Texoma Fishing Guides welcome back their best friends, the Seagulls. Our third favorite month on Lake Texoma. Seagulls will eat the shad that Striper push to the surface from October to December on Lake Texoma. The most challenging choice on Lake Texoma in October is what group of birds to fish. Drifting live-bait works great, but you can also fish a swimbait and or slab spoon and catch Striper! Our October dates go fast, so book in advance.

November

Weather: Cold with lots of wind

Water Temperatures: 60-70

Striper Fishing Tactic: Live-bait

November is our favorite month of the year to Striper fish Lake Texoma. Hunters go chase deer, and anglers seem to have Lake Texoma to themselves. The seagulls find the fish while fishermen sleep in a bit and dream of ten pound plus Striper in the net. Lake Texoma will turn over in November, but we catch multiple ten-pound fish on each trip.  

December

Weather: Cold with lots of wind

Water Temperatures: 50-55

Striper Fishing Tactic: Deadsticking Flukes

Winter striper fishing Lake Texoma can be cold, but rewarding.  Our deadstick season can start in November, but December, we take the bait-tanks out and break out the deadstick rods. Winter is back, and it’s time to slow down your lure presentation to a dead stop. We catch huge Striper from December to February Deadsticking Flukes. If you want to learn how, book a trip this winter. 

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