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May 24, 2023 19:42:49   #
Fioretti Loc: Bells, Tx
 
What is best bait to use for strippers at this time?

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May 25, 2023 20:38:54   #
Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas
 
Fioretti: Well, I cannot help with bait for stippers in Texoma, I moved away before they became a real target there.

However, if you can afford it, the guides down around the Texoma dam will put you on them and from what I hear often limit you out.

I believe their clients are using artificial lures, such as Bomber slabs, or similiar deep running lures. If you have a fish/depth finder on your boat, you can find them rather easily. They run in large schools and chase the gizzard shad and other bait fish and would show up quite easily on a fish finder. Sorry I could not offer more.

I graduated from UNT in 1957 and work had me about every place but home. Just Sayin...RJS

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May 26, 2023 10:04:00   #
Fioretti Loc: Bells, Tx
 
Robert J Samples wrote:
Fioretti: Well, I cannot help with bait for stippers in Texoma, I moved away before they became a real target there.

However, if you can afford it, the guides down around the Texoma dam will put you on them and from what I hear often limit you out.

I believe their clients are using artificial lures, such as Bomber slabs, or similiar deep running lures. If you have a fish/depth finder on your boat, you can find them rather easily. They run in large schools and chase the gizzard shad and other bait fish and would show up quite easily on a fish finder. Sorry I could not offer more.

I graduated from UNT in 1957 and work had me about every place but home. Just Sayin...RJS
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Thanks Robert. Will keep trying with a lure.

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May 26, 2023 14:47:18   #
soxtroy Loc: Plano Texas
 
Book a day or two with Chris at Striper Express. Always puts us on fish.

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May 29, 2023 13:49:50   #
The Fishin' Musician Loc: Austin, TX
 
The most popular bait for strippers is $2 bills! lol Actually for stripers at Texoma, live shad is probably the bait used most often. Use a cast net, catch bait, and put it in a round bait well with plenty of aeration. There are additives that you can put in the water to to increase viability and help them stay alive longer. Google it or ask around at the marina or bait shop. Use you depth finder to locate large schools of shad or stripers and mark them with a marker bouy and then anchor and try to get on top of them. use a `1 oz round slip sinker and use a swivel as a stop, attach a leader and a hook and bait your hook with a shad hooked through the nose cartiledge. I have limited out in an hour doing this. Remember that ther are giant blue catfish in Texoma, and they will grab shad too. Save your dead shad and use as cut bait for catfish. Fresh dead cut bait seems to work better than frozen, but frozen is not bad at times. You can also find them and jig under the boat with slabs or jigs if using lures is what you have to do if live bait isn't available.You can also prospect for striper by trolling deep diving lures or using downriggers. I have had phenomenal luck trolling chartruse and red colored Roostertail spinners. At certain times of the year you can find them busting bait on the surface. Pretty much anything you throw into a feeding school will work. Also remember that there is a big population of white bass or sandbass as I call them, and they will be found just like the stripers and you can load the freezer with fish fry fare. Good luck and have fun. Texoma is a great lake to catch a big fish!

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May 29, 2023 13:59:36   #
The Fishin' Musician Loc: Austin, TX
 
Hey Robert, I think you graduated from NTSU in 1957. I went to music school at NTSU in the early '80s, a few years before they changed the name from North Texas State University to the University of North Texas, UNT. The school radio station call letters were KNTU when it was North Texas State University. They had to go in a different direction when it was changed to UNT....lol!

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May 29, 2023 14:02:31   #
Pounding banks Loc: South Central Texas
 
$20 dollar bill

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May 29, 2023 16:27:22   #
Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas
 
Yes, I was there before it became UNT. Great school, particularly for students in north Texas. One of my classmates won the Distinguished Flying Cross ( think the award was) He had a hard time passing being heavy enough for Air Force to accept him! Also, we had one general to be promoted from our ROTC corps. Just Sayin...RJS

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Jun 13, 2023 19:34:04   #
Choctaw57 Loc: Robinson, Texas
 
Robert J Samples wrote:
Fioretti: Well, I cannot help with bait for stippers in Texoma, I moved away before they became a real target there.

However, if you can afford it, the guides down around the Texoma dam will put you on them and from what I hear often limit you out.

I believe their clients are using artificial lures, such as Bomber slabs, or similiar deep running lures. If you have a fish/depth finder on your boat, you can find them rather easily. They run in large schools and chase the gizzard shad and other bait fish and would show up quite easily on a fish finder. Sorry I could not offer more.

I graduated from UNT in 1957 and work had me about every place but home. Just Sayin...RJS
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I know I'm late to the party, but may have luck with live bait or swim bait with a under spin. Hope you are have good luck. I always use a guide Okie-Tex out of Kingston, Ok

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