FISHING REPORT

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SOUTHEAST (partial)

Eufaula: July 24. Elevation normal, water 84 and murky but clearing. Striped bass excellent on live bait, live shad, and top water below and around the dam. Flathead and blue catfish good on live bait, worms, and noodling around coves, points, rocks, and shallows.White bass good on buzz baits, jigs, small lures, and spoons around coves, main lake, and points. Report submitted by Cannon Harrison, game warden stationed in McIntosh County.

Robert S. Kerr: July 24. Elevation normal, water murky. Largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted bass good on buzz baits, minnows, plastics, small lures, spinnerbaits, and top water around brush structure, coves, docks, points, standing timber, tailwater, and weed beds. Blue, channel, and flathead catfish good on chicken liver, cut bait, dough bait, hot dogs, minnows, shad, and sunfish below the dam, and around channels, main lake, river channel, river mouth, shorelines, and tailwater. Black and white crappie fair on crickets, goldfish, grass hoppers, grubs, jigs, minnows, and small lures, below the dam, and around brush structure, points, shallows, shorelines, tailwater, and weed beds. Report submitted by Logan Shimp, game warden stationed in Haskell County.

Texoma: July 24. Elevation normal, water 80. Striped bass good on Alabama rig, hair jigs, live shad, sassy shad, and top water around flats, main lake, and river channel. Channel catfish fair on chicken liver, punch bait, and shad around shallows. Black crappie fair on hair jigs and minnows around brush structure and docks. Lake fishing is good early mornings and anglers should use top water lures when surface feeding is present and transfer to slabs and down rigging umbrella rigs as the morning progresses. Top water action has been good the Denison Dam and fish schools tend to move north from there. Channel cat are being caught on baited holes in shallow water. Crappie are holding on deeper water structure biting minnows with a slow presentation. Report submitted by Trey Hale, game warden stationed in Marshall County.

SOUTHWEST

Fort Cobb: July 27. Elevation below average, water in the 90s. Channel and blue catfish slow on cut bait around the main lake. Report submitted by Brayden Hicks, game warden stationed in Caddo County.

Waurika: July 28. Elevation normal, water 80s and stirred, Blue and channel catfish fair on cut bait and punch bait around channels, creek channels, and main lake. Striped hybrid bass and white bass slow on sassy shad and shad around channels, dam, and main lake. Report submitted by Matt Farris, game warden stationed in Jefferson County.