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Watch for North Texas Catfish Guide Service on The Diva's in The Outdoors Television Show on the Men's Channel for episodes on Trophy Catfishing and Spring Catfishing.
Click The Photo for More Pictures from the Divas in The Outdoors Television Shoots with North Texas Catfish Guide Service on Cedar Creek Lake.
Watch for North Texas Catfish Guide Service on The Lady on The Lake Televison Show with Bonita Staples on Comcast Cable for Trophy Catfishing.
Watch For North Texas Catfish Guide Service on Fox Sports Southwest - Toyota Trucks Southwest Outdoors Report with Barry Stokes for episodes on Trophy Catfishing and Cormorant Catfishing in Texas. Watch for future episodes of Barry Stokes Toyota Truck Outdoors report on Fox Sports Southwest for more episodes with North Texas Catfish Guide Service.
Listen for Weekly Fishing Reports on the Texas Fishing and Outdoors Show with Brian Hughes on the Texas State Radio Network, or KRLD 1080 AM in the Dallas Ft Worth area.
North Texas Catfish Guide Service featured in Texas Fish and Game Magazine Jug Fishing for Texas Blue Catfish.
North Texas Catfish Guide Service Featured in Texas Fish and Game Magazine article titled "Cash Cats - Catfish Tournaments in Texas".
North Texas Catfish Guide Service Featured in In-Fisherman's Catfish Insider Catfish Guide Magazine 2006 in the Catfishing Hotspots Section for Texas Best Catfishing Locations.
North Texas Catfish Guide service featured in Texas Fish and Game Magazine in the Magazine Article titled "Big Blues - Fishing for Texas Trophy Catfish".
North Texas Catfish Guide Service featured in the 2004 In-Fisherman Catfish Insider - Catfish Guide in the Article titled Beyond Basic Juglines. Building Juglines for Catfish Fishing. Jug Fishing for Catfish.
North Texas Catfish Guide Service does frequent seminars in North Texas on Catfishing for Blue Catfish, Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World is a regular stop for our Texas Catfishing Seminars. Keep a close eye on our website and Bass Pro Shops seminar schedule for more information on Texas Catfishing Seminars from North Texas Catfish Guide Service.
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Lake Texoma Catfish Fishing Guide
North Texas Catfish Guide Service
Fishing for Lake Texoma Catfish
North Texas Catfish Guide Service - Guided Catfish Fishing Trips on Lake Texoma for Lake Texoma Blue Catfish, and Lake Texoma Trophy Blue Catfish
Rod and Reel Fishing for Lake Texoma Catfish
WE ONLY OFFER GUIDED FISHING TRIPS ON LAKE TEXOMA FOR BLUE CATFISH AND TROPHY BLUE CATFISH WE DO NOT OFFER STRIPER (STRIPED BASS) FISHING TRIPS ON LAKE TEXOMA
LAKE TEXOMA GUIDED CATFISHING TRIPS WITH NORTH TEXAS CATFISH GUIDE SERVICE ARE AVAILABLE FROM OCTOBER TO MARCH ONLY. WE DO NOT OFFER CATFISHING TRIPS ON LAKE TEXOMA FROM MAY THROUGH SEPTEMBER.
IF YOU WANT TO FISH WITH NORTH TEXAS CATFISH GUIDE SERVICE FOR CATFISH FROM MAY TO SEPTEMBER WE WILL BE HAPPY TO ACCOMODATE YOU ON LAKE LEWISVILLE OR CEDAR CREEK LAKE OR ONE OF THE OTHER LAKES WE OFFER OUR GUIDED FISHING TRIPS ON.
North Texas Catfish Guide Service offers guided catfish fishing trips on Lake Texoma located in North Texas on the Texas Oklahoma Border. Lake Texoma is a 74,686 Acre Reservoir that was built in 1944. Lake Texoma is known around the country as one of the premier fishing destination in the United States for Blue Catfish and Striped Bass (Striper).
Lake Texoma is a huge lake that offers excellent fishing opportunities for Blue Catfish and Channel Catfish as well as Trophy Blue Catfish. Lake Texoma is also home to the Texas State Record Blue Catfish and World Record Blue Catfish weighing in at 121.6 Lbs caught in 2004. The biggest catfish ever caught was caught on Lake Texoma and lives today in the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens Texas.
Our Lake Texoma guided catfish fishing trips focus on fishing for Lake Texoma Blue Catfish and Lake Texoma Trophy Blue Catfish and Lake Texoma Channel Catfish. With the former world record catfish caught at Lake Texoma there is no doubt that there are more and bigger fish waiting to be caught from Lake Texoma to shatter the former world record blue catfish.
Lake Texoma is a sportsmans paradise and life around the Lake is definately focused on the fishing. There are numeroous cabins located around Lake Texoma on and around the water as well as numerous hotels so lodging is never a problem at Lake Texoma. (Look below for reccomendations on Lake Texoma Cabins and Lake Texoma Motels to stay at while on your guided catfish fishing trip at Lake Texoma with North Texas Catfish Guide Service).
Guided fishing trips for catfish with North Texas Catfish Guide Service at Lake Texoma begin at either Lake Texoma Lowes Highport Marina or Cedar Bayou Marina at Lake Texoma.
Guided catfish fishing trips are available at Lake Texoma with North Texas Catfish Guide Service all year long at Lake Texoma. The best months to catch a Lake Texoma Trophy Blue Catfish are November, December, January, February and Early March. Fishing trips for blue catfish and channel catfish are available at Lake Texoma all year long, but the colder it is the better your chances are of going head to head with a Trophy Class Blue Catfish, but there is always a chance at other times of the year that you will hook up with a Big Lake Texoma Blue Catfish.
Clients on a Lake Texoma Guided Catfish Fishing trip for catfish with North Texas Catfish Guide Service will need to purchase a Lake Texoma Fishing License prior to your guided catfish fishing trip. The cost of the lake Texoma Fishing license is $12.50 and can be purchased at Wal Mart as well as most convenience stores around Lake Texoma.
Lake Texoma also has a 15 Catfish Limit, unlike the other lakes we offer our guided catfish fishing trips on having a limit of 25 catfish.
On Lake Texoma Catfish Fishing Trips we have a catch and release policy for all catfish over 10 Lbs. If you catch a catfish over 10 lbs we will take your photograph and release the Lake Texoma Trophy Catfish alive after we take your photograph with the fish. If you would like to have a replica mount made of your Trophy Fish will take numerous photos, measurements and information and refer you to a replica artist for your Lake Texoma Trophy Catfish.
Launch Locations for Guided Fishing Trips
Lake Texoma Lowes Highport Marina
Launch Location #1 For North Texas Catfish Guide Service
Lake Texoma Guided Catfish Fishing Trips
Lake Texoma Lowes Highport Marina Website: www.highport.com
Direction
to Lake Texoma Lowe's Highport Marina From Dallas
Take
Highway 75 (North) to Denison,TX. Take exit #69 (Highway 120) and turn
left. Take Hwy. 120 approximately 5 miles into Pottsboro where highway
120 will then vear off to the right (north). Continue on Highway 120
approximately 5 miles to Highport Rd. (Mobil station) and turn left.
Highport Rd. will take you into the Marina and Pompanos. Welcome to
Highport Marina!
Direction
to Lake Texoma Lowe's Highport Marina From Ft. Worth
Take Highway I-35W North approximately 35 miles to Highway 82 (exit
498A) and turn right. (East) Continue on Highway 82 towards Sherman and
turn left on Highway 1417. Continue North on 1417 into Pottsboro to
F.M. 120. Turn left (west) on F.M. 120. After a few miles stay on F.M.
120 as it turns to the right.(North) Stay on F.M. 120 for approximately
5 miles to Highport Rd. and turn left. (west) Highport Rd. will take
you into the Marina and Pompanos. Welcome to Highport Marina
Maps To Lake Texoma Lowes Highport Marina
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Lake Texoma Cedar Bayou Marina
Launch Location #2 For North Texas Catfish Guide Service
Lake Texoma Guided Catfish Fishing Trips
Lake Texoma Cedar Bayou Marina Website: www.cedarbayou.com
Maps To Lake Texoma Cedar Bayou Marina
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Directions To Lake Texoma Cedar Bayou Marina from Texas: At the intersection of Highway 82 and Highway 377 is Whitesboro, Texas. From this intersection, go North on Highway 377 approximately 13 miles, look for our huge Cedar Bayou highway sign on the left side of the road. Turn left at the sign and proceed 1/2 block on Cotton Franklin Road, turn left onto Cedar Bayou Blvd and proceed down the hill leading to Cedar Bayou Marina.
Directions to Lake Texoma Cedar
Bayou Marina From Oklahoma: Traveling south
on I-35, south of Ardmore, Oklahoma, exit off of I-35 onto
Highway
70, go east on Highway 70 to Madill, Oklahoma. When the
highway
comes to an end, turn right and proceed thru Madill on Highway
377/99. At the last traffic light in Madill, veer
right and
continue to follow Highway 377/99. The road winds
south of
Madill and eventually you have to make a left at the sign that says
Highway 377/99. Continue south on
377/99. After
you cross the bridge that spans Lake Texoma, you are now in
Texas. Go approximately 3 miles south of the bridge
and turn
right at the huge Cedar Bayou highway sign, go 1/2 block on
Cotton
Franklin Road, turn left onto Cedar Bayou Blvd.
Follow this
road down the hill to the marina.
Lake Texoma Lodging - Lake Texoma Cabins
Lake Texoma Hotels and Motels
If your planning a guided catfish fishing trip with North Texas Catfish Guide Service - Lake Texoma Fishing Guides on Lake Texoma the following options are available for lodging.
*Please note, there are other lodging options available at Lake Texoma not listed here. We are providing those options that are closest to the launch locations used by North Texas Catfish Guide Service at Lake Texoma.
Cedar Bayou Marina at Lake Texoma - Waterfront Cabins and Motel
Cedar Mills Marina at Lake Texoma - Cottages and RV Park
Days Inn of Sherman - Motel in Sherman Texas
Flowing Wells Marina Lake Texoma - Lake Texoma Cabins, Cottages and Vacation Homes
Lake Texoma Lodging - Cabins at Lake Texoma
Lake Texoma Lighthouse Resort and Marina - Lake Texoma Cabins
Tanglewood Resort Hotel - Lake Texoma Resort Hotel
Tobin Cabins at Lake Texoma - Lake Texoma Cabins
Location: A Red
River impoundment on the Texas-Oklahoma border northwest of
Sherman-Denison, west of US 75
Surface area: 74,686 acres
Maximum depth: 100 feet
Impounded: 1944
Not abundant, but there are some stands of water willow, American lotus, floating heart, and bushy pondweed
Two-thirds of this lake lies in Oklahoma. Anglers with Texas licenses may fish in the Texas portions of the reservoir, or purchase a Lake Texoma license ($12) to fish the entire lake. The following length and bag limits apply to the entire lake:
Free-flowing current in the Red River makes Texoma one of the few lakes in Texas with a self-sustaining population of striped bass, and one of only eight inland freshwater reservoirs worldwide where this species has spawned. A cousin of the white bass, striped bass were first stocked in Lake Texoma by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation in 1965. They began spawning in 1974.
While Texoma has little aquatic vegetation, it does offer cover in structures such as rocks/boulders, standing timber, submerged stump beds, channels, rocky bluffs, sandy flats, and rip-rap along Denison Dam and elsewhere. Of the 580 miles of shoreline, there are approximately 9 miles of rip-rap, 50 miles of standing timber, and 50 miles of submersed aquatic vegetation. The remainder is cut banks, sandy beaches, rocky shoreline, and bluffs. A shoreline development ratio of 13.88 indicates an irregular and branched shoreline, which also increases habitat for fish.
Channel
catfish
are taken near the mouths of creeks after a rain, especially in spring
and fall. In late spring and early summer, they are found around rocky
shores and areas of rip-rap. Best baits are shrimp, blood bait, cut
bait, dough bait, and shad gizzards. In summer, try drfit-fishing
shrimp across flats. Sunfish and large minnows also pay off here. Blue
catfish
are caught on many of the same baits; however, these fish migrate
downstream or into the main pool area in winter and upstream in the
spring.Try juglining with live gizzard shad for bait. A rod and reel
baited with live shad on windless winter days works well, too. Flathead
catfish are infrequently caught by rod and reel anglers,
but most often by trotlining with live sunfish for bait.
Crappie
fishing is best in fall and winter, when fish tend to school in large
numbers and concentrate around boat houses, submerged trees, creek
channels, and brush piles. While minnows are the bait of choice,
crappie are caught on a variety of jigs. The spring spawning season,
when they move in shallow, is also an excellent time to fill your creel.
White bass
are vulnerable to angling when they migrate upstream on the Red and
Washita Rivers or the many tributary streams around Lake Texoma. Two to
three weeks prior to the migration, they concentrate around the mouths
of the tributary streams and become easy prey. At other times of the
year they can be found surfacing around the lake and feeding on
threadfin shad. Effective baits include small surface baits in silver,
white, yellow or chartreuse; silver spoons; slabs; and minnows. Striped
bass
migrate up both major river arms in February, and can usually be
located in or near the river channel in the vicinity of the Willis or
Roosevelt Bridges. They may take surface lures, but most often they are
caught on heavy jigs, slabs, plastic shad, and live gizzard shad. After
the spring spawning run, stripers can be caught with shad over flats
near the river channel in the main part of the lake. Trolling with deep
running lures can also be productive. Stripers surface frequently in
summer, fall, and winter, attracting diving sea gulls, who also like to
feed on threadfin shad. Surface baits can produce some mighty tackle
bustin' strikes, and so can plastic shad retrieved rapidly just under
the water's surface.
Largemouth, spotted, and smallmouth
bass
can be caught pretty much year round, but they are caught closer to the
shoreline and around structure. While largemouth and spotted bass are
found lakewide, smallmouths are mostly limited to the bluffs around
Eisenhower State Park, Denison Dam and up the Washita River arm to the
Willow Springs area. Since all three species spawn in the shallows,
that's the best place to fish for them in the spring. Fish around grass
and brush with crank baits, surface lures, spinners, and Carolina
rigged worms. As the water warms and bass move offshore, switch to
Texas rigged worms, deep diving crankbaits, and surface baits early in
the morning. Concentrate on submerged structure such as rocks,
boulders, stumps, logs, channels, and secondary points. Fall bass
fishing can be very exciting on Lake Texoma. Work crank baits around
brush and off rocky shorelines for largemouth and spotted bass. Try
free-line, live threadfin shad off the rip-rap at the dam for
smallmouths, or fish at night by the bluffs near Eisenhower State Park.
LAKE TEXOMA IS A WORLD RECORD PRODUCER. YOU COULD BE THE NEXT ONE TO CATCH THE BIGGEST CATFISH EVER CAUGHT ON A LAKE TEXOMA GUIDED CATFISH FISHING TRIP WITH NORTH TEXAS CATFISH GUIDE SERVICE!
JUST A FEW OF THE BIG TROPHY CATFISH
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Client from Temple Texas and a 35 Lb Trophy Blue Catfish caught on rod and reel while catfishing with North Texas Catfish Guide Service on a Trophy Catfishing Trip.
Fresh Shad is the Bait of Choice for Blue Catfish Fishing with North Texas Catfish Guide Service on our guided catfishing trips. We catch fresh shad for catfish bait each morning before our clients arrive for their catfishing trip.
The Bishops from Bowie Texas Cauught this nice Trophy Blue Catfish while Catfishing with North Texas Catfish Guide Service. While this is not a huge blue catfish, it's a great photograph!
Jackie Kennedy of North Texas catfish Guide Service and a Trophy Blue Catfish from Cedar Creek Lake.
Steve Kitchens from Idalou Texas (Lubbock area) and a Cedar Creek Lake Trophy Blue Catfish caught while catfishing with North Texas Catfish Guide Service on a guided fishing trip for Trophy Blue Catfish. Steve regularly drives in from West Texas for some great catfishing with North Texas Catfish Guide Service.
Robert Varnell from Lancaster Texas and a couple of Trophy Blue Catfish caught with North Texas Catfish Guide Service on a guided catfish fishing trip. It's not uncommon during the peak of our Trophy Catfishing to have two or three big texas blue catfish on the lines at one time.
Robert Varnell and another huge Texas Blue Catfish caught while catfishing with North Texas Catfish Guide Service.
Joe Moore of Corsicana Texas and some Trophy Blue catfish caught while Trophy catfishing for BIG MONSTER Texas Catfish with North Texas Catfish Guide Service! Trophy Catfishing with North Texas Catfish Guide Service is great at Cedar Creek and Lewisville Lakes.
Releasing a Trophy Catfish after taking photographs. At North Texas Catfish Guide Service we release ALL CATFISH OVER 10 LBS so they can be caught another day and so they can stay in our lakes to spawn and maintain catfish populations.
Scott Horton of Fort Worth Texas with his wife and dad from Midland Texas and a big Texas Trophy Blue Catfish caught while catfishing with North Texas Catfish Guide Service on a catfishing trip.
More clients from West Texas (Midland Texas) and a Lake Lewisville Trophy Blue Catfish caught while catfishing with North Texas Catfish Guide Service. North Texas Catfish Guide Service Trophy Catfishing Trips are popular with clients from Midland, Lubbock, Abilene, Amarillo and all of West Texas.
Chad Ferguson and Jackie Kennedy of North Texas Catfish Guide Service and a Trophy Flathead Catfish caught on Rod and Reel. This big Flathead Catfish bottomed out the 50 Lb Scales. It's weight was estimated at about 57 Lbs. We release all Flathead Catfish over 10 Lbs after taking Photographs.
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Rick, Scooter and Kenny from Arlington Texas and a Big Texas Trophy Blue Catfish caught with North Texas Catfish Guide Service on a Guided Catfish Fishing Trip.
Rick, Scooter and Kenny again with 47 Lb Flathead Catfish caught just a few minutes after the Blue Catfish picture above on their guided catfish fishing trip.
Chad Ferguson of North Texas Catfish Guide Service and HUGE Blue Catfish caught on Rod and Reel. You cannot go wrong when catfishing for Trophy Catfish with North Texas Catfish Guide Service on Lake Lewisville or Cedar Creek Lake.
Jackie Kennedy of North Texas Catfish Guide Service and a 40 Lb Lake Lewisville Trophy Blue Catfish caught in October on Lake Lewisville.
The Hamners from Waxahachie Texas and Tyler The Aggie Son with Three Limits of North Texas Blue Catfish caught on a catfishing trip with North Texas Blue Catfish in April. Spring Catfishing Is GREAT!
Lance Halfmann from Keller Texas and a limit of nice Lake Lewisville Blue Catfish caught on rod and reel in May and the biggest fish he had ever caught weighing in at 10 Lbs while catfishing with North Texas Catfish Guide Service on Lake Lewisville. Lance limited out in about 2 hours.
Chad Jones and Father from Fort Worth Texas and 2 Limits of Lake Lewisville Blue Catfish Caught on Rod and Reel. Lake Lewisville Catfish were Red Hot today and we caught some nice gar, gaspergoo and even a black bass on our Lake Lewisville Fishing Guide Trip.