Oct. 11: Striper Fishing

We're set up at Buncombe Creek Camp Ground on Lake Texoma in Oklahoma. Our goal is to do some Striper fishing. We've driven over to our friends campground on the other side of the lake for the past two nights for some good conversation and a great campfire. Had Samores the first night and I'm taking over stuff to make campfire pies tomorrow night. Our campground has a curfew: 8:00 pm Sunday thru Thursday and 10:00 pm Friday and Saturday. The gate is locked and if you're going to be out later we have to make "arrangements" - not sure what that entails but we've been trying to be back in plenty of time.


Last night, from around the campfire, we all wondered out from under the trees to see the Space Station sailing from north to south across the western sky. We were fascinated - doesn't take much to entertain us.

Today we got a call at 7:30 from Kenny that the winds were low and we could go fishing. Kenny Hayes, our friend we met at Lake Afton last year, came to our courtesy dock that's located right by our camp ground and picked us up in his Skeeter fishing boat. By land, their camp ground is about 20 minutes away - it's 2 minutes by water. His wife, Virginia, stayed behind to make some food dishes to take to a pot luck dinner they're going to tonight. We headed for the flats along with bunches of other weekend fishermen.

Larry caught two Stripers and one white bass. Lynn caught nadda.

The water temp is around 72 deg which is still too warm for really good Striper fishing. No one around us was catching any thing of size - some were catching more but still under 20". Kenny acted like a true guide. We used his equipment and he netted and took off Larry's fish for him. Repaired our lures when we got hung up on stuff - EVEN CLEANED OUR FISH. We really appreciated all that he did for us. The dock at their campground has an awesome cleaning station and Virginia met us at the dock with a bag to put our cleaned fish in and some seasoned flour she uses when they fry fish.

I cooked that fish for tonight's dinner - OMG that was great eating. There really is something to eating fresh fish. Larry was so proud that he put dinner on the table - quite the hunter/gatherer.

The weather is not suppose to be too great for several days so don't know if we'll get in any more fishing from the boat. Kenny gave us a couple of lures to use if we wanted to fish from the bank. May try that tomorrow. Can't watch football - the only network we get is NBC. And none of tomorrow's games will be on satelite. Might as well fish.