The thing about "Trophy" fishing

From now until mid July these beast striped bass are finishing up their spawn and will feed like mad until tbe water gets hot and forces them deep. 7am to 11am, and 5pm to 9pm 4hr Trolling trips for Texoma Trophy Class Stripers. 7am to 1pm 6hr catfish jug/striper trolling combo trips for trophy class Texoma Striped Bass and big blue cats and flatheads. With a 2 person minimum, weekday 4+ person specials, and capacity of up to seven (7) anglers, if you want a shot at a fish two - three feet long, while enjoying the day, and beautiful scenery and critters, unpressured, NOW is the time to book.

This Spring has been amazing. Last year, flooding and more flooding, made fishing nearly impossible. This year, an abundance of bait has the larger striper feeding aggressively most days, and they will continue to feed and grow, and be catchable until the end of June, so book your trip now. These images are all from this week! March 14, 2026 thru 21. These fish are getting bigger and meaner every day. We might see a thirty pounder this year. Come get some. ~Captain Mike

Regular "Guided" Striped Bass fishing and "Trophy" Striped Bass fishing are two completely different kinds of fishing and produce vastly different outcomes. Regular striped bass guides use live shad or jigs/spoons, and fish straight down over schools of fish ranging from 8 to 20 inches long. Occasionally, they catch a striper over 30 inches long, but they almost allways catch eight or ten fish per person, and usually you are done fishing, and off the lake in two hours or less because you can only keep ten fish per person. Of the ten fish per person you can keep, 2 of them can be over twenty (20) inches long. Those two fish per person are the ones we are after, but due to the size of our baits, usually 24 or 25 inches is the smallest striper we catch. A thirty (30) inch striped bass is considered "Trophy Class," and those are what we are really after. In the fall and winter, we catch one or two stripers over 30 inches a week. In the Spring its sometimes three or four a week. The point is, we dont catch a trophy every single day. If we did, they wouldn't really be trophies. If you want to come catch a bunch of fish and have a small chance at catching a trophy striper, book a different guide. If you want to catch a wallhanger or a couple of fish over two feet long, we are your guide service. If you notice my reviews, you'll see a few negative ones. These are people who did NOT read the trip description and came out expecting to catch a ten fish limit of little fish, or who did not consider weather, or seasonal timing, or that if you go BIG sometimes you gotta take the miss. And try again another day. It's like hunting deer. Some hunts ate about harvesting does for meat. Those are the limit trips other guides offer. Some hunts are about that prize, and how glorious that buck's rack will look on the wall. On those hunts, you might sight down a few spikes,a 6 pointer, and even pass on that 8. But if you keep trying, you get your shot at that 14-point atypical... Like I said, we catch one or two "Trophy Class" striper a week from October thru January, and then Feb thru July, we catch three or four a week. August and September, the water temp is so warm that the bigs stay deeper and are far harder to catch. It's not easy to catch the bigger fish, to begin with. The baits are huge and expensive, and the terrain we fish over is rocky and hard on gear. When we troll, the motor is always running, burning fuel. So when you want to catch a couple big ass fish, book us. If you want to catch a bunch of fish in a few hours, book someone else. Fishingbooker has plenty of top-notch options. Just dont come fishing with us, and be mad that we didn't catch a bunch of fish. Our company is Big Fish Texoma Our motto is We Don't Fish for Smalls! Hope to see you soon, Captain Mike