This is Artificial Lure with your Lake Texoma fishing report for Friday, May 2, 2025.

Weve had some action-packed mornings out here thanks to rising water levels and a solid shad spawn, which is really cranking up fish activity. The water is stained, sitting around 62 degrees, and is about 3 and a half feet below pool, so mind the floating debris and mudlines while moving around.

Striper fishing has been great. The stripers are chasing spawning shad shallow along the rocky banks at first light you will want to look for bird activity and surface busts. Topwater lures and swimbaits are working best early, especially near mudlines, flats, and under those circling birds. If you have some live shad, that is the ticket mid-morning, but trolling with swimbaits in about 25 to 37 feet is also picking up good numbers. Folks are catching daily limits, with a mix of box-size fish and some solid over-fish making the trip worthwhile.

Crappie are scattered, still hanging in spawning stages. You will find them suspended under docks and at the tops of brush piles in 12 to 15 feet, especially near creeks and protected coves. Jigs and small live shad are both putting slabs in the cooler.

Catfish have moved shallow, showing up along the rocks and on flats. Cut shad or prepared baits fished in 5 to 12 feet of water near points or drop-offs are putting eater-sized blues and channels in the net. Catfish are also mixed in with the stripers in the deeper water.

Bass action is steady, with fish stacked in the backs of coves and suspending near docks. The shad spawn is pulling bass tight to rocky points and shallow ledges especially at sunrise. Soft plastics, crankbaits, and topwaters are your best bets early, with some switching to moving baits around midday. Target main lake rocky structure and work your baits slow as the sun gets up.

Sunrise is at 6:30 am and sunset at 8:09 pm. The best bite has been early, so get out at first light for that topwater and shallow action. Winds are light this morning and skies are partly cloudy, which is keeping those fish shallow a bit longer. No tides to worry about on Texoma.

Top hot spots today are the rocky banks around Washita Point for stripers and the backs of Little Mineral and Flowing Wells coves for crappie and bass. Stripers are also holding around the mudlines near Soldier Creek. Be extra cautious boating with some floating timber and debris just under the surface.

Best bait today is live shad for stripers, small jigs for crappie, and soft plastics around the rocks for bass. Cut shad will do the trick for those catfish.

Thats the latest from Lake Texoma. Tight lines and watch for mud and debris as you boat.