When you arrive at Lake Texoma and find the lake on the rise with a light breeze blowing, you can’t wait to get on the water because you know that the fish will be feeding. On their way to Texoma our couples stopped at their local Academy Sports and Outdoors to stock up on silver/black shallow running crank baits, blue fleck worms and white jerk baits. With their bounty in hand our C.A.S.T./North couples located good quantities of fish at the back of the coves and on main lake points.
Randy & Tracy Fuller used silver/black shallow running crank baits at the back of coves with newly submerged grass to land the winning stringer of 12.50 lbs and take home a nice $600.00 paycheck.
Both Ronnie & Susan Barker and Larry & Mary Lynn Wood brought 12.30 lb stringers to the scale in a tie for second place. Ronnie and Susan used blue fleck worms around the numerous boat houses on the Texas side while Larry and Mary Lynn fished the Oklahoma side of the lake with soft jerk baits.
Rayford & Diane Richman used a blue fleck worm in the newly flooded grass to bring the 6.25 lb Big Bass of the tournament to the scales.
Second Big Bass of the tournament was a great smallmouth that weighed in at 4.55 lbs. The team of Richard & Diane Tompkins, with Diane fishing a crawfish crank bait, hooked the Smallie on a main lake point near Highport Marina.
Top Six C.A.S.T./North Teams for Lake Texoma:
| 1) | Randy & Tracy Fuller | 12.50 |
| 2) | Ronnie & Susan Barker | 12.30 |
| 2) | Larry & Mary Lynn Wood | 12.30 |
| 4) | Joe & Pam Pope | 12.10 |
| 5) | David & Buffy Burks | 11.55 |
| 6) | Rayford & Diane Richman | 10.25 |
Big Bass:
| 1) | Rayford & Diane Richman | 6.25 |
| 2) | Richard & Diane Tompkins | 4.55 |
C.A.S.T./North Couples caught and released 95 black and smallmouth bass with a total weight of 225.90 lbs.
Thank you to Scott Hayward at Highport Marina for the use of their facilities for weigh-in and to Steve and Susan Dunkle at The Tackle Box for providing the facilities for meeting and sign-up.
The next C.A.S.T./North tournament will be June 13th at Lake Limestone. Sign-ups will be held at The Limestone Inn located in Groesbeck Texas. Launch will be from Public Ramp #3 located on FM 3371.
C.A.S.T/North would like to thank our local sponsor Diamond Sports Marine located in Klondike TX, next to Cooper lake. See Mike Garner (903-395-3448) for all of your Ranger or Mercury needs and you will happy that you did because nothing runs like a Ranger.
C.A.S.T./North would like to thank all of our sponsors for their help in making these tournaments possible: Ranger Boats, Mercury Outboards, Academy Sports and Outdoors, Eagle Claw, Mr. Twister, Mepps Lures, J-Ann Awards, Fishingworld.com, Luxor Custom Jewelers, AdMart, Kraft Foods and the Brownwood Chamber of Commerce.
Garry & Connie Darby, C.A.S.T/North DirectorsBy: Garry & Connie Darby, Director / C.A.S.T.
