Lake Texoma Wildflowers




It's that time of year, when Texas Wildflowers abound across the state.

Lake Texoma has its share of them, too.

This video is under 3 minutes, and it has close-up photos with the names of some of the wildflowers of Central Texas, making them easy to identify:

And there are Facebook groups and webpages littered with the beauty of Spring in north Texas, which is such a joy for people who are stuck at work most days, and don't have time to get out and drive around while the wildflowers are in bloom briefly.

We don't get to see wildflowers too well when we're out on the lake, so driving and hiking are the best ways to get your immersion into real-life wildflowers at this time of year.

Texas Parks and Wildlife posted some beautiful photos of Bluebonnets, the Texas State Flower, that were taken at the Eisenhower Dam on Lake Texoma.

TxDOT provides a very handy webpage with Texas wildflower photos, with each type shown as both a seedling and a mature plant. This page is super handy!

We should all be grateful to TxDot because it plants more than 60,000 pounds of wildflower seeds along Texas highways every Fall, for our enjoyment come Spring.

TxDPS provides a few tips for enjoying Texas wildflowers all over the state, including the Texoma area, and it includes the following advice:

"So even though picking a few flowers may be okay, individuals should not dig up clumps of flowers or drive their vehicle into a field of flowers."

Be thoughtful and leave the native beauty to grow and spread for all of us again next year!

 

 




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Fishing Report from TPWD (Apr. 17)

GOOD. Water normal stain; 58 degrees; 1.53 feet below pool. Striped bass fishing is great drifting live shad around the islands or past the bridges near the rivers. Rain should finish off the spawn and look for bait on the banks with feeding fish near them. Top waters are working on sandy flats in 2-8 feet of water. Smallmouth bass are good on live shad along the bluffs on the banks in 2-4 feet of water. Also fair on spooks early and look for largemouth off the banks in 6-12 feet of water on main lake points near rocks. Catfish are fair on cut shad along the rocks in 30-45 feet of water. Drifting cut rough fish or gizzard shad in 5-10 feet of water near the river could produce a big fish after a rain with an inflow of dirty water. Crappie are good on brush piles in 12-18 feet of water on jigs using electronics to locate active fish working in and out of the brush. Look for spawners shallow with warmer temperatures in the forecast. Report by Jacob Orr, Guaranteed Guide Service Lake Texoma. Threadfin shad are spawning along the banks. Hybrid stripers are good on topwaters in the morning along rocky banks. Some days the egrets are working leading the way to fish. Some schooling activity under gulls. After the morning bite ends switch to swimbaits and Alabama rigs in 10-25 feet of water on the edges and dropoffs. This pattern should hold for the next 4-6 weeks while shad spawn near docks and banks. Report by John Blasingame, Adventure Texoma Outdoors.

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