High Profile Texoma Hero - Blake Shelton




There are undoubtedly other celebrities with homes and boats on Lake Texoma, but anyone watching TV and listening to the radio in the Texoma area knows that Blake Shelton is one celebrity who is spending time at his new home on the Oklahoma side of the lake these days.

It’s one thing for a high profile, country music jet setter like Shelton to drop in and enjoy his new home with a private dock and lake view from the master suite, but it’s another thing for him to bring his tractor out to pull a stranger’s truck out of the mud.

According to KXII.com, “Bryar Blanton, his cousin and two of his buddies were down by the Washita River, near Ravia, when their truck got stuck in a mud hole.

Blanton says he took off with a friend to go find help.

“Blake Shelton came around the corner and stopped and asked if we needed help," said Bryar Blanton. "So we hopped in with him."

Unfortunately, their trip with Shelton was short-lived, because his truck couldn’t dislodge theirs.

So, he offered to go home and get his tractor to pull them out of the mud. Which he did.

I don’t watch all that much TV, but this is the second time I’ve heard a KXII report on Blake Shelton rescuing Texomans with truck trouble. A few months ago, during the Lake Texoma flooding, he happened to show up at the right moment, then he picked up a stranger, Roho Hartman, and gave him a ride home.

That news report was a classic, especially when Hartman answered his cell phone. It was his wife calling, as Blake Shelton was giving him a lift home.

Fox8.com reports Hartman as telling his wife, “… Blake Shelton just pulled me out. You better slick up, we'll be there in just a minute."

I’m imagining myself getting a call like that one…




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Fishing Report from TPWD (Jul. 9)

FAIR. Water stained; 84 degrees; 1.87 feet above pool. Striped bass fishing is hit and miss but fish are starting to surface on shallow sand flats and in cuts. Top waters and swimbaits are working as well as live bait drifting shallow 10-15 feet of water or anchoring on main lake ledges in 15-25 feet of water. Catfishing remains excellent on punch bait in 25-30 feet of water on humps and main lake points. Bigger blues will be cruising the deeper water drift while gizzard shad or rough fish off of the river channels on flats in 40-55 feet of water. Bass fishing is good on hard baits and reaction baits near docks and the backs of coves early in the mornings and late evenings. Fish main lake points and rock bluffs mid day off the banks. Report by Jacob Orr, Lake Texoma, Guaranteed Guide Service. Striped bass are good on topwaters in shallow water, switching to slabs as fish move out to 15 feet of water. Water clarity is improved. Report by John Blasingame, Adventure Texoma Outdoors.

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