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 (May 1)

GOOD. Water normal stain; 67 degrees; 0.33 feet below pool. Striped bass fishing is great on top waters early along rocky shorelines and sandy flats around coves. Watch for birds on the banks and fish the direction the birds are moving up and down the rocks. Live bait is still very effective fishing ledges and humps near the river channels in 35-45 feet of water. The shad spawn is on and catching will only get better. Crappie fishing is good near boat docks and on structure also using electronics to locate roaming fish in 12-15 feet of water. Glo and milk are colors of choice with a crappie nibble tip. Seeing females in the creeks 2-5 feet of water as well. Catfishing is getting better on cut shad and prepared baits anchored on ledges in 40-50 feet of water a few reels off the bottom near rocky banks. Slip cork with a cut shad down the bluffs are producing channel cats preparing to spawn as well. Bass fishing is good using top waters early, spooks or closed face glide baits and fish crawl baits later. Fish are roaming near the beds and hitting white chatter baits as well. Live shad down the bluffs are producing numbers with the occasional big fish off the rocks in 5-8 feet of water. Report by Jacob Orr, Guaranteed Guide Service Lake Texoma. Hybrid stripers are excellent with limits coming on topwaters along the bank early in the morning watching for Egrets. Then switch to swimbaits on flats and points in 10-20 feet of water. Shad are spawning along the banks. Report by John Blasingame, Adventure Texoma Outdoors.

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