Changes to Regulations for Catching Catfish




The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission adopted multiple changes to the freshwater fishing regulations package for the upcoming 2020-21 season at the Commission’s virtual meeting on Thursday, May 21.

Among the changes approved include standardizing harvest regulations for blue, channel, and flathead catfish in the Texas and Oklahoma waters of Lake Texoma and on the Red River below Denison Dam

In Lake Texoma, TPWD is removing the 12-inch minimum length limit for blue and channel catfish, and for flathead catfish, removing the 18-inch minimum length limit...In the Texas waters of the Red River below Lake Texoma (from Denison Dam downstream to Shawnee Creek), in addition to the removal of the minimum length limits for catfish, TPWD will reduce the daily bag limit for blue and channel catfish from 25 to 15 fish.

Several hunting regulations for 2020-21 were also changed by the TPW Commission. Changes include decreasing the daily bag limit for scaup from three to one in all duck hunting zones; decreasing the daily bag limit for light goose daily bag limit from twenty to ten during the regular season in both zones; shifting goose seasons (and light goose conservation season) in the Western Zone one week later than in previous years; and shifting snipe hunting season dates two weeks later than in previous years.

 




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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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