Inaugural Flip Flop Tournament to be held on Lake Texoma

USA Fishing Trails and the FLIP FLOP Foundation will hold the first Flip Flop Foundation Fishing Tournament at Lake Texoma on October 4, 2014 at Highport Marina. It will be a day of fishing, food and entertainment supporting the Gabe Carter Family.

There will be separate Bass and Striped Bass categories with separate rules and weigh-ins. The Bass tournament will follow the same rules as the Bud Light Trail. Use the BLT entry form for early registration – no membership is required for the Flip Flop Tournament. Online Early Registration ends at 5:00 pm on Friday, October 3rd, after that you can still register but you will need to bring your receipt and fill out an entry form the morning of the tournament.

The Striper Tournament category will follow the Flip Flop Foundation rules and early registration online is available. A $10 late fee will be assessed for registration the morning of the tournament. Team entry is $200 for two adults or $120 for one adult and one child 16 or under. If you need a guide, please make your request at the time of registration. Guide fees are the anglers’ responsibility. Average price on a guide boat (4 – 6 anglers) is $125. Prices will vary.

Lake Texoma TP&WD regulations will apply to the tournament. Contestants may keep up to 10 Striped bass and no culling is allowed. Two striped bass over 20” are allowed to be kept as part of the 10 fish limit. Only the largest two stripers caught by each adult team may be weighed in. One fish for a minor contestant may be weighed in. The fish should be kept on ice after they are caught and will be returned to the contestants after they are weighed.

USA Fishing Trails will be running both tournaments. Payouts will be for Big Fish, 1st and 2nd place teams. Great prizes in the Raffle Drawing include Yeti coolers, gift cards, Big Green Egg, TFO rods, Clean Max Vacuum cleaner, Nautilus memberships, 1 and 2 nights stays at Tanglewood Resort and more!

Proceeds from the tournament will go to the Gabe Carter Family of Pottsboro, Texas. Gabe had a passion for the outdoors and was an avid fishing and hunting enthusiast. Born on Nov. 29, 1983, Gabe passed away on Lake Ray Roberts on Oct. 8 2011, leaving behind a wife and young child.

For more information visit the USA Fishing Trails website.

Author: BJ Kirkpatrick

Company: Texoma Connect

BJ Kirkpatrick is the publisher of www.TexomaConnect.com, an online tourism and relocation guide for the Lake Texoma Area. She lives in the hills surrounding Lake Texoma with her husband, their daughter and three grandchildren. BJ is the marketing coordinator for a local mortgage company and Blog post author You can reach BJ by email [email protected]

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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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