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Lake Texoma



Lake Texoma is one of the largest man-made year. This is largely attributed to its
reservoirs in the United States, and the sheer size, which allows sports such as
12th largest Corps of Engineers lake. Its windsurfing and sailing, as well as its
surface spreads over 89,000 acres (360 kmē) proximity to the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex
at the confluence of the Red and Washita about 1 hour to the south. Notable cities
Rivers, straddling the Texas-Oklahoma surrounding the lake in Texas are Denison,
border. It is the second most popular lake Sherman and Gainesville. In Oklahoma,
in the United States in terms of annual notable cities are Durant and Ardmore.
visitors, with over 5 million visitors a

Fishing

Lake Texoma has acquired the reputation as 5 up to about 70 pounds.
one of the premier fishing lakes in the Lake Texoma waters are home to several
Southwestern United States. The lake was other species of fish, including crappie,
stocked with striped bass in the late white bass (also called "sand bass"), black
1960's, and has proven to be an excellent bass, bluegill, pike, gar, sunfish, and
habitat for them. This lake is one of the drum.
seven U.S. inland lakes where the striped Texas and Oklahoma do not have a reciprocal
bass reproduce naturally, instead of being fishing license agreement, which can pose a
farmed and released into the waters. The problem for anglers. The original river
"stripers" feed on large schools of shad, channel is unmarked, so that it is often
and often reach sizes of 35 pounds. difficult to know which parts of the lake
Catfish abound in the lake, also. In 2004, are in Oklahoma, and which are in Texas.
a blue catfish was pulled from the lake Fisherman with a single state license must
weighing in at 121.5 pounds, temporarily take care to stay within the boundaries of
setting a world weight record for rod and that state while fishing. A solution to the
reel caught catfish. The fish was moved to a problem is the Lake Texoma fishing license,
freshwater aquarium in Athens, Texas. More which covers the entire lake.
commonly, catfish in Lake Texoma weigh from
11/2002