Oklahoma late September: Keystone bass and cats, Texoma stripers, Fork trout excellent

Oklahoma’s latest warden sheets, still the current set on the Wildlife Department release page, are a late-September bite, not the Sept. 21 Keystone note already filed.

Keystone, reported Sept. 28 by game warden Tracer Wagner, sat 2 feet below normal and stable, 74°F and murky. Largemouth were good on crankbaits, inline spinnerbaits, jigs, live bait, minnows, and plastics around brush, docks, and the main lake. Blue catfish were good on cut bait, live bait, and live shad below the dam and on the main lake. Black and white crappie were only fair on jigs and minnows around brush.

Texoma, reported Sept. 27 by Garrett Beam, was 2 feet low and stable, 82°F and clear. Striped bass were good on live shad, Sassy Shad, slabs, and topwater around channels and points. Beam wrote that stripers were still biting on live shad and topwater and that fall fishing is looking good. Blue, channel, and flathead catfish were fair; crappie were fair on jigs and hair jigs around brush, docks, and standing timber.

On the Lower Mountain Fork trout area, Mark Hannah’s Sept. 25 report has elevation normal and stable, 68°F and clear, with rainbows excellent on crickets, grasshoppers, PowerBait, small lures, and tube jigs. That is a later sheet than the early-September Lower Illinois slowdown already on the desk.

This is a The Gillnet news desk summary, not a reprint.

Source: Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation — Fishing Report Release (Keystone, Sept. 28, 2026; Texoma, Sept. 27, 2026; Lower Mountain Fork, Sept. 25, 2026).