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Fishing in Oklahoma

Click a region to explore top fishing spots, species, and local tips.

Oklahoma offers outstanding fishing across its diverse landscape of forests, plains, and mountains. Lake Texoma — shared with Texas — is famous for world-class striped bass fishing and blue catfish. Broken Bow Lake and the Mountain Fork River offer excellent trout fishing in the Ouachita Mountains, while Grand Lake O' the Cherokees and Lake Eufaula provide outstanding crappie, bass, and catfish fishing.

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Green Country & Northeast

Grand Lake, Lake Hudson, Fort Gibson Lake -- Largemouth Bass, Crappie, Channel Catfish, White Bass, Striped Bass

Lake Texoma & South Central

Lake Texoma, Arbuckle Lake, Murray Lake -- Striped Bass, Blue Catfish, Largemouth Bass, Crappie, Smallmouth Bass

Great Plains & Northwest

Great Salt Plains Lake, Canton Lake, Fort Supply -- Walleye, Sauger, Channel Catfish, Crappie, White Bass

Southeast & Kiamichi

Broken Bow Lake, Hugo Lake, Pine Creek Lake -- Rainbow Trout, Largemouth Bass, Crappie, Channel Catfish, Smallmouth Bass

Central Oklahoma & OKC

Lake Thunderbird, Lake Hefner, Arcadia Lake -- Largemouth Bass, Crappie, Channel Catfish, Walleye, Saugeye