Meredith Mike’s Oasis

09/01/2026

Fall is coming to Lake Meredith.

Cooler mornings, quieter evenings, good fishing, hunting seasons getting underway, and some of the best weekends of the year still ahead.

Whether you’re bringing the RV or looking for a cabin for a few nights, we’ve got a place for you at Texas RV and Meredith Mike’s Oasis.

Come spend a little time at the lake this fall.

Coming Soon The Lodge at Texas RV

(806) 886-2278

08/31/2026

MONDAY | THE WINDOW BETWEEN THE CROWDS

There’s a sweet spot Lake Meredith National Recreation Area that doesn’t get talked about enough.

The days immediately before and after a holiday weekend.

Labor Day will bring people to the lake. Campgrounds fill up, ramps get busy, boats start moving early, Deli lines at the stores wrap around to the beer coolers, and the popular shoreline spots get claimed.

But right before that happens, there’s a window.

Same lake. Same beaches. Same late-summer water. Same Rattlesnake Island. A whole lot fewer people competing for it.

And then something even better happens after Labor Day.

Everybody goes home.

Tuesday morning rolls around and Lake Meredith is still sitting here. The water didn’t disappear because somebody decided summer was over. September is still warm enough to boat, swim and spend the day on the shoreline — but you start getting the lake back.

So if your schedule is flexible, quit automatically aiming for the busiest three days on the calendar.

Come before them. Or stay after them.

That’s when you start figuring out how the locals do Lake Meredith.

Meredith Mike’s Oasis & Texas RV

(806) 886-2278

08/31/2026

2,100 FOLLOWERS! 🎉

And follower #2,100 is Angel Soltero!

Angel, shoot us a DM — we’ve got a pair of Amarillo Sod Poodles tickets for you as a little thank-you for helping us hit the 2,100 mark!

We appreciate every single person who follows along, shares our posts, talks fishing with us, stays with us, and supports what we’re building around Lake Meredith.

2,100 strong and still growing. Thank y’all! ⚾️🏕️🎣

08/30/2026

Another weekend in the books at Lake Meredith, and August definitely made sure we remembered it was still summer.

It was another hot one around the lake, but there were still plenty of folks out fishing, boating and enjoying the water. Hopefully we’re finally getting close to putting the worst of these scorcher weekends behind us.

And just like that, August is about done.

September starts a whole different stretch around here. Dove season opens, the mornings start getting a little better, fishing begins its fall transition, and everybody starts looking ahead to deer season.

We’re not done with lake season by any means.

We’re just getting to the time of year when Lake Meredith starts sharing the spotlight with birds and bucks.

Bring on September

08/30/2026

COMING TO THE PANHANDLE FOR WORK?

We probably understand your situation better than most RV parks do.

We’ve been accommodating extended-stay workers for years.

Construction. Turnarounds. Electrical. Industrial projects. Transmission. Commissioning.

And now we’re seeing another wave of major projects and data-center development coming into the region.

If you’re bringing your RV to the Texas Panhandle for work, give us a call.

Texas RV in Fritch has oversized full-hookup sites, two bathhouses, on-site laundry and monthly stays.

No pretending you’re on vacation.

Just a clean, quiet place to come home to when your shift is over.

And when you actually DO get a day off?

Lake Meredith is two miles down the road.

Long-term stays are what we do.

08/29/2026

A pretty damn good day at Texas RV. 🇺🇸

Today we hung the sign for The Lodge at Texas RV and raised the American flag over it for the first time as The Lodge.

There’s still work to finish, but after months of turning an idea into something real, this one felt good.

We’re getting close to opening the doors and adding another place for folks to stay, gather, and enjoy everything Lake Meredith has to offer.

The Lodge at Texas RV
Gateway to Lake Meredith.

🇺🇸 See y’all soon.

08/28/2026

🦅 THERE’S A WHOLE LOT MORE FLYING THROUGH LAKE MEREDITH THAN DUCKS AND GEESE.

We started digging into the birds that migrate through Lake Meredith, and honestly, we had no idea just how big the list was.

Nearly 300 species of birds live in or migrate through the Lake Meredith area.

Think about that for a minute.

Everybody notices the big migrations. The geese start moving. You hear the sandhill cranes before you ever find them in the sky. Teal show up and everybody knows hunting season is getting close.

But those are just the obvious ones.

Those scissor-tailed flycatchers lined up along the fences and power lines all summer? Migrants.

The Mississippi kites cruising over town and through the canyons? Migrants too.

Those huge turkey vultures riding the thermals above the breaks barely moving their wings? They’re seasonal visitors to our part of the country too.

And then you’ve got some really small travelers.

Hummingbirds.

It’s pretty incredible to think something that small can travel hundreds or even thousands of miles, yet every year they find their way back through the Texas Panhandle and straight to our feeders.

We’ve got mourning dove and white-winged dove, painted buntings, orioles, bluebirds, warblers, swallows, kingbirds, phoebes, sparrows and nighthawks.

Around the shoreline you’ll find great blue herons, egrets, killdeer, avocets, stilts, sandpipers and plovers.

Then one day you’ll look across Meredith and there’ll be a group of enormous American white pelicans sitting on a lake in the middle of the Texas Panhandle.

Look higher and you might find an osprey hunting the water, red-tailed hawks working the canyon country, kestrels hovering over the grasslands or, when winter rolls around, one of our favorites—

bald eagles.

And we haven’t even gotten to the ducks.

Mallards, teal, pintails, gadwall, wigeon, shovelers, redheads, canvasbacks, mergansers and plenty more all use Meredith during different parts of the year.

There’s a reason for all of it.

Pull back and look at where we are.

Miles and miles of High Plains surround us, and right in the middle of it sits Lake Meredith and the Canadian River corridor—open water, wetlands, cottonwoods, grasslands, canyon walls and miles of relatively undeveloped country.

We’re basically sitting on a giant rest area for birds traveling across the continent.

In fact, Lake Meredith is recognized by the National Park Service as one of its Top 25 bird-watching locations.

That’s something we probably don’t talk about enough.

So as summer starts giving way to fall, start watching a little closer.

Watch the fence lines.

Watch the cottonwoods.

Watch the shoreline.

Listen when you hear something overhead.

And definitely keep an eye on the sky.

Because while we’re out here fishing, camping and enjoying Lake Meredith…

there’s an entirely different kind of traffic passing through. 🦅🐦

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08/27/2026

Update: Booked

🇺🇸 WELL… SOMEBODY’S LABOR DAY PLANS JUST CHANGED.

It looks like we may have ONE cabin available for Labor Day weekend at Meredith Mike’s.

Friday/Sat Vacancy

That means somebody who thought they were staying home could be waking up a couple minutes from Lake Meredith instead.

Cabin sleeps up to 8.

Bring the family.

Bring the boat.

Bring the fishing rods.

And if you’ve got Monday off anyway, you might as well make something out of it.

We’ll update the post when it’s gone.

Meredith Mike’s Oasis Cabin #52

08/26/2026

LAKE MEREDITH FISHING REPORT | AUGUST 24–30

We’re watching the weather as much as the fish this week.

Lake Meredith is sitting around 76.5 feet, and water temperatures have been running in the mid-80s. Storm chances across the Panhandle could make things interesting over the next several days. If enough rain falls in the right parts of the watershed and actually makes the long trip to the lake, we could see some cooler, stained water entering Meredith and possibly a defined mud line develop.

Walleye: We’d spend our time working the North Shore, ledges, rocky transitions and deeper breaks, particularly early and late. With water temperatures this high, don’t get married to one depth. Start shallower during low light and work your way down until you find fish. Gulp jigs remain one of our favorite ways to cover those transitions. If runoff reaches the lake later this week, pay attention to where stained water meets clearer water along those same depth changes.

Bass: Rock and structure are still where we’d start, particularly early in the day. Work points, rocky banks and transitions before backing off as the sun gets higher. If you’ve got wind pushing bait onto one side of a point or shoreline, that’s where we’d concentrate before running all over the lake looking for another spot.

Sand Bass: Keep your eyes open more than your electronics sometimes. Watch the birds, watch the bait and watch for surface activity. When sand bass start pushing bait up, you may not get much warning. Have a topwater or crankbait ready instead of trying to retie after the action starts. Wind-driven bait and any new water-color transition could both be worth watching this week.

Crappie: Still not the bite we’d build a trip around right now. If you’re targeting them specifically, slow down around deeper structure and cover and be prepared to move until you find them.

Catfish: Still a good late-summer option. Work channel edges, deeper breaks and structure, particularly later in the day and into the evening. If we get meaningful runoff, we’d also keep an eye on areas influenced by fresh incoming water.

Best Bet This Week: Follow the changes. Warm water has fish relating to depth, structure and bait right now, but rainfall and runoff could rearrange things quickly. If you find a temperature change, stained-water edge, concentrated bait or birds working an area, that’s information worth stopping for.

And speaking of structure—we’ve recently gotten our hands on some old Lake Meredith maps that show a few things most people fishing the lake today have probably never seen. We’re digging through them now, and we’ll be sharing some of that history soon.

Coming to Lake Meredith? Meredith Mike’s Oasis cabins put you close to the Fritch Fortress side of the lake, while Texas RV makes a convenient RV home base near Harbor Bay.

Need a place to stay? We’re just a call away: 806-886-2278.

UPDATE: The weather did arrive late Monday night into early Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Dumas received more than 2½ inches of rain, while Fritch picked up around half an inch. Now the question is how much makes it through those dry channels and ultimately reaches Meredith. We’ll be watching the lake level—and the additional storm chances through the rest of the week—to see whether we get some measurable inflow.

08/26/2026

SHOTGUN IN THE MORNING. FISHING ROD IN THE EVENING.

Now we’re talking.

Dove season opens September 1, and we’re less than a week out.

If you’re headed this direction to hunt around the Lake Meredith area, Texas RV puts you right here in Fritch with full hookups, two bathhouses, laundry, plenty of room and the lake just a couple miles down the road. Texas RV sits on seven acres with oversized RV spaces, so this isn’t one of those places where you’re packed on top of the guy next to you.

Hunt in the morning.

Fish Lake Meredith that evening.

Go do it again tomorrow.

Texas RV — Your Gateway to Lake Meredith.

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