dennishoddy

Yes, stay clear. Most jug lines have 1lb weights on them. No need to cut anything. If you tangle in one, just untangle and throw it back out.

I live 40 miles from the Epicenter that was at Pawnee Ok. I had just got out of bed, when the whole house started shaking. I ran outside where my wife was walking the dogs, and we stood there for 45 seconds watching the water in our pool slosh out both ends, and the garage door going nuts. Crazy experience. Only the second quake I've ever felt. We had one picture fall from the wall, and haven't seen any cracks in the stone exterior of our house which surprises me as hard as it was shaking.

Thanks for the report. We will be staying at your resort in October. Looking forward to the report for that month.

Appreciate the report. It saddens me that I don't live there But we do visit!

Wow, another pig. Congrats!

Nice write up. Thanks for the link!

Ok, I'm a newb to Suckers. we don't have em in the part of Ok that I fish. Whats the allure, are they edible, and when your grabbing, is it the same as we call noodling flatheads in Ok? Edit: Scrolled down the page and saw grabbing is what we call snagging. Primarily spoon bill in Ok.

What a beautiful fish! Congrats.

Oh heck ya! I was tubing a pond in North Central Ok a couple of years ago and had a big water snake make a beeline for me. I beat the water like you said and it disappeared, only to surface and climb on my tube with me. Bugger was almost 4' long, and was a handful to hold until getting to the bank to release it. A year or so later, talked to some folks that tournament fish from float tubes and told of my experience. He said the solution is not to slap the water, but to use the tip of the rod gently to re-direct the snake until it moves on. Slapping the water with the rod puts it into panic mode, making it want to get out of the water, and the tube fisherman is the closest way to do that.

When I was a kid, we used to catch eels on the Arkansas River in North Central Ok. Since then they have installed several dams in that river downstream, so no more eels or sturgeon.

I fish the tailwaters below Kaw lake in Oklahoma. Snagging spoonbill is a late spring rite for myself and many others on different lakes around Oklahoma. We are restricted to barbless hooks, so the fish can be caught and released easily. It leave no bigger wound than any fisherman has had by hanging a hook in their fingers/arms/heads. We don't see the banks lined with dead fishermen. I live near the river about 10 miles downstream. I can count on one hand how many I've seen floating down stream for the 20+ years I've lived here while riding the ATV on the sandbars. Unless you have environmental issues, which I doubt, or idiots that are harvesting the roe for caviar and tossing the carcasses back into the river, I seriously doubt the report.

Your saying thousands of paddlefish die after being snagged? Seriously? As far as the report from the OP on the Elk, I spend thousands of $ every year chasing elk around the mountains of New Mexico. Its disgusting to see some low life kills one for its rack. If they had left the rack and REALLY needed the meat, its still not legal, but would have at least made some sense.

Duh??

In our Oklahoma lakes, I troll with a 75hp merc. Adjust depth with the type of lure. Of course you can only go so deep without lead line, etc. The striper/hybrid/sand bass guides slap the water with fishing poles, paddles, or use aux trolling motors with special blades that only beat the water and not provide propulsion to simulate feeding frenzies. Motor noise does not appear to hinder the bite. Possibly enhance it?

Got a report that Tanneycomo was up into branson landing parking lot. Lilly's was adding extra cables to their dock.