If you were there you would be laughing even harder.
Since it was cold and drizzling I stripped down to my whitey tighties and only had a camo poncho draped over me.
When I jumped into the river I left the poncho on shore.
I came out of the river with the fish and holding it up like a trophy and hollered YEA!!!
Standing there in my undies.
There were a couple other red necks in that weather fishing and all gave me a thumbs up.
Fun times.
This is the first time I took a particular friend fishing with me and he was hesitant to go because
everyone he fished with were pansies and complained about not catching or being hungry or cold or something.
He stated:
I think you are a more hard core fisherman than I am.
@swampratt... if you ever write an autobiography, consider this a request in advance to reserve a copy for me. 
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I did catch one inside the mouth legally within the 1000' marker on the Kaw Lake tailwaters.
As they travel through the water with their mouth open to gather plankton, it swam into my crappie jig on 6 lb line getting legally hooked inside the mouth.
Wasn't a big one, just 30 lbs but I had to run across rip rap and finally down the sandbar 1/4 mile or so before it finally swam into some shallow water where I was able to wade out and grab it by the paddle. That was my first paddle fish. It had the line on the spool down to a few turns a couple of times before getting some line back.
All have been snagged since.
30 lb Paddle fish on 6 lb line has got be some kind of record somewhere.
That had to be a ton of fun.
That had to be a ton of fun.
I really want to catch a gar or two and eat them. I keep hearing about how good they are. I watch some Mexican dude on YouTube who catches tons of them, shows you how to clean them and stuff. I just need to find a good place to catch them. The bottom of overholser has some, but they’re extremely skittish and most are really small.
The small ones have meat that is very tender.
The Cimarron river if full of them.
You can snag there no snagging at overholser.
Use 3 foot of trotline twine or more for a leader.
I went fishing yesterday up at our place at Grand. Caught 4 bass around 2 pounds each and lost one at the boat close to 4 pounds or so. It was a fun morning playing with the new trolling motor.
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