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This one’s long overdue…

Haven’t had a ton of time lately to pursue my summer goals, but I had a nice chunk of time on Sunday to try and learn a thing or two.

Got down to the water and found a different gate than normal open. The run was a lot trickier to fish than I anticipated. Tried high sticking for a while… no luck. Threw giant mends (exhausting)… no success. Let it swing… Nada.

Definitely should have picked up one or two here...

Decided to explore downstream since the water was so low. If I wasn’t going to be catching fish… I might as well be finding new water. I walked down all the way to the 10th street bridge without spotting any fish. Noticed a nice little creek on my way downstream and had to give it a shot on the way back up.

Shallow... but fishy

Spotted a few small feeding carp right off the bat.  Didn’t take long to get hooked up… the little guys are so explosive. He darted upstream and spooked every other fish in the vicenity before running back downstream towards the main part of the river. Wish he would have headed that direction first, but that’s the way it goes.

MONSTER

Kept moving upstream in the little creek and found a fun spot…

Notice the nervous water just off the point

The carp were small, but it was a fun spot for a challenge. Ended up hooking up with one of them but it broke me off by running into the construction “barrier” (don’t know what to call it.)

No big ones, and no new species… but still a good day on the river.

I’ll work on putting together a post about today’s post-rain fishin’ (great day!) and will also give up an update with the final vacation plans… Can’t wait, SERIOUSLY pumped about the vacation.

Well, I keep saying it, but catching a Gar is #1 on my fishing goals for the summer.  I met up with Brent Monday after work to see if we could track some down on the OK/North Canadian River. Ended up seeing a few fish rolling around, but they were much too far away to reach. Unable to find tailers in the choppy mess that was Lake Overholser, we ended up at a golf course pond (grounds work on Mondays, we could actually fish the course sides of the ponds this time!).

I had given up hope of accomplishing my goal that evening, and then the next thing I know I hear something splashing around over in Brent’s direction. I got over there just in time to miss an impressive tailwalking and realized Brent had hooked into a gar… couldn’t believe it.

Botched a nice photo op...

Not only did I miss the tailwalking in the sunset… but my camera died after the first pic. Way to go Ward. Good thing Brent had one tucked away to document the surprising catch!

For you gar pro's... What species is this??

New adventure in fish handling !

Was pysched to see Brent drag this guy in… Gar are never really even on my mind when I’m on there (though I’ve seen one other gar ~12in), I’ll have to see if I can find more!

I’m feeling it, I’m going to knock another species off the (modest) lifetime fish list soon…. and it’s going to be a toothy one.