Another world record paddlefish: A few weeks ago I posted the new world record paddlefish was caught in Oklahoma's Keystone lake. The record has been broken again in the same lake. The...

bottomcoon Loc: Tahlequah, oklahoma

A few weeks ago I posted the new world record paddlefish was caught in Oklahoma's Keystone lake. The record has been broken again in the same lake. The fish weighed 151.9 pounds & was just under 6 ft in length. The fish had a band in it's lower jaw. Records show the fish was netted in research in January 1997 & weighed 7 pounds. Snagging is the only way to land one of these fish as they only eat plankton. The fish was weighed by the Oklahoma wildlife department personnel & released.

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

bottomcoon wrote:

A few weeks ago I posted the new world record paddlefish was caught in Oklahoma's Keystone lake. The record has been broken again in the same lake. The fish weighed 151.9 pounds & was just under 6 ft in length. The fish had a band in it's lower jaw. Records show the fish was netted in research in January 1997 & weighed 7 pounds. Snagging is the only way to land one of these fish as they only eat plankton. The fish was weighed by the Oklahoma wildlife department personnel & released.

I would like to see the fish and the equipment used to get it in.

trlittle Loc: Chico CA

bottomcoon wrote:

A few weeks ago I posted the new world record paddlefish was caught in Oklahoma's Keystone lake. The record has been broken again in the same lake. The fish weighed 151.9 pounds & was just under 6 ft in length. The fish had a band in it's lower jaw. Records show the fish was netted in research in January 1997 & weighed 7 pounds. Snagging is the only way to land one of these fish as they only eat plankton. The fish was weighed by the Oklahoma wildlife department personnel & released.

HMMMMM!!!!!
I wish all of our fish grew 6lb per year!

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

flyguy wrote:

I would like to see the fish and the equipment used to get it in.

I google it, and watched some you tubes on it. Quite a deal! I have a 6/0 Penn Senator on a 30# class Fenwick and two 9/0 Penn Senator on two 50# class Fenwicks. I think I can handle them with that equipment. I think I would need different rods. I don't think the boat rods would do the job. I think the 6/0 penn would be just about right. Have any of you guys or gals done it? I would definitely get a belt though.

charlykilo Loc: Garden Valley Ca

Interesting not quite off topic
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/21/world/sturddlefish-paddlefish-sturgeon-hybrid-scn-trnd/index.html

Gordon Loc: Charleston South Carolina

charlykilo wrote:

Interesting not quite off topic
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/21/world/sturddlefish-paddlefish-sturgeon-hybrid-scn-trnd/index.html

Not nice to fool with mother nature. Is that not how we got killer bees

EasternOZ Loc: Kansas City Metro

Gordon wrote:

Not nice to fool with mother nature. Is that not how we got killer bees

Road is paved with good intentions

charlykilo Loc: Garden Valley Ca

Also the beef and pork and fowl we eat.Most everything we eat.

Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas

Seems like not too long ago there was a lot of talk about, and mostly negative about snagging. Here a world record fish is caught and since they feed only on alge, it had to have been snagged. Just Sayin...RJS

EasternOZ Loc: Kansas City Metro

Atleast in Oklahoma they make you debarb your hooks.

bottomcoon Loc: Tahlequah, oklahoma

flyguy wrote:

I google it, and watched some you tubes on it. Quite a deal! I have a 6/0 Penn Senator on a 30# class Fenwick and two 9/0 Penn Senator on two 50# class Fenwicks. I think I can handle them with that equipment. I think I would need different rods. I don't think the boat rods would do the job. I think the 6/0 penn would be just about right. Have any of you guys or gals done it? I would definitely get a belt though.

I don't really know the technique of snagging in the lake. I don't know if it's done from a boat or from shore. When snagging from the shore below the dams a long cast is required. Most of the large Penn reels capable of landing anything were not made for casting. I've seen guys try those monster reels. If anyone is interested in traveling to the sooner state for a shot at a spoonbill in lake keystone I can get the guides number easily. Keystone is only minutes west of Tulsa so accommodations aren't a problem. Don't think about it if you've got a bad back. Tight lines.

EasternOZ Loc: Kansas City Metro

bottomcoon wrote:

I don't really know the technique of snagging in t... (show quote)

Saw boats and bank casting at Grand lake of the Cherokee.

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

I'll plead "Thumper Rule" on the practice of snagging. Must be an ego thing.

badbobby Loc: Humble Texas

EasternOZ wrote:

Atleast in Oklahoma they make you debarb your hooks.

crimp all barbs on my hooks
a guy tol me I was nuts
that them bass would shake the hook every time
well it has happened a few times
but it also happened a few times when i used barbed hooks
makes it a whole lot easier to un hook your catch
and if the fish should swallow the hook(which also sometimes happens)
you don't injure the fish getting the hook out
since I am strictly catch and release when bass fishin
I'm not only helpin myself
I'm helpin fish management

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

bottomcoon wrote:

I don't really know the technique of snagging in t... (show quote)

One of the videos that I saw he was using about a 6/0 Penn with about a heavy 9' - 10' rod, fishing in fairy deep water on a lake. They were trolling pretty fast using a dipsy diver on the bottom and 6' - 8' up from the dipsy diver was a 10/0 barbless treble hook. The treble hook would snag the fish and the dipsy diver and the line would wrap around the fish, so, if the hook came out the line going to the dipsy diver would still hold the fish. Another video I saw they were standing on shore and they were using long heavy rods with big spinning reels and reefing in as you would salmon snagging back in the '70s.

I did some more research and found that these paddlefish like the MO. River system and they are vary highly regulated. Only residents of ND. can fish them in ND., no out of state permits. SD. & OK. will issue an out of state permit, but it is restricked.