Thou Shalt Not Lie, Unless It Is A Fish Story!
If you would like a picture here, send it or hand it to me. If
attached to an email, most any format will do, because I use
GraphiConvert which handles most picture formats. Remember, the only
way you can catch fish is by going fishing. The way to get your fish
on this page is, almost exclusively, you have to catch the fish in
Fort Cobb Lake, and I must take a digital picture of it. But I will
consider other submissions if you give me where it was caught, the
day, weight, time caught, and what you were fishing with.
Gene maintains he caught this one below Mt Scott in Lake
Lawtonka, just north of Lawton. Is this possible?
Sandbass (white bass for non-natives) are easily caught in the
spring as they spawn up the streams and
around the rocky points on Fort Cobb Lake.
Fall is a good time to fish, but don't believe this guy that he
caught these fish around here. Who knows
what you might catch?
Retirement is good for some folks. This retired teacher, who
taught in Anadarko, shows off his skill as he holds up a better than
5 lb striper, which hit 22 inches on
the yard stick. Took him 10 minutes to get it in, because I netted
it. I can attest to its voracity.
Me, I like to catch them too, and
Drema likes to eat them. These both weighed in at about 5 lbs each
and were featured in the Anadarko Daily News, recently .... er, in
November.
November 23rd the wind was out of the North
so I went fishing. You never know what
you are going to catch. I caught 7
fish - 5 sand bass (1 lb@ & 2 channel cats which weighed 2
lbs each). It has been years since I bought a new fillet knife, and
tonight sealed doom for the old one.
I caught this 3 lb, large mouth on
December 7, 1998. It was 42 degrees out.
These fish were caught in the GULF by my
brother Ray, though my little brother,
Cecil, claims part of the catch was
his, most of his fishing reports are pipe
dreams. Notice that only Sunee, his
fishing wife, is pictured. 12/20/1998
This is a 7.03 LB walleye that
was caught at Fort Cobb Lake on Tuesday, February 23, 1999. It is
probably the first walleye of the season caught off of the dam. It
was a female with lots of eggs that appeared to be ripe. The fish was
25 inches long. It was caught, of course, by me using 8 lb test line,
using a Zebco 404 that I bought from
WalMart using a white plastic fishy with a red-headed jig.
March 2, 1999. One female sandbass
(white bass for those of you are not from Oklahoma) and a
2 1/2 lb female black bass. Both had
immature eggs. Both out of Fort Cobb Lake.
March 25, 1999. Gary, from Oklahoma City, caught this
3 lb walleye off of the Fort Cobb
Dam, near the water let-down, a bit after 7:00 PM. It was a male
attempting to fertilize eggs along the rip-rap.
October 17, 1999. I caught about ten sandbass (aka white bass) just before sundown at Ft
Cobb Lake. Once the wind died down, they simply evaporated. A friend
came out just as the sun was going down, and he was skunked. I threw
one back. All of these weighed 1 or 1 1/2 lbs.
The wind was right during the second week of
November 99, so I ventured out to the Fort Cobb Dam RipRAP and caught
these fish just before sundown.
