Sooner Lake Oklahoma

Mar 15 08

A slow good day. Although we didn't quite have the day we were looking for, we had a pretty exciting afternoon. Again we didn't catch a fish the first three hours and after looking for them out on the lake, we ended up back in the channel. About 4:30 we started catching some small hybrids and sandbass, and then we caught a 7.14 LMB. He was some real excitement. Then we had a fish on that hasn't caused that much excitement in the boat since I caught my 82.68 blue on sooner. Jacob did a great job on getting him to the boat, we got some lines cleared and I still wasn't sure what it was, until he showed his head. It was a 40 to 50lb blue catfish, I didn't have a big enough net so I was trying to figure out how to get him on over in the boat when he rolled and got the line in his gill and looked at me in the the eyes and off he went. We all kinda  figured he was caught since I had my hand on the leader, but I didn't get him in the boat. That is the second time I have needed a big net on Sooner and didn't have it. Last summer it was a 25lb Striper. I lipped him and got him in. I didn't want to lip the blue. I will take my big net from now on whenever I go to Sooner.
We ended the day with about 15 fish. All of the hybrids were small. The water temp. in the channel was 62deg and 48deg out on the lake. The fish were caught on cut bait and small baits.

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