08-20-2023, 01:10 PM
I caught one once below Kaw Lake (Arkansas River system) outside of Ponca City, OK back in the 90s. We were fishing the tail race below the dam throwing big bucktail jigs with surf rods for stripers and I somehow snagged the thing right in the crook of his tail. That was an extremely fun battle! He drug me up and down the bank a couple times with me having to go over and under other people’s lines. Thought I had a tank of a striper and when I got him in, thought “what the hell”?? He ended up going 26 lbs, but they get ALOT bigger.