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Originally Posted by Red Beans
Hit the lower Elk River today. Floated from about 13 miles to about 3 miles up from the OK border and Grand Lake. Caught a variety today... That stringer has 4 Drum, the biggest at 24 inches, 1 Channel Cat (caught two more while we were filleting them), 1 Crappie, 2 Blue Gill, 4 Goggle Eye. It was a damn good day. We set out lines while we ate lunch, and that big Drum pulled my pole out of the boat, my Dad ended up catching it on one of his lines, and that 24 inch Drum was on the other end of my rescued pole.
A solid day.
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That must have been nice out there with the cooler weather the past few days. Drum are insane fighters and I love catching them but they really aren't the best eating, at least not in my experience. The worst part about catching them is if fishing for crappie and you hook one thinking you have a monster crappie and the drum shows up but oh well. What is a goggle eye? Looks different anything I have seen.
Check out these pics of monster crappie from John Redmond. The one with my hand weighed in at 1lb 13 oz and was one of a full stringer of crappie that size. The other pic is 2 lb 3 oz with proof on the scale! That was such a big one my dad and I let it go.