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Finally!!!!! I get to graduate! This is Dr. Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University.
Courtney wanted to go hunting with daddy, so I got her ready and we went bowhunting.
I tried to get Hunter to look at me, but he wouldn't. This was his second pheasant hunt.
A very tired, but happy crew! This picture was taken after about a 5 hour drive.
Thirteen pheasants, eight quail, and one mallard hen. Their best day ever!
OK, so we were having a fun time while field dressing these deer, especially when we realized they could stand on their own!
Here we are standing him up.
This is Drew's first deer ever! He made about a 150 yard shot with a .243 and made a perfect shot.
Is this Rudolph??? Just kidding!
This was sent to me by email. I haven't really researched it yet to see if any hunting mags have this out, yet. This is what dreams are made of.
This is the aquarium that we spent most of the weekend setting up. It is about 8 ft. long! It is owned by a friend of mine, named John. We have 6 catfish, 2 big goldfish, and about 8 perch. The water finallly cleared up today so that everything could be seen.
One evening Mike came over so that I could help him paper tune his bow. While here he ate supper with us and went back outside before I did. He came back in saying there were doves on our powerline. I retrieved my 20 guage and went to shoot them but didn't want too off of the power line. Finally, they flew into my ditch. I had Devon turn Hunter loose and when he finally heeled I shot one of the doves (it wasn't on the ground anymore). Hunter jumped because he had not seen the birds. I sent him after the bird which he had to find by sent only. When he realized it was a real bird, he was ready for more. He didn't want to turn loose of it.Opening day of dove season, Mike and I both shot our limits of dove. Game wardens told us that over 1600 birds were shot in their two fields. The next evening I took Devon, Landyn, and Courtney out to hunt the evening. The wind blew 30 mph and there were just a few birds. Mike shot one bird and they were able to see what one was up close.
Check out this web site and the video to see the new world record blue cat that was caught in the Missouri River! http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=230972
Landyn and I were perch fishing and left a third pole in the pond to go to the other pond that was beside it to fish for more. We kept checking on it and once caught a perch. I threw it back out and kept checking on it and the last time we looked the bobber was under the water, and the pole raced towards the pond. Luckily, the pole caught on some vegetation and Landyn tried to pull it in but needed my help. It fought for a good while but I was finally able to pull it in. I was surprised he was hooked as well as he was. The hook the smallest perch hook I have with about a 1/4 in gap and light line. It was an 8 pound channel cat! Landyn was excited!!
We arrived at Copan Lake (Osage Point I believe) and launched out around 6:00 pm or so. While putting our jugs out, we noticed several little showers coming our way. While those showers missed us, we encountered a bigger one. This storm poured on us for about an hour and would not let up. At 7:30, we decided that we better go back out rain or not and get our jugs in before dark. The rain stopped after 20 more minutes or so and pulled in 16 blues! Some of our jugs had 2 fish on them!Friday morning started off with my annoying alarm ringing and ringing till I finally decided to crawl out of bed. The plan? Leave my house at 4:30 and hit Oologah Lake about 5:30 just before daylight. We left a little a little after 5:00 (because I am very punctual and not very fast at fixing dinner). Our first jug was in the water about 7:00. Wind was out of the East about 5-6 mph creating a little chop on the water which is good. We had 32 jugs on the water and had a 10+ on one of the jugs after we put them all out.
We ran the jugs after that and pulled 4 fish on that run. The next run we pulled 7 fish off with the biggest being about 13 lbs. The wind switched out of the South which can be very dangerous if the wind picks up. About noon the wind started picking up so we pulled the jugs out. We ended up with a total of 13 fish.
At the present, I am experimenting with different baits, styles of jugs, and circle versus straight hooks. Out of 4 jugs made out of 3" PVC with only 2 circle hooks, we caught 3 fish that day. I am noticing that the jugs which have the best buoyancy hooks the most fish. Last trip we made, I caught 2 fish on 1 jug. Due to the fittings being so costly, I am not making very many of them at once. The next best jug that we use is a swimming noddle with a PVC put on the inside. We cut these at about 16-19" with the PVC about 3" shorter. Overall, we had a fun day and did some exploring at the Wiganon bridge as well as the Big Creek boat ramp. More possibilities are out there for fishing spots.
Cleaning blues from our jugging trip.
This was a 28lb. sucker carp we netted on the lake.
Our biggest blue yet!! 35 lbs.
Devon and a very nice crappie he reeled in on my pole while I was busy with another one.
Landyn is a "dedicated" fisherman. He usually just likes to put his feet or anything he can get his hands on in the water and not worry much about the fishing pole. Usually when he is tired of watching his bobber and starts to do something else, it disappears! (Elk City Lake)
Devon and one of his catches of the evening. 
