Two big stripers
George Faranellie with a 34-pound striper caught on the Red River below Denison Dam.
Richard Snow of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation holds an estimated 51-pound striper caught during an electro-fishing survey on Lake Eufaula.
The striped bass measured 41.5 inches and was estimated to weigh 51.5 pounds. That would have beaten the current state record of 47 pounds, 8 ounces by more than four pounds.
Each year, state wildlife officials take electro-fishing surveys on lakes to help them manage the fisheries.
The fish are shocked to the surface and release unharmed, so perhaps the big Eufaula striper is somewhere still roaming around the tailwaters.
On the Red River, striper guide Norman O’Neal provided a photo of 34-pound, 8-ounce striper caught Thursday by George Faranelli of Denison, Texas.
The fish was hooked on a small threadfin shad and a popping cork down river from the Denison Dam.
“The fish was an absolute bruiser, pulling the boat off the gravel bar I had pulled up on,” O’Neal said. “It dumped the whole spool of line on the Abu 6600 C4 before I absolutely had to give chase. The fish was landed a few hundred yards down river after an amazing battle.”
The fish was weighed and successfully released back into the river.
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Excellent photos. Fantastic fish. If I told you a bigger striper was caught below those very tailwaters but never properly weighed for verification, rather, the fish was taken home and eaten for dinner by a true “old timer,” would you believe me? There are some world-class stripers below Eufaula. Thank you for posting, gentlemen, but no thanks for ruining a good secret! HA.