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1-3 p.m. March 9, YouTube Live. • Basic Worm and Bobber Fishing fishing tackle shop for some basic tools to
• Ask an Angler Virtual Course: Setup (With Knots): Learn how advance your fishing skills
Spawning Black Bass Fishing Tips, ODWC’s aquatic education coordinator • Ponca City Fly Fishing Teacher: A
1-3 p.m. April 6, YouTube Live. sets up fishing rods for success. Also high school English teacher teaches
• Ask an Angler Virtual Course: learn how to tie the improved clinch his students about his love for fly
Sunfish Fishing Tips, 1-3 p.m. May knot and the palomar knot. fishing through literature.
11, YouTube Live. • Fishing With 9-year-old Nate: It’s the • Mentoring, Spring Fishing and
• Ask an Angler Virtual Course: heartwarming story of a young man who Catfish Management: In this episode,
Spawning Catfish Fishing Tips, 1-3 teaches himself how to fish by watching we bring you three unique segments that
p.m. June 8, YouTube Live. YouTube videos. Then he gets to go highlight mentoring, tube fishing and
fishing with a special Game Warden. fish management. In our first segment,
Outdoor Oklahoma Journal: • First Time Fly Fishing: Former we follow along with a middle school
Find informative fishing articles and ODWC employee Rachel Bradley fly teacher who takes two of his students
videos on the Department’s blog at fishes for the first time and catches fishing for the first time. Segment
www.wildlifedepartment.com/OOJ/fishing. her very first trout on camera. Rachel two, we join two fishing friends as they
ODWC’s Education section has created short shows us fly fishing is fun and simple! target spawning red ear sunfish with fly
videos related to fishing that are posted in the Join her on the Lower Mountain Fork rods. We close the show with a look at
OOJournal. Here are some of the topics: River in Beavers Bend State Park. what our fisheries biologists are doing
• How to Tie a Fishing Knot. • An Introduction to Basic Fishing to monitor the tremendous blue catfish
• How to Teach Someone to Cast a Equipment: Visit with a tackle shop population on Lake Texoma.
Spincast Rod & Reel. professional about various types of
• How to Catch Fish Trolling with reels, hooks, bobbers and weights to Where to Fish: Having a place or
Crankbaits. help get you started fishing. two for fishing is a necessity if you are
• How to Choose a Proper Life Jacket. • How to Clean a Sand Bass: White mentoring a new angler. Luckily, there are
• How to Catch Sunfish — The bass (sand bass) are some of the best- plenty of places to fish in Oklahoma. This
Ultimate Guide. tasting fish you can eat, if filleted state has more shoreline (11,600 miles)
properly. Learn how to quickly and than the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf coasts
Outdoor Oklahoma TV Show: Over easily clean a sand bass combined! Here are some suggestions:
the years, the Department’s TV show has • How To Get Started Fishing!: Close to Home Fishing Waters: More
produced many episodes focused on fishing Follow ODWC’s Aquatic Education than 40 Close to Home Fishing sites are
fundamentals. Here are some of those Coordinator as he explains the techniques found in communities across the state.
that can be viewed at www.youtube.com/ he uses at family fishing clinics. Explore These are very convenient spots “just down
outdooroklahoma: a worm distributor in Oklahoma, and a the street” where people can fish and have
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What a catch! Mentor Garrett Harley makes sure to boat the bass that 9-year-old Nate reeled in. Watch this story on Outdoor Oklahoma TV at
https://youtu.be/Bh2CLlpru34.

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