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Birch Lake Recap: Weickum Breaks Drive, Wins Anyway

While the Dog Days of summer chugs along the OKA has completed another tournament and man was it a grind. The hot forecast and high wind did not stop 51 anglers from competing on a lake that is not well known, and now is probably not well liked by many of the competitors. Nevertheless, great anglers always rise to the occasion. Great anglers adapt to their surroundings, conditions, and circumstances to scratch together 5 fish and see where they end up. 

Angler Jacob Weickum originally from Colorado just recently moved to Oklahoma and started kayak fishing as soon as he got here. " I love the competition that our trail has to offer, Today was a rough day trying to find grass but when you did your chances of catching fish were really good." Weickum caught most of his keepers by 10AM and then at 11AM experienced a feeling any angler with a peddle kayak dreads. A thud and a broken drive on his Hobie, coupled with the high winds and already hard to maneuver stumps and standing timber this could've been an easy out for the rest of the day. After limping around the lake Weickum catches a 16.25" bass at 12:38PM vaulting him to 1st place for the remainder of the tournament. " I used a jig and a Neko rig. peanut butter and jelly colors have been working for me all season." " I really have to thank the guys that I work with that make the sport so enjoyable looking forward to the weekly jackpots and major trail events." This is Weickum's first major trail event win and always looks forward to tournament day. " I love learning the species and trying to figure them out at each lake."



     Jacob Weickum



    Broken Drive

Angler Chris Michels caught only 1 fish all day but it was the right one, a 22.50" bass at that.The current Birch Lake record is a 6lb, 22" largemouth. This was Michels first tournament with the OKA moving from the Wisconsin/ Minnesota border to OKC just a few months ago. "Still adjusting to the summer patterns of southern bass." Michels noticed an offshore brush pile in 15' of water on his way out from the launch. "Marked it on my Garmin and came back to it once the sun was high." "Threw out a Carolina rig, 1oz weight, 18in, 12lb leader and SLOWLY dragged a 10in Berkley Power Worm across that deep brush pile from every angle I could until I got a bite." Great fish Chris! 


    Chris Michels Hawg

Hope to see everyone at our next event: OKA Event #7 at Lake McMurtry in Stillwater on August, 1st! Keep on the grind for Dog Days and Tight Lines! 


    Place Winners

1st Place - Jacob Weickum - 75.75" - $816

2nd Place - Jon Queen - 72.25" - $326

3rd Place - Chris Metcalf  - 71.75" - $244

4th Place - Luke Aryan - 70" (tiebreaker w/ largest bass) - $163.2

5th Place - Christopher Jones - 70" - $81.6

Big Bass - Chris Michels - 22.50" - $430 & Dobyns Rod







  
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