Took a friend snagging for spoonbill this morning. His first time ever snagging for spoonbill, he got a 48 pound female and a 39 pound female. I snagged a 43 pound male and a 34 pound male. We got there about 8:15am and I had my limit of two by 9:15am. I let him use my 10 foot rod instead of my 8 footer. He got his first one at 9:30 and the second at 10:15.

Dang son if i ever plan a trip to Missouri it's gonna be mid April so I can try that...awesome

Nice! What an awesome morning!

How do these things eat? I assume yall are eating them right?

Y'all slaying 'em Donald!! What river are snatching them out of, the Mighty MO?

Me as well

That'll make a couple quarts !

That’s just too dang cool.

I think that’s the Osage.

caviar is excellent

yall can tell swampy's barber aint essential business

How do you do it. Just blind cast and drag a treble hook?

Awesome, congratulations

Mike is wore the slap out from fighting the fish. Said he wanted to go again tomorrow. Probably get down there about 9am and fish until 11. It is a 95 mile round trip from my house.

Yes William we eat them, the meat is a white firm flaky meat when cooked.

Dixiepatriot is correct on the river. The Osage River, 1.3 miles below Bagnell Dam. Lake of The Ozarks like as in the series Ozark. This is the Lake and River I grew up on up until my early 20's

jlbuc10 , yes blind casting with a 2oz - 8oz sinker and 2 8/0-12/0 treble hooks and snatch back to the bank. Sometimes when you snag one, you would think you were snagged on a log.

The reason the fish are tied together like that, is because we use our stringer for a sling. Sling the center of the rope over a shoulder for the 300 yard walk back to the road.

Every Winter thing for me. Might trim my beard up in a few more weeks if we don't get any more cold weather.

Donald I had never heard of eating spoonbill when you originally posted about snagging them. So I did some reading on it and saw where several people said you had to pull the spinal cord out of them right after catching them for the meat to be good. Do you do that? That sounded odd to me.

That looks awesome I'm afraid one of those would pull my youngest right on in the river with em.

Awesome fish!

That’s some dang fine eating. I’ve had them smoked for several hours and it’s the whitest, flakiest delicate meat there is. Tasty too. Right up there with alligator gar backstrap.