Legal paddlefish snagging

Paddlefish snagging: Since these fish have no teeth and live by filter feeding, they will not take a lure or bait. Instead, the angler attaches several treble hooks to a weighted pole, casts, and drags the pole back and forth until it ‘snags’ a fish on its fins or tail.

Paddlefish snaggers on the Osage River just downstream of the dam. Dan Wickerham (tan), Carl Pitts (camo) and Theresa Wickerham caught their limit of fish in less than one hour on the Osage.