I was introduced to the Okie Drifter in the 8th grade fishing for Ninilchik River kings in 1976. Back then, the cookie cutter hen was 22-24 pounds... and the cookie cutter buck was 25-27 pounds. Every weekend opener, someone in our posse would land one over 30 pounds. The good ol'days. Nowadays the cookie cutter adult king is 12 pounds.

Many of those fish succumbed to the venerable Okie... the lion's share of them taken on the magnum version in fluorescent flame and a piece of chartreuse GloBug yarn.
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"Let every angler who loves to fish think what it would mean to him to find the fish were gone." (Zane Grey)

"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


The Keen Eye MD
Long Live the Kings!