Each year our Techniques Demonstration provides Oklahoma students with hands-on experience with equipment and methods routinely used in the fisheries profession. The event is held at a different location in Oklahoma each year so participants can experience sampling in different habitats and see new fish species, as well as enjoy a variety of Oklahoma’s scenic lakes and rivers.

We invite fisheries professionals familiar with each location to attend and share management issues and concerns in the area. Recent locations of the Techniques Demonstration include Lake Eufaula, Lake Texoma, Spring Creek and Illinois River, and Lake Carl Blackwell. Techniques demonstrated at these events include: electrofishing, seining, gill netting, invertebrate sampling, mark-recapture methods, otolith removal and aging, and water quality analyses.

The 14th Annual Fisheries Techniques Demonstration will be held in Stillwater, Oklahoma at Lake Carl Blackwell on April, 18 2008 beginning at 9:00 A.M.  For more information please contact Drew Lane (drew.lane@okstate.edu) or 417-840-0488. 

 Past Demos

13th Annual Fisheries Techniques Demo-  Lake McMurtry near Stillwater, OK in 2008

12th Annual Fisheries Techniques Demo-  Lake Texoma near Durant, OK in 2007

11th Annual Fisheries Techniques Demo-  Lake McMurtry near Stillwater, OK in 2006

10th Annual Fisheries Techniques Demo– Lake Carl Blackwell near Stillwater, OK in 2005

9th Annual Fisheries Techniques Demo– Illinois River and Spring Creek near Tahlequah, OK in 2004

Other Demos

8th Annual Fisheries Techniques Demo-  Lake Carl Blackwell near Stillwater, OK in 2003

7th Annual Fisheries Techniques Demo-  Lake Eufala near Eufala, OK in 2002

6th Annual Fisheries Techniques Demo-  Lake Texoma near Willis, OK in 2001

5th Annual Fisheries Techniques Demo– Lake Carl Blackwell near Stillwater, OK in 2000