Page 15 - Outdoor Oklahoma - May/June 2021 Issue

“Once things start warming up, we try to get out here

right about daylight, just to get out here to get on the
good active fish first thing in the morning.”

WILDLIFEDEPARTMENT.COM

By Smokey Solis, Communication
and Education Specialist DARRIN HILL/ODWC

Imagine waking 15 minutes before
sunrise. You brew your coffee, grab
that honey bun you’ve been sav-
ing, snag your favorite tackle, and
then off you go. Barely three minutes
down the road, you’re fishing in a vir-
tual tournament at your favorite lake!
For Michael Galbraith, this is a
reality he gets to live out nearly
every day.
Galbraith is captain of oper-
ations for the Oklahoma State
University-Tulsa Police Department.
A typical work week for him includes
multiple trips to and from the
OSU-Tulsa and Stillwater campus-
es for administrative meetings and a
day patrolling the Tulsa campus.
Although he has a successful law
enforcement career, fishing is how he
spends most of his free time.
“The reason I like to fish as much
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