Sentence:  Regardless of whatever other qualities may differentiate Sooner fishermen, they are identical in that each has spent a good part of their lives dreaming about catching one nice bass — a whopper of such bulk  that the traditional thumb and forefinger <WSD>liplock</WSD> wouldn't be nearly enough to hoist their catch into the boat. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A maneuver in which a fish is hooked by a curled finger inserted under the gill cover and extending to the fish's jaw.