Pictures of Fish
Believe it or not, sometimes I submit to the weather's mandate that I fish for lesser species than the noble salmonids. The temperatures soar in August and the trout take refuge in hidden spring seeps and the unfortunate hours preceding dawn. I yield to nature's demands, attaching beastly things to my tippet and lobbing them at the likes of muskellunge and smallmouth bass. Oh, life is hard!
One strange evening on a classic trout stream had brought me nothing but fallfish (albeit nice ones) when I cast outside the main current flow at a fish rising to little flying ants in a back eddy. It took and, much to my surprise, it was a sunfish I'd never seen before! Turns out it's a red-breasted sunfish, a common species in the East.
Date AddedOct 4, 2006
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My dad finally broke his long, uncanny fishless streak with this nearly 2 inch long common shiner caught on a size 22
Serratella imitation during a Trico spinner fall. Heh heh.
My best pike of the trip taped out at 30.5".
Date AddedJul 18, 2007
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My first Alaskan northern pike, around 21-22 inches long.
Date AddedJul 18, 2007
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This snaky northern pike slammed my smallie streamer.
This is one of the nicer pike my dad caught on this trip, around 30 inches.
Date AddedJul 18, 2007
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My dad was messing around with this pike for about 10 minutes with various goofy weedless lures with mediocre hooking quality, and he kept missing it. Finally he threw on the only lure a spin fisherman ever needs, the Heddon Lucky 13 (my favorite for many years before I started fly fishing), and he caught the fish on the first cast. Not only did he hook it--he also snared it.
Date AddedJul 18, 2007
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My dad's first Alaskan northern pike.
Date AddedJul 18, 2007
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This is my first musky on the fly, a 25 incher.
This big smallmouth slammed a Dahlberg Diver on the surface.