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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!

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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.

StateNew York

Date AddedOct 4, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraPENTAX Optio WPi

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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.

StateWisconsin

Date AddedJan 25, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraOlympus C740UZ

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This snaky northern pike slammed my smallie streamer.

StateWisconsin

Date AddedJan 25, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraOlympus C740UZ

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My first Alaskan northern pike, around 21-22 inches long.

StateAlaska

Date AddedJul 18, 2007

AuthorTroutnut

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This big smallmouth slammed a Dahlberg Diver on the surface.

StateWisconsin

Date AddedJan 25, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraOlympus C740UZ

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This is my first musky on the fly, a 25 incher.

StateWisconsin

Date AddedJan 25, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

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StateWisconsin

Date AddedJan 25, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

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My friend Brad Bohen holds up a nice fly-caught smallmouth.

StateWisconsin

Date AddedFeb 8, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraCanon EOS 20D

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I was looking for king salmon, but this fallfish was the biggest fish I found. Maybe if I had photoshopped it enough I'd have something to brag about...

StateNew York

Date AddedOct 4, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraPENTAX Optio WPi

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One of several nice smallmouths my dad and I caught on a mid-August float trip.

StateWisconsin

Date AddedJan 25, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraOlympus C740UZ