Pictures of Fishermen (and Women), Page 6

A 19-inch smallmouth puts a hefty bend in my 5-weight.

This is my dad's first wild Alaskan rainbow trout.

This is probably my largest grayling to date -- it's about 18 inches.

This opening day brook trout was one of my first of 2004.

This kype-jawed 21 inch male was my biggest trout ever at the time. Two casts after I released this one, another of about the same size savagely hit my nymph, leapt into the air, and spit the hook in about half a second.

My dad holds up the largest trout he's caught so far on a fly, a 20-inch brown. It flipped out of his hand a moment later, making for a much more amusing picture.

My dad nearly broke a long troutless slump fighting a 16-inch rainbow in fast water. It spit the hook after a while.

Here I fruitlessly pound one of the best-looking holding lies I've ever seen for nice trout. I've never so much as hooked a trout there.

Here I am soaking wet holding up a hard-earned 17 inch brown trout. An hour or so before I caught her, I attempted a treacherous crossing over loose gravel, and the river was running high. I found myself treadmilling on my tiptoes to maintain my footing as the gravel slipped beneath me, and I was swept off downstream and swam to shore with a few gallons of 55 degree water in my waders. Being me, I kept fishing.

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