Let's go fishing....

[2lumpy]

Evil twin brother- Lahontan Cutthroat

 

[eelgrass]

 

[SS!]

63 lb. Cobia, caught around oil rig off Chandelier Island, Louisiana.

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I bet slammy would give a dime for those shorts!

 

[Bluehair]

They’re all growed up and moved off now.

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Blue, see you & raise...

My youngest, Scott, ready to rock n' roll at Big Lake, AZ. He's now 56.

And on the beach at Puerto Lobos, Mex. over a New Year weekend. His mom tod him not to get too close to the water.

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Smallmouth Bass -- Sphene Lake, Ontario​

 

[2lumpy]

The Gorge. Dams giveth and dams taketh away.

 

[Thatguy]

 

[Thatguy]

The laker was caught somehow in the tail on 6lb test! I don’t know how he got it in. And the halibut was 225#. He has all the luck!

 

[OutdoorWriter]

A message from our sponsors:

With National Go Fishing Day on June 18th, let's celebrate by sort of emulating the Post One Photo Per Day thread. In this one, however, post any images that are fishing related, including those showing off the catch, ie. dead & hero shots are OK. Include one or two lines of descrpition. And as in the other thread, please do not hijack the thread with other discussions unrelated to the posted images. Start a separate thread!

Let's try to stay with a couple images per day apiece, tho. I'll start it off.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programing.

My SO, Ellen, & Butch Geier landing a nice northern pike at Vallecito Lake, Colo. ​

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Waiting on the Tarpon -- Florida Keys​

 

[2lumpy]

Doubled up with Grayson. Fat bows.

 

[OutdoorWriter]

The daily double happened right before dawn on Lake El Salto in Mexico. I was tossing a surface bait with two treble hooks. The biggest of the two fish ingested it where several hooks became embedded. So while my trusty guide was trying to get it all unhooked, I picked up another rod with a spinnerbait attached and nailed the 2nd fish on the first cast. Both were over 5 lbs. & released.

 

[OutdoorWriter]

ESPN host Mark Zona with a chubby bass out of Lake El Salto, Mex.

 

[Anaconda]

 

[Anaconda]

 

[Anaconda]

 

[Buckhunter1955]

My son Ethan with a Silver Salmon, I don't remember the name of this river , it was a one day fly out trip. They had a lot of weather up country and the river was high and colored up, but we did catch our limits.

 

[nontypical]

My grandson's nice bow. His name is Ethan too!

 

[OutdoorWriter]

A younger me w/smallmouth on a fly -- Ontario, Can.​

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Joe Reynolds w/ a chunky brown from Christmas Tree Lake, AZ​

 

[nontypical]

Flaming Gorge smallies

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Bruce Fritz with a 10 lb., 2 oz. bass at Lake El Salto, Mex.​

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Apache Trout -- Christmas Tree Lake, AZ​

 

[Buckhunter1955]

My son hauled up a big Ray, It was like trying to pull a big Halibut up off the bottom. We never even tried to land him , just cut the line.

 

[Phantom Hunter]

Went out looking for some new hybrid striper spots. Caught a 22” blue cat on a hair jig below the downrigger! Caught a bunch of hybrids too!

 

[Bluehair]

Founder.

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Striped bass -- Lake Pleasant, AZ​

 

[OutdoorWriter]

My two sons, Scott & Keith, circa 1969-70 with their morning catch of pike at Vallecito Lake, Colo. ​

 

[Bluehair]

All these lake pleasant pics are fun. When I lived in cave creek and had my Stratos, I spent a lot of time there. I don’t have any pics, but I have a chipped tooth from a tequila bottle as a souvenir of one of the white bass all-nighters.

The construction of the two bridges over new river on the carefree highway was also my first “real“ project as project manager. I wish I had a pic of the chaos when we opened up a rattlesnake den in the wash. Dozens of snakes became fill that day.

 

[Buckhunter1955]

A beautiful fish, they eat even better than they look.

 

[OutdoorWriter]

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Joe Reynolds releasing a brown trout at Green River, Utah​

 

[Tackdriver]

Me. 2 days ago. 60 miles offshore Ocean City Md.

 

[Tackdriver]

a couple years ago...

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Native guides with a couple fish of mine out of Nuelton Lake, Manitoba

29 lb. lake trout

18 lb. Northern Pike

 

[SS!]

1/4 of the way there

 

[Cowboys1]

One of my first Mississippi river smallmouth, and then full circle with my son's first Mississippi river smallmouth.

 

[Buckhunter1955]

My son with a nice ' Humpy"
Kenai River Alaska.

 

[OutdoorWriter]

A couyple more oldie scans of antique snapshots....

A day's limit of rainbow trout, Big Lake, AZ circa 1968.

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My oldest son & daughter at Lake Mead with a stringer of largemouths, circa 1969. Note my nifty Starcraft Explorer tied up in the background.

 

[OutdoorWriter]

And a couple more old snapshots...

Ric Clark & I with the day's catch of largemouth & white bass at Lake Pleasant, AZ circa 1968

Carl 'someone' & Ed Belinski with our combined catch of Canyon Lake rainbows & walleyes, circa 1970.

 

[Buckhunter1955]

My wife with one of many Sockeye that we caught.

 

[Buckhunter1955]

Our ride has arrived, my son got to ride in the co-pilots seat.

 

[Bluehair]

Our local lake from a few years back.

 

[Phantom Hunter]

Summer time hybrid stripers, found a few more yesterday,

 

[runamuk]

Been fishing the Russian River AK.
for the last week.
sitting in airport waiting to board a plane home.
Pretty good group of us meet up there every year.

 

[Tackdriver]

Yellowfins are still going strong. 44 pounder, yesterday.

 

[JPblind]

Back in the day when you could catch kings in a small river.

 

[Butts]

Nice rainbow thru the ice..

 

[Tikka]

Today with my middle boy, two nice browns…

 

[gburk]

Great thread Tony. A couple northern pike from last week in thousand islands NY, they went 30” and 33”

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Dolly Varden trout -- Mulchatna River, AK​

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Ex-Plano rep Jesse Simpkins -- Lake El Salto. Mex.​

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Brown trout -- Green River, Utah​

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Colorado native -- Gunninson River, CO​

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Ben Kohler (Hook Up Outfitters) with a typical schoolie striper from Lake Pleasant, AZ

 

[Sallaberry]

One of those easy fishing holes the boy couldn’t keep them off his hook. Tahoe keys

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Native Apache trout -- Christmas Tree Lake, AZ

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[OutdoorWriter]

These are terrible scans from newsprint, but they commemorate one of the best trout fishing days I ever experienced at normally dry Mexican Hay Lake, near Springerv.ille, AZ. Using black Wooly Buggers, Joe Reynolds & I caught & released about 50 of these football-sized rainbows in the span of three hrs. during a rain storm. We decided to quit when the lightning decided to start.

 

[Sallaberry]

Oregon coast 7/18-7/24 2021 one day two boats 9 limits

 

[littlebull209338]

Way to go ! "somebody has the crabs"

 

[Tikka]

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Way to go! That looks like a great time…

 

[Homer]

Can any of you experts name what this fish is?.....kinda rare

 

[2lumpy]

Looks a lot like a “Oncorhynchus clarkii homeris”.......

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Can any of you experts name what this fish is?.....kinda rare

Looks like either an Apache or a Gila. Might also be an immature version of one of the cutthroats.

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Rainbow trout-- San Juan River, NM​

 

[Homer]

Looks like either an Apache or a Gila. Might also be an immature version of one of the cutthroats.

yes.....one of the cutthroats......which one?....dead giveaway is White Mtn's Ca

 

[OutdoorWriter]

yes.....one of the cutthroats......which one?....dead giveaway is White Mtn's Ca

Paiute? But it looks more like a Lahontan.

 

[Homer]

that's it......only native to one place....Silver King creek that flows east off the Sierra's into Carson.

They were transplanted into the north fork of Cottonwook creek in 1946

 

[OutdoorWriter]

that's it......only native to one place....Silver King creek that flows east off the Sierra's into Carson.

They were transplanted into the north fork of Cottonwook creek in 1946

It was hard telling from that photo because the Paiute has sort of distinctve top-to-bottom 'bar' patterns along the lateral line.

Here's a Paiute I just googled on USFWS site that shows the pattern.

And the USFWS describes them as such:

• Differentiated from other cutthroat trout by a lack of body spots, although some exhibit a few, particularly towards the tail of the fish and along fin margins.
• Sides are a gradual blend of colors, starting with a copper-green back, fading to peachy-pink, then light yellow, and finishing with a white belly.
• Opercula, or cheeks, have a rose and peach sheen, complemented with an orange or peach-colored cutthroat slash.
• They exhibit a striking iridescent purplish hue across the body.

 

[OutdoorWriter]

that's it......only native to one place....Silver King creek that flows east off the Sierra's into Carson.

They were transplanted into the north fork of Cottonwook creek in 1946

Immature Lahontan:

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Native Apache Trout -- Christmas Tree Lake, AZ​

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Canadian smallmouth. Not positive, but I *think* the lure was called a Heddon Torpedo. Anyone?

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Lee's Ferry (Marble Canyon), AZ​

 

[Buckhunter1955]

One of many rainbows on the Kenai River.

 

[Homer]

Pumpkin Center Buglemouth Trout....this afternoon

 

[Stillwater165]

 

[Stillwater165]

 

[Stillwater165]

 

[Stillwater165]

 

[nontypical]

A few days ago. River low...temps high. We only fish in the AM and release all.

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Me landing a cutt at Sunburst Lake, Bob Marshall WA, MT.​

 

[OutdoorWriter]

My friend in Fla., fishing from his kayak,
caught this sailfish yesterday.​

 

[newhunter]

 

[OutdoorWriter]

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That thing could do some serious damage. Is that a tiger fish or...??

 

[Bluehair]

Found another kid pic.

 

[rmanwill]

Alaska fly in back lake.

 

[Phantom Hunter]

Found a few yellowfin tuna and wahoo in Venice last weekend in Feb. Some good eats on the grill!!

 

[Phantom Hunter]

Can someone rotate these pics please. Can’t get them right side up for some reason. Preview shows them right side up,but they post sideways?

 

[newguy]

Mark

 

[Phantom Hunter]

Thanks Mark!

Mark

 

[desperatehills]

Spent last week in Hawaii. We caught as many small tuna as we wanted and found this one Mahi Mahi. When we caught him the school surrounded the boat but we could not make them eat.

 

[MaineFlatlander]

Winter fun

 

[2lumpy]

Lee's Ferry (Marble Canyon), AZ​

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That’s a stunning stretch of river. I should dig some of mine out and renew the memories. Thanks for sharing.

 

[2lumpy]

Venice, Louisiana

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Venice, Louisiana

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That's a redfish, right? Any idea what it weighed?

 

[2lumpy]

That's a redfish, right? Any idea what it weighed?

Yup. They called them Bull Reds down there, when they got over a certain size. If I recall this one measured 47-48”, didn’t weigh any of them. For two days we caught a bunch. One of those, “perfect trips”.

 

[OutdoorWriter]

Yup. They called them Bull Reds down there, when they got over a certain size. If I recall this one measured 47-48”, didn’t weigh any of them. For two days we caught a bunch. One of those, “perfect trips”.

The stars never aligned. Although I've wanted to, I've never fished for reds.

 

[2lumpy]

The stars never aligned. Although I've wanted to, I've never fished for reds.

You loaded up on redfish, sea trout, and flounder……… some of the best eating seafood I’ve ever had.

 

[OutdoorWriter]

You loaded up on redfish, sea trout, and flounder……… some of the best eating seafood I’ve ever had.

Huh?