Fishing. Let's see your work.....

at one spot..red river in tn... there is a spring

 

Like the spring by the powerplant discharge?

 

there are several cold water springs...but there is one I have found that holds a couple of these fish every season...$ will get you there..lol

 

I hate Stripers.

 

they will clean out an eco-system. not natural to our watersheds.. but twra stocks them..so I try and catch them.

 

So they are invasive?

 

I catch invasive catfish and stock trout.

 

I did get a 36 incher, in my boat, in Maryland like in July, they couldnt believe it.

 

they are not invasive..TWRA stocks them yearly in our watershed..they can not reproduce in freshwater.. but they thrive and eat EVERY smaller fish.. so they take out alot of smallmouth an largemouth...before they can get bigger.. the numbers of stripers have been way down last several years.

 

We got two inches of snow coming. Going to be a ship show for sure. Great to see some summer pics!

 

Trout #1

 

Year round fun on the coast!


Another month or so it’ll be time to break out the big gun(8wt) and sling for some Stripers!

 

I had a huge Brown on. It got hung up I waded waist deep out into the stream and lost him!

 

Trout won that round!

 

When the bite is off I retreat to the T4R, eat lunch and tie some patterns.

 

20 degrees F yesterday in Kansas and the cats were still biting.

 

Fun fish, I had to manuver over and under about ten downwd trees, to get to this spot. Then where I thought one was laying paid off! It fought hard all I could think about was get him up out of the brush, but. It ended up twisting around a branch. It just splashed i thought for sure it would come off. It came untangled and i landed it!

 

Early pic (~1960 or 61) Me, my dad, my mom, and my grandmother's boyfriend in So Cal. Should be about the year before my first deep-sea trip with Mom & Dad. I'm holding 2 barracudas and Mom is holding a bonito.




My dad, a neighbor and Mom: Check out the "barry" she is holding!! The Chevy in the background was supposed to be my first car until a drunk totaled it!

I credit these times as the inspiration to become a Marine Biologist (took me 30 years but I did it!)

 

I caught a trout!

 

I didnt get a pic just shared it with the dog. Small rainbow but a different strain. Bright pink stripe and gill plate plus its bottom fins were red.

 

Don't know where you live but be careful about feeding salmonids to dogs! WSU had several grizzly bears (from inland populations) get poisoned a few years back!

 

No fish kills here. They just stocked. Casted fifty times. Ive been on 4 trips and just now got one daily creel limit of 6 total.

 

I'm surprised you're still standing after landing that one! oh wait, you're kneeling down.

Great catch and good job getting it to the boat!

 

Dude the pole straps to the chair?

 

Took me 3 hours to get one in.

 

I know, I know...you did see my kidding nature in my post? And yes a Blue that size demands a chair for an afternoon...but I want to give proper kudos if @MEski4x4 landed this monster with just a body belt!

 

Its the "Big Game Tag" that you need I think it was $4,500. to bring it on the boat in 1998?