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
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
This is my first (non ice-fishing) fish of 2011 and my best burbot yet, my first one of a respectable size, although they get much bigger.
Date AddedMay 9, 2011
CameraCanon PowerShot D10
Another cool marine sculpin.
Another gunnel (a type of fish) captured under a rock exposed by the falling tide.
A gunnel (a type of fish) captured under a rock exposed by the falling tide.
My first rockfish (a copper rockfish).
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...
Date AddedOct 4, 2006
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
My first (non-burbot) cod. Not exactly a lunker.
A 24" burbot caught on my setlines.
Date AddedMay 15, 2011
CameraCanon PowerShot D10
Small burbot, but tasty! If you think in units of brook trout, even the smallest burbot is a lot of dinner.
Date AddedMay 13, 2011
CameraDMC-LX3