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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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School of baitfish near camp.

StateAlaska

LocationPrince William Sound

Date TakenMay 28, 2013

Date AddedJun 8, 2013

AuthorTroutnut

CameraNikon Coolpix P7700

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My best pike of the trip taped out at 30.5".

StateAlaska

Date AddedJul 18, 2007

AuthorTroutnut

CameraPENTAX Optio WPi

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

StateAlaska

Date AddedJul 18, 2007

AuthorTroutnut

CameraPENTAX Optio WPi

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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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Maybe I should have edited my fingers out of the picture to make this smallmouth look a little bit bigger. I would have to pretend that the size 18 ant in its mouth was, I don't know -- a jointed Rapala?

StateNew York

Date AddedOct 4, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraPENTAX Optio WPi

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This is one of the nicer pike my dad caught on this trip, around 30 inches.

StateAlaska

Date AddedJul 18, 2007

AuthorTroutnut

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My dad's first Alaskan northern pike.

StateAlaska

Date AddedJul 18, 2007

AuthorTroutnut

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My dad was messing around with this pike for about 10 minutes with various goofy weedless lures with mediocre hooking quality, and he kept missing it. Finally he threw on the only lure a spin fisherman ever needs, the Heddon Lucky 13 (my favorite for many years before I started fly fishing), and he caught the fish on the first cast. Not only did he hook it--he also snared it.

StateAlaska

Date AddedJul 18, 2007

AuthorTroutnut

CameraPENTAX Optio WPi

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I was disappointed at first to find that all the risers one evening were fallfish, but I had fun once I adapted my expectations and started catching fallfish over 15 inches like this one.

StateNew York

Date AddedOct 4, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraPENTAX Optio WPi

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StateWisconsin

Date AddedJan 25, 2006

AuthorTroutnut

CameraOlympus C740UZ