Pictures of Fish, Page 2
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!
Sculpins are sort of the "trash fish" of Alaskan saltwater, but I love how they look.
School of baitfish near camp.
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?
Date AddedOct 4, 2006
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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.
Date AddedOct 4, 2006
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My first Alaskan northern pike, around 21-22 inches long.
Date AddedJul 18, 2007
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My best pike of the trip taped out at 30.5".
Date AddedJul 18, 2007
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My dad finally broke his long, uncanny fishless streak with this nearly 2 inch long common shiner caught on a size 22
Serratella imitation during a Trico spinner fall. Heh heh.
Fallfish-face.
Date AddedOct 4, 2006
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There are few sights more promising than a large pool on the Beaverkill full of steady rises to a parade of fallen flying ants. It was a bit of a let-down, however, to learn that most of the rises were from fallfish like this one, and there didn't seem to be a trout in sight.
Date AddedOct 4, 2006
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