Pictures of Fishermen (and Women), Page 7
Hare are the obligatory pictures of me and people I've fished with, fishing and holding fish. Fly casting makes for really nice pictures if the camera's set up just right. And nothing beats a candid "dropping a fish" moment.
Out in this pike slough we made an interesting fine, a long-decayed moose carcass. Against my protest, my dad lifted the skull out of the water as a potential souvenir. However, it wasn't quite broken down to nothing-but-bone yet, and it smelled horrible, so it went back in the river.
Date AddedJul 18, 2007
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
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.
Date AddedJul 18, 2007
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
Lena with a trout on the line
Date AddedJul 20, 2016
CameraCanon EOS 7D Mark II
Date AddedJul 18, 2007
CameraPENTAX Optio WPi
This fat-bodied 22" male was my largest brown trout ever at the time. It took a deep nymph and took me 150 yards downstream in a 20-minute fight in strong current.
Mosquitoes trying to bore a tunnel into my wader leg.
Unhooking another trout for Lena
Date AddedJul 20, 2016
CameraCanon EOS 7D Mark II
Date AddedJul 20, 2016
CameraCanon EOS 7D Mark II
Motoring up the Kenai River with Perry
Date AddedJul 20, 2016
CameraCanon EOS 7D Mark II
With my friend
Brad Bohen at the oars of the drift boat,
Don the Pond Monster and I tempted several very nice smallmouths and muskies on a productive evening float.