Real Fishing Thread
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From: BIG BEAR
01-Aug-18
The fishing pun is fun.... but we haven’t had many fishing pics yet this summer...... so here goes....... Lake St Clair musky.... my first musky ever......
From: BIG BEAR
01-Aug-18
Halibut in Alaska in May....
From: BIG BEAR
01-Aug-18
My daughter with a warmouth.... bluegill family
From: BIG BEAR
01-Aug-18
Lake Erie walleye in June..... Filled 3 limits by noon.....
From: BIG BEAR
01-Aug-18
Good pike from our musky hunting trip.....
From: BIG BEAR
01-Aug-18
My buddy drove 7 hours to New York last weekend because the salmon are hitting on Lake Ontario.........
From: SB
01-Aug-18
Three more weeks ! ......My annual Musky hunting trip to lake Vermilion! Usualy turns into a Small mouth trip after awhile....but great to get away to the North country for awhile!
From: BIG BEAR
01-Aug-18
Steve..... Musky has been on my bucket list for a long time..... I’m planning on going again !!!!
Post some pics from your trip !!!!
From: Treeline
02-Aug-18
Awesome fish there Big Bear! Muskies are definitely on the bucket list for me as well!
From: Zbone
02-Aug-18
Curious - Ain't that first one a Tiger Musky?
From: BIG BEAR
02-Aug-18
Yes it is !!
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
Son’s first “real” perch.
Son’s first “real” perch.
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
You know you have a big bluegill when you can “lip” grab it.
You know you have a big bluegill when you can “lip” grab it.
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
It’s customary that you kiss the first sucker you catch, or at least that is what I told my boys. HA!!
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
Catching dinner while in the mountains of Utah chasing after elk..
Catching dinner while in the mountains of Utah chasing after elk..
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
Our oldest Hooked up on a Mahi Mahi while in Hawaii last year.
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
Our youngest hooked up on another Mahi Mahi, just after his brother.
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
The result.
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
The result
The result
Son’s very first rainbow down in Gatlinburg
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
“Up North” a couple weeks ago
From: Feedjake
02-Aug-18
Not a fish but my 2 year old wanted to hold an alligator in Florida last February and I just think she’s adorable.
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
Rainbow from “Up North”
Rainbow from “Up North”
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
Another Rainbow from the same area. Both boys put the smack down on rainbow and brookies that week.
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
Oldest caught this bass on a fly he tied this past spring.
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
Got invited by a friend to go on a boat based bear hunt for 10 days in Alaska last year. Once there, I decided I had killed enough bears in my life and that the fishing is to good not to enjoy, so I stayed on the boat for 10 days catching 12 different species of fish. This being the biggest. Caught on a giant chunk of beat meat that I was wondering if anything would bite it. Honestly took everything I had to hold this just long enough for the picture.
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
Rock fish
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
Green Ling cod (I believe).
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
I believe this is a quill back.
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
I surprised the family by taking them on vacation without telling them where we were going. 15 hour drive later, we pulled up to a lake in Ontario with float planes all over it. Ended up spending a week with no electricity or plumbing and not one of us could of had more fun. I used the “vacation” as a way to get up to this cabin to scout where I had already booked my moose hunt. :-). First day was a little rough for my wife, but after that, she fell right in the groove, and when the plane showed up to get us, she was hoping for a few extra days. The boys caught walleye from the dock, just as they do bluegills at home. The pike were enormous too. Both kids came home with Master Angler awards from the Ministry for the size fish they caught. We ate like King’s, and a Queen, the entire week.
From: Mike the Carpenter
02-Aug-18
For my youngest son’s 8th birthday, he said “I want to go Big Fish fishing”. So I called a couple friends in Florida, flew down and spent the best 3 days a dad could with his son fishing.
The best were the sharks and cobia we caught, but he also caught a tagged Amber Jack that when we reported the tag number on it, he was mailed a package that contained a 2 page print out of that specific fish and a t-shirt.
I never got to do this kind of stuff with my own dad, as he was to busy working. I understand that, and cannot change how I was raised, so I decided that if my boys wanna do something (and it’s legal), we are gonna do it. I gave up drinking, smoking and chasing women YEARS ago, and it’s amazing how much money you save when you have a goal in life and don’t deviate off of it.
From: BIG BEAR
02-Aug-18
Good stuff Mike and Jacob !!!!
From: Joey Ward
02-Aug-18
Awesome, Mike!
That's how life should be enjoyed.
From: Grey Ghost
02-Aug-18
Great pics and catches, fellas!!
Here's one of me in Florida last May.
Matt
From: Michael
02-Aug-18
Heading out to chase smallies
From: Michael
02-Aug-18
Great day on the water of Lake Ontario
From: Michael
02-Aug-18
On a early May Mn Crappie hunt
From: Michael
02-Aug-18
Leading the pack
From: Michael
02-Aug-18
My nephew with his first smallmouth
From: Michael
02-Aug-18
A lake Saint Clair pig
From: Michael
02-Aug-18
Who says you can’t catch walleyes while chasing bucket mouth bass.
From: Michael
02-Aug-18
My nephews were sure proud of there rock bass they caught
From: Michael
02-Aug-18
My daughter with her first smallmouth 6 years ago
From: bigswivle
02-Aug-18
Summertime fishing in FL is mostly spent running from these
Summertime fishing in FL is mostly spent running from these
From: RK
02-Aug-18
Great pics As was said earlier THAT is the way to enjoy life!!
From: NvaGvUp
02-Aug-18
Lake Almanor CA in June.
4lb, 6oz.
We caught several more almost as big.
From: BIG BEAR
02-Aug-18
Awesome pics guys !!!! Keep them coming!!!!! Here’s the downtown Detroit skyline walleye fishing !!
From: HA/KS
04-Aug-18
From: wooddamon1
04-Aug-18
Great thread guys, super jealous. Haven't even bought a fishing license in a few years as all my free time's been spent working on deer camp and bowhunting whenever I can. That's gonna change soon, though. Always loved it. Thanks for the inspiration!
From: Grey Ghost
04-Aug-18
Dinner.
From: Grey Ghost
04-Aug-18
From: Grey Ghost
04-Aug-18
Yummy!
Matt
From: Will
08-Aug-18
Cool thread! Sister in law caught this nice bow fin in Gull Lake MN. Cool fish and her biggest ever at over 25". Fun to see her face and excitement!
From: HA/KS
08-Aug-18
Bowfin is a fish I have never caught, but would like to. I like to catch at least one of each kind.
From: pipe
09-Aug-18
My youngest txt'd this today of what he caught behind my home in the Des Plaines River, north of Chicago. The noteworthy thing is how the river rebounded after the several dams were removed along the way. The water now flows naturally and is as clear as a mountain stream, when not at flood stage. There are 35" + sized northerns as well as Bass, Channel Cats as well as the usual carp and bulkheads.
From: woodguy65
09-Aug-18
From pond on my farm.
From pond on my farm.
From: BIG BEAR
09-Aug-18
Wow !!!!! Dandy bass !!!!
From: petedrummond
09-Aug-18
First musky on my lake of the woods trip. Got a smaller one Sunday and wife caught a 42 incher.yesterday. we got another little one tonight. We are not done.
From: petedrummond
09-Aug-18
Wood guy great fish and looks like me.
From: jingalls
09-Aug-18
My dad and I rocking and rolling big water on Lake of Th Woods MN last October. He's 85 and still tough as nails!
From: jingalls
09-Aug-18
Ice fishing for striped bass in Kansas this past winter. I ran the gaff and camera on this one.
From: jingalls
09-Aug-18
Here's One of mine from that day.
From: Bou'bound
10-Aug-18
how much did that bass weigh?
From: JL
10-Aug-18
From this morning.....
From: JL
10-Aug-18
Gratuitous sunrise pic while trolling this morning.
From: BIG BEAR
10-Aug-18
Nice !!!!! Are those whitefish John ???? Keep em coming guys !!!! Almost time to go on a perch trip !!!!
From: BIG BEAR
10-Aug-18
How long is your ice fishing season down there in Kansas ???
From: BIG BEAR
10-Aug-18
I hope my uncle doesn’t mind me posting this. He got me into hunting and fishing !!
From: JL
10-Aug-18
BB....lakers in TVC's East Bay.
From: BIG BEAR
10-Aug-18
Nice !!!!!!!
From: JL
10-Aug-18
Getting up in a few hours to hit it again.
From: BIG BEAR
10-Aug-18
Awesome !!!! Good luck John !!!!
From: Treeline
11-Aug-18
The boy
The boy
Beaver pond
Beaver pond
Nice one!
Nice one!
Mountain brookies
From: KB
11-Aug-18
Sorry about th response times guy. Been outa pocket, my dad suffered a stroke. He's doing well considering.
That big one was over 20# mine was 7#. We get a couple days to a few weeks of ice a year. Sometimes none! Striped Bass are a rush through the ice... no quit in the fight!!!
From: jingalls
11-Aug-18
KB is jingalls, it's my iPhone.
From: BIG BEAR
12-Aug-18
Thanks John !!!
From: BIG BEAR
12-Aug-18
Tahquamenon River pike a few miles above the falls.
From: DL
12-Aug-18
Now that’s a slab. New world record crappie. 5.46 pounds
From: BIG BEAR
12-Aug-18
Oh my !!!! That think looks like it is half largemouth !!!!!
From: JL
12-Aug-18
Today's fish....
From: Crusader dad
12-Aug-18
My best bud caught this nice guy by accident while we were fishing for bluegill this morning. We hammered the gills. Caught 75ish and kept 21.
From: Panther Bone
12-Aug-18
That crappie was caught about thirty minutes from my house.
It was caught in a farm pond. I don’t think pond fish should go toward records books, but TWRA doesn’t mind it.
Oh well, big crappie for sure!
From: woodguy65
13-Aug-18
