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Little brother witha nice river smallie.

We practice conservation aboard our boats. I have a large live well on the boat - I can assure you we don't kill anything we don't plan on eating. We will also pick up other people's trash, and throw away. I've pulled balloons, pieces of dock, swim toys from the water...

The puffer fish was kept for the photo op then released. Hell, I even release the bait when we are done fishing.

I am the rookie camera/ fisherman in this video taken in April on the Allegheny River in western PA.

Please excuse my excitement and Pittsburghese accent;)...

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Tx for clarifying. Good stuff. SmileWavy

dang that is a chunky bass.
i lost one similar tonight, second mepps #3 lost this week to bass :(

dude thats a huge small mouth! wow. never caught one that big in 30 years of fishing!

I caught this bad boy tonight. Missed another one about the same size, and a trout too.
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Here are some of the fish I landed last month on Lake Umbagog on the Maine/New Hampshire border.

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Plenty of competition from these guys...
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whats that first one? cool tail on that

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My biggest this year.

ANd on the opposite end of the spectrum.....
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Fallfish

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Puffer Fish are particularly poisonous...

Here are some of my family's recent adventures...

A Ladyfish my dad caught - that one was fun.

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My Trout, well - the smallest one I've caught in a while at least.

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My little brother's trout. He's just holding it close to the camera...

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The business end of the trout my brother wouldn't take off his hook...

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Dad and a small grouper.

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This is a nice Spanish Mackerel my brother's line caught. Apparently he got a bird's nest in his level wind at the cast and the lure was sitting in the water for a bit. This Mack took the lure and ran the bird's nest out for my bro.

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This one hit the lure prior to the lure hitting the water...I love the Spaniards!

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Another Spaniard!

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They love the spoons!

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Most of these were caught in or around the duneden causeway in clearwater.

My beautiful daughters first fish a few ears back , Twin Lakes, Bridgeport CA
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Gull Lake, June Lake CA. This past June.

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I know it's not a fish but what the heck!!!
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By way if disclaimer, this is not me and I am not claiming to have caught this shark.

What the heck kind of shark is that?!

What the heck kind of shark is that?!

This Thresher shark is just a baby 380 lb. It was caught by a friend with a rod and real.


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By way if disclaimer, this is not me and I am not claiming to have caught this shark.

Catch o' the day.......


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Ivana is a tuna.

caught my first walleye tonight. it was in 1 foot of water. a big surprise on a 4'6" ultralite. thought the reel would pop right off the rod. fun!



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Pic show why they are called Wall Eye....seriously. They are the only fish that has a reflective liner (tapetum lucidum) behind the retina which is why the eye appears white. Nice fish, BTW

1984 46 post ???

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this was a good day 123,113

my 2nd walleye of the night...15 minutes later.

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more walleye tonight :D

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Looks like the skyway bridge in the back of some of those, along with the courtney Cam(broken key( bell ... causeway.

You got it. Dad lives in Clearwater - so when I visit and the weather is good - we go fishing!

9lbs 4 oz, catch and release.

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Lived in Clwtr for 27 years. Next time you go, fish the far north end of honeymoon island. Early sring the taron can be caught from shore. (damn broken key

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cabo!!

fall trout fishing lake ontario this morning

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rainbow while catching rainbow yesterday ;)

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Chunky Rainbow very nice.

One of me over 40 Years ago.
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Anglers with giant marlin lose race against clock, miss epic payday


It took only one day -- including nine minutes of sheer angst -- for the world's richest marlin-fishing competition to produce Hollywood-style drama and extreme disappointment.

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Eight large marlin were weighed Wednesday, for considerable riches, during the first day of the three-day Bisbee's Black & Blue jackpot tournament off Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

But what does not show in the standings was by far the largest marlin, an 800-pound beast, that took five hours to land and was brought to the scale nine minutes past the 9 p.m. deadline, disqualifying a catch that would have netted a team from Texas more than $430,000.

What's more disappointing for Team Great Escape is that if no other team beats that weight during the remainder of the competition -- and marlin that large are rarely caught off Cabo San Lucas -- the catch would have been worth $1 million or more.

"I'm not in that good of shape. I should have worked out," Carl Riley, the angler who fought the blue marlin, told a Pisces Sportfishing representative during the late weigh-in. "I just want a massage and to go to bed."

The fishermen, who comprise one of 103 teams vying for more than $2 million in prize money, were aware that a 599-pound marlin, caught earlier Wednesday aboard the vessel Reelaxe, was the fish to beat when the 800-pounder struck a large lure being trolled behind the boat.

It was about 3 p.m. and the team was more than 20 miles north of Cabo in the Sea of Cortez. Time should not have been a factor but Riley and the crew did not count on the marlin dying at great depth during the fight.

Because the person fighting the fish cannot accept assistance from teammates, Riley was saddled with the task of reeling in 800 pounds of dead weight against an opposing current, and many times felt like giving up.

When the marlin was finally aboard, the team had only an hour to get back in the darkness. Word had spread of the giant marlin coming shore and about 1,000 people gathered around the dock-side scale.

"I spoke to the crew on the phone and was told, 'It's a really big fish -- 700 or 800 pounds,' " Tracy Ehrenberg, general manager of the Pisces fleet, said on the landing's blog.

Tournament director Wayne Bisbee was among those on the dock, official time piece in hand.

"We willed them to go faster and imagined we would see their lights at any second," wrote Ehrenberg, whose business charters the Great Escape. "But it was not to be. The 9 p.m. deadline came and the fish was disqualified. The boat came into view nine minutes after 9 to everybody's dismay... well, except the team that was now in first place."

That was the team aboard Reelaxe, who through late-morning Thursday was still in the overall lead. However, Team Great Escape at mid-morning Thursday boated a 430-pound marlin, which it hoped would hold as the largest of Day 2 and ensure it at least earns a slice of the Black & Blue pie.

The Bisbee's competition, which attracts anglers from around the world, is in its 30th year and famous for producing drama and controversy.

Epic battles between man and fish have raged long into the darkness. Accusations of cheating have flown, and because of the amount of money involved, winning teams must pass lie-detector tests to determine if all rules were followed. One of many classic stories involved an angler who failed the test, became belligerent and smashed the windows of the hotel that served as tournament headquarters.

First-place prize money varies from year to year, depending on the number of entries and how many side jackpots a winning team has entered. A record check of $2,162,035 was written to the winners in 2008.

nice brown trout from this morning
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My Buddy Ken landing a big King Salmon in B.C canada, We use 10' 6" casting rods, 50 pound test line, bouncing a tuff of yarn on the bottom of the Vedder/Chilliwack River.

Ken's biggest fish couple years back was a 55 pounder, with the tail fin 14" tall. It's like trying to turn a freight train when you hook into these big fish in a small shallow river.


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a rainbow from this morning
:D
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