Fish Pictures

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On 7/25/2023 at 6:57 PM, mikechell said:

Any fish I see and lose, I don't lie about and estimate its weight as closely as I can.  Any fish I don't see and lose was a gar.  Pure and simple, I lost a big gar.

My mistake it was a Gar.  😀

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Honestly, I don't remember if I posted this.  It's from  month ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNWfK0pF8uQ

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From Saturday, same body of water as above.

[niveker 0]

Nice bass!

[feathers5 0]

A big, fat old bass. nice.

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On 8/21/2023 at 7:13 AM, mikechell said:

From Saturday, same body of water as above.

 

On 8/21/2023 at 7:13 AM, mikechell said:

From Saturday, same body of water as above.

 

Beautiful LM Mike!

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 These smallies were caught on Saturday morning with a #6 Royal Coachman streamer.   Not big but they were hard fighters with lots of jumps, great fun!

   

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Yesterday I got rained out on the way to my Small Mouth river, but on Saturday I found an absolute gem of a brook.  This is a cold, high gradient Brook Trout stream in the local hills and I got to do some true “blue line” fishing.   

 

Super spooky fish in shallow clear water meant lots of cast from a kneeling position behind cover.  The trout we’re willing to take dries and I caught all of these on #12 Gray and Royal Wulffs.  I ended up netting 4 and losing a really nice one on what was apparently a poorly tied knot.  A few others just missed the fly.  The Brook Trout were starting to show their fall colors. 

[cphubert 0]

stunning, my favorite way to spend time

[niveker 0]

Beautiful water and fish, DF.

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21 hours ago, niveker said:

Beautiful water and fish, DF.

I was thinking of the amazing streams you post as I fished it. 

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Sadly, I've been out very few times this year. Hopefully things will settle down in the next 4-6 weeks and I'll be able to get out before the weather turns. In the meantime, I'll fish precariously through these posts. 

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 My wife and I are nearing the end of a major home renovation which consumed massive amounts of my free time over the past several years.  I'll put a post about it in the lodge section.  It's always a balance for me to make time to fish vs adulting.  IMO from Labor Day to Thanksgiving is the best fishing of the year and not to be traded being a grown up unless no other option exist.   A house project once forced me to miss fishing the entire Autumn save one September day.  I finished the house just as the weather turned nasty and I promised myself to not to let life do that to me again.  I resolved that I would make at least a few hours to fish each week, the next project (and there always is another one) can wait a little while more.

I hope that things, whatever they are, do slow down for you and allow you to get some stream time in during this glorious season!

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Friday after work on a small stream, they were hitting #16 hoppers.

 

 

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A couple from last week out of a little 15' wide spring creek. On hoppers. Released after pics taken.