2008: Where'd you fish and what did you catch?

[Night Angler1]

and these...

a brown


here is a sweet pair for the table...

[gqualls]

Dang Leonard, those are some awesome fish. I'd love to have been on the bank watching you wrassle that spoonbill. Beautiful smallie and 'Bow.

I've had a very busy year and the only fishing I have done has been on the South Holston River in East Tennessee. The fishing was good each trip, and the only species I caught were Browns and Rainbows.

[hutch]

Salmon Falls Res. Rainbow
Roseworth Res. Rainbow
Mackay Res. Rainbow-Cutthroat-Kokanee
Chesterfield Rainbow
Henry's Lake Cutthroat, Hybrid, brookie
C J Strike Res. rainbow, small mouth bass, blue gill, crappie
Devil's Creek Res. Rainbow
Springfield Res, Rainbow

Had a good year.

[Bluegill222]

Went to Ohio in April, where Ohiotuber and I went after steelhead, monster bluegills and bass.

In September my wife and I spent a week in NE Iowa catching rainbow, brown, and brook trout.

The rest of the time was spent on a multitude of ponds, lakes, streams, creeks, puddles and tailwaters here in NE Kansas catching bluegills, crappie, white bass, wipers, large and smallmouth bass, catfish, bullfrogs, and, my new species for 2008: gizzard shad.

[tailingloop]

Not much fishing away from home this year and no trout at all.

Pacific Ocean - calico bass, sand bass, mackerel, bonito, halibut, rockfish, mako shark

San Diego and Misson Bay - spotted bay bass, sand bass, calico bass, short fin corvina, bonefish, yellowfin croaker, bonito, mackerel, halibut, smelt

Colorado River, Lake Martinez - striped bass, largemouth bass, bluegill, crappie

local lakes - largemouth bass, bluegill, crappie, channel catfish

Sacramento, San Joaquin River delta - striped bass, largemouth bass

[Plunker]

Helen, GA (May):
Dukes Creek, Smith's Creek, Upper 'Hooch, Wildcat creek (Trout)

Sipsey River, AL Below Smith Lake dam (Trout)

Smoky Mountains, TN (Grand Slam 'Bow, Brown, Brookie)

Pensacola, FL (Sunburn, windburn, jellyfish sting, Skunked)

Happy Holidays to All!!!

[Panfisha]

Not that many notable places this year, not even that much with alot going on.
All in Maryland:
Rocky Gap
Lower gunpowder falls
Loch raven lower dam
Secret farm pond

Notable catches were my first 20 inch trout
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A nice smallmouth I caught on my own tied crayfish fly
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/f...sha/reward.jpg

[bobbyg]

Plunker, methinks I will avoid Pensacola!

Bob

[Plunker]

Plunker, methinks I will avoid Pensacola!

Bob

You think 2008 was bad....Last year my trip there began with TWO Broken rods..... henceforth and forever known as the: "Honey can we take the BMW's top down? Incident"

Actually I can't say enough great things about the place...laid back, uncrowded, inexpensive...It just seems to have been my luck this year, or the lack of it. Been going there for TwentyFive Years and have enjoyed every trip....even the broken rods weren't so bad.... I got to replace them UPGRADES even LOL

[SquatchHunter]

Really makes me realize my good fortune when I list them all.

I caught trout, grayling, and whitefish.
Montana (in no particular order):
Beaverhead River
Big Hole River
Lower Madison River
Upper Madison River
Darlington Ditch
Gallatin River
East Gallatin River
Yellowstone River
Boulder River
Hebgen Lake
Rat Lake
Sureshot Lakes
Harrison Lake
Bitterroot River
Sixteenmile Creek
Taylor Fork
Clark Fork
Jefferson River
Fairy Lake
Hyalite Reservoir
A couple of secrets I'm not allowed to speak of publicly

Idaho:
Henry's Fork
Warm River

YNP:
Firehole River
Madison River
Slough Creek
Soda Butte Creek
Lamar River