I thought I’d start a thread that would be interesting during this time of year. It would be an opportunity to look back at all of the places we’ve fished and types of fish we caught and also to see where many of you fish and what you catch. No need to get specific, just list the body of water and the species.
I’ll start off.
Body of water:
Yakima River, WA
Big Hole River, MT
Beaverhead River, MT
Poindexter Slough, MT
Rocky Ford Creek, WA
Snoqualmie R. WA
NF Couer D Alene R., ID
St. Joe R, ID
Leech Lake, WA
Cady Lake, WA
Various beaches Puget Sound, WA
April was Bahamas month for me, Eleuthera to be more specific. Bonefish, cuda’s and jacks. Alas no tarpon or permit…
July: Norway, brown trout and grayling in the river Glomma, Atlantic salmon in the river Gaula.
September: Reservoir fishing in the UK, stocked rainbows.
These days I fish locally for pike and roach.
Ausable River (NY), trout
Saranac River (NY), trout
Saranac Lake, northerns and smallies
Beaverkill River, trout
Willowemoc Creek, trout
Schoharie Creek, 22" brown (biggest trout ever)
Connetqout River, LOTS of trout
Long Island Sound, Striped Bass, Bluefish, Summer Flounder, Weakfish (sea trout)
Montauk Point, LI, Striped Bass, Bluefish
Smith Fork - skunked
LaBarge River - cutthroat
Greys River - cutthroat
Idaho -
Big Elk Creek - cutthroat
Palisades Creek - cutthroat
Rainey Creek - cutthroat
South Fork of the Snake - cutthroat, rainbow, cuttbow, brown, mountain whitefish
Henry’s Fork of the Snake - rainbow, cuttbow, brown
Warm River - skunked
Teton River - rainbow, cutthroat, mountain whitefish
Birch Creek - rainbow, brook
Pass Creek - rainbow
Little Lost River - bull, rainbow, cuttbow
Big Lost River - rainbow
North Fork Big Lost - cutthroat, brook, rainbow
East Fork Big Lost - cutthroat, rainbow
West Fork Big Lost - skunked
Kane Lake - cutthroat
Merriam Lake - brook
Aldous Lake - cutthroat
California:
Eastern Sierra’s from Cottonwood creek to Walker River. Various species of trout.
Tule River: skunked
Big Bear Lake: trout
Santa Ana river @ Barton Flats: trout
Mojave Narrows: catfish and trout
Silverlakes: bluegill, catfish, bass and trout
Jess Ranch: trout
Montana:
Missouri River: Big trout
Blackfoot River: Brown trout
Nilan Res.: skunked
Dearborn River: skunked
quick story about Taneycomo…
Before the big dams were built… taneycomo was part of the white river… therefore it holds all types of fish… but with the big floods this year… fishing was FREAKING AWESOME…
what I caught…
rainbows
browns
google eye
kentuckies
large mouth bass
small mouth bass
*** my very first mean mouth*** (it was lick a cross between a LMB and a SMB)…
a few blue gills
crappie
walleye… most of them went to the table… yummy!!
now here are a few not commonly caught on the fly…
cat fish…
gar…
and this big a$$ spoonbill
very thing below was caught on a PMS (either fly or jig)
here is a kentucky
a smallie… caught jig fishing… but I was using a hand tied jig… that I tie myself
a big rainbow
Didnt mean to take over the thread… but these were some ofthe high-lights of night fishing for me…
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.
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.
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
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”:rolleyes:
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;)
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