Hopefully the posted photobucket image has the correct coding etc. so that you can see this beauty. Really put up a fight. Caught it on the retrieve. It was a very overcast windy day; so, that probably accounts for it’s being in the area. Going to frame a photo of this one and put it on the wall. Of course it was a “Catch & Release” deal. Something as nice as this should be caught again and again.
If the photo coding isn’t correct will try and re-post with the correct link ASAP.
WOW what a monster
Eric
Very pretty photo indeed! I think my largest catch this year was a very large painted turtle. I’ve caught plenty of turtles before on bait and one snapping turtle on a crank bait once, but never before on a fly. It fought like I hooked an old boot, except it moved from side to side a bit when I was “landing it” in my kayak. Sorry, no photo, but it really did happen; honest!
Jim Smith
I will have to say my most colorful (if not biggest) catches were also not fish. Maybe “captures” would be a better word for these?
But if I had to pick fish…it would probably be a toss-up between the following (more “colorful” than big, unfortunately):
And this series of 3 bluegills caught from the same pond, the same evening, casting into the same small area. One was predominantly orange, one green, and one blue:
… by species …
… and subspecies …
… with spots.
John
Those are colorful AND big, John! Excellent!
Jim,
Certainly believe your turtle catch without photos as one of my friends wanted a fly I tie to use one day and he managed to hook a beaver with more then one witness! At our next chapter meeting some of “his friends” gave him a mounted small toy beaver with the fly in it’s mouth as an award. Caught a pretty good sized snake one time. That was definitely a long release!
I don’t suppose you want to count ourselves, our float tubes or the elm tree that hangs out over the river, not to mention the submerged logs that kept the fly.
… and the fishies are pretty nice, too.
John
Thanks, Dave. The big part is that they average right at 20". As to the colorful part, the spots speak for themselves.
John
Here is some of my colors…and that leaf is AWESOME along with that Pink Sunset guys!
… but defintely colorful …
… both of them …
… but the best part is …
I caught them today.
John
This is my most colorful fish of the year.
And this is my biggest.
All the best.
Mike
Very nice Grayling!
First bass on a fly that I dressed. Have fly fished for thirty five years, but dressed my first fly in September.
