Fishing 2018

Thanks Mark, Now that I look at the Char and a pic of a brookie side by side I can spot the difference in coloration. As for the Salom I spoke of well that was a 3 whiskey typo...:oops: Salmon was the species lol. As for the "Pet Bass" theory, that's probably the most likely theory of all. My nephew caught piranha at a local lake some years back, not the little red piranhas you see on TV but a much bigger species so I made a call to the fish and game and they came to see it that night. I wanted to have a taxidermist mount it but the state explained that it was illegal to have one in possession dead or alive but a couple weeks later he received an official certificate explaining the rare catch and the local paper did an interview with him. Talk about a proud kid, seems at the time he was the only person to report cachting one on rod and reel in massachusetts and hopefully it will remain that way for a long time. Another lake I fish had a 4 foot former Pet alligator swimming around it until we had the first frost. I never saw it myself but one dark night of fishing I hooked into something that gave me the craziest fight like nothing I ever experienced before til it snapped my line. Heck when I was a little younger and a lot dumber I was transporting smallmouth bass into my favorit lake hoping that they would take until someone told me how much it would cost me if I got caught so it happens. I thought I would share a pic of my first Lake Trout I caught on Lake George in upstate new york last summer. I cant tell you how much it weighed or how long it was because I wanted to get her back in the water ASAP seeing that I battled it up from a 110'' of water and no one wanted to clean it because we already had enough food to feed us for the week. You know the saying "Only take what you can eat" Cheers and tight lines to you:thumbsup:
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Good story, and nice fish.
 
Yes, I am certain you are right about how it got there, that's why I can't have the bluegill tank I would like.
We have a problem with pike that someone introduced to this part of the state. They say the pike eat all the small rainbows. I've caught lots of trout on lures that looked like 4-5" pike, so apparently trout like pike too!

It's crazy what you catch. I caught a 38 inch (oops, I said rainbow, I meant burbot) once that had 5 twelve inch pike in its belly, all the same size and all lined up like sardines.
 
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This is my buddy Nate, He's a 30 year retired Lieutenant Colonal in the army.
We went fishing on Sunday and had a great time.

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Nate's ball joints and tie rod ends ain't as good as they used to be so he don't bend good.

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We ended up keeping an even dozen. The 11 rainbows we kept were between 14 and 21 1/2 inches long. We Kept one smaller silver because his gills were injured. We let 21 fish go to get bigger.

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Till next week.
 
Your friend Nate had a very admirable career and I would like to thank him for his service:cool::thumbsup: If he is anything like my farther I bet he has endless war story's to talk about while fishing. Well their have been some reports of ice fishing in western Mass but the Ice is still a couple weeks away in the Boston area by my calculations. If I didn't live in a house I'd swear I was getting cabin fever:confused:. Thanks again for the fish pics Mark, gives me something to look forward to in these in-between times.
 
Fishing with friends.
Me and my Cuz. Kept 13 of 25
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My buddy Steve and his Grand Son. Kept 7 of 22.
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My apprentices family, all first-timers. Kept 14 of 29.
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My bud Matthew and his Daughter.

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Caught a Quartz Lake Grand Slam, a King, a 24 inch Char, a silver and several rainbows. Kept 13 of 26.

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J.R. and Jayce With a 22 inch rainbow.
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Fishing with friends.
Me and my Cuz. Kept 13 of 25
20181222_140933-XL.jpg

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My buddy Steve and his Grand Son. Kept 7 of 22.
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My apprentices family, all first-timers. Kept 14 of 29.
20181229_145733-XL.jpg


My bud Matthew and his Daughter.

20181230_120349-XL.jpg

20181230_145201-XL.jpg

Caught a Quartz Lake Grand Slam, a King, a 24 inch Char, a silver and several rainbows. Kept 13 of 26.

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J.R. and Jayce With a 22 inch rainbow.
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Sweet! That is awesome!
 
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