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[Outdoor Writer]

My significant other.....

 

[roosiebull]

Got my wife limited by 5:45 this morning

 

[roosiebull]

Big ling I caught and released recently

 

[mavinwa2]

A few beautiful trout from Panguitch Lake, Utah. A recent mid May 2021 camping/fishing trip. Pictured are rainbow, cutthroat, tiger and hybrid cutt/bow trouts. All taken flyfishing, mayfly nymph imitations sz 12/14 and jig fly leech patters in size 10 were the ticket to hook ups. Avg 17 trout landed during a day of morning & afternoon fishing. Most released but kept 6 rainbows over the course of 8 days to grill over campfire...yum.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6RCLnTyEgP5ek42WUVgs5g

 

[gelton]

Interesting how what we call Ling (cobia) on the gulf coast is a different fish than what others call Ling in the Pacific.

 

[Outdoor Writer]

Another Rivers Inlet, BC king...I caught two this trip that were about the same size; one was 52 & one was 57. I don't recall which one this is.

 

[roosiebull]

Another Rivers Inlet, BC king...I caught two this trip that were about the same size; one was 52 & one was 57. I don't recall which one this is.

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Good grief!!! Pretty awesome kings you have posted! We go years without seeing a king that big on the whole Oregon Coast...

Those monster kings in the salt are truly iconic fish, and very rare these days in most places. The last year we had fish of that caliber around was 04’... even at that, still a freak thing to see one. In 04’ I netted a 47# and a friend of mine got one 55# and change... I put my hands on a high 40’s in the river that year too (seal ran him aground in front of me and I went out and revived and released him)

since 04’, I don’t think I have seen a fish in person that broke 40#, and a true 30# fish is 1 in 100 the past few years (there have been outlier years, but not many and the ratio is still low those years)

I love seeing those big kings from the salt, and about the only modern time ones I see are a couple pics my friend sends me who runs a boat for waterfall resort in AK in the summer.

if you have more, I would like to see them! Nice fish and thanks for sharing those pics!

 

[Outdoor Writer]

if you have more, I would like to see them! Nice fish and thanks for sharing those pics!

Buck's Trophy Lodge at Rivers Inlet was a special place when it was located way inland where all the rivers flow into it. They create sort of layered tiers of both salt & fresh water. I made two trips there over about a decade and caught a bunch of kings over 50 pounds. Also caught a slew of other species. You didn't have to go more than 1/2 mile to fish. In fact, one year I hooked and battled a big king not 50 yards from the lodge.

But that ended when John Buck decided to permanently move the floating camp out to a small cove right off the ocean. It was the same place they temporarily moved it each fall because the area where it was always freezes over, thus would damage the lodge. Towing it nealy 15 miles out & back again every year was a huge undertaking. So my last trip was to the new location, and I only caught one big king. All of these fish I've posted were caught in the late 1980s-early 1990s.

This is a well-written article by an old friend, John Beath.

I have lots of 35mm slides with more of big kings but my old slide scanner won't operate with Win10, and the old PC with XP is broke at the moment. This is the only other one I have scanned. He was a guest at the lodge, and if I recall the fish was 34-36 pounds. Just to the right of his head where the one boat is near the shoreline is about where I caught most of my big ones.

 

[Fallfreak]

Some really great fish here today. I'm envious.

 

[BullsDeep]

Lake Erie walleye

 

[Outdoor Writer]

Once endangered Apache trout -- Christmas Tree Lake, AZ​

 

[AK Troutbum]

Interesting how what we call Ling (cobia) on the gulf coast is a different fish than what others call Ling in the Pacific.

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That’s because we’re right.


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[roosiebull]

Another good morning, we were limited before 6:30am for my wife and I

 

[ndforbes]

90# Giant Trevally was the biggest thing I have caught on a fly rod. God, I can't wait to travel again!

 

[kwackkillncrew]

wife with the first keeper of the year memorial weekend.

 

[Elk97]

Local prawning has been great so far. Usually have 6-7 limits (80 per license) in one set of four pots. Love those spot prawns!

 

[TREE ‘EM]

My 13 year old is the most naturally skilled angler I’ve ever been around. He takes it serious as a heart attack and puts his all in every time. I just stand back and take pics.

 

[dondondon]

Grayling on the fly

 

[Outdoor Writer]

After the king salmon, these were my 2nd largest catch by species -- a 36 lb. (L.) & a 32 lb. (R.) lake trout from Toobally Lake, Yukon Terr, circa mid-1980s. I don't have any of my slides scanned, so these are scans of not-so-hot snapshots my host had on his FB page. The biggest now hangs on my wall

 

[DAOutfitters208]

After the king salmon, these were my 2nd largest catch by species -- a 36 lb. (L.) & a 32 lb. (R.) lake trout from Toobally Lake, Yukon Terr, circa mid-1980s. I don't have any of my slides scanned, so these are scans of not-so-hot snapshots my host had on his FB page. The biggest now hangs on my wall


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Those are some great looking Macks! Don't see to many like that anymore.