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On Day 1 of the FLW Tour’s stop at the Potomac River on Thursday, Big Fred Contaoi of Orange County Choppers had enough grabs to post a good sack of fish but they just wouldn’t stick.
“I just couldn’t figure out the bite today,” he said Thursday night. “I had my chances…”
He did manage to get three keeper bass that weighed a total of 6 pounds, 9 ounces, which put him in 163rd place. At this point, he’s about 8 pounds out of the money.
We’ll see what today brings…
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What happens when you mix a pride of lions, a heard of cape buffalo and throw in a giant croc just for good measure? Watch this baby to find out. It’s 8 minutes of time well-spent.
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Move over Bell Island, Alaska, there’s a new home (if all the paper work goes through) of the all-tackle world record rainbow trout: Lake Diefenbaker.
Lake Diefen…what? I know, it’s not exactly a household name — until now — but the lake in Saskatchewan has a reputation for pumping out incredible rainbows like this pending world record caught by Adam Konrad, 26, of Saskatoon.
According to the fine folks at trophytroutguide.com, the mammoth beast weighed 43.6 pounds and was 38.75 inches long with an incredible girth of 34 inches.
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Our man on the pro bass tour, Big Fred “George Strait” Contaoi, is currently practicing hard for the next event, the FLW Tour’s fifth stop of season which will be held on the Potomac River in Charles County, MD (near D.C.). He and 199 other pros will battle for the $125,000 first prize June 14-17.
Of all the events he’s fished so far, Big Fred feels most at home here because… [click to continue…]
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Here’s Brownzilla (he’s the dark 12 pounder on the right) and several of his buddies living in the “trout country club” under Fanny Bridge in the Truckee River at Tahoe City, CA.
Of course, the area is closed to all fishing and the trout live the life of luxury as hordes of tourists throw food to them each day. Most of the trout (the majority are browns but there are some rainbows, too) are in the 5- to 10+ pound range, which is amazing considering all the empty calories they eat — Wonder Bread, Cheetos, french fries, and potato chips are the staples of their diets.
I often wonder how big these dudes would be if people chucked high-protein stuff like salmon roe, minnows and worms at them all summer long…might be big enough to make me think more seriously about doing a little poaching!
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Andy Martin, former Fishing & Hunting News editor and current fishing guide with Wild River Guide Service in Alaska, sent in this photo of one of his first charters of the young season.
While not a barn door-sized halibut, this 75-pound “closet door” ‘butt is about as big as you’d ever want to keep — the huge ones are a royal pain to fight & land; they don’t taste all that great and are mostly mature females that are best left alone to spawn.
This nice fish, and several “chickens” in the 20- to 30-pound class fell for a Berkley GULP! squid tipped with salmon belly. The action was off Montague Island, which is a long, 65-mile run out of Seward.
The first part of the run is nice (inside Resurrection Bay) but the rest of the way can be subject to nasty weather and big ground swells because (trust me, I’ve nearly puked there a few times!) it opens right up to the Gulf of Alaska.
It’s often worth the run, however, as the halibut, ling and coho fishing can be out of this world!
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This Smith River chinook salmon was as chrome as they come — purple back, white belly and not missing a scale…when it entered the river a month prior to when Mike Fridley (one of Humboldt County’s finest) caught it.
But hey, it’s better to late for dinner than to miss it entirely, right? We’re just glad Fridley did the right thing here and released — rather than ate — his catch.
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Prior to his spring trip to Canada’s northwestern coast, Ron “Millman” Milam of Rocklin, CA, had never landed a steelhead over 8 pounds. Now, thanks to this beast (and many others) that he caught on eggs under a float, he’s completely ruined for life…
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