Okay, so here’s your chance to play armchair newspaper editor and make up a caption for this photo of me posing with a beautiful Sacramento River rock that I took on hook and line last week.
Use the comments section below…
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Photos and Video
Look into the eyes of this predator and see if you can Name That Fish! Big Fred Contaoi snapped on one if his travels far and wide.
Use the comments section below to give us your best guess…
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Since many of you are salmon and steelhead anglers and thus have an appreciation for the awesome power of a raging river, I thought you might enjoy this video…plus, who doesn’t love big trucks and raging whitewater? Though I must confess that the macho index gets dropped several notches due to the gawd-awful soundtrack compliments of that noted manly man, Enrique Iglesias. But still, this is some crazy-impressive stuff…
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The Magic Hour!
Ttrout season is just around the corner…so I figured I’d get you fired up about heading to the high country this spring to chase bow, browns, cutties and brookies.
There’s something very exciting about being on a mountain lake or creek right during that magic hour at dawn…The smell of the air, the crisp temperature and that delicious anticipation of what may be luring below the surface.
When I snapped this pic, I was speeding to get to the marina to go mack fishing on Lake Tahoe…I was already running late but I just had to stop when I saw this scene of the sun coming up over Emerald Bay. I guess sometimes it’s more about the journey than the destination…
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This week, escape the Monday morning-stuck-in-the-cubicle blues by heading north to Alaska, to a stream literally teeming with chrome.
On this particular day, Reilly and I were headed up Ibeck Creek near Cordova, which was just coming into shape after 7 inches of rain over the pervious several days. Making things more interesting was the fact that this was the first significant rainfall of the season, so the river was absolutely jam-packed with chrome, almost translucent coho that were as snappy as piraña on a wildebeest carcass.
Seventy degrees, no bugs and more silvers than a couple mortals could hope to catch in a season in the Lower 48…ah, yes…now my Monday is totally screwed!
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JK with his snook. Yeaaaa....finally!
O ur pal and regular fishwithjd reader Jay Kennedy risked life, limb and several layers of epidermis for this Costa Rican snook taken in the surf. Here’s his tale…
I woke up at 3 am on Thursday and headed to the mouth of Rio Baru and fished util about 10 am, changing lures like crazy,” says Jay. “And finally, I saw a beast chasing a school of mullet. My steelheader instinct took over and I threw on a gold and orange 3/4 oz Little Cleo. After about 5 casts…WHAAAAAAAM!!! Snook!! Well, these fish get pissed in the surf and it rolled, clearing a good 3 feet out of the the water before taking off and burning my thumb! [click to continue…]
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So, they don’t grow to 20 pounds (if they did, you’d never land one), they don’t jump and they don’t burn drag, but there’s just something cool about panfish…especially when they get big enough that you mistake them for bass when you set the hook!
This dandy hit a 6-inch RoboWorm last weekend when I was out bass fishing with buddies…he was the only one of the day, but I’d like to go back and target them!
Can you Name that Fish? Hint: in the Southeast, they are called Chinquapins.
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So, I was in a warm weather surf fishing mood yesterday, so here’s a little King Mackerel action off a pier in Florida…the action gets infinitely more interesting about 2:48 into the video. :)
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