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WOOOOOOHOOOOO!
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It happens every now and again…and I just can’t shake it: Damn you, British Columbia and your wild, emerald rivers full of leaping chrome! I just can’t get you outta my head!
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Mmmm...cork...it's what's for dinner! (IGFA Photo)
Bo Nelson of Oro Valley, AZ was working an egg pattern on British Columbia’s Flathead River with guide Kim Sedrovic, when this tank of a bull trout came calling. The fish took 10 minutes to land and, upon being weighed, pulled the needle down to 14 pounds, which just may qualify it for a 12-pound tippet class world record.
Nelson’s catch bested the current 12-pound tippet record — a 12-pound bull that came from Montana’s Kootenai River back in 2003 — and is now being reviewed by the International Game Fish Association for consideration as a world record.
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Well, only 99 more of these babies to go today!
Damn, it’s happening again! Here I sit at the ol’ keyboard..trying to bust out a magazine feature and a newspaper column…and my brain is trying to sabotage the whole thing. Instead of generating some fantastically interesting and useful prose, it’s wandering off and recalling epic fishing trips past. And, man, when you get off track like that and start going down memory lane, it’s over!
Today’s little trek down the Street of Dreams starts deep in the Alaskan bush, where K-Dawg and I are on a self-guided float trip. The weather and scenery were awesome…and the fishing, well…how does 100 rainbows and dollies from 3-7 pounds per day on 5-weight fly rods sound? We’ve both agreed that that was probably the best fishing either of us had ever experienced. Then there were all those trips to BC… [click to continue…]
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Our good friend and fellow member of the semi anti-social and fully masochistic Society of Steelhead Junkies (see if you’re one HERE), Roy Gray sent an email after his recent B.C. trip with this photo. There was no text or description. All it said in the subject line was “Reason for Living.”
Amen, brother!
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Okay, so it wasn’t a 20-pound steelhead that slammed Chris O’Neill’s spoon in British Columbia’s Babine River, but this jumbo Dolly Varden is one heck of a nice catch anyway!
After a quick photo, Chris let Charzilla go so he could get back to business with his flock of Dollyettes and, hopefully, make many more like himself. For his efforts, O’Neill is entered into our Hawg of the Month Contest. For more details on how to enter, click HERE
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Buzz and his bull
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So, I’ve been working on a couple articles today for Salmon Trout Steelheader and Fish Alaska magazines, going through my photo catalog and…BAM…I ran across this one of me and Matt “Go Home” Kinne in British Columbia a few years ago and I’ve gotta say my productivity for the day is now pretty much shot.
I mean, how’s a guy supposed to work when you’ve got B.C. steelies on the brain? Short answer: You can’t. Think I’m gonna walk down to the river now…
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