FishnDave

Are you going to reload all 30-some species? You HAVE to! 👍

From the MDC website:

Could it be that images posted as links (hosted elsewhere) remained, but images stored on this site were lost?

I had posted my photos here as URL links from my Gifyu account. In some other threads, I added the pics directly to the message, which stores them here. I wonder if linked pictures survive, but pictures actually loaded here didn't? How do you and @Ham post your pics here?

That's a great day, John! That Rosyside Dace is colorful...and NICE Flier by Livie!!

That's a beauty! 👍 Congrats!

Nice! That looks bigger than the ones I've been catching lately.

Most of my bass rods are 6 wts. I use store-bought tapered leaders. 7.5' is fine, 9' works too. 0X for bass, and then I cut off most of the thin part of that (about 1/3 of theader), and make a loop where the taper starts to get thicker. Then I add @5'-6' of 12 lb fluoro as my tippet. That's just what I do...there's lots of ways to do it. A leader can last me several seasons, I just replace tippet when it gets too short.

Its true! I've had to touch all sorts of nature to get my fly back. I've shaken hands with many trees, shrubs, weeds, grass....sticks, logs...ducks, frogs, muskrats...rocks...even fish on rare occasions. Flyfishing is so immersive...it's just batty!.

This is the last fish I kept to eat...caught in 2014 off the coast of Costa Rica. Delicious! Extremely fast-growing fish. A guy wrote about his dad who worked for Sea World. The dad caught some 1.5 lb Mahi Mahi...they threw them in the sardine and anchovy exhibit tanks at Sea World. One died 18 months later. It weighed 68 lbs!! Granted, it had basically an unlimited food supply. They start spawning every 2-3 days starting at age 4-5months old, with females dropping an average 50,000 eggs each time.

I fixed the pictures that had the Photobucket watermarks, I believe. I took this picture because I couldn't figure out what I was seeing. Typically, rays fan out from behind clouds...with the sun as the source. Here, the sun was behind me, and the rays were converging towards the opposite horizon.

I was fishing for white bass, fishing that Pop-R pretty aggressively. There were 2-3 gulls that kept trying to drop out of the sky and catch the lure. I kept trying to keep it away from them. That one gull outfoxed me. Once caught, it settled to the water and was quite calm while I reeled him in and unwedged the hook. The hook came out easily, either the point wasn't even buried, or certainly not past the barb. Dang Photobucket watermark. Good site until they sold to someone else, who then changed everything and wanted to charge money for what was previously free. Years back...but apparently I'm still not over it.

After the storm

Red, White & Blue. Red clouds?

Sunset Rays 1

Ebony Jewelwing damselfly

Bald-Faced Hornets

Brood III of the 17-year Cicadas:

It wasn't so much the deer, as the size of the toppled tree in the background!

Painted Turtle

"P.O.'d Redwing Blackbird"