Halloween Pic

[brownieman]

Since Halloween is getting closer thought I would post another scary picture...mind you I haven't kept these kind of fish for years...I was just a poor man trying to feed my family, lol.

Fresh salmonoid can't be bought in this part of the country anyway...fresh after it's thawed out maybe, lol

Kids are grown and gone...along with the wife, I don't eat much so these days the fish are pretty safe.

I'll keep a 15, 16 incher once in awhile to stink some grease, not that I even feel like going that often anymore.

Sorry, I never did the typical out streched arm shots most guys do...figure there aint no need to make em look any bigger than they really are.

later on

[bigbeefybrown]

JEEEEZ, BM u own them big browns.... when are we going fishin so I can absorb some of that elite knowledge..... Are all of those beefers from the Current?

[brownieman]

Elite knowledge, lol...that's good. Yeah, they were from the current. I don't have very many pics of big ones...do have one pic of a couple from the meremac and the North Fork tailwaters and some from the Current. Caught some dandys from the NFOW but no pics that I can find.

The first time a buddy and I went down to the North Fork in my old long jon years ago the first keeper we caught was a 9 pounder, we thought we had found big brown heaven and almost every time we went down there it was...had a few trips that weren't very good but most trips we caught an amazing amount of big ones, some from the White also.

Sure learned my first hard lesson about tailwaters. Wasn't too far behind the dam and they shut the water down...long story short we had to walk and drag my old jon 4 miles back down the river. From that time on I learned to keep an eye on the water level and if it started dropping shag my butt back down the river.

There's nothin elite about it beefy, just a ton of time spent locating and staying after a bigun when I located one.

I've had many a grudge match with a fish over the years.

There used to be a huge brown around Loves Cabin on the Current in a hole we called 'The Shute'. Real fast shallow water with a huge log jam in it. This fish would push 15 I have no doubt...he had broke me and a couple of my buddies off a few times on bait, was legal back then. I actually geared up one of my heavy surf rods with a baitcaster and 30 lb. test line and a 7" rapala with the intention of landing his a$$. He only had to run a short distance to get in that log jam and if you couldn't turn him he would have you in it quick. If he peeled drag for 10 ft. or so he had you beat.

The size of him and the swift shallow water next to that log jam made it a touph one...he definately had the advantage.

One crappy rainy morning I trunged my butt straight to where he lived...first cast he rolled it. After changing my underwear, lol...I slung it out there and he hit it, hooked him solid and had my drag sinched down tight. Got him outta the pocket around the log jam and got him up close to me...when I tried to move towards him he got a second wind I guess, turned and I'll be darn if he didn't peel my drag and make it to the log jam and hung me up.

I ended up getting my plug back and that was it...that's one fish I never got the best of and will never forget.

I know he would have pushed 35" and weighed 15 or better.

Far as I know nobody ever landed him, would say he died of old age. Me and a couple of buddies chased that fish for a couple of years and he beat us all, then we never saw him anymore..if he's still there he is probably about 30 yrs. old by now. My hats off to that fish...from one old fart to another he got the best of me, lol. At least I finally had the pleasure of getting close to him, just once but it was indeed a fish I will never forget.

Sorry for the ramblins, just had to tell a fish story today...that fish has been cussed many times over the years, lol.

later on

[eric1978]

Good story, bm. It's fish like that that make landing a big'un so exciting. If you were never beaten by a fish, you wouldn't have near as much fun when you do succeed at catching a trophy.

[bigbeefybrown]

What a great story Brownie.... I think we all as fisherman have had the same issue with having to cuss the big one that always seems to elude us, I know I have more often then not....I myself am a professional at getting owned by big trout- I'm always get in a hurry to land em and get broke off or like that one time i was going to net this real nice bow, reached out to far with my net, lost my balance and ended up getting a face first baptismal as well as broken off! Nothing like a brisk bath in the Current to top off the agony of defeat I swear to this day I heard that big SOB laughing at me as he fled the scene

[eric1978]

What a great story Brownie.... I think we all as fisherman have had the same issue with having to cuss the big one that always seems to elude us, I know I have more often then not....I myself am a professional at getting owned by big trout- I'm always get in a hurry to land em and get broke off or like that one time i was going to net this real nice bow, reached out to far with my net, lost my balance and ended up getting a face first baptismal as well as broken off! Nothing like a brisk bath in the Current to top off the agony of defeat I swear to this day I heard that big SOB laughing at me as he fled the scene

What part of Ballwin are you in beef?

[brownieman]

I hear ya beefy,

I swear to this day that sob winked at me, or maybe he just had water in his eye, lol.

Whatever the case...the agony of defeat is more likely than the thrill of victory when we venture fourth into 'their environment.

later on

[bigbeefybrown]

What part of Ballwin are you in beef?

I m currently in the process of moving from the south side of ballwin over to Manchester to a differrent apartment

[eric1978]

I m currently in the process of moving from the south side of ballwin over to Manchester to a differrent apartment

I used to live at Baxter and Country Ridge, and I worked at that vet clinic at Big Bend and Sulphur Springs.

[bigbeefybrown]

I used to live at Baxter and Country Ridge, and I worked at that vet clinic at Big Bend and Sulphur Springs.

im actually moving like 2 minutes away from big bend ans sulpher springs