Bucket List

[MrDontPlay]

I have caught a shark from the beach. Was actually fishing for Redfish but a 45# Black Tip shark took the bait. My buddy I was with went out to "retrieve" the Redfish and when he got close enough to see what it actually was he did his partial impersonation of Jesus by RUNNING ON TOP OF THE WATER. It was hilarious. I ended dragging the shark to shore. BTW, that was some of the finest tasting fish I have ever had. Firm and sweet.

Where were you fishing?

[Greasy B]

My fishing buddy on Captiva Island in February, checking one off the bucket list.

[Mitch f]

Mitch, we gotta talk (and fish). I need a trip to the Menominee!

Al-I can't go until next year, with the little one it's tough. But if you wait until next June 1st I can go. The first of June is when I typically go. The fishing is unreal. They have more crayfish than any place I've seen; when I was backing the trailer in the water, 30 crayfish were darting everywhere. Use a crayfish crankbait or a tube and literally catch all you want.

[watermen]

mitch do you fish above or below Mcallister? Oconto is fishing better these days I hear, you should add it to your list, you cross it 22 miles before the menominee on 41 or 141. The cedar is the bomb for numbers a little way into michigan about half way to escanaba. Not as hot in july either, very temperate and pleasant, just skeeters.

[Mitch f]

mitch do you fish above or below Mcallister? Oconto is fishing better these days I hear, you should add it to your list, you cross it 22 miles before the menominee on 41 or 141. The cedar is the bomb for numbers a little way into michigan about half way to escanaba. Not as hot in july either, very temperate and pleasant, just skeeters.

That's great information! Thank you

[Andy & JoAnne]

Where were you fishing?

Galveston...

[Danoinark]

So you have a love affair with wild brookies!

Mine started when I was old enough to hold an alder pole and bait a #6 hook with garden hackle. I fished the streams of northern PA and although there were no tackle busters, they were plentiful.

IMHO there is no more beautiful fish that swims; especially when they are sporting their fall spawning colors.

I have always wanted to go up to Labrador and fish for those giant brookies but now as I approach the tender age of 83 it's never going to happen.

Thank whomsoever, brookies are still available on the North Fork, a 20 minute drive from my riverside domicile on the White.

Take care Dano; we both have a lot of fishing to do.

James

Jim, so good to hear from you. I think you and I once talked of a trip

East which we never made. and you are right there is a whole lot of fishing to do.

Stay in Touch.

Dano

[drew03cmc]

Hmm, interesting proposition here.

1. Catch an A-strain Guadalupe Bass.

2. Catch a Shoal Bass.

3. Catch a Suwanee Bass.

4. Catch a Redeye Bass.

5. Catch a Neosho in all states they are native to.

6. Catch a largemouth of over six pounds from a stream.

7. Catch an Alabama Spotted Bass.

8. Fish as much as I can.

[ozark trout fisher]

So you have a love affair with wild brookies!

Mine started when I was old enough to hold an alder pole and bait a #6 hook with garden hackle. I fished the streams of northern PA and although there were no tackle busters, they were plentiful.

IMHO there is no more beautiful fish that swims; especially when they are sporting their fall spawning colors.

I have always wanted to go up to Labrador and fish for those giant brookies but now as I approach the tender age of 83 it's never going to happen.

Thank whomsoever, brookies are still available on the North Fork, a 20 minute drive from my riverside domicile on the White.

Brookies are great. I agree that they may be the most beautiful, graceful fish that swims. Some of my fondest fishing memories are of fishing for native brookies a few years back on the little mountain creeks of the Adirondacks, or their western counterparts in the waters of a tiny meadow stream in the Montana's Big Hole country. The trout maxed out at about 8" in both of those areas, but the gorgeous country that brookies always seem to live in combined with the beauty of the fish made those experiences that I'll never forget. I think the smaller brookies tend to have brighter colors than the big ones, so I don't really mind the small size. Still I wouldn't mind getting out to Labrador to catch some of the great big ones.

I went to the Adirondacks again last summer, and we caught rainbows, browns, good sized smallmouth bass, walleye, and rock bass, but the fish that I think of when I envision that trip is a little 9" brook trout that I landed on the West Branch of the Ausable, on the last evening on the water... A beautiful, native, very possibly wild brookie in a stream dominated by browns and rainbows, exotic species. Finding that one little holdout in a stream where most of the native trout are gone really made the trip for me. I don't know why, but it just did.

Don't get me started on brook trout fishing...I could go on all day. Just suffice it to say that I love them