Picture The Poster !

In my experience, the smaller fish always taste better.

Out here on the east coast the halibut grow to to over 600 lbs. Unfortunately the chances of catching one are slim to none since they've been nearly fish out of existence. Salmon are also pretty hard to find. You've gotta travel to Maine or Canada to find them (which I have done).

OK, Shane ... you started this.

Trip to Seward, AK at the end of May this year. We fished halibut four days and our party had their limit each day. Biggest was 118 lbs. Here's one day's bounty ... these are between 35 and 95 lbs.



Man those seas were calm and the sun was shining ... in the mid-70's.

I caught 13 Largemouth Bass from a farm pound a few weeks ago.
AND NOT ONE OF THEM WAS OVER A POUND !....

Sorry, that's the only recent fishin' story I've got!.....



And Seated......
Seeing those pics from Alaska is KILLING ME !......I wanna go back there again !...

I've only spent 13 days there. (and this was 3 or 4 years ago now) But I always feel "homesick" for Alaska. Since I was 5 years old, I told everybody that I was going to live there someday ! In third grade my Stepdad gave me a set of binoculars for my Birthday, and with the card it said...."This is for your trip to Alaska".......That's LITERALLY how long I had wanted to go there ! So, it REALLY WAS a trip of a lifetime for me !....
Though I could have done without the "6 day cruise" portion of the 13 days there...it was great and all, fun/memorable, but I wanted to be "on land" and touch and feel and hike and fish and camp, etc. etc. etc. etc. (!)
I've told the girlfriend about the train ride on the Alaskan Railway from Denali to Anchorage too.....she's anxious to go too now, but says NOT UNTIL WE'RE MARRIED !......
I got to meet Susan Butcher before she died on that trip ! (honored to have done that !)....met Jeff King too......Some Athabascan Natives too.....spent some beautiful time around Fairbanks......
Awwwwww !.....miss that soooo much !
I'll have to live vicariously through your pics I guess for now !

Sidenote......I saw two Hells Angels pass us while we were en route to Mt. McKinley !.....weirdly enough, the only other time I've seen Hells Angels aboard their Harleys, was right here in Kansas on I70 ! Rode right behind them in my truck for a few miles !

I hear alot about alaska in this thread, I live in anchorage so I am in walking distance of salmon fishing. If anyone ever starts a "scenery of where you live" thread, I have tons of photos. Anyway, this is me

I've seen this thread several times since I first started hanging out here, thought I should show my ugly mug. I don't have any fish pictures so these will have to do.

The first picture is at what's known as the "280 Boogie". It's in a little town called Waverly, Alabama, where the main(& only) road used to be Hwy 280. The Hwy has been moved but the road is still there. A couple times a year they close the road off and have bands play all day & into the night.


This next picture is from Rock City in Tennessee. I've seen the signs that said "See Rock City" for years. We drove through there this summer & had to stop.

Those pictures are from spring & summer, although it was sunny & 70 degrees yesterday. Daytime temps have been running into the 60's with light rain. It was very tempting to get the bike out but we had a cold spell back in November so I put fuel stabilizer in & stored her for the winter.