For all you fishermen

I had a trip last year to Wisconsin that had slightly better results.

I did catch a Muskie....

Albeit it was almost exactly the same size as the lure, and from the looks of it, smaller than your rod bending whopper.?ÿ I'll dig up the photo later today.

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Fish on!

@jitterboogie Almost all of my bass lures are bigger than that fish.

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Andy, on your trips to Florida havenƒ??t you found any of these washed up on the beach? Such a tiny replica of the adult.

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Surveyors always tell the truth.?ÿ Even when the truth hurts.

When I was teenager living in Florida at the time, I got an opportunity to fish in Biscayne Bay for spotted sea trout, etc.?ÿ Had a hit, fought like heck, and when I pulled it in.......about a 5 inch long barracuda!?ÿ Fought like a angry fish 10 times that size but barely larger than the lure.?ÿ Had those angry eyes though.

Fished Logan Martin as a 6 year old kid with an el cheepo zebco rod and reel combo bouncing a 10" black plastic worm off the bottom around a submerged tree. Didn't have a clue what I was doing but hooked up with the biggest baddest big mouth bass in the entire lake, the fight dragged on forever with me screaming my bloody head off for some help. That thing had a maw big enough to fit my head in. Finally got it close enough to shore for someone to try and net and they knocked that fish off my line with the net and off it swam. Catching bluegill was never the same after that.?ÿ

@ric-moore

When we lived in West Palm Beach (early '80s) My two sons (10 and 12) and I were snorkeling at Peanut Island and encountered a school of barracuda, 50-60 all about 2 feet long. They just looked at us and went about their business. I was kind of freaked out because we were 100' or so from shore and kept telling myself "they don't attack people - we don't taste good". And they didn't but it was a beautiful and frightening experience I'll never forget. ?????ÿ

@flga-2

Baby Barracuda is delicious.

In Japanese= Kamasu.

Mmmmmmmhmmmmm good.

Posted by: @jitterboogie

Baby Barracuda is delicious

Ugh, only thing I'll eat raw is a fruit or vegetable and the only seafood I eat is Florida lobster (not Northern claw kind) red snapper, Nassau and red grouper, pompano, scallops, blue crab, shrimp bought straight from the boat (a case of cold beer will get you five pounds of jumbo fresh Atlantic shrimp when offshore), silver mullet (smoked), and sometimes snook. I can be picky because this stuff is available year round. ?????ÿ

@flga-2

A relative who worked for many years in Africa and SE Asia had the rule: "If you can't cook it or peel it, don't eat it".

The REAL picture..... ?????ÿ

"It's not about the fish...it's about the FISHING"

Col. Jack O'Neill to Teal'c?ÿ

If it's any consolation to the OP, in one of my previous lifetimes as a fly-fisherman, I once caught (hooked through the mouth) while wet fly fishing with a fly that was about 1.5 inches long, a rainbow trout that was slightly smaller than the fly. From memory that was the only thing I caught that day.

I haven't fished in decades, but my fondest memories as a +-12 year old are of fishing for salmon in central Idaho in the sixties.?ÿ Three or four day trips by Jeep where the bag limit was 5 fish/person so a family of 4 could bag 20 fish & we always limited.?ÿ They were big fish from 3-25 pounds and a significant portion of our family diet which included deer, waterfowl & upland birds, a full freezer come winter. I have a clear memory of a rack of 10 salmon lying in a pine needle bed in the shade with moss & a wet burlap bag covering them 'till we headed back to camp, cleaned 'em and iced 'em in several big coolers.?ÿ Bait was salmon egg balls wrapped up in a square of women's nylon hosiery with a nasty treble hook embedded about the size of a golf ball.?ÿ Probably illegal now.

@richard-imrie this is a rainbow trout caught on a fly.?ÿ

Roosterfish caught on the fly Punta Arenas, Baja Sur Mexico

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Giant Travalle, on the fly, Kiritimati Kiribati, south pacific

Alaska King Salmon

Spring rainbow on the fly, Naknek River