Catch of the day

Took the grandson, Zander, over to the Mississippi for him to try out his new fishing pole.




Result!

 

Good stuff, Mike!! Great smile on his face

 

Took my son out on the last day we had on Haida Gwaii. He got two for the day! He then learnt that you catch it you clean it.

 

Great size fish! Good eating I'm sure. Catching, cleaning, cooking, eating....Just makes the fish taste so much better when you do it all.

 

Looks great Jeffery. What are they? and How did you prepare them?

 

Thanks Mike, Those are a couple of Coho a type of pacific salmon. We haven't cooked any just yet, they were filleted vac sealed and frozen to bring home. You will probably see some salmon in the whats cooking thread from me over the next while as I brought home around 90 lbs from our fishing trips over the 10 days we were home visiting.

 

Nice fish he got there Jeffery!!
First carp of the day, hopefully there will be a few more and a bit bigger

 

Smile BIG man! Your fish photos all look the same. The size of the fish is all that changes

 

Bang on 18lb and half a smile

 

They're getting bigger
19lb 4oz

 

Those are huge fish by my standards. Based on what I've caught in rivers and ponds.

 

Those last two are pretty decent, both caught on the surface with floating Baits, they tore off across the lake!!

 

So they are good fighters?
I've caught a few 3 or 4 pound carps in a river once but I don't remember them putting up a big fight.

I remember I caught a Buffalo (Ictiobus) once, not very big maybe 5 lbs but it felt like it was dead reeling it in. Almost like the fish didn't know it was hooked.

 

The carp in this lake in particular fight very hard!! Even the smaller 6-7lb ones put up a scrap

 

The not so fun part, the rain has swept in

 

But you have a window in your tent!

 

Nice catches warren! A couple of weeks ago my soon two year old daughter wanted to fish, so we did. She actually caught a tiny perch, so I cooked it for her. She loved it 

 

You need windows with the weather over here

It's great to catch a fish of any size even if I don't catch anything I just enjoy the scenery and being out of the city for a while:cool1

 

oh too late to edit. Soon two years.

 

Out this morning before the heat of the day was upon me. The Plum River a local tributary to the Mississippi. was nice out. I'm no Warren, but had to keep the thread maintained while he is on holiday.