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Best Memorial Weekend Fish

Oliver10

Oliver10

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Post up your fish from Friday evening through Monday night. Biggest, most beautiful judged by likes.
 
Oliver10 said:
Post up your fish from Friday evening through Monday night. Biggest, most beautiful judged by likes.
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Best fish (size doesn't matter) judged by likes.

Best post judged by thanks.

Wanted to make this a team competition for charity but if people want to have a virtual tourney starting today, so be it.
 
can we extend this 'til wednesday?? some of us have weekends that land on monday and tuesday (a blessing during fishing season -- it fucking blows the rest of the time).
 
mob201 said:
Best fish (size doesn't matter) judged by likes.

Best post judged by thanks.

Wanted to make this a team competition for charity but if people want to have a virtual tourney starting today, so be it.
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I just wanted to see some fish from the weekend posted. I did not want to take away from you virtual tournament for charity. We should still do that.
 
This a steeply graded freestone stream. Some large browns inhabit the deeper plunge pools and runs. I could not manage any of these fish to the bank because of the higher flows. This spot pictured is over a mile from the road. To make things interesting, the trail only extends about half way and its bush whacking the rest of the way. It was tough chasing after fish with the high flows on the slippery rocks. Certainly a larger-sized wilderness type stream for back East here.
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Along the hike, I found a tributary to this stream that disappeared underground. This is the re-emergence of this disappearing stream. While I have fished disappearing rivers out west, I have never discovered the re-emergence of one.
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My best Memorial Day Weekend fish picture:
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My tandem nymph rig was dangling in the shallow banks of the run as I released this fish. As I lifted my rod up off the ground, I found that this fish had re-attacked the same fly and I caught him a second time.
 
Saturday was streamer fishing on a Delaware River tributary. Caught 6 browns on a foxee clouser minnow, 2 were 16 inches with good shoulders. Sunday I went to Hickory Run State Park in the Poconos and fished Hickory Run for the first time. What a scenic stream it was! Caught 4 mostly small brownies and 1 brookie. Sadly I have no pictures to show for this as I dropped my camera into the water 2 weeks ago in NC PA when I was releasing a brookie. The camera is still drying out and the shutter button is not working, though the power button just came back to life.
 
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lightenup said:
My pictures of fish caught this weekend are in the Sulphur thread...They are all wild, all New Jersey fish, and all caught in a highly pressured stretch of river, and all caught on dry flies....that oughtta count for something!!!:)

(edit)Those fish received 8 likes...I will take the Wulff Triangle Taper line..I will Pm my address, OH wait, your not DC...
http://www.njflyfishing.com/vBulletin/f121-new-jersey-fly-fishing-forum/t26526-sulphurs.html
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O.K. 9 likes and 4 Thanks......what's my prize?????:punk:
 
No fly rods for the holiday weekend here. It kills me to do it some years but Memorial Day weekend is a cabin on little sodus bay with me mum, dad, brother , sister n all the kids for bass. It's mostly chaos but there's a ton of fun mixed in and the kids love it.
 
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Those r my boys cleaning up.

The next one is my nephew with his first anything bigger than a sunny. This was on a 7' ultralight w/6lb test. That kid got the ride of his life!
 
Fishing pretty much sucked all weekend with sparse shots in the evening when anyone with a rusty spinner and a set of glasses can catch a fish. Got one nice fish and here he is-a lack luster weekend otherwise


 
The Beaverkill Slam
Not sure this is the best Memorial Day fish of all time, but for me it was an exhilarating uplifting milestone in my early fishing life. Monday night fishing my brother and I's favorite spot, the hatch was there march browns, followed by MBs and sulfurs, and finally a swarm of sulfurs. The fish however were rising sparingly. The first fish I hooked into was a rainbow that took off like a freight train downstream and the shot three feet out of the water, gave the middle fin, spit the hook and disappeared. As my brother put it "it was a silver railroad tie" for my it nearly created a cardiac event. The first fish to had was this 17 inch bow who also gave me a thrill.
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It was an hour and a half later until I saw another fish, a respectable brown about the same size as the bow. The night was looking better......
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After that fish jokingly i turned to my brother (whom I respect as a MUCH better fly fisherman that myself) and said "now I'm just missing the brookie" His reply in a manor only and older brother can impress on a younger brother "well your going to have to go to the Willow if you want that... if you want i can draw you a map!
Well..... another hour and a half passed and "Zing!!!" I netted the fish and quietly walked up to my brother and showed him what was in the net... I said not a word but wore a big grin that said everything....
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One night, one stretch of water, all three species!!
 
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