2009 Photos & Commentary

[Scudly]

Looking at my calendar this morning makes me sad. September 30. Today is the end. How was the 09 season for you? What were your goals and did you achieve them? What changes in the fisheries have you seen over the years?

Along with your comentary, I thought it would be great if folks could share their best trout fishing photos - trout - landscapes - wildlife - flowers. Whatever photos from this season you cherish, please share here!

[Scudly]

I think my biggest accomplishment is getting published in Midwest Outdoors, Minnesota section of the October issue that is coming out in a few days. My original story is titled "The River Pig" and should include a couple of photos. Honestly getting published in an outdoor magazine was not a goal I had. This is the first season I got into blogging and realized I enjoy writing. Len encouraged me to submit and I'm just so thrilled one of my stories was accepted.

In the magazine, MWO will print original photos. Here are the same photos with a watercolor filter. The last photo is a fresco filter. I have multiple photos at home and at work to remind me of the fish I let go and hope to catch again one day.

[Driftless]

congrats on your first magazine!

[tharreld]

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[Scudly]

Healthy and strong and unusually fat for his length. Assume story in Midwest Outdoor may be slightly refined, we will see soon.

[tharreld]

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[Swimbait2009]

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Congrats on an unexpected accomplishment! Sometimes those are the most special!

[Driftless]

hope you get a monthly in MWO Minnesota section.

Spin and worm guys need a voice in Minnesota.

Congrats on the HUGE fish and first time published.

Hope it leads to a career in writing.

[so haaad]

Responding to Scudly's first post I would say that this trout season was good to me. I'm a flyfishermen and fish many of the same streams year after year. However every season is a little different than the last. As far as fish in the net (or hand), I did alright but no monsters. I think I caught 8 or 9 browns in the 16-19 inch range. What's equally as satisfying to me is catching every fish this season on all handtied flies and a handcrafted 4wt flyrod. As far as the "streams of time" go, I found one of my favorite streams to be completely dead for the second year in a row with no mayflies nymphs found anywhere. Gone were the hendrickson hatches of years past and gone were many of the bigger fish. I also found a couple other favorite stream sections continue to put out bigger fish and an increase of caddis activity. Every year I try to prospect new water, either new streams or stream sections that I haven't fished in years. Some searches resulted in nothing, but others turned out to be very fruitful. Overall it was a good season, capped with two September trips and some beautiful brookies in fall colors.

[Scudly]

Aaron -- It sounds like you had a well rounded summer. A bit of exploring, some paid off big, some disappointing. Becoming your own fly factory is a huge achievement. Congratulations! Ready to start taking orders yet? I'll be needing some pink squirrels and scuds for winter - BH and size #16. Can use a ton of hare's ear gold ribbed BH too.

Aaron - What do you think was the change in your favorite river that has yet to recover? Was there a major fish kill? Strong floods? New housing development? Sometimes streams just fluctuate. Same goes for the trout lakes. I assume there is some natural fluctuation of stream productivity too.

Primarily spin and bait fishing, I did land six trout 20" or larger including river pig (previously shown). Here are photos of the five other biggies.

[Dave Anderson]

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[Driftless]

have caught same trout 5 years in a row.

dry hand....once with a glove on....couple times wet hand.

I have done many non-wet hand landings.

I have caught the same trout numerous times.

[Dave Anderson]

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[s t fanatic]

round and round we go.

[Driftless]

great photos scudly and so haaad

[Scudly]

Dave you can show your 2wt, I don't care. I think there is a guy here that uses a 1wt. To each their own.

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great photos scudly and st fan.

Correction Len, only see photos of me and so haaad (Aaron). I want to see photos from everyone else! WISFLY did a neat thread last year and it was AMAZING to see how many great photographers we have. Does not matter size of trout. Can be flowers, scenery. Kind of a BEST OF photo contest. Not just big fish little fish. Any great photo you like that is trout related.

[Driftless]

i corrected it.

Lets seem some of your scenery photos Mark.

[s t fanatic]

new to the board. how to you post pic here?

[Driftless]

same as everywhere

[tom_w]

What's this? A thread with no bickering???

I'm on board (I must admit I've been a little salty myself lately)

Here's some highlights from my year.

My pal Brian

It was 8 degrees.

Bad photo of a good fish

[tom_w]

[tom_w]

new to the board. how to you post pic here?

In case Len's answer didn't do it for you:

http://www.fishingminnesota.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/faq

see "How do I add an image to my message?"

[Driftless]

keep the photos coming.

I am really in to trout photos and actually like the winter trout fishing photos a lot.

[s t fanatic]

i like this one.

[Scudly]

Excellent photos. Keep posting more!