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Stringbean wrote: Mon Apr 24, 2023 5:27 pm Wish I could contact fishbreath. He loves catching them.

Thanks for thinking of me. @Str8t Slabaronies was kind enough to text me. Those are beautiful fish. I have issues that have kept me off the water this year so far, but I think I'm close to coming back.

I may be just missing how we do it here, but sometimes it would be nice to call another member's attention to a post by addressing them "@admin" for example.

Thanks for your quick response and action.

Very nice! And a 2 lb kicker too.

Congratulations. You are a serious angler and deserve it. It beats my personal best by almost a pound.

I'm honored, as you are truly the panfish master! Your experience, knowledge and information sharing over the years is inspirational to many in the panfish community.

Thanks for saying that. It means a lot to me. After a lifetime of always being the guy who never gets sick, it has been one ...

Well done! Not much activity at the launch ramp.

Those 10" bluegill and redears are the perfect size to harvest. They are large enough to filet, but not so large as to be taking a trophy out of the lake.

Love it! Keep 'em coming.

Nice job as always. Really good quality overall. Any over two pounds are special. Yep, that one with the orange fins looks like a green sunfish hybrid. There seems to be a lot of them in there.

I also have no idea what would qualify as a "green sunfish" - how hybrid can it be? :idea:

I miss having Queue to help us sort out these kind of questions. My understanding is that hybrids are sterile. That's why you can stock wipers without fear that they will reproduce and take over a lake ...

Beautiful fish.

Just like old times. Thanks for sharing.

Hard to believe that today was my first time out this year. After going my whole life with excellent health, things have gone from bad to since I turned eighty. I really wanted to get out, actually I needed to get out. I got my boat out of mothballs and found that my trolling motor wasn't working. I ...

Last week after a year of forced hiatus, I finally got out fishing and had a good day. But it only gets better, because this week I got to share it with and old friend. Like last week, it was a short day of about 3 1/2 hours. I always feel pressure to catch some fish when someone goes with me, but ...

Stringbean wrote: Mon Jun 12, 2023 3:28 pm If you keep that up your going to have to show fisheromen the yard stick you carry.

Just for the record, I do carry a flexible cloth tape made just for measuring fish. Officially the bad boy in the picture was 13.5" long with a girth of a full 15", weight was 2lbs 6ozs.

Very nice! Happy Father's Day.

Very Nice! That is a trophy-size bluegill.

I forwarded a link to my brother. who lives in Rock Springs. You met him in the "Grumpy Old Men" posts in the old SDFish. He fishes Flaming Gorge and has a cabin on a lake near Pinedale, Fremont Lake I think. He is going to be jealous as he is more or less confined to the lawn chair setup these days ...

Well done! Beautiful fish. Forbidding country. Do you have a snowmobile yet?

Edit: Forbidding country but environmentally fragile. My brother showed me some ruts that were made by pioneers as they traveled the Oregon Trail. Much of the landscape up there has been marred by surface mining.