That's awesome, sure sounds like an experience. I've seen them caught on youtube videos but I've never seen anyone harvest one. How do they taste? I imagine firm flakey white meat, probably a medium/strong flavour? Maybe similar to catfish?
Pipe Smoking Fishermen: Photos Please!
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From a few years back. I don't normally take pics of the fish, except when they are big... 
Outer Banks, NC
Keeper sized Red Drum/Redfish
Outer Banks, NC
Keeper sized Red Drum/Redfish
@dontbeaburleyman, is there anything better than fishing with your son(s)? Here's mine after a good half day of catfishing earlier this summer.
And here's him with his first keeper he ever caught.
He hates having his face anywhere online, so these pics respect his wishes. I have pics of bigger fish, I have pics of me with pipes, cigars, and cigarettes in mouth holding fish, I have pictures of me and loved ones holding fish that are more technically better. But I don't have better fishing pics than from this trip.
And here's him with his first keeper he ever caught.
He hates having his face anywhere online, so these pics respect his wishes. I have pics of bigger fish, I have pics of me with pipes, cigars, and cigarettes in mouth holding fish, I have pictures of me and loved ones holding fish that are more technically better. But I don't have better fishing pics than from this trip.
Yeah you’re right, definitely on the firmer side, almost like pork. The caviar is top notch also.
Guilty of symantic imprecision, the me. Sorry
The guy in the brim hat is Steve from the KC club, who is a friend of mine and also a friend of two other form members---kcghost and rustie P.
That ain't no fish, that's a dinosaur...
Haha it really is, been around for something like 300 million years.
I see what you did there
My first brown trout a few years ago. Hadn't fly fished in forever, great day!
Great thread. When I figure how to put my phone photos on my computer I’ll post a nice 25” cut bow caught on the fly. Hitting Wyoming this weekend for another trip. Keep posting peeps.
Beautiful, we don't get browns this far north, I would love to get on them someday. Flies are so much fun.
Thanks, I was actually surprised when I searched the forum and there wasn't a fishing thread already, pipes and fishing in my opinion go hand in hand. There both about patience and relaxation.
I just started fly fishing 2 years ago, I love it. my name "Frog Snacks" is actually partially a fly fishing reference, its also mocking Canadian slang of "Frig Sakes", I usually use a 3 or 4 wt for trout up to 20 inches and I have a 7wt for pike, great lakes steelhead and Salmon.
Ya I would have lost that trout lol, I can be a little aggressive when I'm fighting fish. That bass is nice and chunky too. I live in a no bass zone, there's smallmouth an hour south of me and roughly an hour east and west, there's even a tiny town a couple hours north of me with Large and smallmouth, apparently back in the 60's a train carrying bass for stocking out west broke down on the tracks and the crew on the train had no choice but to dump them into a lake on the side of the tracks, and they ended up thriving and now they have a derby every summer. It's cold up here so they grow pretty slow compared to down in the States, the lake record is like 5lbs. It's a pretty big deal up here but I've never been to. I like having a lake, creek or river all to myself I don't think I'm a derby guy.
I don't even participate in our local walleye and lake trout derbys, I could probably win them if not first at least something that would take home a prize, not to brag but I'm good at finding patterns, but I would rather a kid win it or someone who rarely fishes, so it triggers the fishing addiction in them, I'm already addicted, and I own most of the gear that the prizes give away already.
The ice derbys give away ice shelters and power augers and things like that. and the summer derbys are usually kayaks and rod combos and stuff. The cash prizes would be nice but there's people around here that could use it more then me. I work underground in a gold mine, I'm not hurting for cash most of the time.
Not I. But I'm sure he fishes.
Yup, probably with his bare hands too, and better then I do.
Cool - Which gold mine? My geology background has me curious. I did a summer internship at he Kennecott Ridgeway mine in SC in 1990.
Barrick Gold owns it now, but it's called the Williams mine it's up in Ontario Canada, north of lake superior. It's been in production since he early 80's, although its changed names and ownership many times, it used to be 4 different mines pretty much side by side, now it's down to one underground and an open pit. Former names were Noranda/Hemlo, Teck Corona, Battle mountain, David Bell, Golden giant, and probably more I can't think of off the top of my head.