Fishing

Snowbear... Fugly looking one. LOL

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Fresh water fishing. Pikes are a vicious fish. I had a fresh water tank and my pike ate every freaking fish in my tank. Poor fishies. I didn't know how cruel pikes were back then. LOL

Damn pike are killers.......
 
Wow, what a great fish! There are Northerns where I fish in summer but never any of THAT size that I can remember.

It's not THAT big. It's only a 26 pounder. The state record is 38 1/2 pounds. But, the bigger fish are normally caught up north in some real slow moving water.
 
Ice fishing in June?

Unless you're packing an auger, stay away from Rabbit Lake

"RABBIT LAKE -- Summer solstice marked the beginning of the warm season last week, but two Anchorage fly-fishermen discovered Monday morning that winter still lingers deep in the Chugach Mountains.

The anglers' hike to Rabbit Lake began with optimism, an arsenal of dry flies and collapsible six-weight fly rods. Four and a half miles up the trail sat a 75-acre lake stocked with rainbow trout and scenery that would rival an Ansel Adams photograph.

But signs along the way had winter written all over the U-shaped valley, making us wonder if the ice was out.

First came snow patches along the rocky uphill trail -- perhaps left over from a spring avalanche and well protected beneath the tall alders.

Then came long stretches of deep snowpack along the hillside. Not long ago, a backcountry skier had made tracks that snaked down the ridge.

The clearest indication was frozen Rabbit Creek. Overflow rushing downstream had a turquoise-blue tint.

So with our chilled fingers crossed in anticipation and the temperature dropping into the high 30s, we figured the odds were slim that the ice was out.

Matt Richard was the first to hike over the final ridge before a downhill stretch leading to the lake.

"Not even close," he confirmed. "I wonder if this counts as getting skunked?"

By now, Rabbit Lake is usually ice free, said Chuck Brazil, an Anchorage and North Gulf Coast assistant sportfish biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. But this hasn't been a normal spring. Anchorage's official temperature has yet to hit 70 degrees in 2008, and nighttime lows have dipped into the 30s at low elevation within the last couple of weeks.

Even so, Brazil was floored to hear that Rabbit Lake was still locked in winter's icy grip -- especially after Fish and Game recently heard that its ice was out.

"You call around and hear stuff," he said. "Whoever told me that was obviously wrong."

At this point, Brazil predicts it will take two weeks of warm weather before the lake opens. And when it does, fit anglers willing to make the 4 1/2-mile trek through bear country can expect to catch adult trout.

Fish and Game stocked the lake with about 2,000 trout averaging 7.6 inches long in 1999, followed by more than 900 in 2002 and 400 in 2005.

Considering the alpine lake is ice free only a few months of the year, growth rates are slow, but the trout's life expectancy is long. Years ago, a 9-year-old, 14-inch trout was caught there, Brazil said.

Keith Graham, co-owner of World Wide Angler Outfitters in Anchorage, was shocked to hear Rabbit was still iced over.

"Wow," he sighed. "That's just trippy.""


Trippy???
 
I am going fishing this weekend.

Our friend went out yesterday and caught a beautiful, winter King Salmon.

Hopefully, I'll be too busy catching fishes to worry about the 25 degree weather.
 
I am going fishing this weekend.

Our friend went out yesterday and caught a beautiful, winter King Salmon.

Hopefully, I'll be too busy catching fishes to worry about the 25 degree weather.

mmmmmmm, feeder kings are the best!!!!
 
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