What was your best fish of 2009

As the 2009 fishing season is nearing its end, I thought it would be interesting if we gave some thought about what was the best fish you caught this year.
For me it was this Yellowstone cutthroat.

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...days123229.jpg

Not sure if it was my best fish but the one that comes to mind is the 20" tiger trout I got on the housie labor day weekend. Sorry no pic.
Buy the way that is one sweet looking fish

Dave

i caught some rainbows that were bigger than this one, but this is probably my best fish of the season definitely best brown and most memorable... taken on an x-caddis in western ny.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3398/...6ab17fe621.jpg

FLYDAD,

Bob landed the big fish on that day of the trip! That was a very big Cutthroat.

I haven't caught my best fish yet but so far its a tossup between these 2.
1) 17 in wild brown
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/s...ill9-27003.jpg

2) 22 in Golden Rainbow
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BTW, I caught the Golden Rainbow twice ;D

That's a beautiful picture of the golden. Did he take the Lopat-latex caddis?
Cluster, nice brown. A wild fish?, by the looks of that caudal fin.
FlyDad, I'm sure a tiger trout that size you'll remember even without a picture.

That"s nice Kierran. I love fishing at the cape. If I were to guess, Pleasant Bay. Beautiful clean water,beach and one healthy looking fish on a fly rod. Awesome!. Your picture makes me long to get up there too.

I know this picture doesn't belong here but this is my son Mike 3 weeks ago at the Cape hooked up with a 75 inch Bluefin tuna.

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...t272009006.jpg

Taken off just off of our lake cottage dock.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18...9/DSC02839.jpg

I also had a musky on for just a second with a 5 wt rod. I was casting a small fly for blue gills. Hooked one and a musky came out from under our dock and grabbed the bluegill sideways in its mouth. Then the bluegill and my fly were gone in a few seconds. I doubt the musky even know I was pulling back on my 5X leader.

Silver,
Your place looks like a piece of heaven ! That's a quality bass.

http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...IMG_1159-1.jpg

I would not say that this fish is the largest one, but it's the one that brings a fun memory back every time that I think about it.

Bob and I were on the Ruby River. There were a group of browns "selectively" feeding on PMDs. We had caught la good amount of fish by this time. I asled Bob to pull out a fly that would not work. He pulled out this horrid thing and said try it! Well two casts later it got hammered. As you can see by the fly in the jaw of the fish, that presentation trumped fly pattern on that particular evening.

Silver,

Very nice bass for the fly rod!

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That's a beautiful picture of the golden. Did he take the Lopat-latex caddis?


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The fist time I caught him he did. The second time was on Ruberlips' caddis pupa.

Lopat,
Ah ha, the rubberlips caddis pupa, looks that's a keeper pattern.

Aaron,
That was so funny. I really thought I had you with that fly. Then I gave it to your friend Bill when he gave us a ride back to the car!

This is easy for me. 15 lb. Brown on the DSR in Pulaski.

http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/o...er/092109b.jpg

Awesome stuff guys.

This was definitely the largest for me this year. Had a few bigger ones break me off on the limb shakes.

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...17_1014616.jpg

Mike

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...5/DSC00692.jpg

I caught this last spring around midnight on the Hudson River,
8 wt rod, flat wing fly(black).

Bill

Sweet striper Bill. How much line did he take?

I have no particular fish and picture, but I did manage to get out over 100 times this year (many were short 2-3 hour trips) and did manage to land over 300 trout. That has never happen to me before. Best fish were the fish!

I was fishing from a drift boat. I don't know how much line was out. but he didn't come willingly!

Nice bass Bill and welcome to the forum.

Magnet or anyone,

How can you tell if it is a native fish by its caudal fin? That is, what is the difference between native and stocked by caudal fin structure and why?

Rs01,

Fin structure is only one way to attempt to judge the origin of a trout. I the trout is stocked as a fingerling or even parr the fins will look the same as if the trout were born in the stream. Of course the obvious exception would be if the fins were clipped for identification purposes.

The only way to truly identify the origin of a trout would be to take a scale sample and send it to a biologist. There are rings on the scale that are similar to those in a tree bark. These rings and their spacing are the only way to tell the origin of the fish with 100 percent certainty.

Thanks Aaron, I wondered why Magnet noted the fin and thought it was a native.

I lost track of the number of days I went fishing and the number of fish I caught this year, but it was definitely my best year streamside ever.

Although they weren't nearly as big as some of the trout noted above, my largest brown was in the 16", 4 lb. range caught on Fishing Creek and its twin rainbow caught yesterday on Meadow Run just above where it runs into the Yough.

I'm just wondering how I'm going to top this year....

RSO1,
Please understand that I am only a mere casual fisherman and poster here at TPO and not knowlegable enough to be answering questions. So I was glad Aaron explained it for you. I was only refering to the redish color I have observed on the caudal fin of wild fish. If you spend time at fishing creek then you know more about wild fish than I as I fish mostly in CT.

Hey I know that spot! I actually had that spot as a beat in the comp. The water was 8 feet higher than it was in that picture. I wish that it were that level that day!

i always assumed that the brown was a holdover from the season before. the stream i caught it in has some wild fish but very few. I caught it in a section that recieves a lot of stocked fish. it is possible it was wild though. we will never know. Either way its a beauty of a brown.

Hey Magnet, I consider myself a casual fisherman too. I've been fishing for trout since I was ten, and I'm still learning about them.

I made a real effort this year to get out more, and managed around 60 days streamside so far, which is no where near some of the guys on this site.

Also, I've never fished for trout outside of Pa., so I am really envious of the time you had on the Yellowstone.

Rs0i,
When you get the chance to fish other places you will think about how lucky you have been to be a fly fisherman born and raised in PA. It doesn't get any better.

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