Fall/Early Winter Summary

<p>Hello all! I&#39;ve been too lazy to post all of my fishing as individual reports, so I figured I&#39;d compile some of my favorite pictures/catches/memories from the last few months. Be warned, this post contains a LOT of pictures.</p> <p>To start, here&#39;s one of my favorite pics of 2016 (as evidenced by my thumbnail/profile pic):</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/13903295_10206895026710830_213562993644419997_n.jpg" style="width: 960px; height: 576px;" /></p> <p>Next up is the unfortunate shorthead who, after savaging my bait, was taken for a ride down a creek by a voracious muskie. I&#39;ll get him back for you, brave little shorty!</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/14012076_10206926003365227_130791214_n.jpg" style="width: 576px; height: 960px;" /></p> <p>I took a half-day of PTO to go on a lifelisting/camping trip with Greenwood (Fishingdude14), and after much swearing and missed hookups and miscasts, landed my lifer Shortnose Gar.</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/14409297_1267623426604360_1636230282_n_0.jpg" style="width: 800px; height: 600px;" /></p> <p>We caught lots of cool stuff that trip, but I will be back for a few missed lifers. I did a bunch of fishing with him this year- one of the weekends included my PB Greater (24.5)</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/14388833_1268896436477059_689626893_n_0.jpg" style="width: 800px; height: 600px;" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/14397919_1267259959974040_1348615528_n_0.jpg" style="width: 862px; height: 529px;" /></p> <p>I really don&#39;t see myself changing my Facebook cover photo to anything else except that first picture for a very, very long time.</p> <p>Also got this cool bowfin shot. I love how its lighter color blends with the background.</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/14429115_1268896699810366_634566936_n.jpg" style="width: 800px; height: 600px;" /></p> <p>Greenwood really likes creek fishing.</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/14801098_10207415752008637_476805389_n.jpg" style="width: 960px; height: 576px;" /></p> <p>I had a lot of luck this season with redhorse, specifically Silvers. Prior to October of this year, I had only managed one specimen!</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/14947765_10207552934198106_5680443783109189456_n.jpg" style="width: 576px; height: 960px;" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/14993339_10207552934798121_7734166645765437363_n.jpg" style="width: 960px; height: 576px;" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/14800747_10207415747288519_733314375_n.jpg" style="width: 576px; height: 960px;" /></p> <p>I also got a battle-worn one-eyed White.</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/14956537_10207552937198181_9119226363144009911_n.jpg" style="width: 888px; height: 362px;" /></p> <p>And a PB tanker</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/khff.PNG" style="width: 432px; height: 541px;" /></p> <p>One of my favorite experiences of this whole year, though, was when I got to teach my buddy Timothee how to fish. He had grown up in Belgium without ever seeing a live fish outside of water, and he asked me to change that. His first fish out of the gate was a proper Minnesotan Redhorse.</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/link.PNG" style="width: 504px; height: 608px;" /></p> <p>We caught a ton of fish that day. I think the fish understood the importance of the moment.</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/uug.PNG" style="width: 396px; height: 686px;" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/releasepic.PNG" style="width: 927px; height: 605px;" /></p> <p>After he caught and released that fish, Timothee begged me to take him fishing again. Somewhere in the flurry of fish, I caught 2 more Greaters, one of which makes a great profile picture:</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/jpegmini_161025_022451_0.jpg" style="width: 259px; height: 139px;" /></p> <p>I met up with E-Kol to get some urban carping in, and got this well-lighted pic with a small one</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/14938024_10207552587589441_1326227170_n.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 800px;" /></p> <p>I managed to get out for Sturgeon on election night, because that seemed like the right thing to do.</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/sturg3.jpg" style="width: 879px; height: 659px;" /></p> <p>I got out with the amazing TonyS on his new boat a bit later and shattered my PB with this 55&quot; tagged female</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/15027535_10207628144878326_876634882738646128_n.jpg" style="width: 366px; height: 206px;" /></p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/15058758_1159758290812499_1982515987_n.jpg" style="width: 800px; height: 450px;" /></p> <p>This weekend, Greenwood and I decided to go out for one last (funny joke) hurrah before everything freezes over. We caught tons of feisty, ornery Shorthead</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://i1055.photobucket.com/albums/s503/Graceclaw2/15228002_10207697789499398_979523648_n_zpstuth7rsu.jpg" style="width: 960px; height: 576px;" /></p> <p>(Note the muddiness- I could never keep mine very clean!)</p> <p>I got a snowy Silver</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/15209119_1331373620229340_153574582_n.jpg" style="width: 960px; height: 720px;" /></p> <p>He still had tuburcles.....</p> <p>We doubled up on Silvers that day.</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/15211609_10207697788539374_863152601_n.jpg" style="width: 960px; height: 720px;" /></p> <p>Greenwood&#39;s was deformed and awesome</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/15207974_1331374696895899_1762570392_n.jpg" style="width: 720px; height: 960px;" /></p> <p>Today we went back, caught a LOT more shortheads, and Greenwood got two Greaters. His second one was pretty tanky.</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.roughfish.com/sites/default/files/15218430_1331667726866596_2111050109_n.jpg" style="width: 800px; height: 600px;" /></p> <p>And that&#39;s that, folks. Image dump status: Complete.</p> <p>I hope most or all of you all got out after some fish this fall! It stayed warm and hospitable for a wonderful, great while.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>