Your Fish of the Year

[STONEMAN]

Lots of great fish and fishing in 2021. Best fish pic is from a awesome sail trip in the BVI. But best fish was on Sandy Creek of Lake Ontario.

 

[greenlander]

It's not every year you land one of these, so this is definitely it for me:

 

[DEPete53]

Not a chart-busting fish, but likely the "fish of the stream". For that reason, this fish is my most memorable of the year. I generally don't catch large fish (>20") due to the waters I fish, so I have to utilize other criteria to separate the more memorable ones from the others. This guy came from a small red sandstone freestoner.

wg - I fished that hole in the late fall when the water was higher and only saw a couple of smaller fish there. I never would have guessed there was one that big there! I went there today to see what the stream looks like now and thought maybe I might have a chance to wet a line. Nope. The ice formations were absolutely incredible! Here is a photo of that hole and a couple of the ice.

 

[DEPete53]

Sorry I neglected to post my fish of the year. I didn’t catch many quality fish last year but this one is mine for the year for the same reason as wgmiller. I don’t have a picture but it was a 10” wild brown from the stream section Swattie mentioned above. I knew that was one of the best places on the stream for a fish to hold but never had any luck finding one.

 

[wgmiller]

wg - I fished that hole in the late fall when the water was higher and only saw a couple of smaller fish there. I never would have guessed there was one that big there! I went there today to see what the stream looks like now and thought maybe I might have a chance to wet a line. Nope. The ice formations were absolutely incredible! Here is a photo of that hole and a couple of the ice.
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Darn freestoners! ☺️ I'm sure he's tucked in there with his metabolism shifted to "low gear" for the next month or two. Spring can't come soon enough!

 

[tomb]

brown from Yough, #14 Slate Drake dry

 

[wildtrout2]

I'm going to try again posting my fish of the year, as it doesn't show in my original post.