Fishing Personal Bests

50 pound Bay musky.  A 53 inch inland lake musky.
30 1/8 inch Vilas Walleye.
Too many 30 inch walleyes in the Bay to count, largest as 31.5.
24 inch smallie, Bay.
But the best?  A 28 inch walleye and a 30 inch walleye on the same trolling bait at the same time.  

Not a musky fisherman but did land a 40 1/2” 20 lb 2 oz musky while bluegill fishing. Also landed a 36 3/4” musky walleye fishing. A couple 28 1/2” walleye on the Winnebago/Wolf River system. 22” smallie from Kentuck Lake. 14 3/4” perch from Green Bay some 30 years ago. Some perch and bluegill catches that made great fish fries. I have a 13 year old grandson, a 24 year old nephew and a wife who all enjoy fishing. Anytime I can put them on fish is a good day. Age has slowed me down so now time on the water is precious especially with those I mentioned. Fair weather and shorter trips now rather than tolerate the elements and make a full day of it. 

Musky- 50 1/8"
Northern Pike- 41 1/4"
Walleye- 31 1/4"
Small Mouth- 22 1/4"
Large Mouth- 20 1/2"
Crappie- 15 1/2"
Bluegill- 10"
Chinook Salmon- 44 1/2"/36# x 2
Great Lakes Brown- 16# (can't remember how long)
Great Lakes steelhead- 19# (can't remember how long)
Inland brown- 23"
Inland rainbow- 19.5"

Nephew and I had a day on the Bay and had 9 walleye over 28"
Buddy and I had a day on the Fox with 76 walleye, average size was 25"
Caught two smallmouths on one bait twice.
Had an hour muskie fishing (verified by timestamp on camera) where I caught 5 muskies in exactly one hour. (46", 44 1/2", 41", 38", 32" and also lost one, which I think I landed a half hour later.

Two walleyes one was from the Mississippi River the other was from Wisconsin River by Petenwell damn

Both still swimming 😵‍💫

I'm not the best fisherman in the world, but I'm old so I've got plenty of stories.   
Biggest freshwater fish; 25# King Salmon, Lake Michigan
Biggest saltwater fish; 30# Pacific grouper, Southern California
Eleven Canadian fishing trips; best two were North Spirit Lake Lodge and Lac Seul
Some of the most enjoyable were smelt fishing and perch fishing in Lake Michigan, back in the day.
Strangest; fishing in the Phu Cat River in Vietnam using concussion grenades. (Best chow I had in the Nam)

I still get out there with friends and family, so probably a few more stories on the way.

Tight lines

One hot August about 30 years ago I was fly fishing on Black Earth Creek. One of the first times I fished there. I caught and released 36 brown and rainbow trout on a parachute Adams pattern in about two hours.  A couple of years later, I caught and released a 21” brown on 7X tippet. Was fishing with a buddy so I had a witness to back me up. Two personal bests on the same stream. 

I once caught an armored catfish off my grandparents dock down in Florida back in 2014. That's gotta be my coolest catch! 

Over the weekend I did some fishing and went to a spot a friend of mine recommended.  He said to tie two crappie jigs tandem and cast out.  I did that and in the first 12 casts I caught 13 fish! One was a double.  Over the next two hours I caught several doubles of crappie and ended up catching over 100 of them!  They weren't real big - most of them were about 8 inches long, but it was a blast catching that many!

So that was a new PB for me - over 100 fish in just two hours!