I have some "other people" pictures........
I always look so incredibly goofy that I no longer will look at the camera, duh.
Same guy different year;
Nancy with a dead one, it was bleeding really bad and ended up as smoked salmon. The river that one came from is in no danger of running out of fish for the foreseeable future so.............
As they begin to color they become even more aggressive, I catch a lot while trout & steelhead fishing.
I do not mess with spawning fish but in deep runs when you are swinging a fly for trout they can surprise you.
What you see here is perhaps the best example of a full Fire engine Red salmon I've ever caught. I swam away from the brief encounter with the gravel but I had to take a picture.
Not just the perfect color of that boy but look at the size and girth of it. I was catching trout using my 7'9" Orvis Far & Fine five weight when he took my little Nine Three streamer. I can tell you that the distance from the butt cap to the stripper guide is 36" and change. It may be the largest fish I ever landed with that rod by accident.
This is a pair of male fish that ended up on the dinner table, trust me there were a lot I left go.
So will a bamboo rod work for them?
I need to look in some other folders for more pictures, there have been so many caught that pictures only happen on occasion so the supply is limited I guess.