Post a pic of your best/favorite catch of 2016!

[CanBassK]

Hello everyone, I'm relatively new to this forum (2 days lol) but I feel like this is a perfect time to get to meet some of the users and see/hear their favorite or best catch of the year!

I'll start off with mine..

It was late June, very first day on the banks for me, about 8:30am, the day after the bass fishing opener, I started by throwing a senko around some heavy cover and was shocked to not get so much as a nibble (with the exception of a few ambitious bluegill) I had decided to call an audible and head to my favorite spot on the the lake, when I noticed some real nice looking Lilly pads. So I decided to give the old hollow body frog a try, and BAM first cast I nail a tank! She faught so hard that I thought I had hook a monster pike. When I got her out of the water she came unhooked Right as I got my net under her. Here's the pic of this beautiful largemouth, best fish for me 2016

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[River Monster]

Love these types of threats. I hope we see some nice fish posted here.

Beautiful fish, great way to start the season.

I already posted a PB/favorite I caught this year in another thread. but as for my second favorite catch, that's tough. Had an amazing year, both the quality of fish and the people I fished with.

Thanksgiving weekend I landed three giants. 6-2, 5-9 and 5-1 But it was the smallest one whose fight I remember the most. This gal put up one hell of a fight. Bombed a chatterbait to rocky point a couple turns of the handle and she hammered it. I didn't realize how big it was until I heard it jump. A couple minutes later she was safely landed.

[zippyfx]

I caught 30 freshwater fish species this year.

My most exciting catch was my smallest fish ever a number of Juvenile bullhead


Same fish on a dime:


My lifelist catches this year:

American Eel (Anguilla rostrata)


Banded Killfish (Fundulus diaphanus)


Emerald Shiner (Notropis atherinoides)


Spottail Shiner (Notropis hudsonius)


As for the others:

Not technically a fish but I caught a number of mud puppies in the early season:



A couple of Lakers:


A Sturgeon:


But this is the one that got my heart racing the most:



Things I could have caught this year but did not manage: Greater Redhorse, Yellow Bullhead, Muskie, Mooneye.

[otownyaker]

Not the largest of the year but the fight was great cough in 1.5 fow in the thick thick weeds was a blast

[BradGuenette]

This was one from a super fun few days tossing the a-rig around for fall brown fish.

[Harcombe9923]

Caught this on my first cast on a new lake. First nice Pike I've caught in a long time, I forgot how fun they could be.

[CanBassK]

Wow! These are all great catches! I'm glad to see this community is a sharing one

[CanBassK]

[quote="zippyfx"]I caught 30 freshwater fish species this year.

Wow! Great photos!! I wish I could better identify more species of fish. I'm having a hard time identifying the types of bait fish in my favorite lake.

[Jnlwelding]

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[Jnlwelding]

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[zippyfx]

I caught 30 freshwater fish species this year.

Wow! Great photos!! I wish I could better identify more species of fish. I'm having a hard time identifying the types of bait fish in my favorite lake.

Thanks, some good pictures, a couple of good references, and some online help is all it takes

My two favourite references are:

https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/bo ... -item.html

And

http://www.briancoad.com/ncr/contentsncr.htm

[CBB]

Great fish boys and some great pics

[topten14]

WOW!!!

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[topten14]

Yippee!!!!

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YoHoo!!!!

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[Nyarlathotep]

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One of 4 splake I caught on Dec. 24 at a lake 10 km out in the wilderness from Madawaska.