Braggin Board for Fishing!

[Outdoor Writer]

When you get down to where Crooked Creek runs in you can find smallies. Crooked Creek is a fantastic smallmouth fishery. I grew up fishing the lower end of the river where it is bass, bream, crappie and catfish. It's a big river down at the lower end where it dumps into the Mississippi. There have been a few years where some trout venture all the way down and get caught. Same for smallmouths. A buddy caught a smallmouth last year way down on the lower end. Doesnt happen often though. Pretty awesome fishery taken as a whole considering you can catch stripes, white, black and smallmouth bass, bream, crappie, catfish, brown, rainbow, and cutthroat trout depending on the section of river you are fishing.

That's about like the Colorado River in AZ from its entry into Lake Powell until it runs into the Sea of Cortez. In between are a couple trout fisheries and several lakes that offer all the species you listed except the cutthroats. The CTs might be available farther north, though.

A couple more from Lee's Ferry below Glen Ganyon Dam...

 

[AK Troutbum]

37” fly caught pike, today on the Youghiogheny River, PA.

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[Outdoor Writer]

Wayne Prevedel w/one of my striped bass at Lake Havasu. ​

 

[CashVeo]

Powell- San Juan arm crappie from a few weeks back. 150 fish in two days

 

[Elk97]

This was several years ago in the strait of Juan de Fuca ( WA). Fishing wasn't too good that day )

 

[Outdoor Writer]

My bride with a slab-sided crappie -- Roosevelt Lake, AZ​

 

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[ThisIsMyHandle]

Dogfish shark I caught recently in Long Island sound


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[Outdoor Writer]

A pair of trophy grayling from a river that joins Stark Lake to Great Slave Lake, NWT.​

 

[Outdoor Writer]

My friend & fishing partner for the last 40 years, Joe Reynolds, with a brown trout out of Christmas Tree Lake, AZ​

 

[ILMhunter]

35# King mackerel I caught from my kayak last summer, what a ride!

 

[Lawnboi]

Favorite summer fish for the pan

 

[Outdoor Writer]

Dolly Varden -- Mulchatna River, AK​

 

[Button]

My bud reeled this in one evening. I’ll never forget that fish. If I remember the length measurements put it at 418#. My bud is 6’ 3” or something like that. He’s a stout fellow

 

[Outdoor Writer]

Apache Trout -- AZ Native​

 

[Cliffy65]

Bowhunting boars in Cape York and flicking lures at lunch.

 

[Outdoor Writer]

Processing some northern pike -- Nuelton Lake, Manitoba.​

 

[Outdoor Writer]

The late Mickey DelRe with a 28 lb. 4 oz. northern pike out of Vallecito Lake, CO


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[Outdoor Writer]

Bruce Fritz with a 9lb.+ from Lake El Salto, Mex. ​