A passing angler supposed this foreground fish was an outsized bass and the one with blue paint features in the distance would be a steelhead, something that 2 dozen fishermen were trying to catch on this sunny Saturday afternoon in middle November in downtown Grand Rapids.

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Fishing the Mighty Kern River, in Kernville California.

Hubby spotted this gigantic rock to serve as a perfect fly casting platform and was determined to get out there...note that very deep drop off at base of rock! (it wasn't that bad, just to the waist!)

There are signs all over warning swimmers about the swift and deep currents, and that it has taken a few lives. (there is even a song out there called "I'll never swim kern river again, by Merle Haggard!)

Nicknamed The Killer Kern, we gave it the respect it deserved, and we were rewarded! Fish On!

No wait, make that about 30 fish on in One day!!!...seriously!

(you'll see my reward in the first post)

The riverbed, Xiapu, Fujian Province - China.

(Bamboo poles with scallops on strings)

Fish net traps along a stretch of river in rural southern Thailand.

Perca flavescens; Deer Creek, Susquehanna State Park, Harford Co., MD

Fish farming, Xiapu, Fujian Province - China

Breeding tubercles on the face of a Pimephales notatus in Washington Co., MD

Exoglossum maxillingua; Washington Co., MD

Sunrise a misty morning@the riverbed, Xiapu, Fujian Province - China

Alex and I had our first river spin fishing experience at this beautiful stretch of the River Hodder near Chaigley). Alex hooked a lovely (and big) rainbow trout but lost it because I was faffing about trying to get a picture whilst he was landing it! Later Alex landed a brown trout, which was released as it was only around 10cm in length. We both enjoyed a fantastic couple of hours "in" and beside the river.

Catostomus commersonii; Deer Creek, Susquehanna State Park, Harford Co., MD

Today (November 6, 2007) my lifelong hunting/ fishing friend and mentor Eddie Jones and I caught 2 beautiful tarpon in the coastal rivers of south Mississippi. Reports of tarpon have been trickling in for years, and today we were rewarded with gorgeous fish rolling all around the boat, and the extreme thrill of battling and landing them on 12-pound-test. It was a wonderful day shared with an old friend! One fish was released , while the other will be donated to fisheries biologist Jim Franks and Read Hendon at the University of Southern Mississippi (GCRL) Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs, MS for valuable scientific research on this amazing species. Photo by Capt. Robert L. Brodie of TEAM BRODIE CHARTERS. Capt. Brodie can be contacted at: Web Site: www.teambrodiecharters.com; C (228) 697-7707; H (228) 392-7660; and Hunting & Fishing Reports at: www.ms-sportsman.com.

Fish farming, Xiapu, Fujian Province - China

Alex and I had our first river spin fishing experience at this beautiful stretch of the River Hodder near Chaigley). Alex hooked a lovely (and big) rainbow trout but lost it because I was faffing about trying to get a picture whilst he was landing it! Later Alex landed a brown trout, which was released as it was only around 10cm in length. We both enjoyed a fantastic couple of hours "in" and beside the river.

Anguilla rostrata; Deer Creek, Susquehanna State Park, Harford Co., MD

boat man on padma river.

Guadalupe River, Kerrville Texas

Lepomis gibbosus; Deer Creek, Susquehanna State Park, Harford Co., MD

August 10, 2015

A small rainbow trout, still showing juvenile parr marks. He was released unharmed. Caught on a home-made bead-head prince nymph drifted through a well defined pool.

Although the water was very low everywhere and reports were dismal, I hadn't river-fished in a long time, and needed to wet a line. We found this stretch of Otter Creek near Danby, Vermont that looked nice, which has some good pockets and seams where fish hang out. Within a half hour, both my bother-in-law and I had both hooked up and landed a fish each. For the next three days, this was all that we would see.

Danby, Vermont - USA

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Ictalurus punctatus; Deer Creek, Susquehanna State Park, Harford Co., MD

Mississippi River exhibit at River Safari, Singapore.

fishing boat

In the sleepy town of Canavieiras, Brazil, these boys fish each afternoon on the river. I am standing on a wall in the afternoon as the tide comes up and eventually chases them out of the water. By the way, i planned on doing some fishing here too, but american lost my fishing rod!!!!!

Today (November 6, 2007) on a fishing adventure with my lifelong hunting and fishing friend Eddie Jones, both of us managed to land a nice tarpon on 12-pound-test gear in a Mississippi coastal river. This fish made two remarkable leaps, while Eddie's made one, and an impressive deep diving fight. By the way, this is my first tarpon, and I am stoked over the catch...simply exhilarated! Photo by Andrew Baker.

A beautiful speckled trout caught in the Tchoutacabouffa River. In the fall and winter speckled trout migrate inshore into coastal rivers and bayous to escape the chill of winter. Photo by Capt. Robert L. Brodie

Notropis hudsonius, N. procne; Deer Creek, Susquehanna State Park, Harford Co., MD

Monday before lunch just a stone's throw upriver from the Grand River bridge at Michigan Street in downtown Grand Rapids, the man at the back of the boat holding a blue landing net on a pole is just about to reach out gently and pull the silvery sided fish from its aquatic world into the realm of the air-breathers.

Since the massive leather treatment and shoe making factory near Rockford is only 10 or 12 miles upriver from this photo location, and since levels of PFOS exceed earlier danger levels (newly reset to even more stringent amounts in recent years), perhaps these fish-catchers do not take as many fish as their ancestors used to do. See,

www.michigan.gov/documents/mdch/MDCH_EAT_SAFE_FISH_GUIDE_...

see also, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelhead_trout

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Fresh fish on sale in Kapit wet market

Fishermen fishing off the quayside of the river Blyth in the mid 1960s. Seeing the notice on the side of the van, I thought the caption for the photo might be, 'You don't get them much fresher than this!'

Alex and I had our first river spin fishing experience at this beautiful stretch of the River Hodder near Chaigley). Alex hooked a lovely (and big) rainbow trout but lost it because I was faffing about trying to get a picture whilst he was landing it! Later Alex landed a brown trout, which was released as it was only around 10cm in length. We both enjoyed a fantastic couple of hours "in" and beside the river.

Noturus insignis; ; Deer Creek, Susquehanna State Park, Harford Co., MD

As the camera sweeps to the right, the two men in tall waders stand about waist deep in the current to cast their fishing lines into the flow. While the tackle and clothing has changed over the centuries, the course of the river is not too different and neither is the taste of cooked fish much altered from then to now.