The Masked Shadow’s Fishing Thread!

[The Masked Shadow]

I remember once my finger got impaled by a somewhat large hook. I was dropping the line and the line had a 3 lb weight on it which made the hook penetrate my finger.

Hooks are no joke!! A 16 year old guy, who probably fished once or twice in his life, was convinced he had to go on a tuna boat…which means he would need to cast. When he also did overhead casting, which is not good when you have no special awareness. He would never look behind him, and half the time he would snag on the boat, damaging his rental rod. He used a jig with a treble hook, which is 3 hooks in a circle going outwards.

When casting, he didn’t look behind him…and snagged someone on the back. The force of an overhead cast ripped through the guys shirt and hooked on his skin, ripping some out. The idiot looked mortified and so sorry, but nothing can excuse that.This story is from my dad from 5 years ago.

 

[kno4te]

@The Masked Shadow changed it.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

All together, the meat is 28lbs, which means that with the heads, it probably would have been 35-40+ lbs

 

[The Masked Shadow]

Species #7



Species Common Name: Brook Trout
Latin name: Salvelinus fontinalis
Size of catch: 4-9”
What it was caught on (bait/lure): Dry fly, small nymphs, and small spoons
What rig was it caught on: dry dropper (fly), and single lure (ultralight)
Where it was caught (place): Bishop Creek, Loch Leven Lake, and Sabrina Lake stream
Where it was caught (topwater, midwater, etc): topwater
Depth of catch: 1-10’
How many: 15+
Fight (0-10): 7/10
Other information: Fun fish to fight. You can catch them on any dry fly. You can see them anywhere and everywhere in the Sierra’s

 

[The Masked Shadow]

Species #8



Species Common Name: Rainbow Trout
Latin name: Oncorhynchus mykiss
Size of catch: 7”
What it was caught on (bait/lure): Nymph
What rig was it caught on: dry dropper
Where it was caught (place): Sabrina Lake stream/intake 1
Where it was caught (topwater, midwater, etc): topwater
Depth of catch: 3’
How many: 2
Fight (0-10): 5/10
Other information: The rainbows were very weak fighting fish. Scattered among brooks, and the most skiddish of the 3 species living in the spot where

 

[The Masked Shadow]

Species #9



Species Common Name: Brown Trout
Latin name: Salmo trutta
Size of catch: 8”
What it was caught on (bait/lure): Dry fly
What rig was it caught on: dry dropper
Where it was caught (place): Sabrina Lake stream/intake 1
Where it was caught (topwater, midwater, etc): topwater
Depth of catch: 3’
How many: 1
Fight (0-10): 8/10
Other information: The single brown I caught erupted out of the water on a white caddis dry fly while I was fixing a tangle…a really strong fish

 

[aussieman57]

Species #9

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Species Common Name: Brown Trout
Latin name: Salmo trutta
Size of catch: 8”
What it was caught on (bait/lure): Dry fly
What rig was it caught on: dry dropper
Where it was caught (place): Sabrina Lake stream/intake 1
Where it was caught (topwater, midwater, etc): topwater
Depth of catch: 3’
How many: 1
Fight (0-10): 8/10
Other information: The single brown I caught erupted out of the water on a white caddis dry fly while I was fixing a tangle…a really strong fish

My favorite trout to fly fish at night for. The really big ones come out at night.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

General Fishing photos from 2024.


Far left and middle right Vermillion Rockfish, Other two Boccaccio
Location: Santa Rosa Island, California

Young Rainbow Trout, one of many caught on the spoons.
Location: Kearsarge Lakes, Sequioa and Kings Canyon Wilderness, California
I backpacked through Kearsarge Pass and fished the lakes with a fly and spoon, spoon worked better but probably because im not very good at fly fishing (so. many. knots.)

In the photo: Boccaccio, Copper Rockfish, Whitefish
Location: somewhere on the outskirts of Channel Islands National Park, California

In the photo: Boccaccio, Vermillion Rockfish, Florida Rockfish, Green-striped Rockfish, Starry Rockfish, California Sheepshead, Blacksmith, Ocean Whitefish
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California
Super rough seas

In the photo: Lingcod
Location: San Miguel Island, California
I caught 5 lingcod on this trip, absolute lunkers

In the photo: Striped Bass
Location: Red Rock, San Francisco Bay, California
First time Striper fishing


I have no idea what fish these were
Location: Cahuita, Costa Rica
Handlining these little guys, also caught a Bonito (not pictured) and a couple snapper-like fish.