I wrote that I would put up pictures of my fishes (fishes is the correct word, as there are fish of different species)
So here are pictures of my fishes!
A dinky little bass.
The hat is for a contest I've entered to catch
the biggest fish in several different catagories.
I took this picture as a joke. This is probably the
SMALLEST fish posted.
This is another bass, I'd call it a Largemouth, some might
say it was a Spotted Bass. I caught this one in a pond across the
road from our house. The neighbors have been stocking the pond
for many years. I caught 6 or so bass about this same size.
This one was about 16 inches.
This is a fish I was really proud of. I caught it in the same pond as the above bass.
It measured 8.5" long, which is above average for a bluegill.
I caught this fish on a 1.75" crankbait. It has been my best performing bait
this year. Again notice the hat, for the contest. I was leading with this fish
until this week. Someone caught a 9.75" bluegill. I'll have to really work
to beat that big of a fish.
Here is a small Crappie. You can see the lure in this picture.
It is the "tadfry" crankbait that has performed so well for me this year.
You can tell it is only about as long as the end of my thumb.
Here is another larger Crappie, I think I caught it on a beemoth. That is a little maggot looking critter. It is the pupae stage of some kind of bug. I know it catches fish!
This is a Channel catfish, one of 4 species in the State. This is the largest one I've ever caught, the only one for that matter. This one was 20" long and I caught it in the spillway in the pool right below the dam. You can see the lure just in front of it, acutally still in it's mouth. It is a white spinnerbait. I caught three fish on it that morning, the other guys I fished with didn't catch anything. And they'd made fun of my "cruddy old spinner-bait"
This is a "Redear". You can see a small bit of red on the left edge of the black circle just under my thumb knuckle.
This is a "Long-eared" sunfish. Notice how much longer it's black "ear" is than the picture above. I think this is the prettiest fish I've ever caught.
This is a "mess" of fish that I caught at Griffy Lake, a small lake just on the outskirts (or maybe even inside) the City of Bloomington. It is a 100 acre lake that was where Bloomington got their water supply from before Monroe Resevoir was built in the early 1960's.
These are all bluegill and redear. They are both "panfish", either because they kinda look like a pan, or because you sign them in a pan, not sure.
They are in the same family as bass and include bluegill, redear, longeared sunfish and green sunfish. I've probably forgotten some....anyways, they all interbreed so it is kinda hard to tell what species of fish you really have caught.
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