Trash on the Fly

My father-in-law introduced me to wing shooting.  Since my own father didn’t hunt I never tried it when I was younger.  I have always been an outdoorsman, and always been surrounded by people that hunt but never thought I’d get involved in it.  A lot of  people that I took carp fishing would comment that stalking carp has a lot [...]

Was this creature of the deep…
 
the mudpuppy!
 AKA Señor Waterdog.
A friend at Cabela’s wanted some chain pickerel for their aquarium.  After delivering the fish, I just happened to look in the livewell and found these guys:

My guess is that’s another waterdog on top, in slightly more advanced stages of digestion.  The two in the middle were some kind [...]

All the chatter on the net lately about gar on fly makes me wonder if I should post a bunch of old gar pics.  Or new gar pics… ironically it was gar that really got me motivated on trash fishin.  Early on, I went on a lot of wild goose chases and had a lot [...]