SECOND PLACE: Here's an old picture of my grandparents, stripers caught out of the bay, I think Vallejo.
Christopher Wong
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THIRD PLACE:
I was fishing on Lake Milakokia (a lake in upper Michigan) for perch that July 26, 1956 summer day and I was getting skunked. I switched to a gold spoon and the picture is the results. I lost a much bigger Northern pike than the one in the picture, it wrapped around the stringer of fish and snapped the line. WHAT A DAY THAT WAS. I was 16.
Dick Serrano
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Honorable Mention:
My Dad on the left, Will Prather, and his Dad on the right, Bard Prather, with a couple of 30lb. Klamath River Chinooks. 1933
Andy Prather
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Honorable Mention:
August 1974 -Lake 11,800 feet in J.Muir Wilderness. Found a postage-stamp lake & me & dad took 3 goldens in about an hour, using big silver & brass wobble-rites. 17" each & fat... quite a dinner that night around the Primus stove. Biggest goldens I've ever caught in the Sierra. This is our next day's catch and dinner.
FreshwaterFrank (Frank Gault)
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Honorable Mention:
My grandfather with a nice rainbow he caught while fishing at one of his favorite spots near Cottonwood Cove on Lake Mojave, Nevada. His fishing buddy, Heidi, a Weimaraner, is apparently not too enthused about it. This was taken in his 1960 Bellboy in the early 1970's...(before the striped bass started eating all the trout!)
Mark E. Field
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Honorable Mention:
I am sending this picture of my son, fisherman4life, without his knowledge. He is about 3 yrs old and with his gramppa. That was his 1st fish.
Randy ''rtandersen'' Knowles
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Honorable Mention:
This is myself (the skinny one on the right) and David Turley in 1959 with a stringer of trout from Bartlett Springs, CA. We were 5 years old.
Ric Brown
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Honorable Mention:
Marvin Mecklenburg (My dad): 35 lb. striped bass and
Ervan Mecklenburg Jr. (My late uncle) : 27 lb. striped bass.
Caught November 27, 1954 on a foggy morning opposite the Delta Boat Harbor
in the South Cove of Frank's Tract with a Mitchell spinning reel & Harnell rod on 12 lb. test line. Landing time = 1 hour and 5 minutes but well worth the effort.
Marvin Mecklenburg
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Honorable Mention:
May 1975 - Sardine Lake near Sierra City, California. Pictured from L to R are Cristina Mazzei, Mark Panelli, and Michelle Mazzei. This was their first fishing trip.
Bob Mazzei (the girls' dad)
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Honorable Mention:
Here's a pic of my grandpa with a nice Washington State Crappie. 1937 Long Lake, WA
Christopher Wong
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Honorable Mention: All through high school my father would take myself and the other neighborhood boys up to Desolation Valley backpacking for a week every year. We would hike in to catch the Rainbow and Brook trout. We caught our limit every year and shared unforgettable memories.
Kevin Cowley
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Honorable Mention:
This is a picture of my brother, cousin and me fishing out of the goldfish Barrel, I think it was taken in 1979.
Christopher Wong
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