You always get your salmon, Randall! I was looking for this post Sorry about your heel. Fishing-related or no? You made it work anyway. I've been dealing with a knee and ankle myself..one fishing-related and one not. The doc said I might heal better if I slowed down
Randall, Nice looking Salmon. I liked the story of the Salmon jumping on the river bank. Sounds like you got some feisty ones . Awesome!
We have something else in common Randall...in the late 70's and 80's my dad and I built a 12' high 20' wide half pipe in our back yard in Brunswick, nobody in Maine had any idea what it was, even without social media it didn't take long for word to get around about it though, I remember crowds of kids and parents coming to check it out and skate on it, even got to skate with guys like Stacy Perralta.And then I started riding on it on my BMX bikes and roller skates, people thought I was insane back then and now it's an Olympic sport, in my mind I kinda take credit for starting some of that stuff.Nice salmon too!!I'm getting out this weekend, may be my last trip of the season.
those are some nice ways to close out the season on that river! I’m going to make more of an attempt later in the other river, but we’ll meet up for a trip river or boat pretty soon hehe.
I got to meet a bunch of the guys that went pro, Kent schiffman was a friend of mine and spent a lot of time at my house when he lived in Portland, he was in a few magazine articles and most of the pictures of him were on my ramp, I think he and I were the first ones ever to ride bikes on a half pipe.There was a big skateboard park in Nashua, (I think), back then and we went there to see the pros and got to meet most of them.My dad has hundreds of pictures but they are all slides, long before digital pictures. He's not getting around very well these days but I'll try and dig them up with him and get some pictures of the pictures.
As always thanks for sharing Randall! Just one question: The top fish appears to be a male, but the males I have caught in Maine has more of a brownish cast like a brown trout. Could it be because I caught them in a lake with tannin colored water? Or the male you caught is not as far along in the spawning phase? Or they are both females? Like the following picture: (Picture pulled off the Internet).