I’m about to go striper fishing tonight in a cold November rain (no Axl ripoff intended) and thinking back on how enjoyable it was to sweat out the minerals just standing around doing nothing, then seeing this rooster, making a cast, and watching it destroy my fly and make hay into a drainage pipe, forcing me to flop on the ground with my rod completely underwater and hoping I didn’t lay on top of a fire ant nest or within five feet of a cottonmouth (water moccasin). Man I miss that.
beauty! One of these days I need to get down south and chase some of those badboys.
There are definitely all kinds of funky species down there right in your wheelhouse, Roughfisher.
Thanks for another pic of one of the most beautiful fish around!!!!! Congratulations on your catch.