My biggest catch by far was Deeter..caught him red handed tellin one of his "twisted facts"...landed him, hook, line, and sinker.

A limit of walleyes on the MN walleye opener in 35 minutes. The smallest was 16 inches and the largest 19 inches.

I think my most memorable fish of the year was the first sunfish my 3 year old pulled out completely on his own. His weeks and weeks of casting his spiderman rod in the pool led up to that one awesome moment. My own moment was a mid sized brookie that I caught out of a creek in central PA. Nothing particularly great about the moment other than it was July, I hadn't done any real trout fishing and that one kicked off a productive morning's fishing. I can still feel adrenaline rush at the first triple tap..tap-tap. When my heart stops pumping becuase a fish hits or game steps into view, I think I'll hang it all up.

2011 was the year of the flyrod for me. I was in SE AK by Apr 20, and headed home Oct 10. I landed my first steelhead on the fly and watched the entire year go by in a unique maritime environment. I fished almost every day and only had a spinning rod in my hand when I had visitors who had to fish in super high water conditions. I expect 2012 to be similar but different. This year I'm shooting for a 50 inch steelhead, a 25lb silver, more sockeyes, and a bunch of searun dollys on my bamboo rod.

I caught the first fish I ate this year. It was a stocker Brookie that slammed a PM spinner.

Helping my nearly 3 year old daughter reel in her first 2 bass. It was a nearly perfect day when the smaller ones are hitting everything in sight, so my wife tied on a buzzbait and cast the spinning rod for her and my daughter reeled in 2 in a row, she was soon distracted by the kite flying, but I think I've got a new fishing buddy in the making.

On the family vacation at Virginia Lakes, CA in July and covered with snow. Didn't catch a whopper, but I couldn't complain at a full stringer and showing my nephews the ropes of trout fishing.

8 days of fishing with my flyrod on the Kenai river with my 70 yr old father.....caught sockeye's and ate as many as we could.....great time looking forward to 2012 trip!!

Mine was while I was up in Wyoming for an internship on the A section of the green. Me and buddy were hammering bows and browns on big green rapalas, when we went through the one rapid in that part of the river it swamped our boat and we had to swim to shore and walk the last 2 miles out in knee deep water because the foot path was flooded.

My most memorable fish this year was a catfish out of the Missouri River near Yankton, SD on the Nebraska side. The river was full with the flood waters but I still managed to catch the largest cat of my life (albeit a short life thus far- 21years). It was made more memorable because the last 2 times I have caught a cat anywhere near as big they both twisted and broke the line right as I was reaching for them.

Badsmerf you're right. There are no big steelhead in Ak. I have no idea why I made such a ludicris statement. The fish are smaller in the north than they are in Ohio and NY and the Lower 48 in general. My Bad.

lab....don't worry about the visions of grandeur you had on steelhead....Deeter does it all the time. I tried to post on that 50", but the F & S cop wouldn't let me. AK steelhead are smaller. The SITUK in AK has the best run, and I have flyfished it...lots of steelhead, but not big fish. I saw a tv segment of guys fishing the SITUK, and they said fish averaged in the 'teens...I doubt that is true, or even close. Biggest steelies come from the Skeena, and her tribs in Canada, but the WA Peninsula Rivers have some 30 lb class fish as well. Size is great, but any steelhead caught is a great reward, especially on the fly.

I pulled a trophy cutbow and a great brown out of the same spot on the South Platte, with only three casts separating the two. I pulled six more fish out of that hole that day, and while they were all good fish, they seemed small by comparison. High country gold-medal water on a beautiful summer day when the fish are biting: doesn't get better than that!

end of july a week befor my sierra trip i dreamed i caught a 22inch brown out of twin lakes and my son almost snapped the line netting it. 2 weeks later on twin lakes i hooked up big with a 4lb leader. i fought and hyperventlated for 10minutes before my son scooped a perfect scoop to net my 18incher. it wasnt 22 but what a fish and thrill!

formula for steelhead...Catch a 25" steelhead, and it will be very close to 5 lbs. Every inch above 20" is a lb an inch. A 32" steelhead will be very close to 12 lbs. Works till around 34" then the formula can go array after that.

My first trout. Wild brown, 6 inches. On a wooly bugger that I tied.

my most memorable catches would have to have been my 10 foot hammerhead and 8 foot sailfish which also was in field and stream and posted in the Wisconsin state journal! my most memorable freshwater catch would have had to have been either a 6 pound smallmouth on a ultralight and a crickhopper during a mayfly hatch! very fun fish indeed. i look forward to a good year of hunting and fishing and i wish the same to you guys! good luck

It's difficult to pick just one. I have three memorable catches. First, I got married on October 1 (Opening day of Bow Season where I live but that's a touchy subject,) My new wife caught her first bullred the weekend we returned from the honeymoon, 35 inches long (not my necessarily my catch but was a great day.) I caught my personal best redfish back in July, with a length of 46 inches.

My most memorable trip was in September fishing for cutthroats on a small trib of the clack fork that i know really intimately. I caught a lot of healthy 12-14 inch cutties and a couple very nice in the 17-19 inch cutts. All in their usual haunts. Awesome fishing on a stream I know and love!

Best day fishing of 2011 for me had to be the 4th of July holiday camping with my son above Silverton Colorado. We fished the river above town for Brookies, and had a blast watching the little guys torpedo 3 feet up in that cold clear water to blast an elk hair caddis full tilt, sometimes throwing themselves completely out of the water.

My best moment was in October when my doctor told me tnat
I would be done with Chemo 4 days before opening day in
NY.It was one of the happyest moments of 2011.
Not being able to go hunting for the past few years. and
every opening day all I had was memorys.
Remember Guys & Gals it not about the Kill or the rack
It's about the memorys.
Regards
SAL

My most memorable catch was my first smallmouth bass on a fly rod. I was fishing in a kayak (another first) on a popper in the middle of a downpour in June.