Dave Carroll of Wilmington, Del., with a 30-pound striper. Field & Stream Online EditorsSHARE
Scott Wearmouth of Waukee, Iowa, his dog Kip, and four mallards. Field & Stream Online EditorsJosh Hastings and his first elk taken by bow. Field & Stream Online Editors16-year-old Derrick Diedrick took this 348-pound black bear on September 7 in Sawyer County, Wisconsin. A family friend had donated the bear-license-points needed for Derrick to draw the tag. Field & Stream Online EditorsTommy West, 12, holds a 17 1/2-inch, 4-pound smallmouth out on Middle Saranac Lake. He caught it on a tube jig. Field & Stream Online EditorsSeth McMahon, 2, his father Jess, and a brown trout they caught in northern New York in early May. Field & Stream Online EditorsFrom left, Kevin (9) and Luke Schranz (12). Luke caught his crappie from Lake Buckatabon in Wisconsin. Field & Stream Online Editors
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“George Hoerichs 12, took this fine 8 point on our Dickinson County, Iowa farm the second day of the 2007 Iowa Youth season,” says his father Chris Hoerichs. It was George’s first deer.
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Thirty-five-years ago, Byron Cowart caught this salmon outside of Anchorage, Alaska. “I still get that feeling with goosebumps when I catch a big one,” he says.
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Ben Meltebeke, 18, stands beside Ron Gilliam. Ben caught this rainbow in Alaska.
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Robert ‘Brian’ Mullins writes, “I was fortunate during last year’s muzzleloading season in Colorado to harvest the 4th largest mule deer according to SCI scoring.”
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This channel cat was caught by Sandra D Zimmerman at a sand pit in Great Bend, Kansas.
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Matt DeYoung of Grand Haven, Michigan, killed this 10-point whitetail on public property November 16, during Michigan’s firearms season.
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Twelve-year-old Lincoln Frawley, of Fredericksburg, caught this largemouth at a pond in eastern Virginia.
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Mark Lamberson holds up a halibut he caught outside his hometown of Seward, Alaska. He was fishing Aialik Bay.
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Kerry Blondheim of Denmark, WI, holds the first trout she ever caught on a fly rod. Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Matthew Lehnherr, 12, at Gullrock Lake, Ontario. His walleye measured 26 1/2 inches.
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The mate, the captain, and Paul I. Hahn who caught this 43-inch, 26.9-pound striper in the Chesapeake Bay in late July.
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Jamie Davis with a 3 1/2-pound largemouth in her right hand and a 3-pound peacock bass in her left. She caught the fish around Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Jim Blair holds the first bluefish he’s ever caught. Says his son, “He is a life-long avid trout fly fisherman with an awe-inspiring roll cast. I had promised to take him fishing for some fish that would really bend his rod on his 80th birthday, July 16th.”
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Barb Tomasini, of Boise, Idaho, her yellow Lab Ellie Maize, and their first chukars.
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Tom Walker of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, caught this 26-inch, 7-pound striper on the Chesapeake Bay.
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Amanda Steel of Oklahoma City, OK, kisses this smallmouth that she caught in Barton, Vermont, at Crystal Lake.
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Megan Wampler, of San Diego, caught this largemouth at Lake Murray, CA. She says, “My line was tangled at the reel so I wanted to save my plastic and started reeling in by hand. There was a fish on the other end and I brought in this 5-pound largemouth bass!”
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Phil Karasow of Hatboro, PA, caught this 28-inch rainbow in a small river in the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.
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Jay Richardson of Peru, Indiana, caught this king near Hamilton, Michigan.
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Sophie Miller, 7, holds a stringer at Michigan’s Houghton Lake. Says her father Dave, “She played the smallmouth (partially hidden) like a pro and patiently worked the fish from under the boat until it tired. The Bluegill in front is 10″ long and weighed in at 1-pound even. We had a nice fish fry that evening.”
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Three-year-old Max Bonsteel caught this 5-inch white perch, his first fish, off his grandparents’ dock on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
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Marly Watson caught this largemouth while on her first fishing trip with her dad.
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Hunter Curcuruto and his grandfather with Hunter’s first fish. Lake Giliad, New York.
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Nine-year-old Anthony Colombo is 48-inches tall. The pike he holds is 26-inches long. He caught it out of Lady Evelyn Lake on a red and white Daredevil spoon. Ontario, Canada.
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Craig A. Cutright caught this 24 1/2-inch brown on a river in northern California. He was using a black panther martin with gold blades.
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Jonathan Tucker is a student at Radford University, and chose the school partly because the New River runs through town. His dorm is only half an hour away. “The fishing opportunities are awesome,” he says. This 22-inch smallmouth is a personal best.
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Ashley Buckley with a brown trout.
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Jack Greening of Oakland, CA, caught this 9-pound striper, his first, while drifting shad with his grandfather and father on the San Joaquin River Delta outside San Francisco. Five minutes later he caught this 10-pound black bass, also his first.
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Scotty Nichols holds a 25-pound king he caught in the East Traverse Bay.
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Dear Sirs:
This is a photo of the 19 3/4-inch smallie I caught in Canada in 2005! We were fishing at Hatmaker Lake near Kenora, from the Crow Rock lodge. It was a second place catch for the season!
–Brandon Shore Murzyn (Yes, my middle name really is Shore… Short for Shore Lunch!!!… Really!!)
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Christian with his first bluegill on the flyrod. Long Island, New York.
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Carl Pickett of Toronto caught this musky out of Rice Lake in the Kawarthas of Ontario. He was using black and white buck tail Mepps. He released the fish, which he calls, “53 inches of goodness!”
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Dennis Fike holds a pronghorn buck he shot at 35 yards in Colorado.
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Mac Schulze caught this 12-pound silver salmon on the Kamishak River, Alaska.
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Mike Vanadia, 16, caught this 29-inch, 8-pound bluefish in the Long Island Sound.
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Rafael Miranda caught this 38-inch, 29.8-pound king on the Feather River in Oroville, CA. He was drifting a bead on a 12-foot leader and had to fight the fish for 20 minutes.
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Steve Hynes-Fisher stands with his daughter Emily (7) and his son Austin (9), each with their first salmon.
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Corbin Switzer, 5, caught this carp on crickets and a bobber in a pond outside Chapel Hill, NC.
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Nick Rountree, his German shorthaired pointer, Pudge, and two pheasants which they took near Russell, Kansas.
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Justin Fabian, 23, killed this pronghorn buck in Colorado on his first antelope hunt.
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Mark canoes across river with a whitetail buck.
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I caught this 38-inch, 24 1/2-pound flathead in Smith Mountain Lake, VA, in early September. Fishing the bottom using live gizzard shad.
–John Rehak
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Monty “Major Les Feet” Mertz of Fargo, ND (left), and Kirk “Klatch” Redmond with their does, which they shot with flintlock rifles and patched, round balls. They were hunting in southeastern North Dakota, near Ellendale. Says Mertz, “It was bitterly cold, just above zero and windy.”
