The Big Ones

I've been having a fantastic big fish year. And it isn't over yet, so this post may be a little early. I may pull something impressive out of the dark, icy waters at the last moment like I did last year. But in case I don't here are 2014's Hawg Johnson highlights:

Brown Bullhead, 17 inches, caught on an Edson Tiger

Wild Tiger Trout, 12 inches. Took a March Brown

Holdover Brooky, 13 inches, sipper of an Ausable Wulff

Rainbow, 18 inches, caught on a bead eyed mono body nymph.

Common Carp, 12 pounds, vacuumed up a modified woolly bugger.

Brown Trout, 30 inches on the nose. Caught on a articulated bluegill streamer.

Common Carp, 14 ponds, also took the modified bugger.

Twenty pound, backing and dragon nymph caught common.

Smallmouth Bass, 23 inches, chomped a dragonfly stripper nymph.

Foot long, fat Maryland Chub. Chomped a small deer hair popper.

12 Inch Native Brooky, attacked a Pine Special

Fish of a lifetime in these parts, on a sedgehammer caddis.

Another 12 inch male Speck on the Pine Special.

And another on a soft hackle.

Color!

Jumbo Perch (14 inches) on a bass bugger.

15 inches of wild Brown Trout, on the soft hackle Hairs Ear.

11 inches of raging male native on an Edson Tiger.