As I grew up on Lk. Sammamish, I fished for smallmouth quite a bit in the spring/summer. Still do. Lots of interesting incdental catches by me or partners while doing that. A forty pound carp on a jig, an eight pound rainbow on a spinnerbait, a sockeye on a nightcrawler, silvers and kings on jigging spoons, and big cutthroat on damn near anything.

Wolf Eel off Whidbey Island mooching for blackmouth. Octopus jigging for cabezon in Anacortes.

The stupid pelicans in Santa Barbara were daily incidental catches. Fishing for Calico Bass in a Santa Barbara kelp bed with live sardines resulted in a seven or eight pound silver salmon.

Flyfishing at Squalicum Lk. in Bellingham during the yearly toad mating season. Bad idea. We caught many toads that thought our tiny dry flies were tasty treats.

Lastly, I hooked a big bull bison flyfishing on the Firehole River in Yellowstone Park.

Can you say "long distance release"?

Fish on...

Todd.