Okay this is just for fun...

This thread is all about a photo montage of all time greatest (darkest, ugliest, fire-engine red, chrome-black, snaggle-toothed, egg-spilling, jizz-dripping, fungus-balled, near-carcass) boots you or a buddy or another angler has EVER caught.

To get us started, here's one I ran across recently... ya think he'll smoke up?

Here's another..... touch ups to protect the innocent.

Now I know why Larry's hands were absent fingers the other day ... mystery explained

I'll dig a few out

As far as the first post goes, it's good to see "grandpa" is still alive and kickin' on the Sol Duc.

Here's a coho a buddy of mine caught. The picture doesn't do it justice. It was the most brilliant color red I've ever seen on a fish before.



A boot nonetheless.

Bob

Sent you a PM.

Well here is the bigger version of my avatar. Notice my face, was on the verge of gagging, the smell was disgusting. Also, when I picked it up by the tail sounded like a towel ripping. EW!!!



my entry for worst alive one. My first year of fishing, thought that was a real trophy now its there for laughs.

I dont think anyone can top that last one

Tomato Cans!

I love it!

Okay, I found a few. I have a bunch of different species!!!

Here's the darkest one I ever wanted to catch. Approx 65-70 lb. Kenai king milling a back eddy while our halibut captain & I were fishing for silvers in early Spetember:



Hardly the darkest king we've ever had on the OP, but it was a pig, within sight of the ocean, covered in lice and still looked like this:



I couldn't find too many boot silvers off hand (I know I have some from upper Satsop when I used to fish it years ago in boxes somewhere). But here's one from BC on the bugrod that interrupted my steelie fishing:



Honorable mention?? This sockeye that Corey got while fishing for trout on upper Kenai in late August, YUCK!! Fungus spots give exta points



And a rehash ... for our steelhead, this is still the best of ALL-TIME!! Even beats Downtime's since this fish is actually in two pieces

You say tomato I say tomato....lol

what about this one its guts are hanging out??? That ******* almost bit me, look at it. It's in the S position hissing at me

Wow Downtime, you catch some nice fish lol jk

There's some real "hurlers" in that bunch, all right.......argh!

I guess the following fish really isn't that much of boot when compared to the previous fishies.

Anyways, I am never one to let someone take a picture of me holding toooo dark of a fish but hey, any king that munches the fly like she did is a pretty damn cool fish in my book...so a picture was taken.

Damn downtime! I've been trying to figure out what kind of fish that was in your avatar.... now we know. YUCK!!! I thought I specified near-carcass in the initial post.

Here's another live one:

Those things belong with the ugliest of bottomfish in the ocean, shouldn't even be classified as a salmonid! LoL, i got some as well, but gotta dig em out! Good thread FNP!

Ooooops, I thought this was for chromers like this beauuuuutiful Rusty Chrome Silver that my good buddy Tommie has. Yummie-Yummie

Whats white and white and rolls on the rocks?

Tommie and a Seagull fighting over this Silver.

fp

I couldn't come up with any nasty ones to match previous photos, but here some that I dug up.

My boot Kinger, a little dark nate, and a fire engine red.




Two of my buddy's boot Kinger, Chums, and a jizz-dripping nate.

just wouldn't be complete without a chrome-black bellied chum:

And to round out the Pacific salmon quintet, here's a 12# Kenai River pink from 2002 caught by my then 10 yr old daughter Marci:

Very nice, FnP!

Bruce in Finding nemo.

"Fresh fish tonight boys!!!!!"

Thanks guys. Now I won't have to worry about putting on any extra weight this holiday season. I've been sitting here gagging for the past 5 minutes reading all of these but for some reason I couldn't look away.

Fortunately, I purged a lot of my boot photos, but I've got a few good ones left.

Some tule boots to start off with:

A 30+ pound boot tule.....



Another 45 pound Tule Toad:



Can't forget this 32 # tule hen boot that broke my IMX 1025c! In exchange for busting my rod, she "donated" her eggs to me!



A REAL TOAD boot! oof. That's a big fish! Off of the Skeena system. Easily 80 pounds, if not over 90.



And what is it with people holding up nasty dead fish? If that's the case, here's my "dead fish photo."



Here's my last entry. What photo montage would be complete without a nice yummy springer? Ok, now everyone repeat these words after me,

"It was a little dark, but it still had RED meat!" I just crack up laughing every time I see someone post a springer boot and say that!

How about we send this entire thread to WDFW so they can start re-designing the salmon license plate? :p :p

Some babe wrote a song about fish like that, Parker.... she says they're "booty-licious"

Wow parker that last fish is brutal!! The head on that us unbelieveable LOL. Love all the fungi then all of a sudden you see an eye

That one must have certainly had a run in with a tangle net earlier in the season.

OK

Here is a dark Toad that was released

Doc, I've still got your "Lucky" hat ready to go...It will look right at home on your bucket-head when you grip & grin that Dec. King for the camera.........

Hey Chrome

I missed your edit on that last post in the hat thread. Thanks! Check your PM's.

Here's a Christmas sore-back:

Check out this beauty someone posted on one of the other BB's!



That fish looks like he's really enjoying being caught!

Fish on...

Todd

Todd - that picture leaves me speechless. That is good stuff.

Steve

Looks like these two were a match made in heaven:





Man I would have to say that last one you put up is the grand prize winner for the thread, Todd. Hands down the top boot in most every qualifying category (chrome-black, snaggle-toothed, jizz-dripping, fungus-balled, darkest, downright ugliest, near-carcass.... the only ones it missed were fire-engine red and egg-spilling). If that boot was caught on a CR trib, it too may have been a victim of the tangle nets.

Geez (or should I say jizz) that guy's knee looks like an entire flock of seagulls shat on his jeans!

i'm not sure which one has the bigger grimace in this pic...

h2o

Is he really grimacing? Or are his face/eyes/ jaw just rigor mortis'd into that expression?