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This is an 18 pound channel catfish caught at Lake Isabella on November 18, 2008. It was caught on shad at Camp 9, by Isabella Monsibais, age 3 1/2, helped brought in by her great-grandpa, Ben Gannon, age 74, both of...

Anonymous user - Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:25:37 PST

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Another Beautiful Day at the Kern River!

My son, Austin Fallas, and I caught these beautiful 7 Rainbow Trout on 11/15/08 in the upper Kern RIver. We used Yellow and White Powerbait. Even though he is struggling holding all of those fish, you can be sure he...

Posted by DJ14770 - Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:20:06 PST

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Catch of The Week

Steve Boyes caught this striper on Oct. 24 out of the Ca. Aqueduct, using a Gitz'it tube jig. It was 36-1/2" long and weighed 18 pounds.

Posted by SteveBoyes - Mon Oct 27, 2008 15:00:30 PDT

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Chinook Salmon From LaPush, Washington

The picture is of the following: Caught by my son, Tom Ingram II Bakersfield, ca age 44 July, 2008 LaPush, Wa Chinook Salmon (King), 49 lbs 14 oz, 49 1/2 inches "Peanut Butter" hoochie with herring strip behind a...

Posted by thomassingram - Mon Oct 20, 2008 15:31:10 PDT

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Trout fest

My son, Austin Fallas, and I hit the Kern River on Friday the 10th at Sandy Flat Campground. We caught these three trout on Rappala Countdown lures.

Posted by DJ14770 - Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:45:20 PDT

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Sat Apr 25, 2009

Opening Day of the Mono County Fishing Season

Events

For fishermen, Opening Day is a highlight of the year. Rainbows, Browns as well as the famous trophy-sized Alpers Trout are stocked in the many lakes and streams in and around the Mammoth Lakes area. There is great boat fishing,...

Posted by mammoth - Wed Oct 1, 2008 08:20:15 PDT

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Fish photo

Cory Marshburn caught this 29 inch, 6 pound Steelhead on the Mackenzie River, Eugene, Oregon, in June. Caught on a light fly rod rigged for trout. It was a great battle. Celebrating with dad.

Posted by seedman77 - Mon Sep 15, 2008 13:55:53 PDT

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Fishing in Alaska

On August 16th my husband Steve Weiss and his father Jim went on a birthday fishing trip to Alaska. They were there for 6 days and brought home over 250 pounds of fish including Coho salmon, halibut, ling cod, rock cod and yellow eye...

Posted by rachelleweiss - Fri Sep 12, 2008 13:58:38 PDT

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Great Fishing

Posted by chrisanddon - Tue Sep 2, 2008 09:54:55 PDT

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Chris Klassen Bachelor Party

Chris Klassen caught this 140 lb. Grouper on his bachelor party in Cabo San Lucas. His fishing buddies this day were his brother, Matt Klassen and friend Marc Fabbri. Along for the trip was his future father-in-law...

Posted by philklassen - Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:01:24 PDT

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Sights in San Diego

These pictures were taken aboard the Ranger 85 during my fishing trip on July 20.

Posted by cableman13 - Sun Aug 3, 2008 14:44:05 PDT

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Fish tacos tonight

Tomas Weaver of Tehachapi caught this 13-pound Dorado fly-lining a sardine July 20 on his 1 1/2 day trip aboard the Ranger 85 out of San Diego.

Posted by cableman13 - Sun Aug 3, 2008 14:41:19 PDT

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Child's First Catch

We took our girls camping for the first time this past July 2008 to Kernville, CA and our oldest daughter caught her first fish with her aunt Sherry, which was a 7 pound Rainbow Trout.

Posted by ccanaday6678 - Fri Aug 1, 2008 10:04:52 PDT

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Young Catfisherman

Logan King and Joel Turpin of Bakersfield had their hands full with a large catch of catfish from Lake Isabella on Friday, June 27, 2008. They caught over 20 catfish using shad and fishing from the shore on the west side of the...

Posted by jlking85 - Mon Jul 7, 2008 15:09:42 PDT

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HOW TO SURVIVE MEXICO WITH JUST ONE SHOT GUN SHELL & A TIRE GAUGE...

Travel

My friend (Henry Gonzales) has enjoyed nature and taking pictures of nature for the last thirty years. One day while getting ready to take some pictures of humming birds feeding while flying, Henry's...

Posted by servicefirst - Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:49:58 PDT

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Catch of the Week

Wade Froehlich, 7 years old from Bakersfield, on his first Hunting/Fishing trip in Wichita Falls, Texas, March 2008. He suprised is Dad when he reeled in this Big Mouth Bass using Bob's Bait Bucket plastic worm.

Anonymous user - Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:33:10 PDT

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Danny's big catch

These stripers weighing 25 lbs and15 lbs were caught in the aqueduct on red worms by Danny Garland. Danny is from Maryland, but lives in Bakersfield.

Posted by flowerchild1969 - Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:32:08 PDT

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Big Fish Photo with Happy Fisherman

Rich Arner of Bakersfield landed this 15 lb steelhead on the Situk River Alaska 4/26/08. He was fly fishing with an 8 wt fly rod on an aeropuff egg pattern. 661-589-0446

Anonymous user - Mon May 5, 2008 11:06:21 PDT

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Catfish

Anonymous user - Mon May 5, 2008 10:29:13 PDT

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Proud Fisher

Pablo Aguero, 35, of Bakersfield at Lake Ming, 6 lbs. bass, plastic worm, caught March 8, 2008.

Posted by paguero - Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:45:31 PDT

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Fishing in La Paz

Both myself and my friend Greg Ryan with some of our catch in La Paz Mexico in 2006

Posted by PLUMBINGDOC - Tue Feb 26, 2008 15:43:01 PST

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Cabo san lucas fishing

23 Mahi-mahi in less than two hours

Posted by PLUMBINGDOC - Tue Feb 26, 2008 15:41:19 PST

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Fishing in Cabo

Aaron Nadal and his son Dominic 13 caught this 12Ib Dorado while fishing in Cabo San Lucas Mexico the day after Christmas. They where using live mackeral for bait.

Anonymous user - Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:29:16 PST

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CATCH OF THE WEEK

Trout caught @ Buena Vista Lake Sunday Dec 30th 2007, the Buena Vista Lake Park Ranger took this picture of Macayla Wells, 4 1/2 yrs old, who caught this trout that is 11 3/4 LBS and 27 inches long. She...

Posted by KCWELLS - Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:22:58 PST

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Buerna Vista lake 11.5 pound trout.

Went to the lake early Sunday morning, I caught my limit of trout from one and a half to two pounds, but my friend Marcos Sanchez caught this monster trout that weighed in at eleven and a half pounds. He was using rainbow power...

Posted by miggar932 - Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:32:11 PST

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Catch of the week...Nice Lake Evans Rainbow

Darlene Johnson of Bakersfield caught an 11lb Rainbow Trout on a recent outing to Lake Evans (Buena Vista Recreation). Darlene is an excellent fisher consistently catching fish but this was her biggest one so far! The prize fish...

Posted by jerdog - Mon Jan 14, 2008 11:11:12 PST

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Fishing with no bait

Fisherman Al Espericueta caught the biggest fish he has ever caught in his life, with no bait. He caught a trout, which weighed, 8 lbs. 6 oz. on New Year's Day at Buena Vista Lake. He used a spinner to catch the fish with absolutely no...

Posted by becky0726 - Thu Jan 3, 2008 13:27:27 PST

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Catch of the week

Jerry Pierce and Cameron Greco (7 yrs old) of Bakersfield, caught their limits of Rainbow Trout recently at The Park at River Walk lake (Bakersfield). They enticed the fish with power bait and salmon eggs... This is Cameron's...

Posted by jerdog - Thu Jan 3, 2008 11:47:18 PST

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Fishing Photos

Anonymous user - Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:30:41 PST

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6 pound trout

We caught this 6 pound rainbow at Buena vista 12/01/07

Posted by miggar932 - Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:02:26 PST

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Catches of the Week

Ron Miller caught this 35 lb. King Salmon on a recent float trip on the Sol Duc River, near Forks, WA. He used 12 lb. test monofilament with a spinning outfit using a fluorescent jig.

Posted by rmxxmilx - Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:26:19 PST

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Birthday Catch

Keith Williams of Bakersfield celebrates his 56th birthday by landing this 28 inch steelhead drifting down the Rogue River in Shady Cove, Oregon. Nov. 1st. "Happy Birthday Big Brother"

Posted by stevewilliams - Fri Nov 9, 2007 13:41:55 PST

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Fishing in Alaska

John Garone of Bakersfield, CA caught this 40lb. King Salmon using Herring in Sitka, Alaska.

Posted by jgtripper - Wed Nov 7, 2007 11:01:34 PST

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Fishing in Washington

Ron Miller of Bakersfield boated 3 salmon on Oct. 4th on the Sol Duc River near Forks, WA. The largest of the 3 is this 35 lb King Salmon

Posted by ronm - Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:12:33 PDT

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Montana trout

My name is Jack Anderson, and I live here in Bakersfield (since 1961) and I am 46 years old. The attached picture is a stringer of Rainbow trout that I recently (10/10/07) caught from Carpenter Lake near the town of Eureka...

Posted by Anderson69 - Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:24:25 PDT

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Fishing Photo

Trustin Smith age 25 from Bakersfield CA Caught this 9.5 pound catfish in the lower Kern River on September 15,2007 using nightcrawlers for bait.

Posted by bakersfieldnana - Mon Oct 15, 2007 13:13:15 PDT

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Sam and I Fishing the Killer Kern

Sam and I were fishing on the Kern River just south of the bridge at Johnsondale when we hit the jackpot. We hope this will make it in the paper.

Posted by ezduzit571 - Mon Oct 15, 2007 08:33:18 PDT

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Will Herders Sitka Halibut

Will Herder and his father Bob of Keene, fished Sitka Alaska in June with Kingfiher Charters. Will caught this 87-pound Halibut on the first day in 425 feet of water.

Posted by HerderRo - Fri Sep 14, 2007 16:13:00 PDT

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Will's first Salmon

Posted by HerderRo - Fri Sep 14, 2007 16:11:43 PDT

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Catch of the week

Hi, we were fishing at Hedrick Pond — by Balch Park — and caught 19 rainbow trout. They were all 9 inches or bigger. This was on July 5, 2007. We used spinners and salmon eggs. Our hometown is Bakersfield. Our names are...

Anonymous user - Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:10:47 PDT

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Successful Fishing Trip

Meihua (pictured) and Morris Scharff (from Ridgecrest, CA) caught twelve fish on the Lower Kern River (just below the Dam) last Thursday, September 6th... The catch included four rainbow trout, four catfish and four bass. All of the...

Posted by hoss1234 - Tue Sep 11, 2007 17:11:02 PDT

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Catch of the Week

Buttonwillow farmer, Tim Thomson, caught, fought and released this 15 lb Pargo, in the Sea of Cortez, off Tortuga Island, near Santa Rosalia, Mex. on August 10 th. Aboard the "Poor K" skippered by Randy Parker was Tim's son...

Posted by bigfish - Fri Sep 7, 2007 12:16:45 PDT

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fishing in Alaska

Jon Claxton caught this sockeye salmon on a recent trip with his dad and three friends on the Walker River above Lake McDonald, which is thirty minutes by floatplane from Ketchikan, Alaska

Posted by dennisclaxton - Fri Sep 7, 2007 10:05:17 PDT

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Catch of the Week

Christian Balasis, age 4 (with a little help from his Dad) caught his first fish - a 5 lb. catfish during a camping trip to Lake San Antonio in July. He caught his fish using mackrel for bait. The Balasis Family...

Posted by dailyreader - Mon Aug 27, 2007 16:35:08 PDT

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LOTS OF FISH!

Anonymous user - Mon Aug 27, 2007 16:30:51 PDT

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Morro Bay Shark

Madison and Morgan Greene caught this 37 inch Leopard Shark in Morro Bay on July 28. She was using her grandpas rod with 25 lb test line and cut up mackerel. It took 10 minutes to land. The shark was shared with family...

Posted by greenebhs7 - Mon Aug 20, 2007 15:30:41 PDT

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Fishing in Sitka, Alaska

This was a 42 lb King Salmon I caught while fishing in Sitka, Alaska August 17th 2006. It was the biggest King Salmon caught on the trip.

Posted by srlewis1 - Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:40:25 PDT

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Young fisherman

Here is my 14-year-old grandson, Edvin Lynch, an exchange student from Sweden, learning how cool and relaxing the Kern River Canyon can be on this hot summer weekend. He is an outstanding Motocross rider in Europe and finished 4th...

Posted by citizenjournalist - Mon Aug 6, 2007 13:05:54 PDT

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TODD SCHROCK AND CATFISH

Todd Schrock Bakersfield, CA June 2007 Don Pedro Lake (by Sonora) Catfish Over 5# Piece of hotdog

Posted by gma - Mon Jun 25, 2007 15:26:28 PDT

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52# White Sea Bass