1,000 Largemouth/Peacock in 316 Straight Days of Fishing!

[islandflyfisher]

I have caught at least one fish everyday for the past 316 days. My streak includes 5 permit(1 on artificial), 9 bonefish (2 on 4 lb test and 4 on fly), 6 tarpon (1 on fly) and 2 snook (on fly). It includes 46 species and 2,484 fish!

Today I hit the 1,000 largemouth/peacock mark, and passed it.
I caught 633 largemouth (77 on fly), and 377 peacock (220 on fly) during the streak.

This fish was only 6 ounces, but it was # 1,000!


Here are SOME of the best of the streak.

4 pound 15 ounce peacock on 4 weight



5 pound largemouth on spin


My first snook on fly



A double header by myself



7 pound bonefish on fly



A double header on 6 lb test with my dad on a different day



10 pound permit (on a day when I caught three; biggest permit was 11 pounds)



My biggest largemouth on fly at 3 pounds 8 ounces



15 pound barracuda on 10 pound test



4 pound largemouth I caught on a piece of bread

[texasbasser]

man.... I HAVE to go fishing with you.. Congrats on all the fish, and great ones they are.

[hackattack]

you have no idea how jealous I am, bro. Keep it up with the giants.

[crankybait]

WOW that is just fantastic. You actually made me go to advanced reply instead of the usual fast reply just to post this:

[Recon8541]

it would appear young grasshopper is learning well!! Keep up the great work youngster, You have already accomplished more than may who are several times your age!! I gotta go fishing....i cant let this kid whip me hehehehehehe!!!

Good job!
Recon

[Snake2715]

Wow,

That is great... Do you have aspirations of something related to the water and or fishing? Or is it just a hobby with Dad?

[K-Driz]

Congratulations! That's a lot of fish. Your skills are running on F (full, like a gas tank). Also, however ridiculous it is that you caught a bass on "bread," it is still amazing since you've taken the unconventional and made it work. Good job and keep the big'uns coming.

[Nitro911]

316 straight days of fishing? You have no idea how jealous that you have made a bunch of people.

Great job on both the streak and the number and species of fish caught. When I grow up, I wanna be you!

[islandflyfisher]

Originally Posted by K-Driz

Congratulations! That's a lot of fish. Your skills are running on F (full, like a gas tank). Also, however ridiculous it is that you caught a bass on "bread," it is still amazing since you've taken the unconventional and made it work. Good job and keep the big'uns coming.

I was fishing for a bream to throw at the bass because the bass wouldn't hit an artificial. It came up and ate the bread. My theory is that because there are a bunch of bream at the spot, he thought the bream were going to bust the bread and anticipated that the bream would eat it. I caught it on a size 12 hook!



Thanks guys!

[lizardsrule]

Congrats, that's a very great job indeed. I would like to know if these fish are from the same location, or are you fishing many different spots? In other words are you fishing the same canals or are you going out and fishing bigger lakes/rivers? And different locations where you don't know the lake or haven't ever fished it before.

Lizards

[betursweetbass]

I don't care where he's getting from, but I know for a fact, I'm suffering from a bad case of peacock envy.....

[islandflyfisher]

Originally Posted by lizardsrule

Congrats, that's a very great job indeed. I would like to know if these fish are from the same location, or are you fishing many different spots? In other words are you fishing the same canals or are you going out and fishing bigger lakes/rivers? And different locations where you don't know the lake or haven't ever fished it before.

Lizards

That 4 pound 15 ounce peacock was the first fish I ever caught out of that spot. I try new spots a lot. I fish a ton of different spots. If your question is did I catch the same fish over and over again then my answer is that I might have caught a few fish multiple times, but I can rarely tell. There is a fish that I know I caught more than once. It had some markings on its face and every time I caught it they were healed a little more. I almost always fish neighborhood lakes/canals, but that doesn't mean that they are in my neighborhood.

[mack]

wow..nice job..congrats...

[lizardsrule]

Originally Posted by islandflyfisher

That 4 pound 15 ounce peacock was the first fish I ever caught out of that spot. I try new spots a lot. I fish a ton of different spots. If your question is did I catch the same fish over and over again then my answer is that I might have caught a few fish multiple times, but I can rarely tell. There is a fish that I know I caught more than once. It had some markings on its face and every time I caught it they were healed a little more. I almost always fish neighborhood lakes/canals, but that doesn't mean that they are in my neighborhood.

Please accept my apologies if I came across badly(apparently I did). I was more interested in locations of different bodies of waters you might have fished. Let me expand on this a little. When living in Indiana I had access to a private 250 acre coal pit. I learned the lake like the back of my hand and almost always caught 20 bass or more when fishing it, and upwards of 50+. I would fish it a awful lot, and could usually catch fish in certain spots, and then would catch some in new spots. But the lake was a gold mine for me and bass. Not everyone who fished this lake did as well as I did, but it took me 1000's of hours to learn it. Now when I go to bigger lakes, I don't do near as well. There is more pressure, less fish, and all new locations I have to find. Now I have caught 20 bass in a day more than a couple of times, but I can't gaurantee it everytime out, and I can get skunked once in awhile. What I was leading up to was where you fish, and your knowledge of this body of water will make all the difference in the world as to how you do on any given day. That was not to diminish any accomplishment you have, in any way. So if you took offense again my aplogies, none were meant, what you have done is spectacular no matter where or how you got it done.

Lizards

[islandflyfisher]

That makes a lot more sense. In answer to your question, I definately know the water in my neighborhood extremely well. I learn more about it everyday. If you have noticed, the numbers of fish I have posted have gone down, but the numbers of big fish have gone up. I changed my focus. I realized that by fishing everyday I have an extreme advantage over anybody else that fishes most of the bodies of water I fish. I check new bodies of water sometimes and add the good ones to spots I check.