Time for a year in review

[Captmikestarrett]

The spring of 2010 brought many crappie to the boat.

And many LGMouth too.

A shorter than normal spider crappie season jumped right into some quality monster blue cats.


And a few convict bass as well.

By June 1st the warm weather shut down the monster cat bite and I began some really outstanding backwater topwater LGMouth fishing.



Mid summer heat made the cypress trout very aggressive.
Almost 9 cypress trout to every 2 LGMouth this summer.


Had few snakeheads also.

Sharks ate it up too with the lack of rain.


Taking a vacation I headed up to CT for some tuna on the fly and sadly did not score but still had a great time with those well lite up convict bass. They are very pretty up north BTW.

But as summer ended and the monster cats got on the feed early we had some 500 lb days. Followed by some of the hardest fishing I have seen in late fall. But one more trip to go till it is all over..


This what it looks like from my boat now..

The sun sets on yet another year. Prehaps they get shorter each year.

Happy Holidays all.
Capt Mike

[MIbasser]

Capt sounds like a great year!!

[Chancho]

Thanks for the pics, Mike. You're right about the years getting shorter. Wasn't too long ago that Spring was just around the corner. Best of luck with the rest of the year and 2011.

"The years creep slowly by, Lorena"

[WTL]

Awesome thread Cap't! Really like the picturesque cypress trout photos, beautiful fish no matter what their social standing is.

I think it would be a great idea for others, if they have the time and the pictures, to do their own year in review threads. I'll try sometime before Christmas, the year aint quite over down here and I somehow lucked out a 6 pound lmb last week (I was sure it was a bowfin when it hit, acted just like one), so I'll wait until I'm for sure done catchin in 2010.