Favorite Photo While Out Fishing

[djkimmel]

That's a master angler!!

[csfishslayer]

I have herd that a few time. it tip the scale at around like 18 lbs. How would you find out if it was a master angler

[Bender]

http://www.michigandnr.com/MasterAngler/
Looks like it is a master angler fish, by a long ways!
I forgot, I have to post a photo:

[Buckeye]

Just to chime in about McCarter's experience, you would be 100% right!  You were very lucky not to have been struck by lightning. 

I was fishing out of Ruggles Reef in Huron, Ohio a few years ago, and decided to wrap up due to a storm coming in.  River Walker was with me, and we headed in when a boat came flying off the water.  It had stayed out too long, and they were west of us and closer to the storm.  They had been hit by lightning, and three guys were injured none seriously.  I remember the pictures we saw later.  The rod looked like it was a bundle of burnt hair. 

Eric

[River Walker]

 I've been bald ever since that day!

[dashaver63]

I think I saw the pictures on the OGF website of that. The rod looked like a black, hairy birds nest wrapped around the reel. The guy had fiberglass all in his face, pretty nasty.

[River Walker]

 You're right,it was on OGF.Buckeye and I passed the three of them on our way back to CCM,I remember telling Eric that I couldn't believe those dudes were staying out.Somehow or another they did make their way back into the marina before us(we were only using a 40hp).Once Buckeye and I cruised into the marina,there was already one ambulance there,and we could hear at least one more in the distance.I can't even begin to imagine what it was like getting all those fiberglass shards removed from that one guys face and arms! Graphite and lightning are never a good mix,thankfully,we later heard that all three of them were okay-pretty scary stuff.

[River Walker]

 That was an interesting day for sure,but in all my years of fishing,if I could recapture one moment on film-my choice would be easy.Eric,you know what I'm going to say! A couple of summers ago,I was fishing Pleasant Hill Lake in central Ohio with a buddy(RocknFish).It was a pretty uneventful day as far as the fishing went,just a few smaller bass.We were making our way down a wooded shoreline when my buddy noticed a length of mono about 6' or so hanging off a low-hanging tree branch.Well being the conservationist he is,he decided to remove the old line worrying that a bird would get tangled up in it-nice guy huh? A mili-second after he yanked the line,a huge swarm of totally peeed off hornets descended on him like a plague.Dude had irate hornets crawling in his nostrils and ears and since he was shirtless,they had plenty of area to attack.Why he just didn't go over the side is still a mystery.I was sitting up on the bow watching this all go down,trying to watch for any sneak attacks on me which never came,they seemed to know who the guilty party was.The look on Aaron's face at the moment of attack! All I heard was "Oh ****!",and it was on.I keep telling him it's alright to laugh about it now,one day maybe he'll agree-lol!

[WayneC]

It just can't get any better than this for me...my daughter Alison hooked up with this walleye while fishing Strawberry Ridge in 2003.  She had one of those days where everything went right and this was just the icing on the cake.

There are a lot of other categories we could get into also:

Best on-the-water disaster photo
Best fishing photo of 2008
Smallest catch (any species)
Best fishing outfit (hat, shirt, cold weather gear)
Best salt water fishing photo
...and on and on...

Fun stuff!