‘Merry Fishmas’ everyone! It’s been a hot minute, but I used to try and do something fishy every December on one platform or another. I thought I’d done enough fish for a while, but they reeled me back in, and how could I not? And just for fun, here’s probably the most ambitious one I ever did—I think the phylogeny still mostly holds up! Also, did you see that? The ‘reeled’ thing? […]

Striped Bass (3″ figure by Replica Toy Fish)

This post will look at another of the figures released in April of 2015, the striped bass Morone saxatillis. After the initial twelve figures, this is the only species released that would be best thought of as marine, or at least less ‘freshwater’ than any other figure in the series (although many are catadromous or anadromous, or may range back and forth). This is also the last RTF figure […]

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Caught my first White Bass on the Hocking River. Landed him right after sunset. I used a 200 gr OPST head with a 5 foot floating polyleader on a 4 wt Reddington butterstick v3. The fly is visible in the corner of its mouth.

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