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ducks
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Nice!!
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missmolly
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What a beautiful fish! Love its golden flanks backdropped by the bluest sky and your shining smile.
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Jeriatric
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From my perspective you did great. My personal best was 23 inches and it wasn't on a fly outfit.
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QueticoMike
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Nice one! Thanks for sharing!
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timatkn
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Congrats
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halvorsonchristopher
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Good looking fish! I'm sure you managed to find others to eat!
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carmike
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Nice fish...and even cooler on a fly rod!
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shock
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what an awesome catch !!
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scat
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Beautiful pic. I like it!
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bobbernumber3
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Nice walleye and wonderful picture. As a soloist, how many takes did you shoot to get your photo?
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missmolly
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Hillbilly: "  27" eastern wind blown Suzanette on a rapala taildancer in a heavy wind chop. Let er go to swim another day."
Sweet petunias, that's a beautiful fish! The color is incredible. And thanks for releasing it!
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Bumstead
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Beautiful catches, gentlemen, and great entries into the memory banks, I'm sure.
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Hillbilly
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27" eastern wind blown Suzanette on a rapala taildancer in a heavy wind chop. Let er go to swim another day.
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Hillbilly
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that is an absolute hog congrats. On the fly no less!
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missmolly
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nlong and hillbilly, those are two of the best fish photos I've seen on this site. I keep clicking on them! The colors are so vivid and there's so much to engage the eye in each.
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Jackfish
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Niiiiiiice! Aren't big fish fun? :)
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thegildedgopher
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missmolly: "nlong and hillbilly, those are two of the best fish photos I've seen on this site. I keep clicking on them! The colors are so vivid and there's so much to engage the eye in each. " '
X2, nice catches & photos!
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nlong
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amhacker22: "Fantastic!
I'm curious about how you caught it. I just started fly fishing in the last month, so forgive my newb-ness.
Do you cast it, let it drop, and just slowly strip it in moving it along the bottom? Do you troll it? Are you working it suspended mostly?
No matter how you did it, GREAT FISH!!"
I caught this one trolling with my 7wt rod as I was paddling to the spot I was going to fish. I caught plenty others with casting, counting out for the depth and the sink rate of the line, and then slowly retrieving. I was snagging bottom quite a few times, but was able to get it unhooked by paddling up past where I was snagged and got my streamer free. The only streamers I lost were to the toothy pike. I also lost a huge pike or walleye as I didn't get a good hookset. It hit so hard it ripped the line from my hands before I could grasp it harder to try to set the hook. Only had it on for about 8 seconds before I lost it. Whatever it was, it was huge.
I also brought my 9wt rod for pike fishing and used it on Kiana lake. I day tripped into Kiana one afternoon and caught 4 pike in the 20+ range and one 30". Was hoping for larger, but was still satisfied as it was my first time fishing that lake.
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timatkn
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Hillbilly: " 27" eastern wind blown Suzanette on a rapala taildancer in a heavy wind chop. Let er go to swim another day."
Love that lake. Nice fish!
T
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nlong
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On my trip this year at the end of May, I caught this 24” fat walleye on Hatchet Lake, on a fly rod. Full sink line with a jointed black woolly bugger. Was a shame I was solo as it was twice what I could eat myself. 
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lundojam
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NICE!
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walllee
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Nice fish and a great picture!
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mastertangler
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What a great catch on a fly rod. Well done, terrific picture!
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amhacker22
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Fantastic!
I'm curious about how you caught it. I just started fly fishing in the last month, so forgive my newb-ness.
Do you cast it, let it drop, and just slowly strip it in moving it along the bottom? Do you troll it? Are you working it suspended mostly?
No matter how you did it, GREAT FISH!!
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