I love fish pictures, but I won't harm a fish to get one. One thing I have noticed is that ever since I started fishing out of a sled (dragging bait, side-drifting, whatever they call that) I have maybe got 1 or 2 pictures of wild fish in 10 years.

It seems like that method of fishing where you are always drifting along, even while you fight the fish, doesn't really give you a good opportunity for a grip-n-grin, unless you are willing to pull the boat over and jump out. Everyone I fish with (me included) wears xtra tufs, and they only go calf high. So 95% of the free-drifting wild fish we have caught I just have pulled along side the boat and de-hooked. Everyone would rather just keep fishing than get a picture of their fish.

I am going to try to get more pictures this winter, I have taken the last 2 winters off, so I am looking forward to getting more fish porn. In a sled that means pulling over and getting out.