I've taken some pretty good fish pictures over the years...my general theory is take as many pics as you can and eventually one of them will turn out decent. I guess I've started to get better at it by trial and error, I'd be the last one to write any sort of tech article on the subject...but I know 'good' when I see it and I'm sure you do too.

Sometimes it's the fish that makes the pic as in the case of fishng1's avatar...

Sometimes the fisherman as in the case of Piper's...

To me, the best pics are the ones that made me ask myself 'how many sick days do i have left?' when i was still working...damn you, Bob!!