Here's what a really big peacock (20 lbs) looks like! (But it was caught many moons after eric caught the impressive 12 lb er during the Pasomoni/? trip of 1997)

   
"Here's my long time buddy Todd Groshong proving that fly fishing the back country pays off - summer vacation in the Sangres (Colorado) yielded 3 fish at 21" and 4-5 pounds each. These cuts (cutthroat trout) were caught in the top beaver pond about a mile below a lake at 11,400' well known to have 4-8 lb fish."

Gang, If you are here...then you can see what is probably the world record piranha caught on ultralight tackle. A four pounder, caught on 6 pound test with ultralight tackle. The lure was a 1/8 ounce panther martin. The location was the Cinaruco River, in Western Venezuela, during lunch break.
Lunch was delicious as well. CH

   
This fish is the prehistoric bowfin (also know as grindel, mudfish, dogfish, cypress trout, and blackfish) a real battler that has lungs as well as gills. They'll jump on land in a heartbeat. This is my largest to date, a 13 pounder, caught in the Waccamaw River near Longs, South Carolina on a slow-rolled spinnerbait. Bowfin have small teeth and a very bony mouth,making them difficult to hook as well as land.

This is my buddy Bob Hohl, showing me what a Fat Snook looks like on my first adventure to Costa Rica. We stayed at the world famous Casa Mar lodge (owned by the more renowned Bill Barnes!) and fished with our good friend and Guide Lefty Perez. We were jigging these babies up on the Rio Colorado near agua dulce. Bob and I are both fairly accomplished fishermen but Lefty regularly out fishes us without hardly trying. His sense of humor is at least as well developed as his aptitude for corralling fish.

Here's a picture of me holding up an 8 lb Common Snook. The biggest fish caught by either Bob, Lefty or myself on our trip to Rio Colorado. Proof that I'm either a fast learner or pretty lucky!

An extremely poor photo of me hoisting two American Shad caught on the lower Cape Fear River. Each Spring thousands of these beauties run up river (inland) to spawn and the fishing can get fast and furious. Shad are very bony but the flesh is delicious with a texture similar to salmon. I was hooked on them at an early age by my Grandmother...who loved fresh shad and shad roe. One big bonus to catching shad is that you can move downriver, cut them up and catch some nice blue catfish!

Here's I am holding a Jaguar Guapote. Caught on a spinnerbait on Lake Arenal near Fortuna, Costa Rica. Arenal is a volcano.....we saw it erupt, very casually one night. Impressive!

Here's two barrels of fish, Fat Snook, just part of our last day's haul of 178 fish caught on the Rio Colorado in Costa Rica. We stayed at the world famous Casa Mar lodge. This occured in January of 2000. The three of us caught 15 fish the first day, 58 the second day and 178 on the third day. Just goes to show what can happen on a river when the water level drops.