John Kelley

Here is my whole wall, with my 29 pound king from last year as well as my 9.5 pound walleye. Pike and Walleye are both from South Dakota waters. Crappie was caught from Greers Ferry Arkansas, and of course both salmon are from the Oak!! I will add my 14 pound brown and 13 pound steelhead replicas to this wall next summer. Both also from the Oak!!

Here are some pretty cool action shots.

Yeah, it was too rough for them to board me, so they just asked to see my life jackets!!

Well, I have had a really fantastic time fishing Lake Ontario the last two summers, and will hate to leave the Empire state at the end of the year. I figured I could at least leave some images of my 2013 season, which was highly successful for this old walleye convert. I hope you enjoy some of these pics. Thanks for looking

Pike was 26 pounds and 45" long. It was all spawned out or it would have weighed more. Caught it from the Missouri river in April, right after ice out, on a large, frozen smelt.

Nice looking bunch of birds!

And is residing on the wall below my pike and crappie mount. Jeff Frisby did a super job on this fish!!

No problem, no offense taken. Two year birds usually have fairly long spurs that are fat and pretty dull. The older birds get the good, pointy spurs that get all thin and fight ready!

Basically by the spurs, and this guy had long spurs that came to a really narrow and sharp point. No, Juvie or first year spurs never come close to even a two year spur. They are usually just short, rounded nubs. The three I shot today were all first year birds. You can kind of see the spurs on the pic with them lying in the field.

Well, I figured I might as well update my NY friends about my trip home to South Dakota to take my boat back home and do some pheasant killing! Drove all day Saturday and finally finished the 1250 mile drive by 11:45 p.m. central time. Set my clocks back, and slept my butt off!! Sunday I watched my hapless Viking almost pull out a victory in Dallas, and then decided to try road hunting in some ditches close to my town. Didn't have much daylight, but started to walk some ditches anyways. Ended up flushing and shooting one really nice 3 year old bird, but that is all I saw before sunset. I plan to start earlier today, and will be updating this thread with bird pics throughout the week. Thanks

Nice, two years too late, but better than never, I guess!!

Wow, check out the mangled dorsal fin on that beast!! Must be a bigger beast than that one, out there as well!! Beautiful Musky, man!!

Will do, Bob, going to get the word out about Lake Ontario, for sure!

Thanks everyone, I will truly miss this great fishery, and the great fishermen and women that utilize it!

Thanks man, yeah you guys on lake O have a really special brotherhood going up here. I am really going to miss my new fishing family when I am gone!!

Yeah, we saw you guys, and we were hootin and hollerin' together!! We were awfully proud of you guys for gutting it out all day in those conditions!!! Nicely done, hardcore anglers right there!!

Yeah, too bad we were not able to slam some salmon together, man!!

Thanks Andy, I appreciate it, buddy!!

Thank you, sir, and the same wishes to you.

Here are some pics of our pretty first mate Saturday evening. Kim had never caught a King salmon before. We fixed that good!!LOL

Hahaha, you mean this one, brother??