Fishes of the YEAR announced

[BNature]

Black Bass
Largemouth Bass 25.9 Patoka River NWR (Pike)Mark Browning
Smallmouth Bass 23.0 Tippecanoe River (White)Richmond Sekach
Spotted Bass14.8Lake Monroe (Monroe)Michael Sturgill
Sunfish
Black Crappie (tie)18.0Geist Reservoir (Hamilton)Jacob Yonts
Black Crappie (tie)18.0Bushong Lake (Noble)Benjamin Kish
Bluegill 10.5Glendale FWA (Daviess)Dennis Thompson
Flier 5.0 Mud Creek (Daviess)Will Burch
Hybrid Sunfish10.8 Private Lake (Warrick) Brian Ranes
Northern Sunfish 4.0 unnamed ditch (Newton) Ron Anderson
Pumpkinseed 9.3 Round Lake (Steuben )Keyth Voirol
Redear Sunfish 11.1 Geist Reservoir (Marion) Min Lu
Rock Bass 9.8 White River (Madison)Randall Keiser
Warmouth 9.0 Chrisney Lake (Spencer) Brian Ranes
White Crappie20.0Geist Reservoir (Hamilton)Jacob Yonts
Catfish
Brown Bullhead 14.5 Clear Lake (Steuben)Rhys Morgan
Channel Catfish 37.5 Worster Lake (St. Joseph) Cameron Sly
White catfish 14.0 Bischoff Reservoir (Ripley)Ron Anderson
Yellow Bullhead 13.0 Private Pond (Tippecanoe)Mark Walker
Perch
Sauger 23.0Tippecanoe River (Fulton)Douglas Dohl
Walleye30.5Tippecanoe River (Pulaski) Mark Holbrook
Yellow Perch 15.3Lake Michigan (Lake)Benjamin Pierce
Logperch 5.5Tippecanoe River (Carroll) Mark Walker
Trout
Brown Trout 31.5 St. Joseph River (St. Joseph)Chris Peabody
Cisco17.3 Little Crooked Lake (Whitley)Robert Ecenbarger, Sr.
Lake Trout 41.3 Lake Michigan (LaPorte) Don Urbas
Rainbow Trout 24.5 Capital City Cons. Club (Johnson)Jeremy Gruner
Steelhead Trout 39.0 Lake Michigan (Porter)Theodore Fenicle II
True Bass
Hybrid Striped Bass32.0 White Lake (Johnson)Lena Kim
Striped Bass40.3Hardy Lake (Scott)Mason Neece
White Bass18.3Hoffman Lake (Kosciusko)Richard Hicks
Yellow Bass 8.5 Cataract Lake  (Putnam)Jim Butts
Pike 
Muskellunge 45.0 Bruce Lake (Fulton) Mark Holbrook
Northern Pike 43.0 Adams Lake (LaGrange)Scott Hebble
Redfin Pickerel 7.0 Heilsher Ditch (Jasper)Jeff Armstrong
Minnow
Black Buffalo 32.3 Tippecanoe River (Carroll) Craig Hulsey
Common Carp 40.5 Tippecanoe River (Pulaski)Mark Holbrook
Creek Chub 8.8 Campbell Creek (Delaware) Chris Gray
Golden Shiner 10.3 Glendale FWA (Daviess)Blake Thompson
Sucker
Golden Redhorse 25.5 Tippecanoe River (Pulaski) Mark Holbrook
Northern Hog Sucker 13.0 West Fork White River (Hamilton)Craig Bambrough
Quillback 18.0 Cicero Creek (Tipton)Craig Bambrough
River Redhorse 29.0 East Fork White River (Martin)Robert LeeSilver
Redhorse 23.0 Muscatatuck River (Jennings)Lane Kelley
White Sucker 19.5 Lake of the Woods (Marshall)Robert Ecenbarger, Sr.
Herring
Gizzard Shad 14.3 Wabash River (Tippecanoe) Liu He
Goldeye 16.5 Wabash River (Fountain)Mark Walker
Skipjack Herring 16.5 Ohio River (Warrick) Keith Rollins
Other
Bowfin 29.0 Tippecanoe River (Pulaski) Mark Holbrook
Longnose Gar 43.0 Wabash River (Tippecanoe)Liu He
Shovelnose Sturgeon 29.0 Ohio River (Clark) Joe Johnson
Spotted Gar34.0 Lake Webster (Kosciusko)Tom Tymorek

Notice, no one claimed the Gaspergoo certificate for 2020!  What up with that?  

[Dirty]

no coho or kings submitted either eh?

[CaptainMelissa22]

Where are we submitting? Haha. Great work Brother Nature!

[Dirty]

Submit to the DNR..  I did for a few years, everyone should.  It is in the DNR booklet every year.

https://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/3577.htm
 

[CaptainMelissa22]

Thanks all for sharing. Dumb blond moment! Haha

[BNature]

I've actually had two FOY gaspergoos caught on my boat. One of them was a friend of mine, a lawyer who fishes regularly and has caught plenty of big fish. We hooked the big 'goo while fishing for kings one September and he swore he had a big chinook almost until the fish was in the net. We measured it, photographed it and I surreptitiously submitted it to the FOY contest. He won, got his certificate suitable for framing and had a big photo of the fish made. It's on the wall of his office, next to his big deer mounts, turkey tails and a long-tailed South Dakota pheasant. 

Another time, I had a father and son on board and the youth had some mental disfunction. One of the young man's joys, however, was fishing so his dad brought him out with me to fish for a "big" fish. Again, a big gaspergoo bit and nearly wore the boy out - actually we caught several that day. I mentioned the FOY contest to the dad and he was all in. The dad sent in the paperwork and when his boy won, the dad told me the award was "better than Christmas."