I went smallie fishing the other day. I was dragging small tubes along the bottom, and I kep getting really subtle bites, so I switched to a 2" power minnow on a small jig, and caught probably 95 rock bass in short order. Then if felt a huge thump, so I swung for the fences, and ended up with a 30" muskie. The next day I went back out, caught a ton more rock bass, and another nice little muskie. You would not believe how fun it is fighting muskies on a light/moderate fast action trout rod. Ended the second day by finally getting a couple little smallies. Pretty fun couple of days.

Any pictures of those Musky?

Muskies go straight back, no pics. They were already exhausted after the fight anyways.

That's why I always have my camera ready to go, won't take me more than 5-10 seconds to take a picture... But if you were by yourself you wouldn't have gotten a good picture anyways! Glad you had a good day of fishing!

If a fish is big enough and you are alone a quality picture can be difficult.  Toting a camera around on tripod while fishing from shore is going to reduce your fishing time, too much stuff to lug around.

In some cases you have to be careful of posting pics, there are powers that can and have tracked violators down.  In Florida some species over 40" cannot be removed from the water even for a photo op.  Several years ago an individual posted a pic of a fish and indicated it was kept, caught out of season, not within the slot limit and spear fished it.  He was fined over 4 figures as the story goes.

Nice job! 

If a fish is big enough and you are alone a quality picture can be difficult.  Toting a camera around on tripod while fishing from shore is going to reduce your fishing time, too much stuff to lug around.

In some cases you have to be careful of posting pics, there are powers that can and have tracked violators down.  In Florida some species over 40" cannot be removed from the water even for a photo op.  Several years ago an individual posted a pic of a fish and indicated it was kept, caught out of season, not within the slot limit and spear fished it.  He was fined over 4 figures as the story goes.

Was it a snook?

A tarpon cannot be removed from the water if it's larger than 40", I suppose it would have to be measured first in the water.

The fish was a snook the was caught out of season, not slot and spearfished and forget to mention no fishing license.  I had heard it was $2500 fine in total, I can't confirm that.