HOT SHOTS

Photographic Memories Of Fun Days Afield And On The Water

WE ENJOY SEEING pictures of your fishing and hunting accomplishments—and learning the stories behind them. Please e-mail us your images, along with any relevant details (who, what, where and when), and we’ll post them on Instagram and publish our favourites here.

While fishing with his father on Alberta’s Shiningbank Lake this past July, 11-year-old Ryker Landman of Whitecourt, Alberta, hauled in this jumbo yellow perch. Says proud dad Dane Landman, who photographed the moment: “It was a great day on the lake with his friends, and a smashing result, with his perseverance paying off!”

Beginner angler Jessica Tratnik says she’s totally hooked on fishing after catching this 19½-inch smallmouth bass this past October on Sudbury, Ontario’s Vermilion Lake. “It put up a good fight!” says the Thunder Bay woman, who was fishing with her boyfriend (and the photographer), Jason Carbone. “I can’t wait to get back out on the water.”

Chapleau, Ontario’s Max Bertrand asked a local angler to take this photo of the gorgeous Atlantic salmon he brought to hand at the famed St. Marys Rapids in Sault Ste. Marie this past August. Max says the silver beauty fell for a four-inch, split-tail soft-plastic minnow in smelt pattern, pinned to a 3⁄8-ounce swimbait jig head. OC

Two summers ago, then 12-year-old Jack Burns boated this 40-inch pike on the Rideau River south of Ottawa while fishing with his uncle, David Burns, who took the photo. “He caught the pike on a 20-year-old Helicopter Lure that was in the bottom of my tacklebox,” David says of his nephew, who hails from Havelock, Ontario. “He caught a few big fish that day on it!”