What is your Grand Slam?

The Wife of 55 years
The Two Sons
The Two Grandsons
The New Great Grandson born two weeks ago whom we’ll be meeting on our way home in, what’s that Hon…,
yeah OK, 12 days, 4 hours +/-, taking into consideration multiple time zone changes.
Yeah, it’s all Good.
 
Perhaps my best "slam" was a steelhead, a bull trout, a sea-run cutthroat and coho (all wild fish) the same day on the same fly during a season when it would have been legal to retain them all!

Seriously doubt we will ever again see the status of those species ever be such were it will be legal to take them all.

Curt
 
Three fishing trips to three lakes, same Olive Willy (that had maybe two hackle strands, threadbare body and no tail) finally broken off tippet by a tail-walking rainbow.

I sometimes wonder why I bother to fish or tie any other pattern.
 
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In 1989 or maybe 1990 there was a huge invasion of what we called army worms in NE Minnesota. Fish did not seem to like the caterpillars but the moths were another story.
Lake Superior near surface fishing is very dependent on water temperature and the temperature tends to change dramatically when the wind blows from the west (cools off) or east ( can get too hot). A massive moth fall coincided with perfect 52-54 degree surface temperatures and made for three epic days. Dead calm and schools of fish rising everywhere and not the least bit selective. On the first day I cast my usual krocodile spoons to surfacing fish and did well. The second day a #10 elk hair caddis caught 8 coho, 3 lake trout, a steelhead, a four pound feeder chinook, and a five pound Atlantic Salmon. In addition I lost what had to have been either an adult chinook or a ten pound plus lake trout that was too much for the five weight.

The best days fishing I have ever had or hope to ever have. Then the wind blew hard from the west and it was all over.
 
Had really (really) good dry fly fishing on a recent trip to Utah. Lots of browns between 16 and 22 inches, a few good bows, and (for the slam on one day) a cutthroat! Guide we fished with on our last day said he had not seen a cutthroat in 2 years of guiding, so I guess this was a rare "slam." One of the smallest fish of the trip, but the prettiest of all, so the only one I photographed.
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Rainbows in the morning, birdies and pars in the afternoon, whiskey and guitars by the campfire with pals.
Or, my wife and two great daughters.
Think think think….
 
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Coho, Chinook, chum, sea run cutthroat and steelhead ... not accomplished..
 
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