South Lake, near Grande Rond, Ore., provided "a full day of fun with a jar of Pautzke's and a bobber," reports Jason Harris who snapped friend Mckenzie Moorehead with one of the stockers they caught. "We lost count after 50 or so fish. Lots of double hookups." (LAZER SHARP PHOTO CONTEST)

Hayden Wolf is probably still smiling. The 10-year-old from Adna, Wash., bagged his first buck in his first year hunting with one 90-yard shot from his .243. The third-generation hunter was hunting in the Fall River Unit with his father and grandfather. (HI-VIZ PHOTO CONTEST)

"I'm beginning to see a lot more bigger-than-the-norm antlered whitetail deer in the Palouse," reports Vincent Bator of Warden, Wash., after last fall's season where his wife, Terri, bagged this buck following a tricky stalk near wary does. (HI-VIZ PHOTO CONTEST)

Hunting on public land across the lakes from Seattle, Tim Miller provided in fall 2007 with a single 175-yard shot on this 3x4 blacktail. "It was only after I got up to it that I realized how big it was," the hunter writes. (HI-VIZ PHOTO CONTEST)

George Schroeder - who's caught a few nice steelies in his life - calls this 38.5x18.5 Sol Duc nate the "best fighting fish of my career!" The Olympia man was fishing eggs under a bobber with guide Mike Zavadlov. (LAZER SHARP PHOTO CONTEST)