Joe and his desire for catching fish made a pretty big impact on the lives of his kids, grandkids, and great grandkids. Growing up hearing the stories of the big catfish pretty much made me a fisherman for life. This page is basically just a few photos of some of our family members with fish that we've caught over the years. I haven't decided exactly how to sort all these out yet... so they're just all thrown on here for now.

If you have any family photos you want me to put up here, just drop 'em in an e-mail and I'll put 'em up here!

(Joe's son)

Here's a pretty nice bass.

Here's a nice channel cat caught "a while back" in Chariton.

Here are just a few of his typical stringers of channel cats.

Here's a really nice channel cat. He caught a flathead that same year that was at least twice as big. He didn't have his camera with him and he released it to be caught again another day.

Here are a few cats from 2005... pretty good year for catfishin'!

(Joe's son)

Here are just a few photos of Gary in Canada in 2006
with his sons Matt (on the right) and Adam (on the left)

(Joe's daughter-in-law)

Here's a nice channel cat caught in 2005 - 6.8 lbs.

(Joe's granddaughter)

Here's a big 29 lbs. flathead that Pam did not catch.
It was caught by her daughter's boyfriend in 2006.

(Joe's granddaughter)

Here's a nice stringer of Iowa catfish caught in 2000.

A couple of 2005 Iowa channel cats - 9.2 and 8.5 lbs.

(Joe's grandson)

Here's a small stringer of cats caught in Iowa in 2005.

2006 Kansas catfish - 7.2 lbs.

2004 Kansas pond largemouth

A typical rainbow from Lake Taneycomo
(the same lake I caught my first fish ever as a kid with my dad and grandpa Joe)

(Joe's grandson)

Here some more photos from Gary, Matt & Adam's trip to Canada in 2006.
(Thanks Matt!)

This is a seriously monster 'eye...

Awesome! If you've never been fishing in Canada, just look at this photo and you'll want to.

Another Canadian 'eye...

Now here's nice stringer of northerns, eh!
Not sure if he caught his limit or not.

(Joe's grandson)

A couple of nice shots of Adam on in first time fishin' up north in 2006.

... and a nice one of Adam and Matt...

(Joe's great-granddaughter)

A really nice Iowa channel cat from 2005 - 6.2 lbs.

(Definitely... no doubt about it!)