Biggest fish?

[fishingman10]

whats the biggest fish you've ever caught?

 

[JB]

Re: Biggest fish?

Hey, Fishingman, you have really opened one here! This thread will end up with a hundred posts.<br /><br />My biggest fish haven't always been my most exciting catches. <br /><br />I have caught two bluegills over 2lb. (fly rod) <br /><br />Sailfish , unknown weight, about 70", on a spoon casting for dolphin with a freshwater casting rod. <br /><br />Chinook salmon, 37lb. <br /><br />Largemouth bass, 10lb on a cane pole (age 10)<br /><br />Muskie, 40". <br /><br />Blue Marlin, est. 275lb on 20# trolling tackle (fishing for dolphin again). <br /><br />Dolphin, 40lb. <br /><br />Blacktip shark. TOO BIG! <br /><br />Red sky at night. . .<br />JB

 

[Tackle Box]

Re: Biggest fish?

This is going to be fun reading what wil be posted.<br /><br />As for me, I can truthfully say I have caught :<br /><br /><br />Sturgen 146 inches on 50 lb test.<br /><br />Chinook Salmon 52 lb on 10 lb test.<br /><br />Channel cat fish 20 lb on 8 lb test.<br /><br />Steelhead 16 lb on 6 lb test.<br /><br />Trout 3 lb on 2 lb test.<br /><br />Bass 4 lb I catch these by the hundreds, but am dying to find the big boys that seem to be native to the Southern lakes/rivers only.

 

[12Footer]

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8# Largemouth.<br />35# snnok<br />80# Jewfish<br />12# Red.

 

[BearcatMLA]

Re: Biggest fish?

I'd have to say...<br /><br />Largemouth Bass: 6lb 6oz.<br />Smallmouth Bass: about 3lb.(didn't weigh it)<br />Catfish: 29lb.<br /><br />All caught on 10lb. test line.<br /><br />

 

[fishthebay]

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35lbs Rockfish "Stripped Bass" - Caught Chesapeake Bay bridge tunnel in VA last year.<br /><br />Hey the season opens next week. 4 months of pure excitement......

 

[MGuckin]

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Below Moss Bluff Dam in Ocklawaha, Florida this summer. Gator about 4' long, fishing for bass using a wild shiner about 7" long..... it refused the scale and I didn't argue and nope I didn't unhook it either.<br />Large mouth bass 9 lbs. 7 oz. Moodus Reservoir in Connecticut 1978. <br />Bluefish 21 lbs. 5 oz. Long Island Sound 1996.<br />Striper 37 lbs. Long Island Sound 1996.<br />Bluegill 2lbs. 3 oz. off a spawning bed in Lake Weir, Ocklawaha, Florida this year on a small jig.<br />Crappie 3 lbs 1 oz. Lake Weir, Ocklawaha, Florida on a shiner this year.<br />Peacock bass in Silver Lake, Miami, Florida 4 lbs. 7 oz. (not big but very fiesty and pretty).<br />Dream fish is Halibut in Alaska and Peacock Bass in South America.

 

[Beernutz]

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Givin' us a lotta license here!?!?<br /><br />9.5# Largemouth bass<br />76# Atlantic Sailfish<br />58# Strawberry Grouper<br />48# Amberjack<br />42# Dolphin<br />38# Wahoo<br />36# Kingfish<br />30# Blackfin tuna<br />26# Bonita<br />24# Snook<br />13' Mako shark - Cut the leader & hit the throttle! Didn't wait around to weigh it. Got 2 full-body jumps out of it about 75' off the back of the boat, though. Still makes my heart race! Those monsters have been known to attack boats.<br /><br />All but the Largemouth and Snook were on 30# tackle. The others, except for the Grouper and Amberjack, were caught while trolling.

 

[mako]

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Gotta love them makos! My largest fish is about a 12 foot mako! Another day in early mornig just at sun up had a hell of a slick going and lots of sharks around the boat (mostly blues) then hooked a mako he broke water 300 feet back of the boat and came 15 feet out of the water and next thing I know I had the menhadden slide up the line and a blue shark chomped it, fish gone. I'm standing at the stern reeling in my cut line and the mako comes over the side and whacks into the outboard, missed me by a foot, I know he was aiming for me. <br /><br />Other Large:<br />Striper 48 pounds<br />Bluefish 20 pounds<br />Squeteage 12 pounds<br />Blackfish 12 pounds<br />Scup....many 3 pounds+<br /><br />Largemouth 5lbs. 10oz.<br />Pike guess about 15 pounds<br />pickeral 4lbs 8oz<br />Carp....dont know weight but had to break 20lbs. hear some people around here getting them in the 30+ range.<br /><br />Notable mention, my buddies 64 lb. striper off Point Judith.

 

[yensid]

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Dunno, honestly, I don't pay that much attention. I know, I know, kind of strange. I haven't had anything really worth making a big deal over in quite some time.<br /><br />Some of the more interesting catches, though:<br />I caught a inch and a half long minnow on a number 2 panther marten while fishing for smallmouth and walleye. That was funny <br /><br />A buddy of mine caught a swallow while we were fishing under a bridge. Same guy caught a mudpuppy while fishing on the mississippi. For anyone who hasn't seen one of those things, they look like a big, dirty, brown salamander. Thing felt like a log pulling it in, imagine his surprise!

 

[grandx]

Re: Biggest fish?

165 lb Halibut (Cooks Inlet, Alaska)<br />76 lb Wahoo (Port Isabel, TX)<br />50 lb King Mackeral (Port Aransas, TX)<br />26 lb Jack Crevelle, 10 lb line bass gear.<br /><br />Most other fish average or less<br /><br />grandx