What's the biggest fish you've ever caught, and what was the story behind it?
Feb 16, 2024 14:00:43 #
Mauwehu
Loc: Norwalk Ct
MindfulMuser2246 wrote:
I don't have much to brag about, so for now just want to hear from more experiences anglers. Maybe as an inspiration for those days when it feels like I'm never getting a bite.
Charter in the Bahamas. Worst sea day ever. Even the 20 year olds couldn’t stand up. Picture is back in the harbor.
Feb 16, 2024 14:19:57 #
Papabear65
Loc: Salem oregon
My largest fish was caught when I was 14 years old. My father and I were on the Columbia River at Bonneville dam here in Oregon and I was successful in landing a 5'7 white sturgeon. This was back in 1979 when the retention limits on sturgeon and the Columbia River were anything over 3 ft and under 6 ft
Feb 16, 2024 15:27:22 #
Omaryam2
Loc: Wi
Got a 47 1/2” musky pitching a Rapala Sliver in Lake Elizabeth in Oneida County WI. Won the “prestigious” HEAD tournament. Bigger, got a 58” Wahoo trolling out of Key Largo on a charter. The musky was a better catch…and release
Feb 16, 2024 15:57:37 #
OregonBob
Loc: Oregon
My biggest trout: 18.5 brown from a lake in Chile; my biggest fish: 450 lb blue marlin on a heavy salmon rod with 40 lb test; on Sea of Cortez; 9 hours to land it
Feb 16, 2024 16:00:17 #
TooMuch
Loc: NE Alabama
Not my biggest, but my best catch was a flathead cat below L. Ray Robert's. I was crappie fishing off the side wall 15' above the water line. Have to cast a light jig across the rushing current, hold the rod above my head to keep the line outta the flow, let the jig fall when, BAM!
6LB test on a 5'6" ultra light. Took forever to land it but several fellow fishers coached me along the way.
After the land, the jig fell out like nothing. When I reeled in my slac, the jig fell off the line like it was melted. The fish was estimated to be 45#, but no accurate weight actually made. The only scale present bottomed out at 35#!. Best catch ever!
6LB test on a 5'6" ultra light. Took forever to land it but several fellow fishers coached me along the way.
After the land, the jig fell out like nothing. When I reeled in my slac, the jig fell off the line like it was melted. The fish was estimated to be 45#, but no accurate weight actually made. The only scale present bottomed out at 35#!. Best catch ever!
Feb 16, 2024 16:30:23 #
VHP53
Loc: North myrtle Beach South Carolina
34" barracuda & a 4' - 5' tarpon that took all my line and snapped it, both @ the No Name Channel in Big Pine Key (the Florida Keys). Largest freshwater, a 20 carp.
Feb 16, 2024 16:39:10 #
bapabear wrote:
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That's a wonderful narrative Sir ! 👍my biggest And Best weighed in at 129lbs still my world record ! I mean my My Beautiful Wife Gloria ,with our youngest son Jacob ,5-6 months ago out Morro Bay ,, Good Luck to Fishing Still !!😁🙏👍🤙25lb Roosterfish out of Loreto B.C.
Feb 16, 2024 17:39:33 #
Not my biggest, but very fun. I once caught a 28 lb buffalo, which is like a carp, while catching crappies during the mayfly hatch with a 4 weight flyrod and a 4 lb test tippet. Fought that fish for over an hour as I couldn't really put much pressure on him.
Feb 16, 2024 17:41:02 #
Daveyduck
Loc: California
Fishing with my wife in the rain, I say "it's raining lets go" then I said you have way to much weights on,then I said way to much bait on, 20 minutes later her pole was being drugged down the bank,I ran after the pole,and snagged it,gave the pole to my wife, talking to her,keep your pole up,don't horse 🐎 it,I grabbed the net and we landed a 91/rainbow trout good times
Feb 16, 2024 17:42:17 #
Feb 16, 2024 18:02:04 #
Daveyduck
Loc: California
Me,I was fishing in Alaska, float plane, in a tent, with a guide service, The guide offered to tie my hooks,I said no thanks, fishing off a small boat, togiak river, Alaska, Indian reservation ,met some very nice alaskan natives big ladies, I landed 2 hogs king salmon in 20 minutes ,then I told the fishing guide Iam done,the guide says keep fishing, I said Iam done,later on the natives chief says you will marry one of my daughters, the ladies I spoke to earlier, I took the next plane out of there, haha
Feb 16, 2024 18:02:33 #
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Feb 17, 2024 08:05:37 #
my largest fish that was landed was a 45 in rockfish but a few years back some friends and i went out of atlantic beach and fought a 12 foot blue marlin fought it for about 2hrs got it to the boat twice but never got the mate to touch the leader
Feb 17, 2024 13:52:51 #
Not the largest fish, but it was only 3.2lbs which at that time was a record. No camera's, no news reporter, not even a local tv station, came to see it. I was weighed on a set of legal scales, and it tasted the same as smaller crappie. Jigging around some gum trees in the lake, filled with caterpillar's. The fish was popping them when they hit the water. I did have a bit of trouble getting it up out of the water. Then I hit the gunnel with the fish, and it came off the hook and fell in the boat. LUCK!
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