Pfish Loc: Phoenix

I caught a big old fish at Canyon Lake... it was huge. It was so big that it wouldn't even fit in the truck. I had to put it back so I can get Home. You know I wish I would have kept the fish... when i got home the wife was mad cause I didn't bring any fish back. "Can you go to the store and buy some fish for dinner" is what she said. Can you believe that?

NJ219bands Loc: New Jersey

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richardtuite Loc: kingston N.H.

14 foot blue shark a 3 hour fight while tuna fishing

Copper nose John Loc: Calvert Texas

Walked over to my buddies , Joes house from work next door and him and Wally his cousin and my manager Bart were drinking couple cold ones . Joe asks Wally if he was scared ? I didn’t have a clue but the next thing I knew me and Wally were in his boat on Lake aHouston with it white capping . We went just a little ways out when Wally told me to pitch the drag . Got the terrine instantly and 2 hooks to the left was a 52 pound blue catfish . As I pulled it in the boat on top of me a wave came over us . We made it , no one died ..

Copper nose John Loc: Calvert Texas

That was a big one . I caught one so big that when we got it out of the water with a rental crane , the lake dropped 6 inches .

Balzey

It was late fall of last year I was out on Old Hickory by myself I had caught several decent bas & stripe using 3/8 once steel shad that I use a lot once water temp gets around 50 degrees I got hit like a freight train he peeled drag for 100yd before I could check him up I was medium action 7’ rod 12#line after several more runs an hr later finally got him up.Sturgeon 6’ I would estimate 70#line broke no picture just another memory Tight Lines

And Marvin Loc: Lawrence, Ks

My clam to fame was a 73 inch halibut off the coast of Alaska.

BranMan Loc: Denver, CO

I was about 9 years old, living in Wyoming. My stepfather made me wake up at 4AM on a Saturday to go to a lake; I didn't want to because I didn't like fishing and certainly didn't like being woken up a 4 in the morning! I whined the whole way to the lake and made the trip miserable for both of us. Instead of fishing, I decided to chase grasshoppers which made him very angry. One of the hoppers flew out about 3 feet into the lake and almost immediately got eaten by a huge trout. My stepfather yelled at me that I was scaring the fish and blamed me for him not even getting a single nibble on his bait-i think he was using Velveeta cheese and salmon eggs. I decided that I'd put one of the hoppers on a hook and just casually tossed it into the lake. Less than a minute later, I snagged a 5 pound Rainbow and successfully reeled it in! My stepfather just looked at me with mouth agape and then laughed like a loon. Reeling in his line, he said, "Hand me one of them bugs kiddo." We both landed our limit before 7AM and when we got back home, I was allowed to go back to bed; slept until noon that day! That was the biggest fish I ever caught, 40+ years ago.

Chuck56 Loc: Texas

Wow Fred ! That’s a cool story ! Starkist get in touch with you about a sale ?

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

No Chuck, but the folks in my marina were waiting for some steaks when we drove in from Point Judith.

Chuck56 Loc: Texas

My biggest fish was a 34 pound bull red I caught when I was on Meacoms pier in the Gulf of Mexico back in October , 1983 . About 2 AM , me and a few guys I worked with at gulf oil were on the pier , when somebody’s clicker went off . I was the lucky guy . I was using a homemade Calcutta pole and a Penn reel. I can’t remember the model , but it was a dark red , no level wind . Maybe a 309. Anyway , long story short I finally managed to get that thing close enough to the pier and one of my buddies used a really large net with a really long handle managed to net it . It took both of us to lift it from the water to the deck . I weighed it , used some channel - locks to get the hook out and we put it in a cart , hauled it to the shallow end on the pier , picked it up and put it in the water . That thing took off like a torpedo.

NJ219bands Loc: New Jersey

The largest recorded blue shark measured 12.6 feet

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

Awesome story Chuck, and nice job letting the big one go. I know that they call them "Bull Reds" but if they're like most fish, aren't the biggest ones female?

MOCarper Loc: Missouri

Well, fortunately, both of mine were in Missouri!. The first was a 65lb paddlefish out of Truman lake trolling with dipsy divers, and a little older than that was a 33lb common carp-I was fishing for carp during the CAG (Carp Anglers Group) nationwide competition!. Gonna go catch a tarpon and white sturgeon someday, as well as a Wels catfish :)

MO

charles stone Loc: Ohio

My son and I caught Eight(True) Striped Bass one day from a local reservoir in Ohio in 1992. We kept the largest(son's fish of course) for mounting, caught a couple just shy of that one but kept the smallest for the table.(They are "excellent"!) All the others were released successfully. His big one was 46.5" and 25.8 pounds on a 1 oz. bucktail jig. We were mainly fishing smallish bluegills and crappie for bait.(They seemed to favor the crappie!-and yes, it was legal.) We had the big one mounted and it adorned my fireplace until destroyed in a house fire last Nov. My biggest "would have been" an estimated 25# pound King salmon caught in an eastern Lake Erie tributary but it subsequently was lost right at shore when a "Goof Samaritan"(pun intended!) hit it in the nose, after a 15 minute fight, with My net he'd picked up(unbeknownst to me!) laying by me on shore! The "completedly spent" fish suddenly got new Life, took off downstream for the lake, and the hook pulled out! I was using coho skeen from an 8# fish caught the Saturday before!