Biggest fish on a Mitchell 300
Aug 6, 2023 10:47:14 #
bapabear
Loc: Blaine, Washington
A comment on another post made me start thinking. What is the biggest fish you have ever landed on the old classic Mitchell 300? Mine was a larger than average King salmon from the Sacramento River, CA.
Aug 6, 2023 11:07:02 #
bapabear wrote:
A comment on another post made me start thinking. What is the biggest fish you have ever landed on the old classic Mitchell 300? Mine was a larger than average King salmon from the Sacramento River, CA.
A 16lb , 35" Carp in Kaweah Lake early 80's ,Loved those Reels ,always inter-changeable , fixable !
Aug 6, 2023 11:19:43 #
Aug 6, 2023 13:32:40 #
Jim Kay
Loc: Franklin, Virginia
bapabear wrote:
A comment on another post made me start thinking. What is the biggest fish you have ever landed on the old classic Mitchell 300? Mine was a larger than average King salmon from the Sacramento River, CA.
8.3lb Largemouth, 15 lb Carp. I wore mine out pretty quickly and replaced it with a DAM Quick 331. which I have been using since 1966.
Aug 6, 2023 13:59:19 #
bapabear wrote:
A comment on another post made me start thinking. What is the biggest fish you have ever landed on the old classic Mitchell 300? Mine was a larger than average King salmon from the Sacramento River, CA.
Aug 6, 2023 14:28:56 #
Blue sharks (60-80 lbs)… Bat rays around 60 lbs. I had a small 14 ft skiff I would row out of King Harbor in Southern Calif when I was 14-15 yrs old… often at night. So fun. Would spool as much as possible 25 lb mono I could get on that little reel… letting them tow me around. Had a blast !!!
Aug 6, 2023 15:02:09 #
bapabear wrote:
A comment on another post made me start thinking. What is the biggest fish you have ever landed on the old classic Mitchell 300? Mine was a larger than average King salmon from the Sacramento River, CA.
42.5 lber that took 30 minutes to land with 12 lb test line.
Aug 6, 2023 21:23:37 #
bapabear
Loc: Blaine, Washington
JB134 wrote:
Blue sharks (60-80 lbs)… Bat rays around 60 lbs. I had a small 14 ft skiff I would row out of King Harbor in Southern Calif when I was 14-15 yrs old… often at night. So fun. Would spool as much as possible 25 lb mono I could get on that little reel… letting them tow me around. Had a blast !!!
I wish the new reels came with those extra deep spools. I have been towed several times in my 10 foot Avon Rover off Monterey Ca, but never saw the submarine. I have had the same experience in the same boat, different much larger reel near Mag bay in Mexico. I wonder if it was the same sub. that towed me in California.
Aug 7, 2023 11:15:10 #
mr.sleeve
Loc: Anaheim Hills
bapabear wrote:
A comment on another post made me start thinking. What is the biggest fish you have ever landed on the old classic Mitchell 300? Mine was a larger than average King salmon from the Sacramento River, CA.
I was fly lining a sardine and landed a 14 lb sand bass…such a thrill, I was probably 12 years old….
Aug 7, 2023 17:59:00 #
Aug 7, 2023 19:15:40 #
james hsiang wrote:
A 20 lb. carp on 4 lb line and an 8 lb. steelhead on 10 lb. line.
That carp was a fight, do you remember how long it took to land it.
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