What is the largest fish you ever caught?

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What is the largest fish you ever caught?

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What is the largest fish you ever caught?
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85 lb sailfish a few years ago in florida. :D
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This____________________________________________________ big.

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Lamest. Subforum. Ever.
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Cortland wrote:Lamest. Subforum. Ever.
Wow that is big.
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Ok the biggest fish I've ever caught was probably a striper near the Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel when I was kid. No idea of the size, weight, or volumetric displacement. Happy? :P
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360lb Halibut was the biggest fish, a 70lb King Salmon is the one I was most proud of.

My father used to have a fishing lodge in Alaska near Happy Camp on the Kenai Penensula between Kenai and Homer.
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300ish lb lemon shark

Biggist freshwater was a 34lb striper

Most fun was a ~100 lb tarpon.
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10.5 lb Largemouth Bass. Other than that I really don't fish for them.


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In my dreams a 1,200 lb tuna using 1 lb. test line.

In reality I would have to say a rather large baracuda when I was saltwater fishing as a kid. Don't ask how heavy or long it was or what type of equipment I used because I have no clue. All I did was just hook it though. Also was the same day I found out the hard way baracudas have teeth!

I normally catch good sized catfish in my hometown either at the river or mud canal. Usually in the neighborhood of 10-12 lbs. I did once catch a 2 1/2 lb. crappie. Doesn't sound like much, but that's pretty big for a crappie
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Silvers is getting into fishing.......

We need a watch sub-forum.
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TypeR632 wrote:Silvers is getting into fishing.......

We need a watch sub-forum.
Don't get him started. He had a long thread about a watch before.
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250 pound man when I was a kid. He ran behind me while I was casting, and got two prongs of my treble hook stuck in the bridge of his nose.

He screamed pretty loud when I threw my rod forward to cast. :shock:
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Cortland wrote:Lamest. Subforum. Ever.
+1

Combine this and hunting into = outdoorsmen or something, IMHO.

I predict this sub forum will last about as long as the ar15.com mirror one did.

as to the topic at hand.

Never gone fishing.
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Here's mine a 160 lb. sturgen, long time ago.
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Actually, I don't even know. Like a ten pound bass that I let go, or a 16" flounder. Which is heavier? Probably the bass. I've gone fishing probably 20 times, never caught anything big, but always caught something. Except blue fishing, where they just bit my line 900 times because nobody could explain how to snap the line beyond grunts.

Over in Groton, CT there is a pier of interest for stripers. They have an oceanography center at the UConn campus there. Whenever one of their 2 big boats comes back in, they throw over whatever they harvested out at sea they feel is overpopulated and/or whatever died. This means huge amounts of big-ass stripers follow it in and swim really close to the surface. They will literally bite on anything. I have fed them rocks. You could easily just put a gaff into the water and come up with fish. Sadly, I do not eat fish.
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About a 100lb bull nose dolphin (mahi ) using a 320 penn reel 50lb test with a 80lb steel leader 4o hook with a ballyhoo and a hoo chaser. I did a "flats slam" last week at Weedon island 22in red, 18in trout, 21in snook. I love fishing the flats out of my kayak. My boat is getting lonely, it only has seen me in April when I stayed in 10,000 islands for a week.
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33 in. Redfish

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Nice Red !! Florida has a 27in max limit on us and just lowered the window for snook to 28in - 32in. A 4 inch window does not leave much for us.
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75lb. Yellowfin
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Jmark wrote:75lb. Yellowfin
Oh man, did you have some shashimi right there on the boat!
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The biggest fish I ever caught was a ~100lb. Ling Cod in Alaska. Fishing is my second favorite hobby, but I don't go fishing as much as I used to.

I've also caught quite a large rock whilst trolling for halibut. It was ~9" across at it's largest distance.
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As long as the weather is not so bad I am going Tuna fishing tomorrow.
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38lb flathead
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