If you fish, what is the biggest fish you've ever caught?

Question

And where/how did you catch it? My personal best is a 220 pound halibut I caught in Alaska. It was so big that we had to harpoon it and we had 40 pounds of fillets each in garbage bags. I've hooked many mako and tiger sharks bigger than that but never got them to the boat. Best fish story gets 10 points!

Answer 1

78 pound chinook salmon in a river in northern British Columbia.
i did lose a 8+ foot sturgeon right at the boat on the Fraser River but that does not count because i did not handle it or get it in the boat.

Answer 2

I once was fishing the White River in Arkansas while camping. I had just filled my reel with new 4 pound test line. I was fishing from the bank in the campground and had caught some 12-14 inch cutthroats. I decided to throw out a little farther and see what happened(all eight generators were going so the water was at full tilt). I got a hit and set the hook, the next thing I knew line was being stripped from my reel and all I could do was basically hold on and try and turn the fish. After about 20 minutes, and several runs by the fish to deeper and faster water, I was able to land it. It was a beautiful 25" Brown trout. The people in the bait shop had noticed me outside while I was trying to land the fish and they closed the shop and brought out a camera. When I had the fish in there were about 30 people lined up on the bank behind me watching and then clapping when I got him in. I released the fish and had my picture taken and received a "trophy release" pin for my efforts. It was great.

Answer 3

I once caught a 6' 5" Halibut about 240 pounds by myself. After I landed the big fish which involved shooting it between the eyes with my 45 ACP I caught a 150 pound Halibut. This all in 3 hours of fishing. My secret spot south of Juneau, AK. I had so much Halibut that I ended up giving most of it away.

Answer 4

The biggest fish I've caught would be when I went fishing at the Tennessee River and caught a 40 pound blue catfish. That is medium size compared to what else is in that river. Some can swallow a human its true.

Answer 5

I cuahgt a 7 pound bass, that was a chopre and a half gettin in. I caught a 10 pound cat, and my dada caught a 22 pound cat.
Lasy Year, i was with my cousin when we were jug fishing on a private lake, where they have The Cornerstone Fesival, and we went to check on a jug he threw in the otehr day. Grabbed the rope, pulled and it didnt move. He started pulling it around and he felt it twitch. He puleld out a 56 pound catfish.

Answer 6

I fish for pickeral usually, also regular as walleye. the biggest one I really have stuck develop into 31 inches lengthy, quite enormous even as the international list for pickeral is 40 5 inches. yet i'm only 17 and performance years of fishing left in me.

Answer 7

Fresh water:Large Mouth Bass 11lb6oz
Salt Water: Grouper 30 pounder.

Answer 8

A 64 pound Flathead catfish in Lake Marion Santee SC.

It looked prehistoric and almost unreal looking , It was like having a big dawg or something on my stringer.

And was great eating BTW the best catfish I have ever had

Answer 9

My first salmon, it was in a river and I was 12 yrs old. It weighed 20-25lbs, and let me tell you, when those salmon decide to go downstream, you are in for a fight (and a chase). I got soaked up to my chest at one point but eventually reeled it in quite a ways downstream from where I hooked up with it. Another fisherman had to convince me to release it because it had it's fall colours and was no good to eat, which I knew, but I still had a tough time letting it go! What a rush!

Answer 10

26 pound Leopard shark. Pacific ocean.