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Your best fishes everrrr...

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#1 ·
I'm curious to see everyone's most impressive lands from every species of fish they have ever caught. I'm sure the veterans on the board are going to impress me most...but I'll start.

Saltwater:
Striped Bass:12lbs. Sheepshead bay, Bunker
Fluke:18" Marine Parkway Bridge, Bunker
Bluefish: 14" Sheepshead bay,Freshwater Rapala
Sea Robin: 19" Sheepshead bay, Freshwater Rapala
Bonita: 8lbs Coney Island Pier, Livelined snapper
White Perch: 3lbs (I tryed to enter this into records but since it was brackish water they didn't accept) Carmans River, Mepps spinner
Sea Bass: 4" SCORE


I've luckily never caught a skate or a dogfish ever. My saltwater experience is limited but I'm starting its certainlyyy way different then freshwater...

Freshwater:
Sunfish: 14" Erie Canal, Mealworm
Lake Trout: 9 lbs Cayuga Lake, Rapala
Yellow Perch 2 1/2 lbs. Waneta lake, Mealworm
Carp 42 lbs. Sunken Meadow state park, Snagged him.
Pickeral: 6 lbs. Peconic River, Spinner
Pike: 4 lbs. Lake Champlain, Spinner
Crappie 2 lbs. Waneta Lake, Mealworm
LMB 3 lbs. Cayuga Lake, Banjo minnow
SMB 5 1/2 lbs. Beaverkill, Nightcrawler
Brown Trout 3 lbs. Bubbles falls, Spoon
Shad:4 1/2 lbs. Delaware River, Shad Dart


Now it's your turn. I really want to be impressed. I really want to see what methods get your best catches I'm sure some bizarre stuff has happened to a lot of you guys out there.
 
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#27 ·
Striped Bass - 15 lbs - live eel - Westport River, MA
Bluefish - 11 lbs - tube & worm - Narragansett Bay, RI
Dogfish - 54 inches - chunk pogie - Buzzards Bay, MA
Fluke - 18 inches - Kastmaster - Buzzards Bay, MA
Skate - 18" across - Goosberry Island, MA


Largemouth bass - 4.5 lbs - jointed crankbait - farm pond in Missouri
Smallmouth bass - 3 lbs - crawdad - Buffalo River, AR
Flathead catfish - 4 lbs - chicken liver - Diversion Channel, MO
Crappie - 1.5 lbs - nightcrawler - Wappappello Lake, MO
Bluegill - 2lbs - rooster tail - farm pond in MO
Trout - 3 lbs - powerbait - below Greers Ferry Lake dam, AR
Grass Carp - 10 lbs - doughball - farm pond in MO
Paddlefish - 25lbs - snagging - Table Rock Lake, MO
Longnose Gar - 14 lbs - longbow - Bull Shoals, MO
 
#28 ·
records

i never weigh them i just whip out a tape if its a nice striper but here goes

Striper 40 inches 25# plus mabye even over 30# (cut bunker) she was so fat it looked unnatural

Largemouth 12-15#?????

i used to fish large mouth in florida avidly. caught more than a few in excess of 8 poundsand 3-5 pounders were common. however there was this one day.......i was with a buddy flipping a purple worm texas rigged.

i landed a bass so big that we both forgot to weigh or measure it. we just held it and starred at it awestruck..... she had to be 12-15#

as soon as i got her back in the water and released her lower lip.. bam. i awoke from under the ether and realized we hadnt even taken a picture.

the camera was sitting two feet away on top of my box!

turns out i didnt need the picture. i remember her fondly in detail often enough.
 
#31 ·
Here they are

Striper- about 36-38" released so I didn't get to weight her real heavy though. Long beach, NY on a storm wild eyes
Blue fish- 14lbs Plum gut,NY on a White popper
Fluke- 21" Martha Vinyard, MA on a Strom wild eyes with sand eel trailer
Porgie-14" Marthas Vinyard, MA on Squid
and one good sized dog fish off of Gardners Island, NY on squid
 
#33 ·
Best caught

Here is a tiny list, most from memory, as there was not digital photo when I was a kid and had much more time to fish:

Striped Bass: 33"
Bluefish: 28"
False Albie: 30"
Summer Fluke: 24"
Porgy: 12"
Hickory Shad: 10"
Peanut Bunker: 2.5" (Snagged on a treble hook)
Sand shark: 26"
Eel: 28" (28" of slimey anger)
Oyster Cracker: 10"
 
#34 ·
I loved fresh water when i was a kid.

Striper 46" 35# buzzards bay
blue 42" 14.5# cape cod bay
smoothdog 52" 23#buzzards
albie 0
bonita 0
tuna 0
fluke 26" doormat buzzards
shark 0
skate with 3 tails

Fresh water
lrgmouth 9.2 # oxford ma live perch 7.6 this spring in me on a yamamoto 8inch grub tail pumpkin sead that was funn made the kyak I was in do circles.
sml mouth 5.5# keezar lake me live perch
northern pike 48" 23.5# on a 2# bull frog cains pond avon mass
a joke gone really wright. I chucked it out with my hand after a failed casting atempt.Was watching the line go out with his frogy pumps and it started screaming yehaaa like a cow wacking a half pogie. I was shaking
in my boots. I had a lil trout rod with 20lb braid on it .! Funn. I won
brook trout 4.7 lil gorham falls me
sunny 1.something it was big DW fields Brockton Avon
perch 3 lbs shiner DW

a 1# pond shiners not telling
 
#37 ·
striper no keepers yet...
weakfish 28 " trolling for stripers.Raritan bay.
bluefish 43 " mudhole trolling.
fluke 28 " keansburg beach, hopkins lure.
porgie 18" union beach
skate 3 ft across keansburg beach

freshwater

large mouth bass 6 pounder, Poricy park
black crappie 2 lbs Poricy park



Been in a lull the last few years but i am getting into striper fishing big time again someday i will get a keeper.
 
#38 ·
Striper 33 pounds
blue, 16 pounds
weakfish 12 pounds
cod 52 pounds
haddock 10 pounds
cusk 25 pounds
wolf fish 28 pounds
pollock 20 pounds
fluke 6 pounds
winter flounder 3 pounds
window pane 1 pound
tautog 12 pounds
black sea bass 4 pounds
scup 3 pounds
false albacore 5 pounds
smooth dog 10 pounds
spiny dog 15 pounds
blue hake 40 pounds
red hake 10 pounds
whiting 1 pound
mackerel 2 pounds
tom cod 1/4 pound
smelt (whats a 5 gallon bucket full weigh ? )
rosefish 1 pound
ocean pout 5 pounds
shad 5 pounds
river herring 1/2 pound
mumichog (chub) 1/2 ounce
pogy (bunker) 2 pounds
skate 2 pounds
cunner 2 pounds
oysterfish 1 pound
sperling 1/2 ounce
eel 1 pound


lmb 7 pounds
smb 3 pounds
yellow perch 2 pounds
white perch 1 pound
bluegill 1 pound
pumpkinseed 3/4 pound
calico bass (crapie) 1 pound
pickerel 2 pounds
northern pike 4 pounds
bullhead 1 pound
shiner 1/2 pound
goldfish 1/2 pound
brown trout 3 pounds
rainbow trout 2 pounds
brook trout 1 pound



no salmon, halibut or tuna... oh well
 
#41 ·
Not gonna believe

Striper, 32#

Weekapaug (spelling ?)

Hooked first cast by my dad with an atom swimmer,

high tide,

11pm

line snapped

7am, I go out to the getty

asked to look for the plug

tide is down

find the fish wrapped around a rock,

plug in side of mouth

unreal!!! icn___clap.gif
 
#43 ·
Hi people, I'm new here, have been lurking for awhile befor I came out of the closet (Striper closet that is)... Ihave been fishing for years and was recently invited to go striper fishing on the Cumberland River here in Kentucky and now I'm hooked, 38" and 31#, and by the way, the length to weight ratio in the chart on this site does not exacctly equate to what I've seen caught around here... Thanks for the time and patience...
 
#44 ·
Striper - 5.8 off Osterville MA

Blue - approx. 5 (not weighed)

LM bass - 6.8 Pemiguwassett Pond NH "Buzz bait @ night) SICK!!

SM bass - 5 East Grand Lake ME/New Brunswick

Chain Pickerel - 4.9 Ponkapaog Pond MA

Brk Trout - 2.3 Mattawamkeag River ME

Rainbow Trout - 4 Pemiguwasett River NH

Carp - 18 Charles River MA

Bull Head Cat - 4.7 Charles River MA
 
#45 ·
Striper- 35"- 15lb 9oz - Hull Gut
Bluefish- 15lb 1oz - Race Point
Largemouth- 10lb 10oz - Watsons Pond in Taunton
Smallie- 2lb 6oz Mashpee/ Wakeby
Snook- 17lb 2oz - Sanibel Island Fla.
Black Drum- 15lb Captiva Island Fla
Sea Trout- 4lb 6oz Sanibel
Mangrove Snapper- 4lb 1oz - a canal in Cape Coral Fla
Jack Crevalle- about 4lb - canal in Cape Coral
Sailfin Cat- 7lb 7oz - Cape Coral Fishing Pier


I hope to get my first Tarpon this year when I go on vacation. I may take a charter for peacock bass also.
 
#46 ·
Ok, well here lets try this, I don't always measure so I'm gonna guess at a bunch of them

Striper 43" 34lb Last Spring Trolling Umbrella Rigs in the Chesapeake
Bluefish 30" Yozuri Crystal Minnow Murrels Inlet, SC Oct 05
Speckled Trout 22", cut bluefish, 3 Mile Reef Murrels Inlet SC
Shark - Who knows but it was big - Murrels Inlet, SC
Spanish mack 22", Spoon, 2 miles off Garden City Pier
Red Drum 30" Cut bait, Buxton, NC
Flounder 21" Kiptopeke State park, cut squid
Grey Trout - 4.75lbs Avon Pier, NC
Barracuda - 27" Hickam AFB, Hawaii
Papio(Jack) - 5lb Ford Island Hawaii
Moray eel 5' - Kaneohe Bay Hawaii
parrot fish - 9lb Speared Mokeliea Beach, Hawaii (where the TV Show Lost is filmed)

Smallmouth Bass 5lb Fourtown Lake, MN
Largemouth 3lb Lake Anna, VA
Catfish 15lb Shenandoah River VA
Carp 9lb Lake Anna, VA
Bluegill who knows
Crappie not sure
Pike - 24" Fourtown Lake, MN
Rainbow Trout - 18" Robinson River VA


I think thats it, some of those are just the biggest fish I remember measuring LOL, who knows, maybe I'll start keeping better track of what I catch
 
#48 ·
Biggest Ever
Striper-33# SURF
Tog- 27" 14.9# SURF
Sea bass 10#
Flounder- 29.5"-9.8# PIER
Sand Tiger shark-156# released
bluefish-21#
Redfish 33"-?# released SURF
Snapper? 49"-?#
Snook 31" Released
horseeye jack 17#
Black Drum 49" 60# SURF
Cow Nose Ray 50#
Wife-1 120# 5'6" Thrown Back
Wife-2 250# 5'7" Thrown Back
 
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