Your best fishes everrrr...

[ELIASV]

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.

[merrillizer]

Wow, you got a helluva list!

Striped Bass - 35.5 pounds. Merrimack River (live eel. Thanks Roc)...


Bluefish - 13 pounds. Kennebec River, ME
Flounder - Dont fish fer em much, but I have caught em in the 16-18" range off Boars Head.

Largemouth Bass - 4 pounds. Lamprey River, NH. yellow/white Strike King pro buzzbait
Smallmouth Bass - 2.5 pounds. Catchance River, ME (brackish). Custom skirted spinnerbait, yellow/maroon. I lost it in a tree! Damn wind.
Perch - 1.5#. Kellaher Pond. Beverly, MA.

Dont fish for much else :)

EDIT: I lied, I do fish for Trout (Rainbow, Browns, Brook, and Tiger Trout) in the early Spring before the Bass fishing picks up. Gets me out on the water after a long Winter I have caught some very respectable Rainbow Trout over the years, however I never weigh or measure them, I just get em back in the water quick. I have also tried the Sea Run Brown thing once or twice in the Fall here, but they are very hard to fool. I also fish for Catfish/Hornpout on occassion.

[ELIASV]

THE TREE, THE FISHERMANS NATURAL ENEMY

[Dobb]

Can't compete with you guys, but here goes.
Striper-33"
Dogfish-42"
Flounder-17"
Skate-19" without tail
Tommycod-15"
Speckled trout-18"
Smallmouth-2#
Pickerel-24"
Spouse-118#,25 yrs ago,still catching her today with the same bait
Dobb

[K-Cube]

striper-38 inches 20 # (gonna increase that this fall!!)
flounder-20 inches
white perch-14 inches, never weighed it but shoulda! (brackish water)
skate-27 inches wingtip to wingtip (this one left a scar on my left hand)
White Marlin-92 inches, 112 #

[Striper777]

LMB-6.2 pounds
SMB-12 inches
Yellow Pwech-9 1/2 inches
catfish-15 inches
dogfish-4 feet
flounder-15 1/2 inches

[Tailgunner]

Saltwater:

Striper 32lbs - Sow & Pigs (1974) Dad caught a 45lb same trip
Bluefish 32.5" - across the street
Fluke 22" - G27
Blue Shark 9' - somewhere off NC
Bonito 6.6lbs - G27
False Albie 10lbs - G27
Skate 24" - Middle Ground

[Sudsy]

Striper 29# (From the sand)
Carp between 20 and 25# (didn't weigh it)
Bluefish 19#8oz
Smallmouth 5#4oz (Mid-Delaware River - it's a monster from there)
Channel Cat 8#
Fluke 5#6oz
American Shad 5#
Atlantic Salmon 36#
Fat Albert 8#
Largemouth 8#

[Chinookhead]

striper 18.5# (Hudson)
bluefish 11# (Sheephead Bay)
halibut 41# (Alaska)
lingcod 32 #(Alaska)
steelhead 18# (Big maniste River Mi)
Carp several estimated 20#+ not weighed
pike 12.5# (Lake St. Clair)
Muskie 18# 41.5" (LSC)
Largemouth 6.5# (Pond)
Smallmouth Bass 6# 10z (LSC--loads of 5#+ in that lake)
yellow Perch 15 inches (lake Erie)
Walleye 8.5 (Lake Erie)

[letsgofishin]

striper=19".lol gonna change that this fall
tautog=23"..13 pounds..love fishing for tog..
flounder=14"
bluefish=15"
porgy=15"

[Desslok]

^Nice tautog i want a 20+ this year

Saltwater:

Striper:33'' Delware River during spawning season on bloodworm
Bluefish:30'' Indian River Inlet on Bucktail
Tautog:15'' on sandflea
Flounder:14'' on bucktail I have no idea when how this happened but it did
Whiteperch: probably about 7 inches while fishing for stripers haha

Freshwater:

Rockbass: 8'' on minnow
Largemouth Bass: 3lb on live bluegill
Yellow perch: 6'' on worm
Catfish: 9# on bloodworm
Carp: 12" on doughballs
chain pickerl: 3 maybe 4 inches i can't believe it hit the minnow hahah
Bluegill: probably a 1# while fishing for small ones to use for bait for LMB

I hope to increase my saltwater ones this year but we'll see

[TonyDB]

I only keep records for two species:

Striper: 43 inches (cut makeral)
Large mouth Bass: 7.8 lbs (black rubber worm)

[jbrotz24]

I only know of two that I've really paid attention to:

striper- 37# (Live eel)
Fluke- 24" (didn't way it but guessed around 5 or 6 #'s.)(minnow and squid)

[Roccus]

Salt water:

Blue fin tuna 740 lbs live whiting Plum Island Mass.
Blue shark 6' live herring Plum Island Mass
striped bass 61 lbs live eel Plum Island Mass.
Blue fish 19 lbs bunker spoon Plum Island Mass.
Coho salmon 6 lbs bomber Merrimack river
Codfish 53" long 35" girth diamond jig Isle of shoals N H
Haddock 9 lbs clam Jefferies Ledge
wolfish 27 lbs diamond jig Jefferies ledge
winter flounder 3lbs clam worm Beverly harbor
Summer flounder 6 lbs bucktail jig/squid Merrimack river Mass
Black fish 8lbs green crab Plum island Mass

Fresh water:
Northern pike 19lbs 4 Oz live sucker Charles river Mass
Tiger muskie 8 lbs live sucker lake Mascupic Tyngsborough Mass
Large mouth bass 9lbs 2 oz lbs Purple Manns worm Haggetts pond Andover Mass
Small mouth bass 5 lbs live smelt Lake winnipisauki NH
Chain pikerel 7lbs 8 oz live shiner Stiles pond Boxford Mass
Rainbow trout 6lbs 6 0z salmon egg Lake Winnipisaukie NH
Broodstock salmon 12 lbs live shiner Plugs pond Haverhill Mass
land locked salmon 5 lbs 9 oz orange/ black stinger Lake Winnipisaukie NH
Brown trout 12 lbs Rappala husky jerk Lake Ontario NY
Steel head 9 lbs orange/black stinger Lake Ontario NY
King salmon 37 lbs chatruese J plug Lake Ontario
Lake trout 27 lbs Black/silver NK Lake Ontario NY
Brown bull head 3lbs night crawler Haggetts pond Andover Mass
White catfish 4 lbs cut mackerel Merrimack river Mass
carp 37 lbs rasin bran/grape soda balls Merrimack river Mass.

Any fish that have Ounces included were weighed for a state pin or derby, ones with straight weights were on a hand held scale, measurments were when no scale was available...
It's a long list over alot of years.... It was great recalling them...

[TonyDB]

Jeez roc, those are some impressive fish. I consider myself a large mouth bass fisherman above all fish I catch and thought I might hold the record on this site for the biggest in MA at 7 pounds 8 oz but you got me beat. I said it before and I'll say it again, "You da Man".

I don't no whether to or .