I’m going to have to join the muskie guys!
May 21, 2014 at 11:03 am
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One fish, one day
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May 21, 2014 at 11:07 am #1411679
23# largemouth from a drainage ditch in FLA.
May 21, 2014 at 11:23 am #1411681Musky… big one too. 62″ momma… head like a gator. Battle scars and all. Topwater would be cool, have her wake the bait for a few yards before hitting it like a hand grenade…. then game on.
May 21, 2014 at 11:32 am #1411683Quote:
You have only one day left to fish. You can only fish for one freshwater species. The fish will be a all time personal best and is what you will be remembered for by your family and friends for all time.
What’s the species?
I believe the OP should be subject to the same question as well.
May 21, 2014 at 11:32 am #1411684Giant sunfish off my favorite dock.
May 21, 2014 at 11:35 am #1411685Give me a four weight flyrod and put me on a stretch of desolate mountain stream and I could die happy. It really wouldn’t even matter if the fish are biting.
May 21, 2014 at 11:46 am #1411688Quote:
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You have only one day left to fish. You can only fish for one freshwater species. The fish will be a all time personal best and is what you will be remembered for by your family and friends for all time.
What’s the species?
I believe the OP should be subject to the same question as well.
Everybody knows i can’t catch fish.
I just troll a lot.
May 21, 2014 at 11:47 am #1411689Quote:
I just troll a lot.
I see what you did there.
‘Cummon man, everyone has dreams. Aspirations. Spill or forever be banished to talking about baseball.
May 21, 2014 at 11:54 am #1411692Mine would be a ice hole and a 34″ walleye.
May 21, 2014 at 11:58 am #1411697Quote:
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I just troll a lot.
I see what you did there.
‘Cummon man, everyone has dreams. Aspirations. Spill or forever be banished to talking about baseball.
From anybody else I would ignore the question
Pike.
May 21, 2014 at 11:59 am #1411699Quote:
From anybody else I would ignore the question
Pike.
For anyone else I wouldn’t have asked it.
Carry on.
May 21, 2014 at 12:02 pm #1411701This is one of those question which is kind of bogus, tho i understand it is theoretical… but it is like asking what;s your fav food – brick fired pizza, oh yeah… but then again, steak off the grill, um, but fettucini alfredo, but then again…
ok – Smallie.May 21, 2014 at 12:27 pm #1411706I didn’t see anyone put steelhead on the list. I’d trade the one fish PB for a number of hook ups. I want to be trying to keep fish out of timber or that inevitible snag. Having a fish shoot downstream and having to chase it down. Or… having it shoot thru your legs and getting you all turned around. Leaping fish throwing the hook leaving you in a tangled mess. That’s what I’d want. One last hurrah of comedy and triumph.
May 21, 2014 at 12:30 pm #1411708It always amazes me how rare truly big fish really are. This site has a lot of guys who really know what they’re doing, people that fish hard and fish often, are out there in the cold and the rain and the snow, and fish all over place….And yet those 2 pound Bluegills, 15 pound Walleyes, 35 pound Northerns, 60 pound Flatheads, etc. remain mythical creatures.
May 21, 2014 at 12:32 pm #1411710Well played Grasshopper!
May 21, 2014 at 1:36 pm #1411731Gotta go with a Musky. My PB is 51″, so I’m thinking something close to 60″
May 21, 2014 at 2:23 pm #141174230″+ Wiper in Kansas, it would also be fun to try for them with ice gear too…
May 21, 2014 at 2:35 pm #1411747Will have to choose a 55+ inch Muskie on a Jackpot….I will say the best fight I have ever had with a fish was a Lake Superior Brown trout…He whooped me good….
May 21, 2014 at 5:44 pm #1411775Artic grayling,pound for pound the strongest fish I have ever caught.
May 21, 2014 at 8:21 pm #1411797World record walleye from any lake and I’m hungry. Shore lunch for everyone. That will keep the friends and family talking long after I’m gone.
May 21, 2014 at 9:08 pm #141180715 pound saugeye.
May 21, 2014 at 9:12 pm #1411809It wouldn’t be freshwater. Sorry but it would have to be a blue tuna!
May 21, 2014 at 9:59 pm #1411814Freshwater? WHITE STURGEON!!!
If i could fish Saltwater it would be Sharks hands down, no questions asked.
Once you realize you need Flathead Catfish gear to handle a 15-30 pound shark you will understand why you need an 80-130lb class rod with a Penn Senator 12/0 to handle anything over 9 feet long!
May 23, 2014 at 12:30 am #1411989Green sunfish
May 23, 2014 at 5:41 am #1412002A 26 inch Smallie, just as I was being swept over a monster waterfalls. Found wedged between two boulders; rod with fish still clutched tightly in my cold dead hand. (LOL)
May 24, 2014 at 7:16 am #1412140One day left to fish? Based on Calvin’s post I think I’d like to join him and we could have a pair of 2 lb. gills to release. Could just each keep a dozen 8 inchers for the pan?
May 24, 2014 at 2:30 pm #1412149Quote:
Open water Lake Superior lake trout on a jig rod. 40# plus.
I’d go with a smile on my face… and a really sore set of forearms.
Reminds me of a long lost fiend Dennis Cook R.I.P Buddies
Dennis passed away ten years ago, he had the fish of a Life time on his ice rod when he succumbed to a stroke after a long battle, he never did get to see it.
Didn’t mean to rain on your post James, but it brought back a lot of fond memories.
May 24, 2014 at 5:39 pm #1412161It would have to be a 100lb plus flathead for me. Believe it or not my friend tim got ahold of one locally here and brought it to the waters right below him because he was fishing of the dam here in town. He called me right after he lost it and this is how it happened. He hooked it and played it for over an hour and by this time alot of people were standing right beside him and also watching from shore, watching him fight this fish.
He had this home made bridge net that you lower up water from the flathead and let it drift underneath your fish, then when you can raise the net you’ve got him and all you do then is lift the fish up and over the handrails. Tims bridge net was built reasonably well and he made the rim out of a 26″ bicycle rim and some tennis netting and sewed it together. It worked well on all of the flatheads he was catching, then he got ahold of this big one.
He let the net drift under this flathead and tried to get the head into this 26′ in dia, bicycle rim and it wouldn’t fit into the rim, his head was that wide, I’ve talked to witnesses that verified it. So what him and Jeremiah did was finially got the tail of this flathead and most of his body in the net and lifted, they said grunting while they were lifting and jeremiah is a big boy, 6-2 and 250 lbs. They got this flathead to the top of the handrail and the bottom of net broke out and it fell breaking the fishing pole line and fell back into the water. Everyone around gave out a big sigh. He called me right after it happened and told me what happened and I kinda doubted him a little, but then I talked to a couple witnesses and they verified the story. How much does a big flathead weigh when its head is wider then 26″, anyone know? Mine would be catching a 100 plus flathead.
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