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Well its been a long winter..........just wondering what everyone else out there has for a personal best. Lets see some pictures!!!!!
PB Muskie.......48 inches......Ottawa River
PB Bass..........6 lbs LM......Unnamed pond
PB Pike...........44 Inches........Mikwam River
Lets see what ya got!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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my biggest catch this year is my personal best for pike. this beauty is from frenchmans bay in pickering. i tried not to have it out the hole to long as it was pretty dam windy the day i caught. the rod in the background is 36 inches from butt to tip and it was longer than it.
http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/...pse33bffac.jpg
Muskie-44"
Walleye-29-30"
both types of bass-4.5lbs
laker-22lbs, one in my avatar is 16/17lb
Spec-just under 3lbs
Rainbow-8-10bls
brown-2.5lbs, (resident brown)
Pike-6lbs
My wife.! Once I caught her, it opened the door for the many other personal best throughout the years.
My Favourite: Ramova from Gulf of Mexico:
Attachment 24770
Walleye at Pelee:
Attachment 24769
Brown from Lake O:
Attachment 24768
Yellow fin from Key West:
Attachment 24767
Personal best largemouth, approx. 5 lbs. Caught June 2013.
http://s1354.photobucket.com/user/JB...tml?sort=3&o=4
#1.Rainbow/steelhead-19lbs 38" '96
#2.Brook Trout-5.1lbs 21" '09
Brown trout-16lbs (migratory) '91
Brown trout-3lbs 19" (resident)'94
Lake Trout-13.9lbs '14
Chinook Salmon-32.5lbs '12
Coho Salmon-13.5lbs '13
Atlantic Salmon-5lbs (L. Ont.) '10 (I figure just having caught 1 in Ontario being so rare it was worth mentioning)
Walleye-9lbs 31" '95
Smallmouth Bass-6lbs 22" '97
Whitefish-8lbs '10
Yellow Perch-1.2lbs 13" '14
Muskellunge-15lbs 38" '03
Pike-10lbs 32" '13
Crappie-16" '06
Carp-26lbs '94
Rock Bass-1.6lbs '13
I can't decide between #1 of which I'm most proud of, but that is my list of big fish per species that I've got over my life so far. Those are the marks that I personally aim to beat everytime I hit the water, and I've had a hell of a time enjoying every minute doing so. It's a sickness, you all get it.
Can't remember catching any giant fresh water fish. But I remember as a young child out ocean fishing off PEI, catching a Cod that weighed over 60 pounds. My Dad went Tuna fishing back in early 1980's and caught with a crew of friends a Tuna the weighed over 1000 pounds, they initially hooked a big one but the line snapped after towing the boat backwards for a few minutes.
My Grandfather once hooked a Halibut in a bay that him and I fished that was bigger the his 12 foot tin (which I now have) he had to cut the line.
Sadly Giant Greenland Halibut, huge Cod and giant Tuna no longer exist. Halibut are rare over a few pounds Cod also only grow a few pounds and the giant tuna today is at best half the weight.
Mackeral use to swim in giant schools in Aug and weighed upward of 5 pounds those ones you seee in the market today is what we use to throw back as being to small. Same with the Cod. That Pollock u see sold in the fish section we didn't consider that even good eating.
Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmer
Ohh that's pathetic? Spoken like a true jamtart!
Brown Trout 21"
Carp 36"
Chain Pickerel 24"
Channel Catfish 25"
Grayling 13"
Perch 13"
Smallmouth Bass 19"
Musky 38"
Pike 42"
Walleye 22"
It was fun remembering the times I caught these fish. Hope to improve on the numbers this year.