Chris, I had a brown on that dwarfed my PB. Easily over 25#. It was the day after Christmas, and I had already caught the fish below in the same hole. I knew the brown was in there, along with a couple other browns, steelhead, and two straggler Coho salmon. A few drifts later, it's float down, and I set the hook. In an instant, I see one of the biggest browns I've ever seen in person roll -it's on my hook! Well, I choked. My knees buckled, and my grip on the centerpin reel tightened. So much so, that I didn't give that fish any line to run. One flick of it's tail, and 8# leader just snapped.

I at least got a 35" steelhead that day.

My biggest non-Bass is my avatar. 40 incher from Leech Lake in Walker,MN.

As far as the brown trout species, IMO they can unhook themselves like no other fish I've caught.

My wife

I SO want to get a huge "Bluegill". My pond has pretty big ones.... maybe a 2 1/2, but a 3 would surprise me. They always seem to run a little smaller than the Redears {shellcrackers..... or if your from South Louisiana, it would be a chinkipin}

Awesome !

Fish

When I was 15, I caught a crappie that weighed just over 4. We were slow trolling shad raps behind rubber core sinkers on the bottom in 35 ft of water, targeting stripers. I thought the lure had snagged some moss or line at first. I had never caught a crappie before, so I didn't know what I had, I just knew it didn't fight much, so I wasn't really impressed with it. Now I know how big that fish was, and understand why my dad got all excited.

My favorite "trophy catch" has to be the 2 back-to-back 9.5lb hybrid stripers I caught when I was 17. I got them both on 8lb-test on very long casts into breaking fish. I spent half the morning fighting 2 fish.

I've caught a few 30" chain pickerel here at different places. I know there like baby northern pike(45") but what a fight.

My older brother found a hole under a rail road bridge and pulled out two 50" stripers(saltwater from shore)

Wish I could say this was me- but I only got to take the picture. We were fishing plastic worm on a point- came off log pile at end of it. #10 mono and 45 minutes.

Well here is a musky roughly 40-41 inches i caught and also nice fish everyone

a 15lb blue cat.

'Poon in my avatar.

Also shared in the catch of a blue marlin off St Lucia but the pics didn't come out (ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!). Guess I'll just have to get another

A 30lb Striper on a light weight casting set up with 8lb test line. It was on for about 20 mintes. No net, had to land by hand.

Kelley

Thanks again guys ! All cool catches

Chris at Tech, that Tarpon is SO cool I would just love to catch one of those 100lb + Minnows Don't they look just like a bait store Shiner ? ....except about a million X's bigger. I really want to catch the bass that can eat a Shiner like that one in your avatar LOL

Peace,

Fish

@ Fish Chris............a tarpon is the world's biggest herring and the world's biggest minnow is a white amur aka grass carp.

'Poon in my avatar.

Also shared in the catch of a blue marlin off St Lucia but the pics didn't come out (ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!). Guess I'll just have to get another

Chris, where did you catch that Tarpon?

Chris, where did you catch that Tarpon?

Hilton Head Island, SC

Add these things to your bucket list if you haven't already

A few crappie caught last summer while working some submerged trees for bass the one hit a 3/4oz jig the other hit a T1 spinner.

The pike isn't that big but i caught it in a stream that's about 5 foot across and 2 foot deep on a double fluke rig.

and then one of my sons blue gills not his first or biggest just the only pic I have on the computer.

I wish I had some of all the salmon and trout I caught back when i was a kid with my UL running down stream on the tail of running salmon trying not to break off. man i used to tick off a lot of the hardcore guys with all there big heavy tackle for the salmon run nothing gets more hardcore then a year old having to run down stream in hip waders to not get spooled by a ticked salmon or trout with a 5ft shakespear UL combo from walmart

here are a couple of my good ones

couple more

musky

Tezz nice musky, but how wide is that dang boat? LOL

Jeff

A 7ft shark. I can get a pic from my buddy. We took turns reeling it up from 200ft down

Hadn't check this thread for a while, but did just now... and Wow !

Some very cool catches here I'd be happy with any of those catches

Fish on !

Fish

Nice fish guys, you caught some big ones.

what to expect on Lake Erie, the Small Mouth were just caught wile perching on the same Perch rigs I was using for the Perch, a Loomis 6' Light action IMX and a 1000 Stradic, we kept a couple smaller Bass to go with the excellent eating Perch. The Yellow Perch run from 10" to 15"

Monster perch