So my buddy and I are fishing one morning last week when he hooks what he at first thought was a good smallie. But when he raises it up we realize it the fattest fallfish (also known as "chubs") that we have ever seen! We didn't think much of it at the time, but we kept it because my buddy has a friend who wanted a carp/sucker/whatever for catfish bait. At the end of the day, my buddy throws it in his freezer and forgets about it.

Long story short, a week later, my buddy looks up the state record fallfish for pooops and giggles, and sees that the old record is 3lbs 7 oz. :-? So he races home and hangs his on the scale: 3lbs 9 oz!

We took it to a cetrtified scale, the state biologist, now all he has to do is get the paperwork notarized, send it in and wait! If every thing goes right, he'll be a state record holder!

Heres the pic:

That's a big-a** fallfish.  I've caught them here in Virginia in the James River.  Thay are quite good fighting fish on light tackle.  They will readily take little Rapala Originals.  

thats a huge chub... and very disgusting...

but congrats on the record!

Congrats!

Fish of that size are very common around here.

Here a 5lber.

Congrats!

Fish of that size are very common around here.

Here a 5lber.

Wow. Great fish!

But if you're talking about Switzerland when you say "here" then your're holding up a completely different species. The "chub" my buddy caught is a Semotilus corporalis, and is only found in N. America.

If your are in Switzerland w/ that fish, and based on the picture, it looks like you have a Leuciscus cephalus, which grow much larger and is native to Eurasia.

no matter what the fish is.........to be a record holder for it is simply awesome!!!!

Susky, you're right, they are 2 different species.

With what bait did you're buddy catch the chub?

I catch them pretty regular around here while smallie fishing in the rivers but I don't think I've ever caught one over a pound or so.  Nice fish!

Susky, you're right, they are 2 different species.

With what bait did you're buddy catch the chub?

T-

4 inch tube on a 1/4 oz head, draggin' for smallies.

The funny thing is that we have both caught fallfish in the same size class from the same river in previous years, without even knowing that we were flirting with the record.