Caught This Muskie on a trap in a bass tourny on Waneta Lake a few years ago...It seems like I hook at least one big muskie every year while bass fishing but most just break me off. Now that I throw mostly braid maybe that will change.

7lb mudfish on a wacky rigged senko.

25 pound flathead cat on Quantum baitcast rod and reel with 12 pound test Trilene XL.

25-30 lb catfish while night fishing.  Dragging a weightless lizard on the surface, surprised the heck out of me. 

Caught on a T-rigged 7" Powerworm.

12 pound Drum on a drop-shot and 4 pound line

13 pound pike on 6 pound line

16-9 pound Vermont state record Bowfin on 10 pound line

Snakehead!

41 pound flathead on jig n craw

8lb catfish on a pop'r

4 ft long water moccasin on a weightless worm thrown into a half submerged bush.  it fought good.

I hooked a 6-8 foot alligator at the Stick Marsh on the right rear thigh with a spinner bait.  I was using braid at the time and was able to fight him for 10 minutes or so until he was too close to the boat before cutting the line as close a possible about 6 feet or so.

Well I never got these musky in but when I reel in a smallmouth 6/10 times at this dam a musky will eat my smallmouth, but they always bite my line...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Lots of alligators, softshell turtles and hundreds of mudfish to 15#'s.

Not mine but my fishing partners. I just landed by hand. 49 inch Musky caught on St Clair. The rod he is holding is the rod used. A G Loomis Bronzeback M Power Spinning. Caught on a Wiggle Wart.

snagged a 5lb catfish. not very big but I thought it was a huge bass

25+ lb carp, several 10+ lb catfish, two giant bullfrogs (ate a scum frog), and one 4ft cottonmouth (ate a plastic worm)

Over the past 20 years I have done quite a bit of night fishing. At least once each summer while using a spinnerbait, I have caught flathead catfish ranging in size from 20# to a couple that were just over 40#

A 21lb redfish, fishing the Wagonwheel in Venice.

Took sometime to land while my partner was laughing his butt off!! ;D

I caught a massive bluegill on a Rapala X-Rap. I don't know it's exact size, but he was almost the size of a large dinner plate. It was in Raystown Lake in Pa. Of course, everything is bigger in Raystown...

a fifty to sixty pound tarpon on a lucky craft pointer. thank god for braided line and sneakers. i had to literally run after the fish as he was about to spool me. when i finally beached the fish, about a dozen people came out of their condos and told me they watched me fight the fish. it was great seeing that fish swim away.

4" alligator on 12# big game on a spinnerbait.  Got him to the boat and snapped him off.

4" alligator on 12# big game on a spinnerbait. Got him to the boat and snapped him off.

How did you snap off a 4 inch alligator?

a fifty to sixty pound tarpon on a lucky craft pointer. thank god for braided line and sneakers. i had to literally run after the fish as he was about to spool me. when i finally beached the fish, about a dozen people came out of their condos and told me they watched me fight the fish. it was great seeing that fish swim away.

Tarpon in freshwater. WOAH   

ive caught 7-8 foot gators, soft shell turtles the size or trash can lids (soft shells FIGHT HARD) 45-50# Flat head cats and bowfin in the 15-20# range lots of times.

8-10# speckled sea trout and red fish in the 25# range on the st.johns around green cove springs...

The hardest fighting fish EVER in fresh water? I was in The St.Johns river around palatka and hooked up with a HUGE jack carvelle in the 35# range on a Spro BBZ-1 shad I hooked up with him on a Steez 100SHA and I had to get the wife to start the boat and run him down or I was SO spooled I had 40# Daiwa braid spooled on and there was NO stopping that fish I couldnt run fast enough with the Minnkota 101# trolling motor... he couldnt out run the 250XS tho lol he almost spooled me before she could get the boat started and that was fast.... she run him for me I got my line back and she stopped and he almost spooled me again she had to run him down once more... I had the drag TIGHT and he was peeling line off so fast and hard I could feel the handle side plate heating up not hot but way warmer then the rest of the reel... that was a hell of a break in for that drag lmao... I fish all Daiwa reels and most of my reels are 103 size reels cept for my Zillions that one Steez 100 and a TD-Z US trail. if I would have hooked him on a 103 he would have spooled me before she got on him... by the time she got the boat in gear and I started gaining line back I was about 8-10 yards off the backing (Backing is about 15 yards of 4LB mono) So I had about 5 mores secs before I was spooled.

Big ol' carp on a senko.. 20-30lbs I don't know.

38" Northern Pike- White Chatterbait, 39" Musky- Zara spook. didn't weight them.