Biggest fish you ever caught?

[bowhunterforever]

7 foot sturgeon, 12lb walleye, 7lb rainbow, 5lb small mouth bass

[KenPCPilot]

40lb king POW AK

[lokidog]

7' Striped Marlin - Cabo, DIY
8 1/2 foot shark on a hand line
121 lb Halibut - Homer, AK
30 lb King in OR - 8lb test line
10lb walleye - Potholes
Hooked one like the OP on a spinning rod with 25 lb test line off the coast of Costa Rica, didn't land it.   

Best night was 47 Mahi mahi and a few sharks.

[BLR 243]

55lb king Hoh river, 21lb Steelhead Sol Duc river.

[buck man]

156# halibut AK
22# yellow eye WA
46# ling cod CA
6' blue shark WA
5' sturgeon snohomish river, WA
30# king Columbia , WA

[savage.270]

That's not a yellow tail. And it's not 220
No yellowtail in hawaii

Dont be rude man you werent there. It may not be a yellow tail but you didnt see the scale. No reason to be rude to the guy

[Hawgdawg]

Fifty two ton Bowhead whale.  Buford Sea

[ICEMAN]

Fifty two ton Bowhead whale.  Buford Sea

You win!

[Hunterman]

9' Blue Shark, Illwaco
63 pound king, Illwaco
27 pound silver, Illwaco
95 pound halibut, Alaska
55 pound ling, Alaska
15 pound steelhead, Puyallup River
8 1/2 pound rainbow, Steilacoom Lake
1 ea. big ass humpback whale, Westport.( It was a snag, does that count. We didn't boat him, dad didn't have a large enough net  )

Hunterman(Tony)

[PolarBear]

I hooked  killer whale in Alaska that had taken a king that I was reeling in.  Took every bit of line in about ten seconds.  Also been spooled several times by sea lions.   

[Thefisherman83]

27 pound silver, Illwaco


Hunterman(Tony)

Really?? because that's 1.5lb bigger than the state record lol. 

[CoryTDF]

it was this--------------------------------------- big i'm telling you it was ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this big! it came out of the water and I looked at it just huge this big-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- if it was an inch!

[FC]

27 pound silver, Illwaco


Hunterman(Tony)

Really?? because that's 1.5lb bigger than the state record lol.

Probably more of that goes on than you think, I had a 4 fish limit of chums that weighed 117lbs when I got them home with the biggest fish at 35lbs. They had all been out of the water for over 3 hours by that time.

[Thefisherman83]

27 pound silver, Illwaco


Hunterman(Tony)

Really?? because that's 1.5lb bigger than the state record lol.

Probably more of that goes on than you think, I had a 4 fish limit of chums that weighed 117lbs when I got them home with the biggest fish at 35lbs. They had all been out of the water for over 3 hours by that time.

So you had a whole stringer full of Chum that would have all been bigger than the current record?  Impressive.

[PlateauNDN]

27 pound silver, Illwaco


Hunterman(Tony)

Really?? because that's 1.5lb bigger than the state record lol.

Probably more of that goes on than you think, I had a 4 fish limit of chums that weighed 117lbs when I got them home with the biggest fish at 35lbs. They had all been out of the water for over 3 hours by that time.

So you had a whole stringer full of Chum that would have all been bigger than the current record?  Impressive.

A lot of folks don't report for their own various reasons.  My two sons have hook & lined records then if that's the case.  We're not in it for records but for those that are that's fine that's what they do and we're fine with that. 

Why is it hard to fathom people are not always in it for records or fame?