Biggest fish you ever caught?

[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.

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?

It's not really that hard to fathom, I just think some people weigh their fish on the same scales the 400lb bears get weighed on and it drives me crazy.  I fish therefor I lie is probably the truest statement ever made 

[FC]

I had no idea what the record was at the time and don't know that I would have cared. Fish chums enough and you will catch plenty around 25lbs and rare ones over 30. The point was that there are plenty of big fish caught that never get reported.

[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?

It's not really that hard to fathom, I just think some people weigh their fish on the same scales the 400lb bears get weighed on and it drives me crazy.  I fish therefor I lie is probably the truest statement ever made 

    Again, not bragging or anything but I weighed both of my sons fish a couple of hours after they were caught at my in-laws' home and both were above the record but did we know or care? no, but they sure tasted good.

[FC]

LOL...In my case we smoked the evidence of record fish before we ate them!

[sirmissalot]

I once hit a sunfish (mola mola) that was large enough to cause an 8,000lb vessel with twin outboards to cavitate at about 25knots, with four souls onboards, 1,000lbs or so of ice and somewhere in the mid twenties for albacore on board. I told my dad I think we hit a sand bar and he looked at me with death in his eyes... (We were in about 600 feet of water, 20 miles or so offshore and headed in) I would have thought he knew I was kidding.

We've hooked into two porpoise, one tuna fishing and one halibut fishing(the line must have been caught between its jaws) those things swim really, really fast and 20lbs of drag doesn't really seem to have an effect on them.

It seems every year I have someone snag up on bottom while halibut fishing, I tell them it's not a monster fish, it's the earth and you're going to lose that fight, it's really heavy. They insist its a giant fish because its taking line (we are in 550ft if water and drifting, duh) so I let them fight it for a while until they get bored fighting the earth and we tie the line off on a cleat and let the weight of the boat drifting bust the 80lb test off.

But still, Hawgdawg wins. Can we hear that story? 

[Rob]

Fifty two ton Bowhead whale.  Buford Sea

You win!

Formal protest!  Whale is not a fish!

[Rob]

Not my biggest, but this Amberjack kicked my butt pretty good underwater  before I got it on the stringer!

I think it is about 40 to 45 pounds as I recall.

[Rob]

Nice Tuna by the way!

My biggest I think was a 77 lb sailfish I caught in 1991 off Cabo.

no digital photos, but here is the mount replica.

[Max the dog]

I've caught a couple halibut over 300#.  One measured out at 320# as I recall we got it free swimming on a salmon rod.  If commercial fishing counts, I caught a Chinook in the 70# range that we had to let spiral down to the crabs because the season was over.

[Hunterman]

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?

It's not really that hard to fathom, I just think some people weigh their fish on the same scales the 400lb bears get weighed on and it drives me crazy.  I fish therefor I lie is probably the truest statement ever made 

    Again, not bragging or anything but I weighed both of my sons fish a couple of hours after they were caught at my in-laws' home and both were above the record but did we know or care? no, but they sure tasted good.

That silver for your information was wieghed at Jessies Fish Proccesors in Illwaco, and was paid at .83 per pound, along with the rest of our 30 plus silvers.

Hunterman(Tony)

[dustysags]

Does it count if you catch em on a loooong line? the big halibut is 440 lbs

[janttihunter]

My buddies fish back on Cape Cod, thought I'd share it!!! 947lbs

[kisfish]

  Wow, that thing is a hog

[Hunterman]

  How much did that hog bring in 

Hunterman(Tony)

[pianoman9701]

Is your buddy rich now? That should've been almost a $1M fish on the japanese market.