Personal Best – Any Species

[PABASS]

I am curious what is everyone’s personal best?  The longest and heaviest fish I have ever caught was a sand tiger shark while surf fishing in Ocean City MD, roughly 4 feet long and about 40#.  This was long time ago and only have a single photo of it, hopefully my parents still have the photo lol..  It drew quite the crowd, I released it in about 4 feet of water.  Wasn't like a bass, just a heavy weight, there was another time when I had a 40 min fight with something in the bay, that was pulling our boat the locals tell me it was a sturgeon but I have no clue, line broke.

[Tuckahoe Joe]

I like these threads but my PB's arent all that big so I figure I better get mine in before everyone else posts pics of their 10lbers.  I don't have any weights on these.  The pickerel and the trout are about 16-18 inches and I think the LM went about 15.5.

 

PB LM

 

PB Trout

 

PB Chain Pickerel

 

[Rangerphil]

I caught a 31" 10 pound rainbow trout at deep creek lake in Maryland while fishing a walleye tourney a few years ago! I caught it on 6# trilene, thought I had the tourney winner!...lol...

[Hanover_Yakker]

40" black drum and caught on a Medium/XF spinning rod with 20lb braid and a 10lb FC leader!!

[Darren.]

Largie would be a 7.5 pounder, but about 20 odd years ago I was treated to a deep sea fishing trip where we caught a mess of 4" King Mackerels, among other species. My sister caught a citation false albacore. I don't remember the weight of the King Macs, but they're the longest, and probably heaviest fish I've caught.

[drew4779]

The largest thing I ever hooked was my Aunt Diane, about a 110lbs. Number two on the list was a 5' shark. The captain of the vessel hit it with an oar and pushed it overboard. He told me it was bad luck to have it on board. This was 20 years ago and I was one unhappy 12 year old, especially unhappy once I realized I would have won $100 something dollar big fish prize.

[Felix77]

So far it's a 9lb Pike and a 5.89 Smallmouth.

[Dwight Hottle]

Artificial bait pb's

32lb pike

34lb musky

38lb lake trout

26lb Chinook salmon

12.2lb walleye

7.6lb smallie

9.2lb largemouth

12.25lb steelhead

7.5lb brown trout

16.5lb channel cat

33lb permit

9.5lb sea trout

[00 mod]

Dorado

Marlin(Blue)

Carp(Big Head)

Wahoo

Largie

Brown Trout

Steelhead/Raingbow

 

And I don't have the picture of my Smallie or Overall.

 

Smallie was spot on 5lbs, but the picture didn't turn out, and my overall was never officially landed.  Fought it for 4hrs 15 mins before both the rod and line broke.  HUGE blue marlin, quite possibly a Grander.  Was fishing in St. Lucia.  Got it up to see the "blue" 3 times and once pretty close to the boat, but it was still very green, and we lost her.  Hope she lived.

 

 

Right before the line broke.

 

Lesson learned, always be prepared.  The boat we were on did not have the proper equipment for a fish that large.  The rods and reels we were using were "tuna grade."  Guess you cannot always control what happens in other countries.

Jeff

[Dwight Hottle]

Dorado

Marlin(Blue)

Carp(Big Head)

Wahoo

Largie

Brown Trout

Steelhead/Raingbow

And I don't have the picture of my Smallie or Overall.

Smallie was spot on 5lbs, but the picture didn't turn out, and my overall was never officially landed. Fought it for 4hrs 15 mins before both the rod and line broke. HUGE blue marlin, quite possibly a Grander. Was fishing in St. Lucia. Got it up to see the "blue" 3 times and once pretty close to the boat, but it was still very green, and we lost her. Hope she lived.

Right before the line broke.

Lesson learned, always be prepared. The boat we were on did not have the proper equipment for a fish that large. The rods and reels we were using were "tuna grade." Guess you cannot always control what happens in other countries.

Jeff

[Dwight Hottle]

I can help with that missing smallie picture. Great fish.

[Basseditor]

Largemouth 10 lb 5 oz

Smallmouth 7 lb 3 oz

Brown trout 10 lb 4oz

Rainbow 8 lb 15 oz

Steelhead 17 lb 6 oz

King Salmon 25 lb

Lake Trout 34 lb 10 oz

Walleye 9 lb 14oz

Arctic grayling 5 lb

Northern pike 54" (measured only)

Cutthroat trout 11 lb 12 oz

Brook trout 4lb 2oz

Muskie 42 lb

[Bankbeater]

Largest LM is 6-2.  I need to get out and fish more.

[SirSnookalot]

Only as good as my last fish, 10 days ago 50 inches, mh spinning 12# mono.

[Oregon Native]

9# 6oz Largemouth

6#  Smallie

10#ish muskie

19#6oz West Coast Steelhead

40# West Coast Chinook

155# Halibut

Been Blessed

[Lil'skeeter]

I have 5 Largemouths over 9, the largest is 9.75. No DD yet....my profile pic is of a 7.3 and a 3.5 that I caught at the same time on a large crank bait....does that count for a 10? LOL

[Bluebasser86]

Largemouth 10lbs 2ozs

Smallmouth 5lbs

Brown trout 18.5"

Muskie 15lbs

Flathead catfish 50+lbs

Blue catfish 50+lbs

[SirSnookalot]

@bluebasser, you get my #1 vote for the most impressive fish, the cat.

[Tuckahoe Joe]

@bluebasser, you get my #1 vote for the most impressive fish, the cat.

X's 2.  Look at the fat roll on that flathead!

[Bluebasser86]

@bluebasser, you get my #1 vote for the most impressive fish, the cat.

She was a beast of a fish for sure and wanted nothing to do with me. Catching that flathead and then catching the blue an hour later with several 8-15 pound channels in between made for a tiring day. 

[lmbfisherman]

I have caught a 5' ft blue shark, weighed around 60lbs. Also caught a skate, didnt getthe weight butthe wing span was around 48".

[SPEEDBEAD.]

Not mine, but I believe Matt from Mattlures has a couple world records under his belt from some off the wall species.

 

Hopefully he still owns those records and will chime in.