Hardest Hit You Have Ever Had?

[MIbassin]

Jigging for rockfish and halibut….OH MY

[BooyahMan]

Maybe not the absolute hardest hit I've gotten but most memorable: my first fish on a top water frog. It was pretty memorable as a first regardless, but the best part was that it took me by such a surprise that I fell onto my back turtle style when I set the hook. I'd like to think it's just because I was standing on mud, but if I'm being honest it's probably because I had never seen (or felt!) such a violent surface strike before. My girlfriend saw the entire thing and she could not stop laughing at me!

[Dwight Hottle]

My hardest hit fishing freshwater fish would have to be a Niagara river salmon or Tennessee river striper. In saltwater it would be a big kingfish or a 35lb permit in the gulf.

[OntarioFishingGuy]

My hardest hit by far was a 28lb king salmon.  I was throwing a glow in the dark casting spoon at about 4:30am on lake Ontario.  I had a medium retrieve on the spoon, and BAM! It felt like I hooked the bumper of a car going about 30mph in the opposite direction!  The drag was on pretty heavy for the initial hookset, so that added to the impact as well.  Not the biggest salmon I've caught, but it was the only one I've caught on a spoon and it was one hell of a hit!!

 

If anyone ever gets the opportunity (if you havent already) to fish for Salmon, do it!

Nothing better than chucking spoons on the lake at night.

My hardest hit would probably be a 13lb hen steelhead I caught in November in a tiny creek. Chased my spinner up and smashed it right at my feet.

[*Hank]

I believe mine was on a gitzit tube!

[Teal]

Hardest hit... idk I think it was on finesse jig I skipped under a dock. A small bass about 1.5-2lbs slammed the jig so hard It nearly took then rod from me. I've had some hard hits but most the hardest ones were smaller bass.

Stripes are another story. I had 28" striper on a live shad that hit me hard.

[shanksmare]

By far the hardest hit I ever got while fishing occurred in 1969. A friend and I had chartered a trip with Cape Cod tuna fishing guru Capt. Charlie Mayo. It was his last trip of the season in October. We had trolled daisy chains on the outriggers unsuccessfully all day and were headed across Cape Cod Bay towards his home port of Provincetown. When it happened it was like some one had thrown a locomotive into the water (my buddies exact words). After a hellish 40 minute fight we landed the 723 lb giant bluefin tuna. Man what a topwater strike that was!!

[gulfcaptain]

Hardest hit, winding in a little blue runner at an oil platform and just as it got to the boat about a barracuda tried to eat it which was quickly overpowered by about an 80lb amberjack.  Needless to say, I didn't far to well on my little bait rod I was using but it was an awesome hit.  Freshwater, this last year flipped a bait on what I thought was a bass chasing bluegill off a bed and when it hit the bottom was ingulfed by about a 10lb chanel cat.  That hit and lit up harder then any bass I've ever caught flipping a creature bait not to mention getting to see the whole thing 20ft away in about 2ft of water.

[Texas Hawg Hunter]

Yesterday afternoon on a buzzbait was my hardest hit.  

[BammerBass]

Hardest hit, winding in a little blue runner at an oil platform and just as it got to the boat about a barracuda tried to eat it which was quickly overpowered by about an 80lb amberjack.  Needless to say, I didn't far to well on my little bait rod I was using but it was an awesome hit.  Freshwater, this last year flipped a bait on what I thought was a bass chasing bluegill off a bed and when it hit the bottom was ingulfed by about a 10lb chanel cat.  That hit and lit up harder then any bass I've ever caught flipping a creature bait not to mention getting to see the whole thing 20ft away in about 2ft of water.

nothing quite like actually SEEING your fish torpedo the bait/lure huh?

[gulfcaptain]

nothing quite like actually SEEING your fish torpedo the bait/lure huh?

No, even better using surface poppers and seeing a whole color spot of 25-30lb jack crevelles charge your bait and seeing a half dozen brown backed ajs trying to push them out of the way to get a chance at it or try and take it out of the hooked fishes mouth.

[SirSnookalot]

One thing we have down here in Florida are jacks.  Catching them of any size is fight that is pretty hard to comprehend if you haven't caught one, but 10# and up is something special.  Catch that first larger one and you might buy a condo down here and be a snowbird, and never again view that fish as trash.  We catch them 2 at time on topwater all the time, these are small, 2 of them 5 or 6# a piece I probably couldn't land let alone big ones.  Umbrella rig........lol, like to see that.

 

[Jtrout]

Monster carp in a local river they pull like freight trains

[BassinLou]

My hardest hit off shore was earlier this year. We were trying to catch wahoo, which I have never done before. We were trolling faster than usual which is common for Wahoo. We trolled for a while with 0 luck, my BIL, told me to start reeling the lines in when my reel went from 0 to 60 in 2 seconds lol!! I have never heard drag fly out of reel like that before. It seemed like it was never going to end. Luckily I took my time and landed my first hoo!!  

 

[Basswhippa]

I had a dolphin grab a hooked Spanish one time.  That was a hit!  But check out the following:

 

This one.

 

http://www.sliptalk.com/shark-bait/

[Wayne P.]

Culprit 7 1/2" plastic worm

 

 

[Siebert Outdoors]

Years ago I was throwing a Ledgebuster 1 oz spinnerbait and had something probably musky or pike absolutely hammered it ripping the swivel in half that held the blade on.  I never caught the fish.

[jitterbug127]

Gotta be the 20 lb carp from this summer