What is the biggest fish you have every lost?

[ejtaylor822]

Don't know exact weights, but positive they were ALL bigger than my PB at the time.

;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

[Big T]

My wife managed to break off what looked like a 10 to 15# Red Drum at the boat. I bought a net the next day. My buddy and I had a King Mackeral come loose just as I went to gaff him. It would have went 30 plus #'s. I once reeled in the head of a Mahi Mahi (dolphin) that weighed 10 #'s. A Baracuda took the rest of him from me.  >

Big T

[Whopper-Stopper]

The biggest I ever lost was exactly 12.6 lbs. I know because it had scales.

[hi_steel_basser]

Saltwater: on the day I decided to get serious about fishing, 5 or 6 years ago, I hooked a porpiose on purpose. That fish was way out off the end of the pier me and a buddy were fishing, hit a piece of cut bait, cane to the surface, rolled, and broke my line.

Freshwater: I have lost several in the 5-lb range. The most memorable was a LMB that hit a rattletrap, and threw it at my head less than 30 feet from the bank. No s***, I had to duck. Another came off a c-rig at the boat, the day I decided to buy a net. Another taught me a lesson about retying, as it broke my line on the hookset. I was bed fishing, had a good day the day before, with ten fish brought in, the biggest being about 8 lbs. But I didn't retie, and the next morning, the first fish of the day,...

[BassnJoe]

The biggest I ever lost was exactly 12.6 lbs. I know because it had scales.

Now that right there is funny, I tell ya!  

I lost one I guess to be around 7 lbs., or so.

8-)

[jomatty]

hooked a porpoise?  yikes.  are you even allowed to do that?  

i dont have the stomach for that, maybe i saw flipper too many times or something.  that things gonna be trouble on the pier.

guess everyones gonna think im a big softie now.  the only dolphins ill be catching will be mahi mahi.

matt

[BassinSoldier]

I was in the Florida Keys fishing docks for snook/redfish with a bucktail jig and I was using one of my bass rods which handles the snook and reds pretty well.  Anyhow a tarpon that was nearly as long as I am tall grabbed up the bucktail and took off like a raped ape.  It ruined my daiwa reel and left me sittin there weak in the knees.  Biggest bass I ever lost I estimate around 13 but the cool thing is when that fish threw my bait (culprit jerk worm, red shad color) another bass picked it up and I landed her.  She went 10 even.  Guess they were schoolies??

[Troutfisher]

Here's a shot of mine, hook came out and dove in after him. He managed to wiggle free

Ha...that's great. I had a fish like that once while I was noodling, and I never managed to get it in.    :  ;D

[BLUESKY]

Bass I would have to say over 10, I was fishing a 1/32 oz. jig with a leach on ultra lite tackle with 4 pound test. I felt something pick up the bait and set the hook. thought I missed it and caught a weed or something. While realing in it felt like I had a wet paper bag on the hook, a little heavy but no resistance or fite. Then I saw it  and it saw the boat,  that 4lb. sang like a bird untill the spool almost was empty, I put a little pressure on the spool to try and slow that fish down and that line snapped like a piece of thread.

Another time, about 25 or so years ago, I was out with my ex in a small rented row boat, at the time i would be wormin and she would mostly bait fish. As the lake had both pike and tiger musky in it, I would always have her keep a perch if she caught one, untill the end of the day. While returning to the boat rental, I would sit at the edge of a weed line in 18' of water and cut a fillet off of that perch and let it sit near the bottom while i fancasted the top of the weed bed. Well, one time while doing this, I noticed the tip of the rod baited with the perch start to twitch just a bit. I watched that rod tip twitch for about 2 or 3 minutes untill I just couldn't stand it any more, picked up the rod and set the hook. Holy Sh!t, It felt like I had hooked a sunken car or some sutch thing, could not budge it a bit. That fish didn't move till it was good and ready, all of a sudden the drag started screaming and it was the begining of a battle that lasted for 1/2 an hour or more, it was a good 10 or so minutes before that fish surfaced and I saw the biggest tiger musky I had ever seen, for the next 20 or so minutes it was give and take as that fish jumped and splashed and soaked us both. At last the fish tired and I got it alongside the boat, I could see that my hook was only in the corner of its mouth and that the flesh was torn around it. The wife is screaming that thing is not coming in the boat and I was telling her the #*@% it isnt. I have no net anywhere big enough to land this thing, so i decided to take off my t shirt and wrap it around my hand and attempt to pick it up by the gills and belly. Any way as I just about finished removing my shirt, I let just a tiny bit of slack in the line and watched that fish slowly swim back toward the bottom. My old lady starts cussing at me and tells me how lucky I am that I didn't get the fish in the boat, did I mention that she is my ex. By measureing  where the fish had been at the side of the boat, that fish was 49-50 inches long.

[gloomis7]

I lost a 9 pouder a summer ago on Ft. Loudon. I was flipping a black/blue baby brushhog between some lay down pine trees and it hit, at first I thought I was hung up until I turned her out of the brushpile. My buddy grabbed the net and jabbed her with it and dislodged my hook, it was undoubtedly the biggest bass I've ever seen. The next week my buddy went back and caught a fish that was 9.2 we assumed it was the same fish. :'(

[docav]

i lost one on the big o that was 10+. i know it was 10+ because i was going to lip it and bring it in the boat when we seen a dark shadow getting closer to the boat. about the time i relized what it was i jerked my arm back and a gator came about 2-3 foot out of the water and took fish,rod and reel with it. the guide we were with got mad because i let the rod go with and started yelling at me. it turned into a big deal and words went back an forth and it ended the trip. i guess he expected me to fight the gator over a $50-100 rod and reel. doug

[Ky_Lake_Dude]

The biggest any fish was a gar about 40-45 lbs and biggest bass about 8-9 pounds. :'( :'( :'(

[Ky_Lake_Dude]

i lost one on the big o that was 10+. i know it was 10+ because i was going to lip it and bring it in the boat when we seen a dark shadow getting closer to the boat. about the time i relized what it was i jerked my arm back and a gator came about 2-3 foot out of the water and took fish,rod and reel with it. the guide we were with got mad because i let the rod go with and started yelling at me. it turned into a big deal and words went back an forth and it ended the trip. i guess he expected me to fight the gator over a $50-100 rod and reel. doug

Don't feel bad I would have done the same thing.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

in the ever glades 5 years ago with a snoopy/walmart pole using a shiner , i got a 15 pound large mouth , got it to shore and it broke my reel , rod , and line i first thought i caught a gator....

How can you break all 3?  

[Vyron]

in the ever  glades 5 years ago with a snoopy/walmart pole using a shiner , i got a 15 pound large mouth , got it to shore and it broke my reel , rod , and line i first thought i caught a gator....

How can you break all 3?  

i as thinking the same  

[BassinAssassin]

I lost one well over 10 pounds a few years ago at Millwood Lake in Arkansas on a white fluke. My reel kept messing up and I had to stop and fix it in the middle of a cast. Well, after I got it all straightened out, I picked the rod back up and saw a large bass inhale my fluke. Well, I began pulling it in and it ran around a stump and started thrashing, and needless to say, it came off.  :'( That's not a good feeling to have.

and another time, I lost another one at Millwood that was probably between 10 and 12 pounds. I was fishing with my father in a tournament in the early spring when I lost this one. Dad kept having a fish hit at his lizard on the same tree every time we threw at it. Well, I threw past him to follow him up in case it missed his lizard again. Well this worked great, except for the fish making a furious ran at the surface and throwing the hook as our jaws dropped. I have yet to catch a 10 pounder, but I have caught a 9.

[WBFishing]

I don't know how big this fish was, but I know the little private pond I was fishing had some 10+ and rumor was there were a couple 15+ in there.  I saw my dad catch a 6 1/4 on a bream buster when we were bream fishing, cause the bass tried to eat the bream.  Anyhows, I was a teenager and threw this floating rattletrap out by the overflow pipe and started cranking.  The line got tangled around the rod tip so i paused to untangle it.  I get ready to wind again, gave the rod a twitch and see this shadowy blur, set the hook, and SNAP.  That fish had to be a monster, cause I used to catfish that reel and know there was at least 14lb test on that reel.

[T-rig]

I was just a little kid and was fishing a small river for brook trout with a meeps spinner.

d**n, I said snagged again but all of a sudden the snag startet to move. I finally got the fish

close to me and grabbed the line with my hand to get the fish. Snap!!! I was usig only 4lb. test

and that day I losted my biggest fish up to then. A beautiful Rainbow trout around 6lb. I know it's

not that big but to me it was huge back then.

I never grab the line with my hands again, that's for sure!