Is anyone up for a biggest fish caught thread? The winner has to show a picture.
I’ll start with my biggest largemouth bass: 6 lbs.
Bass 5+ lbs.
Just fish stories without a pic. 
Somebody told me there were fish in this video
I went deep sea fishing once in the early 90’s on one of those charter boats. I wore a life vest under my wind breaker (I can’t swim). I looked like a hulk. I was standing up front thinking this isn’t too scary, then we hit the break water. I swear swells were 8-18 stories high and more, I thought I was going to die. My husband and someone else pried my fingers off the rails and took me inside the cabin. Once you’re out there you stay. Using the restroom out there is another story. Never again for a damn fish. 
Caught an 8 pound, 7 ounce largemouth bass at night with a surface lure [jitterbug]. Also have caught a 5 pound , 1 ounce chain pickerel while ice fishing with a shiner.
Biggest regret was never getting them mounted.
6#10oz largemouth (according to my digital scale). I was about 14 or so. I caught it out of the cemetery pond that was about 1/2 mile from my house. The pond is about the size of a football field. The caretakers didn’t care that us kids fished there as long as we picked up trash and avoided the area when funerals were going on. That pond was absolutely loaded with fish.
A couple stories. A friend had a pet alligator at home in a ~500 gallon fish tank. The caiman was about 3 feet long. We would go catch perch at the pond, keep them in a 5 gallon bucket and take them to his house and feed the alligator.
One day we were crappie fishing and we were in them thick. We had 3 lures tied on and we would catch 1 -3 crappie per cast. I caught about 110 crappie in 1.5 hours. There was a HUGE bass that was taking some of the small crappie off the line as we would reel it in. We baited one crappie up with a big hook but never got a bite on that line. There were a couple old guys there fishing too and they were keeping crappie. We filled up 2, 5 gallon buckets completely full of crappie for them in less than 30 minutes. They probably harvested 100 crappie that day. They had to spend the rest of the day cleaning crappie.
The big bass I caught. Early morning on topwater popper. Bam fish was flying out of the water for it. I had no stringer so I took off my shoe lace and used it for a stringer. I left my rod these behind a tree and rushed home on my bike. I got picture of it in from of our house. We filled a ice chest with water and the fish lived. My dad drove me back to the pond and we turned it loose. Ill have to search for the picture since it was pre digital camera days.
As a kid in S. Florida a jitterbug was my the second bass plug I bought, the first bass lure I owned was a Johnson Silver Spoon. I caught lotsa largemouth but nothing really big. I did catch a 10-lb snook once on a Johnson weedless spoon while fishing for bass.
The only fish I ever had mounted was a 48-inch barracuda I caught off the Texas coast slow-trolling live bait around the oil rigs. We had finished a pass by a rig and I was bringing in my line and as I lifted the bait out of the water he made a pass at the bait. I dropped it back in the water and the fish made a run out about fifty yards and then the line went slack. I figured he had thrown the hook and was reeling in the slack line when the fish made an arc jumping over our heads and clearing both sides of the cockpit of my friends 28’ Bertram. The fish made a couple more short runs and we landed him.
The biggest bass I ever had on my line was on a Jitterbug. It was on there a matter of seconds. After a summer afternoon shower, I went to a friends pond. Maybe an acre. I was working the Jitterbug up against some cattails. It looked like a bomb went off in the water. You’ve heard of “buck fever”, I had a case of bass fever. 12 year old kid was shaking like a leaf for a couple of minutes.
That’s what it was like fishing the brackish canals of Ft. Lauderdale in the 1950’s. Hours of boredom broken up by moments of excitement when a big Jack Crevalle, Snook or and the occasional Tarpon would attack your lure. We usually threw surface plugs like a Leaping Lena, ZaraSpook or Zaragossa. We would make our own version of a surface plug called the “Leaping Lena” in wood shop in high school. Here’s a pic of one I found on the Internet:
@T-Boy… Nice king! Did you weigh him?
Think that one was a tad over 28lb. I was free lining a big LY about 12 inches long. Took 20 minutes to get him to the gaff. Gave it to a couple Asian guys for a cook out. They cook it over an outside grille with chopped up veggies and spices.
That just made my mouth water!!
I don’t see the comment by imabass anymore about having a fishing rod in his golf bag. He stated that he would fish the bodies of water when play was slow.
Reminds me of one of the products invented by TV pitchman[Ron Popeil]…the Pocket Fisherman. Would have come in handy.
I was watching dateline, when a man said he had on his fishing glasses while driving across a bridge and saw a body under the water. I had never heard of such a thing, so went to Amazon and sure enough they are sold as fishing glasses. I learn something new every day.
Fishing glasses just have polarized lenses. It takes the sun glare off the water and allows you to see deeper into the water. Helps a lot standing on a pier and watching schools of fish swim a few feet under the surface.
I never tried King Mackerel on a grille, it makes sense, they have lots of oil and a pretty strong flavor.
I do have an excellent recipe for grilled salmon, especially good one for fresh Chinook or Sockeye. If anyone wants it I can put it up here on the board.
