Foo - coolest fish u ever caught?

id say for me it was a puffer fish you have to see one to understand but they expand to a huge size i also once got catfish that had to been like 5 feet long darn reel got messed up so i just ran up the beach and draged it in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExXpfdhwdz8

my delicious bass

Either a 6 pound rainbow trout that I caught in Duke's Creek or a 36+ inch carp I caught out of Varner Lake. Took both on a fly rod.

A sturgeon out of the South Saskatchewan River ... late 70's.

I caught the Loch Ness Monster once. He asked for tree-fiddy.

A 5-foot blue-tip shark off the coast of South Carolia.

A sturgeon out of the South Saskatchewan River ... late 70's.

Did you at least squeeze the $1000 a lb. caviar out of the thing?


*Another cool avatar picture:thumb:
You people are so creative up there.

I caught a few Northern Pike one year. One was pretty good size. We ate them.

8 foot Bull shark... when I worked in the Bahamas.

8 foot Bull shark... when I worked in the Bahamas.

Those are nasty bast**ds to deal with and hard to kill.
8 ft is large for that species.

Those are nasty bast**ds to deal with and hard to kill.
8 ft is large for that species.

It was not a happy fish... 8 feet long is the average size for females and they commonly exceed 10 feet in length.

Those are nasty bast**ds to deal with and hard to kill.
8 ft is large for that species.

Yeah, I caught one about that size and it was incredibly hard to kill. And the steaks were tough. Waste of a magnificent animal. I'll never do that again.

I'm one of these guys that thinks catching bluegills with really light equipment is the most fun kind of fishing.

Yeah, I caught one about that size and it was incredibly hard to kill. And the steaks were tough. Waste of a magnificent animal. I'll never do that again.

I'm one of these guys that thinks catching bluegills with really light equipment is the most fun kind of fishing.

"shark fin soup"

it's what's for dinner:thumb:

when I was a kid...sturgeon and catfish.

Arctic Char. Closely followed by the Arctic Grayling.

I'm one of these guys that thinks catching bluegills with really light equipment is the most fun kind of fishing.
I agree with you there.
A bream bed, a 4wt fly rod, and a #8 chartreuse popper make for a hell of a fun day.

I agree with you there.
A bream bed, a 4wt fly rod, and a #8 chartreuse popper make for a hell of a fun day.

These sponge and rubber band ants drive them INSANE.

I don't have a coolest, but I remember catching a rock cod off Thetis Island, British Columbia. Grilled and had it for dinner within about an hour of catching it -- still one of the best things I've ever eaten.

The oddest fish I ever caught...was the one that got away!

Sea robin, they bark. Only cool the first time you catch one.

Well, I speared a carp once when I was a kid. That was neat. Not for the fish itself, but for trolling the river at midnight with a spotlight and a spear. Other than that, probably a northern pike that was pretty large to me at the time (I think an inch or two over 3 feet). I remember on that trip losing my dad's brand new lure on our first morning out in the boat to a big one (before we put wire leaders on all our lines to keep them from biting through any more) and then checking the stomachs of all the fish we caught in that little lake for the rest of the trip hoping to find one that'd swallowed it. No soup for us.

Fishing for flounder, hooked a skate. Dang. Bent my rod and was way prehistoric. Clubbed that sucker like a baby seal, gave it to the lobster shack down the way for chum.

Arctic Grayling in interior Alaska. Very remote location, just me, my dog, a moose, and a couple snowshoe hares enjoying the scenery.

Arctic Char. Closely followed by the Arctic Grayling.

From Hudson bay?

Arctic Grayling in interior Alaska. Very remote location, just me, my dog, a moose, and a couple snowshoe hares enjoying the scenery.

How does one travel with all those critters?

From Hudson bay?

Chantrey Inlet

How does one travel with all those critters?

Traveling with a moose is not easy. Call ahead to your the airline you are traveling for restrictions regarding moose travel. The snowshoes hares are packable. Soft, cuddly and don't take up much space in the bag. The dog was a German Shepard. Call her a seeing eye dog and put on some sunglasses and you are good to go.

As far as the fishing goes, I had never done any fly fishing. Once I got to the Alaskan interior, I had a couple years to figure it out and it was awesome. I had the opportunity to fly into the flats south of Fairbanks where fishing just happened to be a side benefit and found streams thick with grayling. The fly would hit the water and a fish would take it almost instantaneously. Just amazing.

Two bass with my bare hands.

I was water skiing and saw 2 bass floundering as one tried to make a meal of the other. Motioned for the boat to swing back around. When close, let go of the ski rope and slid right in, picking them both up, then chunking in the boat when it came next to me.

A 4.5 lb smallmouth on 4lb test and light action rod years ago is still one of my favorite memories.

Also went fishing for shark off Ocean City with some friends and kept running into schools of large bluefish where every line (4 baited and 1 casting plug) would get hit at once - sheer pandemonium and fun.

Those are nasty bast**ds to deal with and hard to kill.
8 ft is large for that species.

why would you kill it?

why would you kill it?

Good point:thumb:
Bring it in the boat alive to remove the hook and the captain will toss your ass overboard.

I have not caught it yet.

Frozen battered haddock fillet.

It was nasty.......... i had to look everywhere in the supermarket before catching it.

Oh, let's see...
When I lived in CT, it was mostly white & yellow perch, panfish, pickerel, and bass. I wouldn't consider any of them 'cool', though. And I certainly wasn't cool back then, either.
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2377/2094080843_df44c4ed1e_z.jpg

When I lived in FL, I caught Barracuda, various snapper, cowfish, lookdown, puffer fish, black-tip reef sharks, nurse sharks, lemon sharks, bluefish, Crevalle Jack, Snook, and I can't even remember what else at the moment. I'd have to say the Barracuda and reef sharks were the coolest. The Snook & Snapper were certainly some of the tastiest.

Now, out in CA, I prefer to fish for Halibut, Salmon, Striped Bass, & Rock Cod. But I'd say the coolest were probably these:

Humboldt Squid (45 minutes of reeling from ~1,500' below the surface, in the Monterey Bay)
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2351/2093446675_6e7b804d50_z.jpg

Leopard Shark (caught somewhere around Angel Island / Alcatraz area)
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2005/2094224008_527ac3a1b0_o.jpg

Not me, but my dad (on the right) and one of his friends caught these 2 blue cats on the Missouri River a few years back. The big one was 102 pounds and the smaller one was 80something.

http://i759.photobucket.com/albums/xx235/kkelsay/Mikesfish031.jpg

Good point:thumb:
Bring it in the boat alive to remove the hook and the captain will toss your ass overboard.

That's what wire cutters are for.

http://imageshack.us/a/img138/5461/img3566l.jpg