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Title: Biggest fish you ever caught? How big was it?
Post by: Guppy on December 26, 2005, 01:37:43 PM
What is the biggest fish that you ever caught how big was it. my biggest was a 6 or seven pound coho. I got up at the coquitlam river.
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Post by: Big Steel on December 26, 2005, 01:43:49 PM
Well so far, my biggest is a Sturgeon, about 7-8 feet, and well over 200 lbs.  But for salmon it is a chinook that was in the 60's!! :)
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Post by: Youngin on December 26, 2005, 01:44:29 PM
for me, a chinook about 45 pounds :)
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Post by: Guppy on December 26, 2005, 02:04:14 PM
for me, a chinook about 45 pounds :)
were did you get it.
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Post by: Youngin on December 26, 2005, 02:04:53 PM
Vedder river, under keith wilson bridge :P  (I was new to the sport) :)
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Post by: Fish Assassin on December 26, 2005, 02:09:04 PM
self edited
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Post by: cohokid on December 26, 2005, 03:04:13 PM
40-50 ish puond whitey
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Post by: BigFisher on December 26, 2005, 03:24:48 PM
Countless vedder whites from 25-45.
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Post by: chris gadsden on December 26, 2005, 03:30:43 PM
50 pound Tyee in Alberni Inlet mooching plug cut herring. Caught the fish a few days too early or I would have won the Labour Day Long Weekend derby.
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Post by: Big Steel on December 26, 2005, 03:32:52 PM
50 pound Tyee in Alberni Inlet mooching plug cut herring. Caught the fish a few days too early or I would have won the Labour Day Long Weekend derby.
Nice!!!  Mine was caught on the Vedder in oct 4 years ago, Haven't got one near that big since!!  I would love to go to the island at least once to give that a try!!
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Post by: Rodney on December 26, 2005, 03:43:03 PM
My gosh, topics like this always bring out the so-called ego maniacs of FWR! ;D ;D ;D

Anyone can catch a big fish, the challenge really exists when you try to catch something like this (http://www.fishingwithrod.com/albums/album34/flounder.jpg). ;)
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Post by: Big Steel on December 26, 2005, 03:47:26 PM
You're right Rodney, that takes talent.  I'm pretty sure that Bwi Bwi had you beat though, we didn't get pics of that day, but they were Sculpins, maybe 2 or 3".  Hit hard though and put up a good fight!! :o ;D ;D
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Post by: Guppy on December 26, 2005, 04:35:56 PM
Heres mine, caught Sept.24/05, 8 feetand 400+ lbs. Biggest salmon was a spring in 1990 - 54lbs from the vedder, sorry no pic.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/fisherforever/sturgeonSept.jpg)
Nice fish I've seen afew sturgeons and that a pretty big one not only that it looks like it was in pretty good shape
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Post by: Geff_t on December 26, 2005, 05:02:04 PM
hey guppy was that the day on the coquitlam that you out fished your dad ;D
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Post by: Guppy on December 26, 2005, 05:15:38 PM
hey guppy was that the day on the coquitlam that you out fished your dad ;D

the day on the coquitlam river yes first. it was my first coho
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Post by: Steelhawk on December 26, 2005, 07:18:27 PM
42 lb red spring on a 9 wt flyrod, on the Big Qualicum. Heck of a memorable fight.
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Post by: searun17 on December 26, 2005, 08:01:34 PM
easy there gt ,it was a tie that day,one coho for guppy and one coho for daddy,as i see it he has already caught more coho than you and he is only 12.lol.
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Post by: Youngin on December 26, 2005, 08:09:52 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/rock_73/myfish.jpg)

My uh.. 50 pound spring caught... some day i forgot. Beauty :D
Title: Re: Biggest fish you ever caught? How big was it?
Post by: Guppy on December 26, 2005, 08:56:25 PM
easy there gt ,it was a tie that day,one coho for guppy and one coho for daddy,as i see it he has already caught more coho than you and he is only 12.lol.
It would not have been if I was paying attention to my float
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Post by: Big Steel on December 26, 2005, 08:59:46 PM
easy there gt ,it was a tie that day,one coho for guppy and one coho for daddy,as i see it he has already caught more coho than you and he is only 12.lol.
It would not have been if I was paying attention to my float
Yeah, your dad told me that you where daydreaming on that one, looking at the pretty trees and he had to yell for you to set the hook!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Guppy on December 26, 2005, 09:09:18 PM
easy there gt ,it was a tie that day,one coho for guppy and one coho for daddy,as i see it he has already caught more coho than you and he is only 12.lol.
It would not have been if I was paying attention to my float
Yeah, your dad told me that you where daydreaming on that one, looking at the pretty trees and he had to yell for you to set the hook!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
You have never lost a fish because you were day dreaming
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Post by: Big Steel on December 26, 2005, 09:12:57 PM
We all have!! ;D ;D
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Post by: Youngin on December 26, 2005, 09:55:50 PM
Usually i can feel the fish grab my offerings on my rod!!! sometimes I dont even look at the float and feel it!! or sometimes its jst like.. hey wheres my float? yank! haha fish on!! =D
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Post by: Guppy on December 26, 2005, 10:18:01 PM
Usually i can feel the fish grab my offerings on my rod!!! sometimes I dont even look at the float and feel it!! or sometimes its jst like.. hey wheres my float? yank! haha fish on!! =D
so can I but when you are really not paying any attention you do'nt feel it
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Post by: Youngin on December 26, 2005, 10:20:01 PM
What can you possible day dream about?! your dream is reality! :P
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Post by: Guppy on December 26, 2005, 10:27:52 PM
What can you possible day dream about?! your dream is reality! :P
what do you mean.
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Post by: Floater on December 26, 2005, 10:28:03 PM
50 pound female chinook from the vedder.
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Post by: Guppy on December 26, 2005, 10:31:42 PM
50 pound female chinook from the vedder.
was it in good shape ???
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Post by: Youngin on December 26, 2005, 11:48:54 PM
What can you possible day dream about?! your dream is reality! :P
what do you mean.



Your dream is probably to go out on the river to fish! so while your fishing, why would you day dream, when your dream is reality!!!!
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Post by: Floater on December 27, 2005, 01:54:16 AM
50 pound female chinook from the vedder.
was it in good shape ???
Actually yes it was lower river spring it was still chrome. Only time i caught a chrome from the vedder too lol.
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Post by: Geff_t on December 27, 2005, 02:01:38 PM
big steel is that best
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Post by: Geff_t on December 27, 2005, 02:02:41 PM
big steel has hyjacked my computer
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Post by: Geff_t on December 27, 2005, 02:04:49 PM
I'm kidding that is how i feel, big steel is the best
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Post by: Big Steel on December 27, 2005, 04:05:25 PM
Don't worry Gt, if you put the time in the fish will come sooner or later!! 
PS Thanks!! ;D ;D
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Post by: Geff_t on December 27, 2005, 04:09:20 PM
did not see you catch anything today ;D you spent more time with your reel.lmao
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Post by: Big Steel on December 27, 2005, 04:26:37 PM
Right back at ya!!!  I was expecting you to show me how it was done!!!  ;D  But you didn't get a sniff either!!  AS for the reel, your lucky that it was having issues!!  I would have showed you up on your home river!! ;D ;D
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Post by: nosey on December 28, 2005, 10:26:37 PM
38 lb spring Discovery Pier, Campbell Rv. 7'2" Stugeon big eddy Yale, 26 lb. steelhead, Herrling Island,aprox 6lb   rainbow, Courtney Lake.
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Post by: Guppy on December 31, 2005, 08:28:56 PM
375 pound blue marlin, maui
nice was it in any shape ???
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Post by: JBB on January 03, 2006, 06:40:50 PM
 296 lb Marlin . Cabo San Lucas. I can still see it take off when hooked, and its been almost 15 years.
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Post by: Guppy on January 04, 2006, 08:27:11 PM
296 lb Marlin . Cabo San Lucas. I can still see it take off when hooked, and its been almost 15 years.
must be pretty cool fighting marlins 8)
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Post by: sliverbullet on January 04, 2006, 08:39:09 PM
30 pound spring bamfield
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Post by: THE_ROE_SLINGER on January 05, 2006, 12:19:45 PM
wow....my biggest is a 6ft sturgeon caught on the fraser
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Post by: Eagleye on January 05, 2006, 01:09:59 PM
38lb red spring
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Post by: Guppy on January 05, 2006, 02:26:46 PM
05/24/95 white sturgeon from the mouth of the harrison river never got a weight on it but took measurements and they were 129 inches long 58.5 inches wide, you do the math. just under 2 hours on the rod. the fish went into the fraser and back into the harrison 3 times before we finally beached and released it just above island 22
that would have been pretty heavy then
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Post by: aquaboy24 on January 08, 2006, 09:50:29 AM
Last year I caught a big white spring on the Vedder - it was in the 40's. But bigger, but much less fun was the roughly 400lb Port Beagle I caught while deep water fishing off Guernsey in the Channel Islands. That sucker was a monster, and took careful attention to release while keeping all digits attached. Amazing creature.
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Post by: firstlight on January 08, 2006, 11:16:31 AM
8.25lb Rainbow
14lb. Steelhead
8.5 ft Sturgeon around 300 lbs
14lb Coho
42.5 Red Spring

Therest dont really matter.
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Post by: Big Steel on January 08, 2006, 11:37:36 AM
12lb Rainbow (Manitoba)
24 lb Steelhead (Vedder)
7+ ft Sturgoen (Fraser)
17lb Wild Coho (Squamish)
15lb Hatchery Coho (Chehalis)
45lb Red Spring (Fraser)
60+ Lb White Spring (Vedder)

Just been lucky, and had a lot of help!! ;D
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Post by: IronNoggin on January 08, 2006, 02:41:33 PM
Steelhead: 27.5 lbs Bogaciel R. Washington
Rainbow: 18.2 lbs, Crawling Valley Alberta
Chinook: 58.6 lbs - Outside Nitinat Gap, BC
Coho: 26.2 lbs Stamp R. BC
Sockeye: 13 lbs even Alberni Inlet BC
Lake Trout: 72.6 lbs Husky Lakes NWT
Arctic Charr: 32 lbs (forgot  ::) NWT
Arctic Grayling: 4.65 lbs Fox Lake Yukon
Golden Trout: 3.2 lbs (forgot again ;D) Alberta
Brown Trout 17.4 lbs Flaming Gorge Utah
Walleye: 14.5 lbs Anglin Lake Sask.
Pike: 56 lbs McKenzie River NWT

Largest to hand to date: 1,465 lb BlueFin Tuna US/Canada Border 5 miles offshore. Great fight, but took days for the pain to go away!

Hoping to better most of these... hoping that is...

And aYup, agree with Big Steel, damn lucky, but putting in the time helps  ;)

Cheers,
Nog
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Post by: Steelhawk on January 08, 2006, 08:04:05 PM
Wow, Nog, some fishing excursions and out-of-the-world fishing experiences. Congratulation! That blue-fin must be worth a fortune for the Japanese sushi market.  :D  Are they quite rare this far up in the Pacific?
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Post by: Fish Assassin on January 08, 2006, 08:11:22 PM
Aren't bluefins found off the Atlantic Coast ?
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Post by: IronNoggin on January 08, 2006, 08:46:03 PM
Caught the BlueFin while taking a day off from a Coastal Zone Management Conference in Nova Scotia over a decade ago. Cool boats, at least that day a fairly flat pond, and one MEAN rush chasing those things! That fish was sold commercially, as was the deal with the Skip. And it did indeed fly off to the Japanese market the next day (so we were informed anyway). We did get to carry off a few steaks though, and they were great! And the memories of that battle are something I'll carry to the grave.

The rest were generally targetted results, and most required dozens if not hundreds of outings. 'Course I don't really mind the task  ;) :D

Cheers,
Nog
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Post by: fishingbuddha on January 08, 2006, 09:26:36 PM
largest salmon = 45-50 lb white spring
largest trout = 6lb rainbow on a dry fly
largest bull trout = 6 lb
largest dolly = 6 lb
largest steelhead = about 20 lb

largest commercial caught salmon = 69 lb
largest halibut = 110 lb

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Post by: cohokid on January 08, 2006, 09:28:20 PM
golden trout herd about hose on tv one time, cool looking fish arent the extinct now?
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Post by: IronNoggin on January 09, 2006, 01:12:23 PM
golden trout herd about hose on tv one time, cool looking fish arent the extinct now?

Nope:

Quote
Golden Trout
Alberta's Golden Trout Management Plan was completed in 1995 for this 'species of special concern.' Alberta is the only Canadian province with golden trout. The species was first introduced in 1959 from its native alpine lakes in California. The plan is being implemented to conserve this unique species and at the same time provide some special fishing opportunities by way of restrictive angling regulations.
From: http://www3.gov.ab.ca/srd/fw/fishing/fishstat.html

Also: http://www3.gov.ab.ca/srd/fw/fishing/golden.html

And: http://members.shaw.ca/goldentroutalberta/goldentroutdescription.htm

Just a tad tough to get to  ;)

Cheers,
Nog


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Post by: armytruck on January 09, 2006, 04:15:00 PM
71 lb red .Queen Charlottes