Biggest fish by species?

[CanuckShooter]

What's your biggest fish by species?? 110lb halibut is my biggest ever...


http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd486/jim13135/fishing%20for%20life/Fishingtrip-May2006003.jpg

this char was a good size too. :mrgreen:

[steelheadSABO]

Sturgeon about 6 feet don't know how much it weighed

[Str8shooterbc]

I once when young caught a 5lb+ Kokanee near Kokanee Creek on the Kootenay River West Arm. It wasn't the biggest caught that year. If I remember correctly the largest recorded at the time was around 8 lbs, but I don't think that was taken on a line rather it was picked up in a spawning bed. It around 1965. Apparently in 2010 a 9.67lb Kokanee was caught in Oregon.

I remember once hearing a story about some passengers were riding on a bright sunny day in July across the Balfour/Crawford Bay ferry. There were a lot of Kokanee "playing" by jumping as they frequently do. A passenger with a "drawl" said to the Canadian passenger that was near him, "Hey y'all, how big do the fish get in this here lake?"

The Canadian held his hands out about 10" apart.

The other passenger scoffed, "Ahh heck them is just bait fish where I come from."

The Canadian said politely, "Yes but we do measure a little differently here in Canada than you do. Up here were measure between the eyes."

[tinhorse]

Steelhead - 23lb kitimat
Ling cod 74 lb Prince Rupert
Spring 56 lb nass river tributary
coho 23 lb bamfield
halibut 42 lb I need to get a bigger one!

[Sitkaspruce]

38.5 spring X3......
35 laker
4.8 grayling
47 ling
7.5 rainbow
not sure about hali, coho, snapper etc.

Cheers

SS

[carnivore]

Chinook Salmon 58lbs. Rivers Inlet BC, 2000

[oldtimer]

Spring---40 # Prince Rupert
Rainbow---12# Okanogan Lake
Halibut--- 280# Off Calvery Island
Lake Trout--15 # Kalamalka Lake

[gerrygoat]

Off the top of my head:
Halibut 58 lbs
Lingcod 47 inches, not sure what it weighed
Chinook 41 lbs
Chum 25 lbs
Coho 19 lbs
Sockeye 9.5 lbs
Steelhead 40 + inches, not sure on weight.

[Blainer]

Sailfish,Mexico
9' 10",152lbs.

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/100_01741.jpg (javascript:;)

[NaStY]

Caught this little guy a couple years ago.


http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb240/becauseican_2007/Jspics236edited.jpg

[NaStY]

Caught this red spring last year on the fraser. Prob around 35lbs,

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb240/becauseican_2007/RedspringAug212011.jpg

[Tikka270wsm]

Spring- 46lbs
Coho- 18-20 lbs, never weighed
Steelhead- 15-18 lbs, never weighed
Brown Trout- 26.5 inches long with a 17 inch girth
Rainbow- 6 lbs.
Smallmouth Bass- 5 pounds

[longstonec]

Mines bigger.

[Tuffcity]

Most memorable (and biggest to date) was a 60# haibut on a 10weight flyrod- 15# leader. Not the target species but an interesting surprise when I hooked that sucker up!

RC

[SimilkameenSlayer]

a 35# white vedder spring.

[Shooter]

we hooked a grey whale when commercial fishing.... does that count?

[TheProvider]

6" Smelt...

[Riverratz]

48# Spring - Kalum R. (1992)
52# Spring - Skeena R. (2006)
12# Rainbow - Takla L. (1993)
15# Laker - Takla L. (1993)
15# & 11# Dolly - Crooked R. (1987)
1.5# Grayliing - Frog R. (2009)
18# Steelhead - Lakelse R. (1993)
12# Sockeye - Skeena R. (2007)

[snareman1234]

guided a 184.2lb Halibut...won 1st in Island Outfitter Derby in 2010

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c270/empire_baller/34976_10150228771295137_791900136_13731777_3114973 _n.jpg

[Hooktender]

guided 68lb Nootka spring personal Nootka 40lb spring
guided 163lb Essperanza halibut personal Nootka 60lb halibut
guided 51lb Kyuquot ling personal maybe 15 or so
personal Rainbow 15lb Defeinbaker Lk SK
Big sturgeon is on the to do list

[sarg]

for me it would be about a 4.5' sturgeon,

[ianwuzhere]

This year my biggest sturgeon-this chunky 7'2"er:

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r141/ianwuzherephotos/facecropsturgeon-1.jpg


and last weekend i caught quite a few fish- heres one pic that turned out ok :

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r141/ianwuzherephotos/laker.jpg

and my biggest grayling from this year as well:

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r141/ianwuzherephotos/024-3.jpg

[Caveman]

42lb Spring - Campbell River
5 lb Eastern Brook Trout - Mcglashin Lake
10 lb Rainbow - Kamloops Lake
14 in Arctic Grayling - Surprise Lake
20 lb Halibut - Bamfield
17 lb Coho - Bamfield
3 ft Sturgeon - Fraser river

[scoutlt1]

45lb Spring off P.R. (Dundas Island)
35lb Hali (same area)
12lb Ling (same area)
9lb Sockeye (Fraser R...Herrling Island)
12lb Chum (Harrison R.)
10lb Steelhead (Chehalis R.)
6lb Rainbow (Bishop Lk.)
2.5lb Brook Trout (Black Lk.)
23lb Laker (Muncho Lake)
2.5 Grayling (West Lake)
6lb Bull Trout (Liard R.)
8.5lb Largemouth Bass (Vaseux Lake)...(think I should have seen if that was a B.C. record...1995)
6lb Smallmouth Bass (Osoyoos Lake)
5lb Walleye (Charlie Lake)
15lb Pike (Weaver Lake)
8lb Red Snapper (Agamemnon Channel...near Madeira Park)

[Phreddy]

I keep hearing stories about folks bragging about catching 1, 2, or 3' salmon. The biggest fish I ever caught was only about 6 or 7". You guys measure yours the same as I do, between the eyes, right?

[ianwuzhere]

of course ;)
pounds are hard to judge, i look at lots of fish and pix and guys throwing out estimated weights and some even on scales.- someones 10 pounder could truthfully be 4 pounds, hehe ;)..

[Sasquatch]

Sturgeon - 7'
Rainbow - 16 lbs
Walleye - 8 lbs
Pike - 15 lbs
Speckled trout - 4 lbs

I have a 50 year old pic of my dad with a 524 lb bluefin somewhere - definately the family record

[buford19]

238 lb halibut fishtrap.
46 lb spring kitimat river.
43 inch wild steelhead kitimat river. no weight catch and release.

[Leaseman]

10' 4" Sturgeon......:mrgreen:..... weight? too much!

As far as salmon go..... several 40+ pounds (whites) in the Fraser....

[Steelwheels]

It was this <~~~~~> big..no this<~~~~~~~~~~~> big ...come to think about it ..It was this<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Big ....Really

[dakoda62]

6 1/2 foot blue shark. East of Graham Island (Charlottes)

[Fishhound]

20# Rainbow Okanagan Lake
20# Lake Trout Tagish Lake
20+# Pike Little Atlin Lake
120# Sailfish
35# Tuna
40# Durado
45# Amber Jack
25# Baracuda

[ianwuzhere]

20# Rainbow Okanagan Lake
20# Lake Trout Tagish Lake
20+# Pike Little Atlin Lake
120# Sailfish
35# Tuna
40# Durado
45# Amber Jack
25# Baracuda

Any pix of your 20# rainbow??

[hunter1993ap]

Any pix of your 20# rainbow??

ya i want to see it as whell!! one day i will get one of those big rainbows as well!!!

[REMINGTON JIM]

Hali 74 lbs QCI
Spring Salmon 28 lbs QCI
Coho Salmon 14 lbs QCI
Chum Salmon 25 lbs Bella Coola
Pink Salmon 8 Lbs Kitimat
Dolly Varden ( bull trout ) 19 lbs Gun Lake
Eastern Brook Trout 4 Lbs Goose Lake
Sail Fish 115 Lbs Mexico
Rainbow Trout 5 lbs French Lake
Lake Trout 8 Lbs Bridge Lake
Kokanee 2-15 oz Bridge lake
Fresh ling (burbot) 52 Inches approx 25 Lbs Kinbasket Lake

[Rubberknot]

37.5 lb Spring, Nootka Sound - 2005
16.5 lb Coho, Nootka Sound - 2007
23 lb Chum, Campbell River - 1998
7 lb 3 oz Laker, Hathaway Lake - 2008


Lots more in other species, but too small to brag about :)

[DeerWhisperer]

10' sturgeon fraser
42lb spring hakai pass

[sakohunter]

Gear caught
60lb Spring (QCI)
16lb Coho "
42lb Halibut "

Fly Caught
10lb Steelhead (Vedder)
28lb Spring (Vedder)
13lb Coho (Harrison)
9lb Rainbow (Lundbom)
3lb Brookie (Upper Second)

[Fishhound]

I don't have a picture of my 20# rainbow but I did put a picture of a 20+# rainbow in my gallery, My sons buddy came fishing with me and caught it trolling a Lyman lure on the surface April, 2011

[Fella]

7.5# Rainbow, Mabel Lk
10# Sockeye, Fraser
4# Pink Fraser

[Sako 75]

Used catch lots of Stamp river's coho in mid-teens and couple 20 lbers.

Biggest steelhead caught was fresh chrome buck measuring 43" from Yakoun river, Q.C.Island.

Stinking Vedder river's boot White spring in mid-40's.

Biggest brown trout was est.4 lbs from Cowichan river.

Biggest Bull trout was est. 7lbs from Cheakamus river.

Biggest stickleback caught was 4" from local ditch when I was 5 years old.

[KB90]

Here you go tobertuzzi, Impressive fish!

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/250_Hali.jpg

[tobertuzzi]

Thanks was estimated at 300lb, caught 06 in the Charlottes

[CanuckShooter]

Here you go tobertuzzi, Impressive fish!

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/250_Hali.jpg


Nice one!!! How long to land it??

[CanuckShooter]

Caught this little guy a couple years ago.


http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb240/becauseican_2007/Jspics236edited.jpg

Impressive!! What did you use for bait?? I saw one swimming downstream in a canyon on the Nechako River when I was a kid...it was at least 12 feet long.

[835]

Woulda had to weigh them!
ya im a poor sport, i could write down a bunch of made up numbers but i wont. I should though,, it is fishing!
And the crappy thing,,,, this year my wife kicked my ass.

[CanuckShooter]

Woulda had to weigh them!
ya im a poor sport, i could write down a bunch of made up numbers but i wont. I should though,, it is fishing!
And the crappy thing,,,, this year my wife kicked my ass.

Really? Be an honest fisherman...only this year? ;-)

[tobertuzzi]

Nice one!!! How long to land it??

Actually only about 10 mins, I dont think she really knew what was going on. If we didnt get the harpoon in first time I think it would have been a long battle.

[Islandeer]

51 lb'er near Port Renfrew last summer. In my gallery,feel free to post it, I just don't get the picture thing!!

[835]

Really? Be an honest fisherman...only this year? ;-)

Really CS,
I have weighed hundreds of 5-35 lb springs i have caught. I was a guide on the west coast of the island.
Spring salmon? river caught and released? PURE Speculation 40+ lbs I have pictures but no scanner sorry.

Steelhead you release,,,, so estimate?? based on formula ( Which is a common formula for steelhead) 30" fish = 10lb,,,, i have put tape on 35" fish.

Halibut my self only small ones never weighed 30-40??? lbs

Coho? again i cant say at all.

Cutties, loads at around 20"
Rainbows the same
Browns 5-6 lbs est guess

Really, Everything i catch pretty much goes back, and i just dont weigh them. After growing up on a boat i dont eat them. I dont fish much for other people anymore, and the compitition between my Wife, Father and I is all for fun and the only competition i go in now. I dont mean to sound like im "Tooting my horne" It is just so long ago my life was absolutly drouned and surrounded with fish both Commercial and Sport. So a big one today is just that "Todays nice fish" one that i hope is bigger or better then my lovely wifes!

[Fella]

6 1/2 foot blue shark. East of Graham Island (Charlottes)

Wow! That must have been something! How was the fight? Sharks have fascinated me since I was a kid so I always like to talk to people who have had encounters with them.

[Chody]

posts useless without pics...

[rbduck]

38lb Spring........Bulkley River
37lb Channel Catfish......Red River
28lb Northern Pike.....Dorothy Lake, MB

Ron:mrgreen:

[IronNoggin]

Personal Best: 1,400 pound Blue Fin Tuna. 12 miles Offshore the Eastern US / Canada Border, back when those Giants still existed. Also tagged a 750 pound Blue Fin the same day. Today unfortunately, the largest seen most seasons rarely approaches the size of the smaller one we caught that day.

Guided Spring: 66 pounds, on The Sawtooth, 16 year old Young Gun's FIRST ever spring! Awesome!!

http://gallery.fishbc.com/albums/Tracks/60lbs_2.jpg

Best Personal Spring: 56 pounds, outside The Gap at Nitinat.

Best Guided Halibut: 264 pounds - Meant to cut it free, but the Client (a Boxer from England with mitts the size of my head) demanded otherwise. Took everything we had to haul it over the stern, and required a hyab (in Port) to remove it.

Best Personal Halibut: 88 pounds

Best Guided Coho: 28 pounds - Southbank - to my Father. Now mounted and proudly displayed in his overly HUGE Man Cave.

Best Personal Coho: 25 pounds 13 ounces - Stamp River, BC

Best Personal Northern Pike: 56 pounds, McKenzie river, NWT.

Best Personal Inconnu: 71 pounds, McKenzie River, NWT.

Best Personal Arctic Grayling: 5 lbs 3 ounces, Husky Lake tributary, NWT

Best Personal Arctic Char: 31 pounds 6 ounces, Mouth of XXX River, Victoria Island, NWT

Best Personal Lake Trout: 71 pounds, 2 ounces, Husky Lakes, NWT

Best Personal Steelhead: 27 pounds 11 ounces, Bogachiel River. 32 pound Spring run Spring same day, same gear.
Largest Steelhead Observed: 33 pounds 4 ounces - Likely Thompson bound, Yale Canyon, Fraser River, BC - Fishwheel

Best Personal Sturgeon: Weight unknown, just over 13 feet in length, Yale Canyon, Fraser River, BC

Best Personal Brown: 11 pounds 13 ounces, Lower Crowsnest River (before the Three Rivers Dam), Alberta. 4x tippet!
Largest Brown Observed: 31 pounds 4 ounces - State Record Fish at that time, My Uncle's (I was in the boat) Flaming Gorge, Utah

Best Personal Rainbow: 19 pounds, 3 ounces, Piprell Lake, Saskatchewan

Off the Beaten track...

Largest Salmon Shark: Guesstimated at just over 400 pounds, targeted fishery, Malcolm Island. Tagged & Released. Recaptured and additional tags applied twice over 4 years.

Largest Exotic: 42 pound Goliath Tigerfish - Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. Rumored to reach in excess of 100 pounds in the same system. These are incredibly FUN to catch, but WATCH getting any part of you near their Business End!! Not my photo, but shown here to indicate why:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7Xd4NnEje4Y/TeC7mXtpEzI/AAAAAAAAOOs/PjwUff_egPs/s1600/goliath-tigerfish.jpg

Might say I am a little addicted to angling, and manage to get around... just a tad... :twisted:

Cheers,
Nog

[CanuckShooter]

Holy cow batman.....that Tigerfish looks deadly!! Not much missing on your list there Nog....you must really like fishin'. :-)

[longstonec]

Personal Best: 1,400 pound Blue Fin Tuna. 12 miles Offshore the Eastern US / Canada Border, back when those Giants still existed. Also tagged a 750 pound Blue Fin the same day. Today unfortunately, the largest seen most seasons rarely approaches the size of the smaller one we caught that day.

Guided Spring: 66 pounds, on The Sawtooth, 16 year old Young Gun's FIRST ever spring! Awesome!!

http://gallery.fishbc.com/albums/Tracks/60lbs_2.jpg

Best Personal Spring: 56 pounds, outside The Gap at Nitinat.

Best Guided Halibut: 264 pounds - Meant to cut it free, but the Client (a Boxer from England with mitts the size of my head) demanded otherwise. Took everything we had to haul it over the stern, and required a hyab (in Port) to remove it.

Best Personal Halibut: 88 pounds

Best Guided Coho: 28 pounds - Southbank - to my Father. Now mounted and proudly displayed in his overly HUGE Man Cave.

Best Personal Coho: 25 pounds 13 ounces - Stamp River, BC

Best Personal Northern Pike: 56 pounds, McKenzie river, NWT.

Best Personal Inconnu: 71 pounds, McKenzie River, NWT.

Best Personal Arctic Grayling: 5 lbs 3 ounces, Husky Lake tributary, NWT

Best Personal Arctic Char: 31 pounds 6 ounces, Mouth of XXX River, Victoria Island, NWT

Best Personal Lake Trout: 71 pounds, 2 ounces, Husky Lakes, NWT

Best Personal Steelhead: 27 pounds 11 ounces, Bogachiel River. 32 pound Spring run Spring same day, same gear.
Largest Steelhead Observed: 33 pounds 4 ounces - Likely Thompson bound, Yale Canyon, Fraser River, BC - Fishwheel

Best Personal Sturgeon: Weight unknown, just over 13 feet in length, Yale Canyon, Fraser River, BC

Best Personal Brown: 11 pounds 13 ounces, Lower Crowsnest River (before the Three Rivers Dam), Alberta. 4x tippet!
Largest Brown Observed: 31 pounds 4 ounces - State Record Fish at that time, My Uncle's (I was in the boat) Flaming Gorge, Utah

Best Personal Rainbow: 19 pounds, 3 ounces, Piprell Lake, Saskatchewan

Off the Beaten track...

Largest Salmon Shark: Guesstimated at just over 400 pounds, targeted fishery, Malcolm Island. Tagged & Released. Recaptured and additional tags applied twice over 4 years.

Largest Exotic: 42 pound Goliath Tigerfish - Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. Rumored to reach in excess of 100 pounds in the same system. These are incredibly FUN to catch, but WATCH getting any part of you near their Business End!! Not my photo, but shown here to indicate why:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7Xd4NnEje4Y/TeC7mXtpEzI/AAAAAAAAOOs/PjwUff_egPs/s1600/goliath-tigerfish.jpg

Might say I am a little addicted to angling, and manage to get around... just a tad... :twisted:

Cheers,
Nog


Hehe. My dad spent hours years ago trying to see if he could land a tiger fish only with mono on a collapsable spinning rod. BOne of his favorite stories from a trip there.

[Lillypuff]

10 pd walleye- Bistcho lake
22 pd pike- Great Slave
18 pd innconu- Great Slave
9pd Rainbow- Vinson Lake

CS you can be normal I knew you had it in you. Hope all is well

[Fishhound]

IronNoggin, I am jealous

[IronNoggin]

... Not much missing on your list there Nog....you must really like fishin'. :-)

LOL! Oh, there's a handful to go yet methinks! Working on them one at a time...

"Like" fishing is a bit of an understatement! Became a Marine Biologist simply because Wildlife Biologists have to work (EEK!) through most of the hunting seasons, obviously NOT a wise choice for me! :twisted: Kinda like getting paid for doing what I would have paid for, and certainly allowed me a LOT of opportunities. Only ONE thing I like better, but we can only hunt so many months of the year, whereas fishing is a full time occupation! Now I fish commercially (WCVI troller) and guide in the chuck. Certainly a GREAT way to feed the addiction! :mrgreen:


IronNoggin, I am jealous

Don't be! I am usually right bloody broke as a consequence of this infatuation! Even more so that the Hunting Bug!
Never to late to start! :twisted:

Cheers,
Nog

[doubled]

LOL! Oh, there's a handful to go yet methinks! Working on them one at a time...

"Like" fishing is a bit of an understatement! Became a Marine Biologist simply because Wildlife Biologists have to work (EEK!) through most of the hunting seasons, obviously NOT a wise choice for me! :twisted: Kinda like getting paid for doing what I would have paid for, and certainly allowed me a LOT of opportunities. Only ONE thing I like better, but we can only hunt so many months of the year, whereas fishing is a full time occupation! Now I fish commercially (WCVI troller) and guide in the chuck. Certainly a GREAT way to feed the addiction! :mrgreen:



Don't be! I am usually right bloody broke as a consequence of this infatuation! Even more so that the Hunting Bug!
Never to late to start! :twisted:

Cheers,
Nog

Hey, you old sea dog!! I was wondering when you would chime in on this one. That is one hell of a list my friend.

DD

[Fishhound]

Don't be! I am usually right bloody broke as a consequence of this infatuation! Even more so that the Hunting Bug!
Never to late to start! :twisted:

Cheers,
Nog[/QUOTE]

I still have salmon on my list to catch when I am healthy enough to take the rock and roll of the ocean, regardless of the cost, with the size of the salmon on your list I will be in touch

[Big G Hunter]

564 lb blu fin tuna on PEI. Thats field dressed and heading to Japan.