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Talk about a monster! Here’s an 83-pound Lake Trout (mackinaw) from Great Bear Lake in the NW Territories!
The massive best was harvested in a gill net by Deline First Nation. They apparently tried to revive the fish but it was already dead.
The All-Tackle rod and reel record for lake trout also came from Great Bear and weighed 72 pounds, so this fish would gave obliterated the record had it been caught with hook and line.
You can read the whole story at OUTDOOR HUB
The biggest king salmon ever caught was this 126-pound monster that was caught in a fish trap near Petersburg, Alaska in 1949. My friend and fellow Alaska guide, Chris Sessions, sent me this pic and said that a friend of his has one of the three replica mounts of the behemoth on his wall.
All I can say is OMG!!!
If you’d like to see more giant kings, go here: 10 of the World’s Largest king Salmon
Patrick Hildebrand of Red Hook, New York recently tied the New York State smallmouth bass record with this 8-pound, 4 ouncer he caught on dropshot gear on the St. Lawrence River near Cape Vincent.
The most amazing stat about this fish? The length (21.5″) and girth (20.75″) were almost identical!!!
Read the whole story HERE
I can stare at this fish for about a day straight and not get tired of looking at it! Not only is it Charzilla but that coloration is just so amazing!
It’s said to be the largest char ever taken on a fly…and I’ve got nothing to contradict that. Man, what a fish!!
It came from the Tree River in the Nothwest Territories. Check out @alaskaguidelist on Instagram for some more really cool fish pictures.
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Man, there have been some BIG stripers showing up join the radar lately, including this massive 66.9 pounder caught recently by Alvin Vang of Clovis, CA. He was fishing San Luis Reservoir off the bank with a white Fluke from the Romero Visitor Center.
While big enough to swallow dogs and small humans, this fish actually fell shy of the California state record 67.8 pounder, which was caught in 1992 from neighboring O’Neill Forebay by Hank Ferguson of Soquel, CA. For more on this story, check out the Fresno Bee
Not to be outdone, the great state of Missouri – Bull Shoals Reservoir to be exact – just pumped out this new state record 65-pound, 2-ounce striped bass to Lawrence Dillman of Rockaway Beach, Mo. Hillman was fishing alone at night with a 6-inch live minnow near Powersite Dam when the leviathan hit. See the whole story at USATODAY
So, just where do these two fish rank on the all-time striper leader board? Well, the official IGFA All Tackle World Record for the species is an ocean fish caught off Connecticut in 2011 that weighed 81 pounds, 14 ounces.
The two fish above are certainly in the top 1o and more likely, the top 5 all time taken in freshwater lakes. The current freshwater striped bass record is a 69 pound, 9 ounce fish caught in Alabama in 2013.