jerseyhunter

21 lb Chinook- Selkirk lighthouse, Lake Ontario
33 lb Stripped Bass - Ocean
45 lb Cod- Ocean
55 lb Cod- Set-lining- Ocean

ElCid05

Saltwater - 36lb striper on a umbrella rig

Freshwater - 30lb flathead cat on a live redbreast

Biggest Bass are a 10lb 4oz largemouth on a lizzard carolina rigged and a 6lb 4oz smallmouth on a 3in smoke power grub.

Biggest salmon was a 42" King on a J Plug never got a weight. I would love to catch a big one on a fly rod, but since I live in the south, I take what I can get when I sneek up to the great lakes.

Andy

johnkeltgen

I was wondering that myself! Here in Minnesota, I bowfish ALL the time. But it's illegal as hell to shoot any game fish with your bow. But I've shot huge carp, longnose gar, sheephead, dogfish, and bullheads. The biggest carp I ever shot was just under 40 pounds. The biggest fish I ever caught though... hmmm, I dunno, I never bring my damn scale along! I always forget the stinkin' thing and never weigh my fish. Doesn't matter though... the fish always get bigger with time, whether you have a scale or not

ElCid05

I read an article in field and stream a few years ago about some folks on Lake Champlain in VT who shoot pike with Rifles in the spring. It was a tradition and there was some rationale behind it. It may have since been outlawed. They took 7foot step ladders into the shallows where the fish spawned and picked them off with highpowered rifles. If you ask me, that is dangerous as crap, but to each their own.

Andy

Carpmaster

I have never heard of bowfishing for Pike, but I did hear the same about shooting them with rifles that ElCid05 did. It really sounds stupid to me, why would you want to shoot spawning gamefish with rifles for one, you cant catch and release for two, and what about falling with a rifle or bullets being deflected????

DBHunter

You can bowfish for pike in Alaska

buckshot47

fresh water 8lb4oz rainbow trout saltwater 38lb. snook

Gundigest

My biggest walleye is a 32" male just over 10 pounds through the ice on Saginaw Bay this winter.

Allseasonhunter7

only 14 soo
4lb rainbow
3lb brown
3lb laker
5or6lb carp
6lb smallmouth

rockytop

10 lb 4 oz largemouth on a carolina rig with a black super floater worm, caught at night

7 lb 6 oz. smallmouth on a black firetail worm, caught at night

12 lb. channel cat on worms

60 pound grouper