biggest fish ever?

[1fastR]

this is a huge fish-

This Sturgeon was caught on the Fraser River just above the Mission bridge. It weighed out at over 1,000lbs and measured out at 11'1". It was 56" around the girth and took over 6 and a half hours to real in with 4 guys taking turns!!!!!!!!!!!!

[400eXr1d3rZ]

holy.....chit.....its ****in huge!!!

[wckedclownz69]

wow imagin trying to eat tht :eek2:

[Tom TRX250R]

More like it trying to eat you:p

[antman]

if i was swimming and all the sudden saw that BEAST... i would have a heart attack!

[400exrules]

holy crap!!!! any nuclear reactor plants near that river?!?!:eek2:

[ST87]

that fish is probably 200 years old or probably more. sturgeon are the longest living fish they are common to reach 100years old. ive heard of 200 pounders being over 100 cant imagine how old a 1000 pounder would be. i really hope they let it go a fish living that long deserves to live his life out.

[coryatver]

is that photochopped?

[ST87]

i seriously doubt they actually get that big.

[bluebaron]

I would hate to see one of them or an aligator gar while i was swimming

http://iobis.org/images/ILAlligatorGar.jpg :eek:

[4oorider]

Originally posted by bluebaron
I would hate to see one of them or an aligator gar while i was swimming

we used to have a fish tank with 2 of them in it. they are vicious at feeding time:p

[jason43050]

Originally posted by coryatver
is that photochopped? doesn't look like a photoshop job. looks legit... theres catfish in the ohio river that are bigger than me, so i don't doubt that fish is be that big. theres probably catfis in the ohio river that the mouth alone in as tall as i am. i'm 5' 11''. i've heard all kinds of stories about the catfish in the ohio river...

[4oorider]

Originally posted by coryatver
is that photochopped?

if that was, it would have taken forever to make the reflection in the rippled water and make the glare all over too.....

[pastfast125]

yea I've heard of 300+ lb catfish in the mississippi about like 6ft long. I wanna get a utility quad, hook it to a tree, throw the winch cable in tehwater with some bait on, and just winch a 300 pounder onto shore..lol:p

[TheFontMaster]

Originally posted by pastfast125
yea I've heard of 300+ lb catfish in the mississippi about like 6ft long. I wanna get a utility quad, hook it to a tree, throw the winch cable in tehwater with some bait on, and just winch a 300 pounder onto shore..lol:p

Say good by to the ute. :o

[pastfast125]

haha yea, it would be cool though. Imagine the story you could tell, sayin a catfish at your quad, haha.

[KeithF]

The picture is real, I live in mission and can see the mission bridge from my bedroom and we go fishing for sturgeon all the time. Biggest one i have caught so far was just over 8ft and took 2 hours to get in. They are fun to catch but are illegal to keep and fisheries are out all the time making sure nobody keeps or kills them. But yes they are real and do get that big.

[derekhonda]

So you caught an 8 footer huh?

[Honda4trax250x]

kinda small... shoula' threw her back

:blah:

Wow....these guys grow!

http://www.anglingbc.com/sturgeon/home.html

[underpowered]

Originally posted by jason43050
theres catfish in the ohio river that are bigger than me, so i don't doubt that fish is be that big. theres probably catfis in the ohio river that the mouth alone in as tall as i am. i'm 5' 11''. i've heard all kinds of stories about the catfish in the ohio river...

yes, but have you ever seen one? i have heard that too.

In tennesee, they were repairing a dam on the tennesee river that created Watts Bar lake. THey sent divrs down, and after teh first day tehy refused to go down again without shark cages due the the catfish being so large. many workers claimed fish large enought to swallow them whole, fish as large as cars. whether this is true or not, i dont know. but a while back when i was researchign going to watts bar, i found this story. i will try to dig it up again.

[trick250r]

Originally posted by jason43050
doesn't look like a photoshop job. looks legit... theres catfish in the ohio river that are bigger than me, so i don't doubt that fish is be that big. theres probably catfis in the ohio river that the mouth alone in as tall as i am. i'm 5' 11''. i've heard all kinds of stories about the catfish in the ohio river...


yea, there was a diver for this damn in warwood, along the ohio. he went to work one morning, dove down to check some things on the bottom of the damn, and saw a catfish. needless to say, it scared the hell out of him. he came up, hung up his gear, and quit that afternoon.

[jason43050]

Originally posted by underpowered
yes, but have you ever seen one? i have heard that too.

In tennesee, they were repairing a dam on the tennesee river that created Watts Bar lake. THey sent divrs down, and after teh first day tehy refused to go down again without shark cages due the the catfish being so large. many workers claimed fish large enought to swallow them whole, fish as large as cars. whether this is true or not, i dont know. but a while back when i was researchign going to watts bar, i found this story. i will try to dig it up again. years ago there was a bridge that callapsed into the ohio rver and these divers went down to check things out. they came up scared to death cause they seen catfish that were bigger than they were. they said there mouths were wider than they were tall. not sure how true it is but i've heard that story to many times from different people to not think its true.

[Toadz400]

That's how the fish are in the Mississippi River up here and around the Stillwater bridge. Divers are scared to death to do repairs on the old bridge because of how huge the fish are underneath. Also up in Lake Superior I'm sure the fish are even bigger, fish like that tend to grow according to their surroundings...so if the lake is big, the fish are big.

[Ghost-Rider]

Originally posted by ST87
i seriously doubt they actually get that big.

Sturgoen are preostoric fish they get huge i msure theres bigger up in the up or so i remember not to long ago someone got i tihnk a 8footer or so some like that out of Erie but i dont know that it would of weighed 1000 pounds ..... then agin theres some big tunas but thats salt water but i guess it could be right

[400exrules]

only God knows what all is out in the deep blue sea:eek2:

[ST87]

Originally posted by Ghost-Rider
Sturgoen are preostoric fish they get huge i msure theres bigger up in the up or so i remember not to long ago someone got i tihnk a 8footer or so some like that out of Erie but i dont know that it would of weighed 1000 pounds ..... then agin theres some big tunas but thats salt water but i guess it could be right

Sry i needed commas and it was a typo. the guy asked if it was photoshopped i meant it to say: I seriously doubt it, they actually get that big. I know they get that big Beluga sturgeon in Russia have been caught in nets claming to weigh over a ton. But if 4 guys helped reel that fish in it wont be in the IFGA record book because to be a record only one person can touch the rod or line.

[400exrules]

catfish anyone?

[400exrules]

i remember seeing this joker on the news last year, it was caught somewhere near thailand

(its a freshwater fish)

[trick250r]

well, since were on the subject of fish... i wonder how big they get out in bottom of the ocean.

[fast_enough]

Yea, there is a place on the ohio that does repairs etc. on barges. And dive under the water with suits and repair the barges. And there have been 2-3 guys I know of quit because of catfish they saw in there, must've scared them pretty bad, because thats a high paying job. I would piss my pants if something like that swam by me.

Originally posted by trick250r
well, since were on the subject of fish... i wonder how big they get out in bottom of the ocean.


I doubt they could go down that far, there is so much pressure down there for fishes.


Heavest thing i have realed in was about 400LBS, it wasent a fish it was a raptor, i through that pos back were it belongs.:blah:

[ST87]

Whale Shark is the biggest fish and i think its upwards of 3-4 tons if not more. Most fish found in really deep parts of the ocean are smaller due to lack of nutrition.

[TacomaNC4X4]

seems like every lake has storys about divers at the dam with catfish bigger then they are...lol

[06yfm350]

biggest fish i have ever caught was a pike about 24'' long haha.. those things are massive..

[KWAD GAWD]

DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE ALLIGATOR GARR!!
This is an Alligator Garr with a really big Pike in its' mouth - that sucker is MEAN!!

[KWAD GAWD]

Here's another one for you: when they were building our bridge across the Ohio river, they had to dynamite a catfish out of the way because it was too big to move. It just laid there facing upstream with it's mouth open and let the current feed it.

[Quad18star]

Originally posted by KWAD GAWD
DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE ALLIGATOR GARR!!
This is an Alligator Garr with a really big Pike in its' mouth - that sucker is MEAN!!

Almost looks like a large pike with a smaller pike in it's mouth .

I've heard of Garr Pikes before ... never heard of Alligator Garrs though . Got anymore pics of an alligator garr??

Largest pike I've ever caught was around the 20 lbs mark .... largest pike I've ever seen come out of a lake was 34lbs .

I once netted a 10 lbs pike in the spring after the ice left the lake .... he was on surface sunning himself .... i drove by with the boat and scooped him up .... easiest fish I've ever caught . :D I've also had the luxury of having a huge pike pull our 14ft boat around a bay before finally snapping the line .... good thing cuz that sucker would have been mounted on the wall !!!!!!

I got lots of great fishing stories !!!! A new world record Rainbow Trout was caught here in town just lately .... the fish weighed in at 40.68 lbs ... shattering the old record by 11 pounds .

http://www.laketrout.org/rainbowtrout/rainbowtrout.jpg

[ST87]

Ive never heard of alligator gar being in pike water and i agree with quad18star it looks like a bigger pike. ive heard of people catchin little pike and bigger pike rippin into them. But there is such thing as a alligator gar record is like 200 sumthin lbs i think

[cabex]

If that is indeed a pike, that thing would be close to a record cause that thing is massive!. Tha largest pike i have seen somone catch was 44 inchs

[pastfast125]

This one is called an Arapaima:eek2:

[mxdad]

http://www.earthwave.org/gars/treegar.jpg

The rod and reel world record alligator gar weighed 290 lbs, and the trot line, or unrestricted division record weighed 302 lbs. Both were caught in the Rio Grande River back in the 1950s, and measured a little over 7 and a half feet in length.

http://radio.weblogs.com/0108008/images/alligator%20gar.jpg

[2002400ex]

is there even line that would hold a fish that big?

[ST87]

Originally posted by 2002400ex
is there even line that would hold a fish that big?

Theres was a man a while back that caught a 500+ lb blue marlin on 4 lb test line its ligit too its in the ifga record book in the line class records.

Also i think that first pic of the gar is a lil enhanced cuz if its a lil over 7 ft that guy is really short cuz it looks like its over a foot over his head and thats not even the whole fish. unless hes standing really far behind it.

[procircuit406ex]

In tennesee, they were repairing a dam on the tennesee river that created Watts Bar lake. THey sent divrs down, and after teh first day tehy refused to go down again without shark cages due the the catfish being so large. many workers claimed fish large enought to swallow them whole, fish as large as cars. whether this is true or not, i dont know. but a while back when i was researchign going to watts bar, i found this story. i will try to dig it up again. [/B][/QUOTE]

yes its true my grandpa worked there and one of his buddies almost got ate by one

[troutman561]

Yea that definitely looks like a larger pike or muskie, no way its an alligator gar, the mouth is to wide...

[BlasterEaten250]

hate to swim next to this thing:eek:

[Flip_SideEX]

I think id rather stick my dock on a small lake and throw my line in for some good crapies and sunnies.

[HiperEX]

you guys should head to hayward wisconsin and do some musky fishing those suckers are mean

[jason43050]

Originally posted by BlasterEaten250
hate to swim next to this thing:eek: what the heck is that??

[ST87]

Originally posted by jason43050
what the heck is that??

Looks like a Lingcod.

[400exc]

one time.... i caught a massive bluegill, the sucker weighed in at about 10 ounces... lol j/k

but yea... those fish are HUGE!!!! and when i catch some big carp, i thought i was gettin some really big fish. But now i know they arent.

[Chicksdigme423]

muahahaha trout starts tomorrrow here in pa:o

[Rico]

my uncles website has some pretty big fish on it.

www.bowfishingstuff.com

My family has bowfished for years and alligator gar are normally a type of fish we shoot. They are in many fresh water lakes and dont' bother people. Largest one I"ve shot was 56 inches. IN Texas they get over 8 feet easily.

[polcat1p]

Originally posted by BlasterEaten250
hate to swim next to this thing:eek:

maybe its just me, but that looks fake

[400exmkt]

Originally posted by procircuit406ex
In tennesee, they were repairing a dam on the tennesee river that created Watts Bar lake. THey sent divrs down, and after teh first day tehy refused to go down again without shark cages due the the catfish being so large. many workers claimed fish large enought to swallow them whole, fish as large as cars. whether this is true or not, i dont know. but a while back when i was researchign going to watts bar, i found this story. i will try to dig it up again.

yes its true my grandpa worked there and one of his buddies almost got ate by one [/B][/QUOTE]





No its not true, he lied to you. I am a diver and we here stories all the time about catfish as big as volkswagons but they are all bs. Its always the same story a buddys ,dads, friends was a diver and so on. Even if there was a little bit of truth to it catfish dont try to eat you. We are down there working, making noises that they have never heard, and have bubbles coming out of our head, they dont want anything to do with us. I am tired of hearing stories about divers being scared of fish. What kind of sh*t is that, how can a diver get any of work if he is scared of fish?

[chunky]

i ride jet ski and fish all the time on raystown lake...the biggest fish i caught up there was around a 25 lb striper
http://www.lunkerguide.com/2001catches/images/f01-32.jpg thats my grandpa holdin my fish
...i was always wondering what is in that lake cuz its pretty big

[Toadz400]

Originally posted by HiperEX
you guys should head to hayward wisconsin and do some musky fishing those suckers are mean

Head to Ashland and fish on Lake Superior. Sturgeons are pretty damn big in that lake, I know from first hand.

they had a catfish that big on Wildboys

[mxdave28]

http://www.how-to-fish.com/sturgeon_types.htm

http://www.anglingbc.com/sturgeon/home.html

[Joe400ex]

Damn the biggest ive ever caugth was a blue gill.

[lghickman21]

bump

[400exmkt]

Originally posted by 89honda 250x
they had a catfish that big on Wildboys



as big as a car???

They dont get that big.