your biggest on sport tackle

[NIMROD]

Here is a 60 lb Flathead caught on rod and reel around 1979. Post only those caught on sporting tackle . Please post those caught hogging , nets , trotlines , or jugs elsewhere.

[grizzly]

On sporting tackle, not very big, 5 or 6lb. I'm so ashamed!!!!!! grizzly

[Roberta]

Define sport tackle. I guess the biggest I've caught on ultralight gear (4 lb line) while crappie fishing was five pounds. Picked up an eight pounder on my bass rig, but nothing to compare with that moose you're holding. I'm not strong enough to land anything that big! - Roberta

[grubby]

I caught this one on a shimono R2000 spinning reel with 8lb Berkley trilene XL. I was catching crappie and and some 1 pound brim when he came up and just about yanked the rod from my hands lol! I played him for over 30minutes. It was a 1 acre pond on my neighbors property so he wasn't going far. my neighbor came down to see what I had cause the rod was bent over double. he helped me land it. I was going to weigh him and release him but my neighbor said it was time for that cat to retire to the grease. so we cut him up and he sure was good. he was just a little over 18lbs.

[drifter106]

Around this part of the country (southeast Kansas), many a fisherman will work the basins below the dams. The basins recieve more pressure when they have had a lot of water running, at the right times of year. A few years back I caught 2 flatheads wading in the basin 42 lbs. and 48 lbs within the same week (first of Sept.). I was using 20 lb test with a medium action rod. Definitely an experience one will never forgot.

Had a friend that caught one at Rocky Ford (Manhattan, Kansas) on rod and reel that weighed 60 lbs. Same type of tackle.

Caught a 60 lb flathead on trotline...looking back, it was easier to bring in the ones on pole than out of a boat running the trotline

regards,

drifter

[RACN35]

1 WEEK AGO (18 NOV 2006) - NOT 25+ YEARS AGO.......42 POUNDS - SEE POST BELOW THIS ONE- 50 BEFORE THE YEAR IS OUT AND A 60+ PLUS FOR JAN 2007 IS IN THE CRYSTAL BALL !!

[RACN35]

GREAT PIC GRUBBY !! bluegills are the best bait in the world in most lakes and ponds all over the country man !! that cat just wanted YOUR lunch !!

[grubby]

GREAT PIC GRUBBY !! bluegills are the best bait in the world in most lakes and ponds all over the country man !! that cat just wanted YOUR lunch !!

yep but I fooled him.I didn't think I was going to land him seen him several times close to the bank, but just as I thought this fight is over he would run another lap around the pond stripping several yards of line with him. It was a blast.hope to catch another one on light tackle like that again. you take care of your self RACN35.