Pound For Pound Whats Your Hardest Fighting Fish ?

[kerryb 101]

As the title says

 

For me overall it's buff bream off rocks in Perth WA catch them on bread small hooks etc around tbe 4-8 lb mark but pure muscle with long runs and they just don't the give up ! catch and release as they're shit eating

 

ATB kerryb

[mackem 23,662]

Siamese catfish,f***ing powerhouses,they strip line from a reel like its going out of fashion,grow to a huge size,and when ones running even with heavy tackle all you can do is hang on and wait for it to lose steam,fishing for them soon,looking forward to it.

[kerryb 101]

I think I had 12lb mono straight through cos of the rocks and snags with size 6 hooks as they've got small mouths the rod in the photo was a 13ft ish beach rod I switched to my old fave bass rod after and it used to bend right over lol Yeah a big perch would go I reckon.

[mackem 23,662]

Kerry i am looking at yourmpics and i can almost imagine the fight to stop that powering down into the rocks,looks the bollocks,your a lucky guy to live in such a place,you ever fish for barramundi?

[kerryb 101]

Nice fish mackem where did you get it ? what bait ? I have had a few types of catfish in the past all good scrappers mate and eat anything greedy b@stards lol

[kerryb 101]

and no barras mate love to catch one

[mackem 23,662]

I got it in thailand mate,the bait is what they call lam,its like a paste and i put coconut attractor in,i am going to try for barramundi over there as there are some places with biggies.

[kerryb 101]

Good effort mate that's a klonker my old boss was South African he used to catch catties on blue soap wtf ?!

[mackem 23,662]

I saw a tv show where jeremy wade was with some black african guys,they were fishing for cats in africa somewhere using soap,odd bait for fish eh?

[Chaff 3,414]

Hardest fighting pound for Pound must be mahseer a mate went to India and he said it was well dodgey as soon as hooked rod passed to guide then he would feck off down stream running and jumping over huge rocks along a cliff top then if lucky he would get to wind it in out of a flat pool apparently the big stuff are in the most inaccessible parts of river.

That is some paddle on the back of that catfish mate bet that took it out of you

Atb

[MIK 4,754]

Seatroot...but there is a fish in the South China Sea we used to fish of a boat for in Brunei...it has teeth like a wrasse and looks like a dustbin lid ...no one would eat them as the locals said they lived of shit ...but JEEZO they used to run only about 5-6 lbs but when they took your reel was screaming

[neil cooney 10,415]

It's alright for you rich boys going out foreign after monsters but on a local level a Tench on light tackle will do me just fine.

[kerryb 101]

Not quite rich neil but I wish lol in the UK for me a mullet on light gear in the summer is up there

[jonnie bravo 572]

Big male grayling. Especially when you hook them in fast water. To be fair I've had some great battles with canal carp

[Daniel cain 42,796]

It's alright for you rich boys going out foreign after monsters but on a local level a Tench on light tackle will do me just fine.

always enjoyed fishing for tench on the float early mornings.trotting for grayling and chub.a good double figure barbel are hard to beat and carp on the barbel rods with a controller float and dog biscuits.atb dc