Your favorite fish to fight

[Capttrae]

We didn't catch that many! But having them hit right at the top was a blast. Made for some great thick-cut, grilled mackerel steaks.

Yes sir!!!

 

[Drahts]

6# smallie on ultra light tackle!

 

[HeadedWest]

Big bull bluegill on ultra-light for me.

 

[Rod S.]

Bighead, those runs will burn your hands.

 

[bondhu]

50 pond plus King Salmon on the little Sue

 

[thunderstorm]

Nothing like the topwater striper action at night. The blowup, then realizing you got him hooked, and then (hopefully) a "boat tower".

 

[High Rack]

Small mouth for fresh water, Yellow fin Tuna for salt. Both will fight you to the death, and dance on the water to your delight.

 

[DH13]

I have had the pleasure of catching fresh water fish and salt water. BOTH WERE GREAT.
But by far by me is a BIG OLD BLUEGILL OR REDEAR on ultra light tackle.

 

[Duster]

Fresh water only....I have to go with the 25 lb plus King Salmon if you want pure power. They will melt the gears in a cheap reel on that first run where they take all your line. For show not much beats a summer run steelhead of 15 or so pounds that gets airborn at every chance. They also will take all your line and leave you with a empty reel.
For worse....Those 8 inch stocked trout that give up in a few seconds.

 

[drakeshooter]

A 4 1/2 lb smallie around midnight on Ky Lake, smashing a big colorado blade dark spinner.
It's a rush.

Especially when they hit that spinner bait so hard the knock that Colorado blade off!!!!

X2 doesn’t get any better to me cause I’ve never broke 5 pounds lol. Damn hard to land a 6 pound smallmouth if you are ever lucky to hook one. I have no doubt I’ve hooked several but never landed one over 4 pound 15 oz and I have 3 of those.

 

[kyoutdoorsman]

I want to catch a musky

 

[xbokilla]

I know some on here have ocean fished a lot more than me but my first time off shore I caught some big barracuda on some medium action and it was pretty cool. They had that reel singing.

 

[carnivore]

Least favorite is carp.. and i hate unhooking smallmouth because they are so wirey to unhook, like the jumps though.

I snagged a carp that put up the best fight ive ever had for freshwater. Peeling line and dolphin jumping 2-3 feet out of the water every 10 feet. Everyone was watching me fight it wondering what the hell it was.[/QUOTE]

 

[Ataulbe1]

I snagged a carp that put up the best fight ive ever had for freshwater. Peeling line and dolphin jumping 2-3 feet out of the water every 10 feet. Everyone was watching me fight it wondering what the hell it was.

[/QUOTE]
When I was younger my mom laid in to a 6lb carp on an ultra light rig with 4 lb test. She said oh I got one! Dad and I looked back and that reel was singing! She handed it off to me and I fought it for a good 20 minutes not knowing what the hell it was. That was a pretty exciting catch for a carp!

 

[bgkyarcher]

spots on surface lures are a blast. they get so acrobatic!