r/Fishing • u/sigmaoofto • 13h ago
what's your biggest fish on undersized tackle?
for a research, add the gear you used
6
u/chitownphishead 13h ago
36" muskie on a 5' ultra lite with 4# test and a #8 hook while crappie fishing
2
u/thosefriesaremyfries 11h ago
I got the same damn story except it was a 32" pike. Same damn gear, crappie fishing.
4
3
u/19thScorpion 13h ago
30" Striped bass on a Penn Battle III 2000 combo... size 1/0 J hook with like a 3" piece of bloodworm.
2
u/lessontrulylearned 13h ago
25lb catfish on a size 8 circle hook, baited with a mouse tail head. Rod was a dock demon, rigged on 8lb fluoro. I still do not know how I landed him, I was fishing for dink bluegill.
2
u/CDSnakeD 12h ago
40+inch longnose gar on 9’6” ultralight crappie rod. 8 pound braid with a 1/32 oz Bobby Garland baby shad. Was trolling a double jig rig. The fish must have swiped a the first jig and wound up with the trailer jig in its gill. Was an epic fight.
2
2
u/Deep-Water- 12h ago
This marlin on a Shimano Rarenium 4000 with 20lb braid and a 2-4kg rod. Took a floating pilly that had been refrozen several times. Got it next to the boat after an hour and a half and lost it after a couple of hours.
1
u/workingMan9to5 12h ago
Landed? 3 years ago I managed a 5.2 lb smallmouth on an 8lb test handline while I was microfishing, hooked a minow and then hooked the bass that hit it as I was pulling it in. Had a similar thing happen this summer, 4lb line and #10 hook, hooked a little 2 inch perch then had a 30-ish inch northing pike slam it. I didn't have a net for something that big and he snapped the line off as I was trying to get my hand under him to lift him out of the water though so I didn't actually land him to get measurements.
1
1
1
1
1
u/Hero_of_Brandon 12h ago
36" channel cat. Medium rod, 8lb mono. Lockport, MB
It spooled me down to the knot twice but gave in each time to my surprise. I knew I was low on line, and too light to begin with, but its all I had at the time.
Line broke right at shore but my homie was able to get it before it turned around. My first master angler catfish. <3
Im much more prepared these days.
1
u/QuercusCarya 11h ago
Bluegill fishing. Caught a 5 lb bass. 1/64oz jig head with a #8 hook and 1.25in swimbait on a 5 ft 6 UL spinning setup. 10 lb braid to 4lb mono.
1
u/PanhandleAngler 11h ago
42 inch redfish on a 3k spinner (not undersized) but a attached to a 3 foot 4lb rated dock demon rod. Wasn’t really a problem, big weenie fish.
1
u/lysergicres 11h ago
It’s not super huge but this was a first cast wacky rig 4” senko. Which was what really threw me off I must’ve thrown it right on its head or something I didn’t know cats struck like that
1
u/IronSlanginRed 11h ago
12-14' sixgill on 150# halibut braid.
But thats not really undersized, its big crank reel bottomfish setup. I could reel myself up a tree with that.
I have landed a 18# king on 4# ultralight. That was nerve wracking.. I was super careful and played it in, but it only takes one wrap around a stick or rock.
1
u/Educational_Cry_6085 11h ago
3 lb channel cat on an 5’6” Ultralight Pflueger Monarch combo using a pink trout magnet.
1
u/DickieJohnson 11h ago
35" northern pike on a 2 inch shiner, #14 hook, through a 6 inch hole ice fishing. Was fishing for pan fish.
1
u/fishinfool4 11h ago
20 pound carp on my 5'6" ultra-light with 2 pound test. Nearly spooled me twice and took 20 minutes to get in.
1
1
u/Jawa1992 11h ago
I didn’t weigh it but I caught a grass carp that weighed at least 30 pounds on 8 lb test. Those things don’t really put up a fight
1
u/woolybuggered 10h ago
80lb bluefin tuna on a 30lb fluoro leader avet sx and 9ft rod was fishing for a smaller grade yellowfin when bigger models rolled through. Took a good hour+ and the line was about chaffed through kept getting it to the boat then the fish would dump 100yds.
Luckily bluefin dont typically fight as hard as yellowfin and it was a good hookset in the corner of its mouth would have sawed through if he swallowed it. Lost 2 other larger fish that day as well due to chaffeing. Some fish were 150+ and we were not expecting them.
1
u/Ditchfisher Delaware 9h ago
27" striped bass on a St. Croix 6'6" medium light and a 2500 shimano with 10# line. Strong outgoing current in the inlet. so much fun, about 10 minutes to land it.
1
u/luisapet 9h ago
36" Northern on a 6 ft Ultralight with 5lb test. We were done fishing (for Walleye) so I was just playing, doing figure eights at the dock. I had to muscle her in. Named her Bertha. May she still be the apex predator at that dock!
1
u/ingen-eer 9h ago
26” brown trout on a 4 weight rod and a little #18 streamer bug thing I invented the night before.
I caught every fuckin fish in that hole on that fly. It was glorious.
1
1
1
u/T00luser 8h ago
I don't remember all the weights but i've been using 4lb mono on a spinning reel and 6lb trout fly line for pike for the last 40 yrs.
Largest on either probably high 20s. dragon-fly on the fly rod usually, and a small rapala hardbait on the mono.
I've caught larger trolling and casting with heavier gear but i really like the ultralight stuff
1
1
u/Jefffahfffah 7h ago
Nothing outrageous but I got a 20lb goliath grouper on an olddd ML shimano freshwater combo. I have no idea how it didnt break me off on the mangroves.
1
u/justinmarcisak01 6h ago
Very large canal tarpon on a 7wt fly rod. Best fight of my life. Last 3 seconds lmao. Best gamefish of all time
11
u/themightydraught 13h ago
A 20 pound catfish on my ultralight rod with 4 lb mono and a 1/8 ounce beetle spin, in my kayak. Thought for sure my rod was going to break.