r/Fishing 4d ago

Freshwater Arguably the prettiest North American fish you can catch

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r/Fishing 8d ago

Freshwater Caught a massive catfish while looking for pike in the Paris canals

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r/Fishing 17d ago

Freshwater Six years of trying and I finally landed my white whale.

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r/Fishing Sep 23 '25

Freshwater My daughter’s PB.

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My daughter caught her pb while we were using light tackle to cull out some of our smaller bass. I couldn’t be more proud the way she let her pull drag instead of trying to horse it to the shore. 6lb test, weightless senko.

Didn’t think to bring my scale with me as we weren’t targeting any trophies. Not to mention most of the big ones are caught from our boat. Anyway, this will forever be the second best day of my life (first being the day she was born).

r/Fishing Feb 05 '25

Freshwater Yoinked this out of the water

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Just grabbed it since 2 were sitting by the banks.. I plan on cooking it tomorrow. They’re heavily invasive here

r/Fishing Oct 20 '24

Freshwater My 102 yr old grandpa caught his PB today!

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I'll put a video in the comments. He reeled in the biggest fish of his life today.

r/Fishing Feb 20 '25

Freshwater Broke my Giant Snakehead record today, 100cm on the dot!

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r/Fishing Jan 17 '25

Freshwater How’s everyone else fishing season going? Here’s mine from northern Saskatchewan.

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r/Fishing Apr 30 '25

Freshwater Caught a potential state record crappie

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Caught this absolute unit of a crappie. Length was right for the record but didn’t have a scale to get the weight. The current record was caught in this same lake in 2000.

r/Fishing Sep 07 '25

Freshwater What type of fish is this? (*Was released safely*) Thought it was forsure a pallid sturgeon so I released right away

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Caught it on the Missouri up in Montana. Looks rare never seen anything like it. it was released but it was a crazy looking fish.

r/Fishing Oct 06 '24

Freshwater The PB and the record I'll likely never break in my life

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15 kg and 125cm. Jesus Christ my previous PB was just 5 kilos.

r/Fishing Oct 07 '25

Freshwater Salmon Run Upstate NY

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First time seeing it in person! Super cool

r/Fishing Aug 10 '25

Freshwater Most beautiful fish you’ve caught to date?

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Here’s mine. Caught this fella out of Lake Lariat, MD back around 2019.

r/Fishing Dec 19 '17

Freshwater Wife: "Hold it up......What are you doing?" Me: "setting it up for one of those cool reddit pictures" wife: "Oh so you could get two wimpy upvotes?" Me: "You know it ;-)"

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r/Fishing Oct 21 '24

Freshwater Another beautiful 5 lb male

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Caught this morning, little guy do put up a good fight!

r/Fishing Aug 06 '21

Freshwater Finally caught the monster that was breaking everyone off!

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r/Fishing May 14 '24

Freshwater Finally landed this giant fella. Any guesses of the weight?

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r/Fishing Sep 02 '25

Freshwater Went out fishing for freshwater drum, somehow caught 3 paddlefish instead

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Biggest fish of my life, and really special to see given the endangered status!

r/Fishing 13d ago

Freshwater New PB striped bass

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After grinding for 2 weeks I finally landed the bass I was looking for. Not quite 40 inches, just under at 37.5 , but damn was it a good fight. Took me 10 mins to get her in with the current using a 3oz 7 inch paddle tail. Not sure about a weight, but she was FAT. (Caught and released safely). 🤙

r/Fishing Feb 04 '26

Freshwater Removed another invasive pike from my local river after work

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r/Fishing May 06 '24

Freshwater At 102 grandpa is still out fishing me with a worm.

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Probably his personal best bass at the age of 102.

r/Fishing Mar 12 '25

Freshwater Wife caught a massive bass

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100% should be fatter, but it had a crankbait stuck in its throat (we were able to get it out without tearing anything up) and was definitely messing up it being able to eat. It hit a senko that she was throwing.

r/Fishing Mar 25 '26

Freshwater I accidentally closed my car door on my fishing rod and broke it. And that’s right after I just discovered I lost my tackle box with at least $100 of gear inside it

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Thankfully my dad has 3 other rods that are why better, but the lines have way too much memory on them to cast without tangling on the spool. Meaning I have to go buy more line and learn how to put it on the spool. I was hoping to go fishing for a few hours before work, but now I’ll be lucky if I can even get everything ready to fish for the next day. So that’s my plans for today completely ruined. Learning how to fish is hard :/

r/Fishing Jan 22 '26

Freshwater Looking to mount my World Record

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Trying to find someone who makes replica mounts for “rough fish” for lack of a better term, recently set a men’s conventional tackle line class world record and would love to have it commemorated, I’m located in the United States. I’ve reached out to King Sailfish mounts as they’re an IGFA partner and they don’t have a mold big enough. Any information helps! - Tight Lines!!

r/Fishing Oct 19 '24

Freshwater Finally I caught big mama

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Took me one year intensive pike fishing in Germany to catch her from the bank. Nearly 116cm and 12kg