FISH OF A LIFETIME

[Bonstrosity]

My buddy told me about this site and it's great. Here is my favorite fish I've ever caught. Took 45 min. to bring in, then was released alive back into the lake. It weighed about 50lbs.

[Big Yellow Bird]

Thatta boy BONSTROSITY

[Matt Johnson]

Nice fish! That's a brute!

Good Fishin,

Matt Johnson

[matthothand]

50 pounds?! How long was it? What was the girth? I am a skeptical person and I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade but after taking many 20+ lakers I find it hard to believe that the fish in the picture weighed near 50 pounds. Honestly, I don't mean to belittle anybody's catch but 50 lbs. just sounds a little too high of a guess for me.

[matthothand]

50 pounds?! How long was it? What was the girth? I am a skeptical person and I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade but after taking many 20+ lakers I find it hard to believe that the fish in the picture weighed near 50 pounds. Honestly, I don't mean to belittle anybody's catch but 50 lbs. just sounds a little too high of a guess for me. Also, where was it caught?

[Quickstrike]

nice fish, you can tell by the guy holding the fish's expression it was heavy!!!

[buzzsaw]

Nice fish... my only bit of advice would to be NOT to push the fish up at the camera, most fisherman know this lil' trick and all it does is take away from or make people skeptical of your size claim.... it makes it easier if you hold the fish up near your body so people can compare the fish to a person. Like I said... Nice fish and welcome to the FM site !

[ELY]

Nice lake trout bonstrosity,

Looks like you have my 35 lb lake trout beat. I can tell that's one heavy fish.

Lake trout are one of the heaviest fish per inch.

Mine was 43" long with a 28" girth. No comparison to a 50 pounder. Way to go !

[Moose-Hunter]

Hey that's one heck of a fish!!! Ya gotta love lakers!!

And WELCOME to Fishing Minnesota!! You'll find more than one Laker lover around these parts.... me included!!

[Jim Hudson]

Ugh, after seeing these pictures... I am gonna have to take a few more days to chase big trout... I guess the little fish can wait... there is nothing like a huge laker taking your bait while ice fishing...

Nice fish!!!! Where did that beast come from?

[katoguy]

Buzz, you mean like the pic in your avatar? (arms straight out at camera) LOL

[Bobb-o]

hey Ely, whats going on? you been out fishing lately?

[Big Yellow Bird]

Hey matthothand, just curious as to what makes you doubt that the fish in the picture weighs 50 pounds? You have caught many fish that weigh over 20 pounds, but I'm just wondering why you would say this fish isn't 50?

[LEECH21]

Nice fish Bonstrosity! Looks mighty big to me. Welcome to the Fishingminnesota family. You'll find tons of useful information throughout this site.

[Bonstrosity]

Thanks for the warm welcome to the site, and for all the recognition on that fish. I should almost stop fishing right now b/c I don't know if I'll ever get one like that again...Ah who am I kidding I'm going to keep my line in the water untill someone has to do it for me. As for mathothand, I'll look up the measurements for you, I don't have them off hand if you find a table for lake trout that takes into consideration length and girth...I've been told they don't exist, I've only seen a few of them. You can take a look at the picture though, Look at my right arm in the picture...it's bent so that means it's not that far away from me, I'm 6'2 275lbs and the guide is standing a little farther back and he's about 300lbs size wise if that helps your skepticism any.