Your longest fight

[Bobby Bass]

What is or has been your longest fight? We are talking fish here girfriends and wife battles do not count.. I am reminded of mine everyday. It would be the 10-4 Walleye that I caught with a 5' ultra light rod with 4# line and a jig. When I was a young lad and had but two poles and the wife had but one I was heading out with the wife to fish the St Louis river and instructed the wife to grab the rod. She brought the wrong one. Fishing out of my Jon boat I hooked a 4# that took me about 2 minutes to land as I was putting it back I made the comment that it was going to be tuff to beat that. The very next cast I hooked into the 10 and the fight was on. For about the next 10 minutes as we drifted down the river missing boats and raised eyebrows as I tried to keep presure on to what I thought was a tree. I landed it and called it a day. She hangs on my wall and before anyone says anything this was 26 years ago and she still brings a smile everytime I look at her and the retired rod..Been fishing bass pretty much since cuz I ain't never going to beat that catch! When I told my father-in-law that I was going to mount it he told me there were better ways to spend 110.00 After about 10 years he was looking at it on the wall and told me it was the right choice, said even he remembers that day...

[The Grebe]

B.B....Back in the day, I boxed a 4 round exhibition at the Anoka County Fair....oh, fish, your talking about fish! I suspect 5 minutes plus, with a huge carp on light tackle.

[Guest]

Mexico-1 hour-35 minutes,Marlin and 95 degrees,the last battle like that ,that I will ever need.

[sparkyaber]

My longest fight- that is a no brainer. My wife and I are in Maui for our honeymoon, and my only request was to go fishing. We met up with our captain, his deck hand, and one other couple. After a few hour ride up the swells, we found our spot and the fishing was on!!! We were catching mahi mahi and yellow fins non stop. All of the sudded the captain say "This is a big one, one of the guys take it!" I jump up and the fight was on! I grabbed the rod and proceeded to almost fall into the ocean. I have never been jerked that hard in my life. Next thing I see is a monster mahi mahi jump out of the water. The captain said it was about 75 pounds. I was reeling to beat the band and not makeing any head way. my legs were being beat against the gunnels enough to make them bruise up. After about 20 min. of solid horseing, I was getting really tired, even so that when they backed the boat up I could not reel. I made slow head way and we got the fish up to the boat. The first mate missed him with the gaft on the first try, and when he took off again I saw it was all over- he had the line wrapped around his tail. I am asuming it happend when they were backing up the boat faster than I could reel. As soon as he dove deep again, the line broke. I was heart broken. I really wished they had put me in the chair right away. By the time they put me in it I was so tired I could not even reel a thing.

I sat down breathing very heavily and started pounding water- I was so thirsty, and shaking- I have never shook like that in my life. As I started to calm down I felt sicker and sicker- until, you got it, all they saw was my butt in the air as I got sick over the gunnel. How embarrassing. As soon as that was over I was ready to fish again. I think it was fatigue or adrenaline that made me sick, I have never been that exhaused in my life.

All and all that was about 50 min to an hour of my life I will never forget.

[Hibbing]

Exactly 1 hour. 65" Sturgeon last April on LOW.

[DTro]

<-------Avatar......40 min

[riverrat56]

20 mins-13lb Northern on 3 lb line and a phelps snake heads ice fishing on Red for crappies.

[CrazyCrawler]

Time-wise, it's 3 hour 18 minutes for a 552lb blue marlin in Kona, HI. But I felt the fight with a 5 lb largemouth with a cane pole using 4# test was an eternity, though it lasted maybe only 10 minuts. Also caught a 4lb dogfish that same day and called it the best day of my life.

[delmuts]

20 min + ; 14# cat on my ultra lite and 4# mono

[Big Julie]

I was fishing walleyes deep last fall and got run 9 times by something, then got cut off.

I've caught good smallmouth (up to 21") and walleyes (up to 28") and the best fish have run me 5 times.

This one was different.

I kept laughing and telling my buddy that I had a snag, and whatever it was would run me back down again. It was a hoot.

I was using 8# p-line and a 1/2 oz. jig & minnow.

We were catching small to medium walleyes (14-17+").

If it was a big 'eye I don't even want to think about it.

I think I had another average sized 'eye and a big Musky got ahold of it.

The last run was as strong as the first, and then nothing.

It was one of those times where you wish you could have seen what it was.

:-)

Good memories.

This fall definitely Power Pro.

[icehousebob]

A number of years ago, two of my larger sons were Sturgeon fishing in The Chippewa River in Wisconsin. They would camp on the banks for a few days at a time. At 10:30 at night one of them hooked a good fish. It was on a 10 foot surfcaster with 70 lb. Spider Wire. They took turns fighting it and lost it at 7am the next morning. They swore that when they got it to the surface it was eight feet long. When they got home, they looked like they had been dragged behind a truck and forced to vote for Democrats. They ate anything that wasn't tied down and slept for 12 hours. The next year when they went back, they had bought bigger gear and were using 110 lb line. Any fish that takes eight and a half hours to lose has to be pretty big.

[The Yeti]

- 10.5 pound catfish in the current on 6 pound test. That was fun!!

- Huge musky on Tonka

- My 9.5 walleye caught on LOTW.

[LEECH21]

Any one of the huge lake sturgeon I got on LOW's Four-Mile Bay this last spring. My arms were sore after that trip!

[CornPirateKiller]

50 minutes - 30 lb King Salmon on Lake Michigan out of Two Rivers. Using an 8 foot rod and 12 lb line. What Fun!!

[upnorth]

25 minutes. A 23 pound King in a river on the North Shore of Lake Superior using an 8 wt fly rod and 8# test line. By the time I had that fish in I had a pretty good cramp in my arm. One hell of a ride

[PERCHJR]

Roughly 3 yrs, and yes she was a BUCKETMOUTH!!! Lucky for me the my line broke and I was free, I mean it was free!!! Now I can fish all the time and not get something else bit off!!! Ok enough of that, I would have to say a hand full of Northerns that were chasing my Perch away under the ice, they average in size from 30"-36" fish so they are pretty big fish, I hook into one once in awhile and the fight is on, I would guess the average fight would have to be 10-20min. on 2-4lb line!!!

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD FISHING!!!

[Hecker]

Third Grade, Lake Superior, 30 min I think (felt like an hour), 17 pound king. I still have the picture wow I was a small kid next to that fish.

[Nova]

About 20 minutes. Trolling at night for walleyes on Mille Lacs and thought I hooked a huge rock. Next thing I know the rock starts going the other way real fast. It was 2:00 in the morning and about a 20-25mph wind and that's when I hook a 48"muskie. One guy on the flash light the other on the net and me with 10 lb. mono and no leader. What a fight. It would have been shorter, but little brother with the net didn't realize a 48" muskie does fit sideways in a 30" net. He pick it up crossways on the net and the fish didn't like that, flip out back in the water and here we go again with the spool empting quick. Got him back to the boat again after a little tusle and little brother does it again....what the....one more 5 minute battle and the fish had about all it was gonna give. Got him in the boat, tried to measure it with a 30" judge ruler and realized we needed a bigger one. We quickly laid her back in the water, but she was not going to make it. I guess the fight was too much. Looks real nice on my wall though.

[bobO]

3 years, with my wife.

No just kidding 10 mins with a 20 lbs sturgeon through the ice. A guy was fishing for them down on the st. croix and got one on and said here you want to fight it. I never had anything come close to a fight like that.

[smmurphy]

40 - 45 min

Belgrage Mill dam, Belgrade, Maine

landlocked salmon (i dont know if they have another name, but that's what they were called there)

I was 13 - 14 yrs old and caught it on a 5wt fly rod with a 2lb test tippet when I was fishing for rainbows. I had only been fly fishing for about a month and this hooked me on it for life.

[Great Dane]

I don't know how long it took but it seemed forever. I foul hooked a 17 lb. sheepshead in the belly. Trying to bring it in upside down and crossways took forever. This was on Big Pine lake.

[Aquaman01]

My son (4 at the time) fought a 34 1/2", fatty of a carp on 6# line on a walleye rod all by himself for about 8-10 real minutes.

He had a blast and passed out soon afterwards. Witnesses to this amazing scrap were Luckyfish, Wastewaterguru and Mr. Special.

Mine was an 11 or so lb channel against current. 4 or 5 minutes.

[walleye4]

ABout 5 minutes! Ice fishing with 2# line and a jig, I caught a wiper about 4lbs. Man what a great fight!!

[Rost]

18# Northern I caught while fishing alone. I caught her trolling with a #5 Shad Rap. The 8 1/2 foot trolling rod made it very difficult to scoop this fish out. I have no clue how long I played it. I'd guess 5-10 mins....

[TeamNSO]

My first Sturgeon on the Rainy: 6lb trilene, and a jig. I set into the fish and it came up....in my mind I am thinking "eye"....after 5 minutes I am thinking "MONSTER eye" I had never caught or hooked a sturgeon"...at one point I am shaking so bad I told the g/f to turn the camera off: When the camera came back on it was 31 minutes later and the 44" sturgeon was in the net! Since then I have chose to either horse em in or cut the line when one is hooked as I don't have the adreneline reserves to go through that again

Biggest was a 58" brought in on 6lb and a jig...in just under 20 minutes! Man, I would love to specifically target them!!!!