06-08-10, 04:29 AM | #1 |
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Your Dream fish
We all love bass, and where ever we may roam, we will always return to them. But...
I know a lot of us have that one dream fish we would love to land, and may even be planing a future trip to try for it. For me it is the Arapaima. Considered by many to be the largest fresh water fish in the world, they can reach nearly 10 feet in length, and weigh almost a thousand pounds. The live in a handful of rivers and tributaries in the Amazon basin. There are many fish I want to catch, Peacock Bass, Flathead Carp, Tarpon, Jewfish (Goliath Grouper), even the Lemon Shark, but the Arapaima is at the top of my list! Not my fish... lol What is your dream species? And maybe you have even caught it, if so please share the experience!
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I'd love to catch a 60" musky. For those of you who don't know musky, you're good when you make it to the 50" club.
Either that or a 18-20lb Steelhead, although I don't think they get that big in Ohio. Gotta go up in Michigan, and even then that's a huge fish. Although we get more fish here than in Michigan. BB
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I would be totally thrilled to catch a 5 or 6lb Smallmouth or maybe a Shoal Bass. They are such beautiful fish and we don't have many of them in Texas. You northern guys should consider yourselves lucky.
I would love to catch big Redfish in the Gulf, Tarpon in Florida, Peacock Bass in S.A, heck I would love to catch a Largemouth over 10 lbs. Last edited by Jrob78; 06-08-10 at 10:02 AM. |
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South American Peacock Bass or a big a$$ tarpon... always wanted to go to canada and fish for northern pike just once...
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Always wanted to catch a big lake trout in the Adirondacks.
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Realistic goals would be a smallmouth or walleye...
And I would love to learn flyfishing and hit trout out of a stream while smoking a cigar...The ciger is optional.
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I would love to hook into a 1,000 lb Bluefin Tuna.
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My dream species would be a Bluefin Tuna. I'd probably get my butt kicked, and probably wouldn't even be able to handle the entire fight, but landing one of those beasts sure looks like it would be fun!
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Yup! I'm with no fear! A big 'ol tuna would be a blast! Caught a bunch of small boneies. But nothing much as far as size goes!
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me i've caught alot of kinds of fish..short of a 1000 pound hammerhead shark or a gaint blue marlin i don't really have a dream species..
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This year I plan to fish for black fin tuna on the fly in CT.
Next year I go to CANADA for pike on the fly on a fly in trip. The bucket list is getting smaller the nice thing is "I can always add trips" Capt Mike
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Wow, Zook, I knew they were bad to the bone, but didn't realize a fight would last that long. I was thinking 2 hours or so. I guess FUN was the wrong word...maybe I should have said rewarding. Either way, I'd still like to see what it feels like.
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I'm in Dallas. There are a few lakes in Texas that have Smallmouths, Texoma and Belton off the top of my head. That goal is pretty obtainable.
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Guy from ''Ft worth'' posted ''Vine smallie''with a pic on TFF...Im assuming thats gansta slang for grapevine lake. I know Lake Whitney does do. Smallmouth is a reasonable distance..Maybe an hour or so..Guaps and Walleye is a 5hr to 7hr trip.
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I'd really like to go out to Cal. and catch one of them 19 or 20 lb. bass. Or here in Pa a 40 or 50 lb musky or the state record bass. Really I'd like to catch one of them big ol kowalsky's I always hear about.
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my "dream" fish would be the marlin. but i ain't going out there to get it so..........
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Why not BBM?
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hahaha, man i ain't going out in NO KIND OF WATER where i can't see land. sorry, just ain't gonna do it. i had plenty of chances when we lived 30 miles north of gulf shores, but NOPE, NADDA, DIDN'T AND AIN'T HAPPENING. lol.
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I think there are places you can go in south Florida that you can get 'um in sight of land. But really, getting out in the open ocean away from everything is half the fun bro!
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naaaa bro. i seen jaws 1,2 and 3d....moby dick, the other sea monster movies.........naaa. lol. there IS something out there bigger than the boat i would be on. and i ain't crazy about seeing waves OVER the boat. i will tell you like i told my wife years ago......NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY, I AIN'T GOING OUT THERE. hahahahaha.
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I've had the opportunity to catch some great fish including large walleye, northern pike, smallmouth, steelhead, trout, salmon etc. But a couple I would love to catch....a 60" musky would be on the list as would be a large tarpon but topping my list would be one of those giant 15 to 20 pound LMBs!!!!
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