Post Your Biggest Fish of 2017!

[Eskimo]

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Can you believe it's already December?!?! Time to reminisce about memorable fish we caught this year. I know many of you are still fishing, so this is a 'living thread' that can be bumped anytime until midnight Dec. 31.

This is a fish picture thread and the posters are under no obligation to disclose the where and how of what they caught. They'll disclose what they're comfortable sharing. I'll ask the readers not to pester the posters with questions.


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[Eskimo]

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I guess I'll go first since I started the thread.

My biggest Smallmouth Bass this year is this 20.5 inch specimen I caught out of my kayak at a well-known reservoir.

Judging from the length-weight-age charts, this bass weighed about 4.5 pounds and was about 13 years old.

I never submitted these pictures for a Skillful angler award because I messed up the measurement shot. Neither the fish, nor the tape measure was straight and flat and the phone cover was wet, making the picture too blurry to distinguish the numbers. My main priority when taking the photos was to get the exhausted bass back into the water as soon as possible. Besides, I know some people on this forum have caught bigger smallies, so it wouldn't be a winner for the year anyway.

I haven't posted my face on this forum in a long time. If anyone find it disturbing or if it scares your children and pets, I can take the photo down. :D

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[JDTuna]

Biggest overall:

89" 160+lb wels catfish from Spain

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k320/JL1981/20170711_181945_zpskyutmrix.jpg

Largest New Jersey freshwater:

Monster pike

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k320/JL1981/20170923_173443_zpskt0ixp4f.jpg

Largest Saltwater:

60+lb cobia

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k320/JL1981/20170807_023013_zpsdkmfmr11.jpg

Biggest "Local" Wild Brown Trout:

Browns are one of my favorite fish, and this one was particularly special. This is the largest brown I caught locally (within an hour of my house). I caught it on 4lb test and didnt get an accurate measure, but it was definitely over 20".

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k320/JL1981/20170429_182019_zpsbvqipldc.jpg

[ScowardNJ]

Mine got away :(:D:D

[yumasdad]

Mine got away :(:D:D

Keep a tailing rope on the Mugger for next trip! MAYBE A HARPOON AND A FEW BARRELS TOO!

[Chrisper4694]

what species!? i refuse to pick just one!

[Eskimo]

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what species!? i refuse to pick just one!

Then post multiple fish.


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[saxmatt]

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4194/33892620073_5073b964a0_c.jpg

[thmyorke1]

F***ing JD showing us all up :D HAHAHA I Almost forgot about those wells cats he caught.

Anyways, here's da pic. I won't compare any of my bass to the one Eskimo just posted.

https://i.imgur.com/ov99YC7.jpg

[Jigman13]

...41.5" tiger
...20" river smallie with dope colors
...one of 5 or 6 27+" walleye from this season

[Eskimo]

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I won't compare any of my bass to the one Eskimo just posted.


Fishing is not a competition. If you value your catch, then it's a great catch.

I don't know anything about Hybrid Stripers, but I often catch them as 'by-catch' when bass fishing or catfishing. This summer I caught one that was 23 inches long. This may or may not be a good catch, but it was the biggest hybrid I've ever caught.

It felt so heavy, I was reluctant to pick it up by the jaw for a picture and risk hurting it, hence the awkward 'fish hug' photo. I released it and I hope the next lucky angler that caught it was as happy as I was.

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[stevejordan]

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[AndyS]

Maybe not necessarily the biggest fish of the year. Maybe the post should be some of the memorable fish and times of the year.
Got an award, caught some fish and even pulled cars out of the river. I'm not one on saving too many photos.

[ianf5]

Biggest largemouth...
Biggest blue....
Biggest Striper...
First albie...
It has been a pretty successful year.

[NorthJerzyG]

Ahhh, the most wonderful thread of the year!! Congrats to all on your memorable catches!! Gonna post my best best of each species, edits to come....... :D

- Biggest Browns.... Also fish #1 & #2 for 2017...
- Biggest Smallies..... Side note, caught more 18+ inch smallies this year than I can remember!
- Best walleye..... First 2 from that body of water
- Biggest brookie.
- Biggest Ski !!!!!! :)
- Biggest catfish! Great fight!!

[NorthJerzyG]

- Biggest pike!! First on da frog.
- Biggest pickerel.
- First and PB Laker!
- Biggest LMB
- First from that lake and PB white perch

[Chrisper4694]

45lbs blue cat, VA
https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fishidy.com/58acd8fa66b01a08307d444a_800

1 of a few 29" lake trout (the number i can't beat)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fishidy.com/58ae015966b01a08306b9642_800

PB landlocked salmon ~21"
https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fishidy.com/58ecbdec66b01a071c9d7397_800

Monster steelhead (i think 35", but can't double check my logs at work), OH
https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fishidy.com/58fdfcdf66b01a0884fd4539_800

I'll get more later :D

[NJ219bands]

My 37 lber pics were too big to post.

[Skunk City]

Not as much time to fish as years past but still managed some quality fish. Added a boat to the arsenal in 2017 so I explored new lakes, techniques and species.

-Short but sweet ice fishing season for Walleye, Pike and Panfish
-Stellar Spring with biggest Walleye of the year @27.25", a nice 25" Hybrid and a 19" Largemouth
-Focused a lot of Trout this summer and landed a ton of Rainbows, my first Lakers and a kayak-trolled Brown Trout
-solid Fall with my pb Smallie at a little over 21"

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h252/QuikSilverSRT4/Fishing%20Photos/PhotoGrid_1512485710740_zpsqd1ng8h5.jpg (http://s66.photobucket.com/user/QuikSilverSRT4/media/Fishing%20Photos/PhotoGrid_1512485710740_zpsqd1ng8h5.jpg.html)
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h252/QuikSilverSRT4/Fishing%20Photos/PhotoGrid_1512485505206_zpsidkjqrey.jpg (http://s66.photobucket.com/user/QuikSilverSRT4/media/Fishing%20Photos/PhotoGrid_1512485505206_zpsidkjqrey.jpg.html)
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h252/QuikSilverSRT4/Fishing%20Photos/PhotoGrid_1512485556158_zpsbqkuqs8u.jpg (http://s66.photobucket.com/user/QuikSilverSRT4/media/Fishing%20Photos/PhotoGrid_1512485556158_zpsbqkuqs8u.jpg.html)

[Chrisper4694]

keep getting everyone pumped for 2018!

tons of spring monstrous crappie

https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fishidy.com/5903eb2466b01b04046b0871_800

PB hybrid striper on the squatch-mobile (25.25")

https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fishidy.com/593b0af666b019094033154e_800

Biggest largemouth i've caught in NJ in many years (21" and fat)

https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fishidy.com/59728d0266b01a07c0eb8452_800

PB largemouth from Florida 26.25" just under 8 lbs

https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fishidy.com/599cfed366b01a0a7c300f46_800

Fresh silver king salmon (first time ever going for them) ~19lbs

https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fishidy.com/59a4834566b01a054c3fed41_800

PB false albie 27" 8lbs on the button

https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fishidy.com/59e6888566b01b07582fb301_800

[Chrisper4694]

here's some more recent ones, but have to put them up!

biggest pike this year, not huge at 35", but put on a great fight.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fishidy.com/59cb0bd266b0190970571b38_800

first ever tiger trout...not huge at 18", but probably one of the coolest catches i had this year!

https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fishidy.com/5a009dcf66b01f07f4845ee0_800

Biggest striper i've caught in a handful of years 42"

https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fishidy.com/5a0a2b2466b01a0ba8c7ea0c_800

Tank smallie from the other day 20.25"

https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fishidy.com/5a25856966b01a0af81012cc_800

This thing needs no introduction...good luck to the next angler that hooks it...thing is a freaking machine!

https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fishidy.com/5a1cad0a66b01a0af81ec2f3_800

[akoop]

My PB Pike caught out of a kayak. Not huge but this was my first year fishing for Pike.

http://www.njfishing.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=35&pictureid=286

[stevejordan]

Technical difficulties here, hopefully these post...
Pb brown, bow, steel, laker, king, coho, striper

[thmyorke1]

Technical difficulties here, hopefully these post...
Pb brown, bow, steel, laker, king, coho, striper


https://i.imgur.com/MrYhrVY.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/8XBkmtE.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/XfGxLZj.jpg

I gotcha covered. :)

[stevejordan]

Holy crap, thank you lol

[thmyorke1]

No problem. Photobucket used to be useful but nowadays it seems pretty unreliable and they're trying to get their users to pay in order to do basic image sharing; basically selling out. Imgur is a good site for image hosting (which might be short lived as well)

[blindalfred]

Maybe not necessarily the biggest fish of the year. Maybe the post should be some of the memorable fish and times of the year.
Got an award, caught some fish and even pulled cars out of the river. I'm not one on saving too many photos.

Nice work, the fish are your reward too. Thanks.

[NJSquatch]

some great pics so far guys!!!!

Currently sitting at home watching the snow fall so i guess the reality of the 2017 fishing season is done....didn't get out as much as last year but did fish some new and interesting waters with old and new friends and even got on the salt.

Hit the walleye grounds pretty religiously in the spring and caught a fair share of fish including probably the most memorable one.

18" PB Rainbow Trout that thinks it is a bass. This thing hit a 1/2oz spinnerbait, spit the hook and came back for it. The picture even got picked off the Knee Deep Club and appeared in the Herald and got hacked by those Bolivian Dancing Zebras.
http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/TroutHeraldZebra.jpg

Biggest Walleye of the Year at 26"
http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170608_D_Walleye.JPG

Got on the Monger with a motley crew and caught a boat limit of Seabass
http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170614_Seabass_Monger.JPG

Blessed to be able to do our annual 2 weeks up on Lake George.Amazing scenery as always.
http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170708_LakeGeorgeRainbow.JPG http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170709_LakeGeorgeFullMoon.JPG

Caught plenty of nice fish too:

19.5" Small Mouth. Second most memorable fish. Caught her off the dock while I was grilling dinner. Up to this point fishing had been slow.
http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170719_SMB_195.JPG

5# 20" Large Mouth.
http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170720_LMB_20.JPG

1st LG Pickerel. Been fishing the lake for over 30 years and never seen one. I thought Lard was nuts when he said he caught his PB in the Lake.
http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170716_Pickerel.jpg

Fished the stinky Passaic for the first time and caught some river serpents. Including my PB. Not a trophy i know but haven't caught that many...YET!
http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170902_Pike.JPGhttp://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170902_Pike2.JPG

[NJSquatch]

Caught my PB Large Mouth at 5.8# 21" on Labor Day hiding in a cove among all the pleasure boats.
http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170904_LMB_21_Horizontal.jpg

Got out with Chrisper trolling his crazy flys and reeled in my PB Perch at 15.5". Biggest perch either one of us have ever seen. Convinced this thing would be a state record when she is full of eggs this winter.
http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20170911_Perch_155.JPG

Caught my first 2 Lake Trout at 18" and 23"
http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20171020_LakeTrout_18.JPG http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20171020_LakeTrout_23.JPG

Finished the freshwater open water season with my NJ PB Smallmouth taping out at 19".
http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20171130_SMB_19.jpg

This chunky 20" Largemouth
http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20171130_LMB_20.jpg

And my PB Crappie at 13.75"
http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20171130_Crappie_1375.jpg

Got in 2 trips on the Keyport Seahawk and caught 2 keeper stripers and my first keeper Tautog
http://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20171111_Stripers.JPGhttp://rhodynascar.orgfree.com/njfishing/2017/20171202_Tautog.JPG

Hoping for a successful 2018!

[Chrisper4694]

sweet doggy slapper! thems some fish there sir!! You still owe me a big perch!!!

[Drossi]

My last was my best, not my biggest but my favorite. Taken on the venerable Heddon Black Beauty.

[Punkinhead]

51.5 in muskie

[Chrisper4694]

I think we saw you ice fishing muskie saturday. Nice fish. If it wasnt you, theres someone out there copying your beard style!

[FASTEDDIE29]

51.5 in muskie

What’s up dude? That’s one hell of a fish right there!!!:D

[The Birdman]

Here she is, 52.75” NJ lake monster. Prob 17-20year old fish. Caught on a big lake, boatside, casting.

Tried to find here again in December when she was pushing 45lb, but she eluded me!

[catfishonthelake]

53" musky from January after a thaw. Second time this fish has been in my boat, last time was in Nov. 2016. Hit boatside on a Figure 8 casting.
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16388332_10212278802471456_2183310755552876281_n.j pg?oh=08f80f4124f3b9afdcbe0ad42547c93b&oe=5AB97646

[BillDance1]

Those are some big fish! Congrats to all.
That last picture looks like Furnace lake, to the left of the boatramp. Where the creek comes in that weed line.

[catfishonthelake]

Those are some big fish! Congrats to all.
That last picture looks like Furnace lake, to the left of the boatramp. Where the creek comes in that weed line.

That's exactly where it was...now go catch it! Seems like from all your other posts you're on here just to get under people's skin. Let's see your big fish of 2017 so we can see what you look like and critique your skills.

[Chrisper4694]

That's exactly where it was...now go catch it! Seems like from all your other posts you're on here just to get under people's skin. Let's see your big fish of 2017 so we can see what you look like and critique your skills.

dude, it's bill dance...he's a legend!

[Jigman13]

dude, it's bill dance...he's a legend!

He also fishes private farm ponds and uses shitty gear lol. And that hat... sweet Jesus, that hat! LOL..

Dudes got 5 posts and starts playing "name that spot" on others peoples pics.

::shakes head::

[NJSquatch]

This guy?

http://cdn0.wideopenspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Quicksand.gif http://cdn0.wideopenspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Trailer-Hitch-Trip.gif

[Chrisper4694]

He also fishes private farm ponds and uses shitty gear lol. And that hat... sweet Jesus, that hat! LOL..

Dudes got 5 posts and starts playing "name that spot" on others peoples pics.

::shakes head::

every fish caught through the ice is from budd lake...everyone knows that

[JDTuna]

every fish caught through the ice is from budd lake...everyone knows that

Thanks man. Thats my secret spot. Nobody knows about that place...especially during ice season.

Wait, there's moooooosekies in Furnace Lake!!!??