RE: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Biggest Wild Freshwater Fish You HaveEncountered

These are the two biggest freshwater fish I've encountered. These were both caught on baitcasting gear, and I've not yet managed a carp on the fly but these two fish are what convinced me that carp fishing is the most fun you can have on the water…

 

From: namfos
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2020 11:48 AM
To: Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders
Subject: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Biggest Wild Freshwater Fish You HaveEncountered

 

About 5 years ago I went down to Smallwood State Park for the Snakehead tournament  for the weigh-in and sample some microbrews and cooked snakehead. Admittedly they weren't in the water, and all were dead, but there were plenty of very very large blue & flathead cats as well as snakeheads.  Some encounter. The snakehead dishes were delicious.

Mark

On Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 10:55:31 AM UTC-4 r...@robsnowhite.com wrote:

I spent the holiday weekend in Ohio chasing fish in the small urban creeks around Columbus. I fished below one dam (got a smallmouth on a black bugger under a bridge). About .25 mile below the dam I encounter a school of common carp, catfish, and buffalo. One of the carp was the BIGGEST WILD FRESHWATER FISH I HAVE ENCOUNTERED. This carp was massive. It looked like a feed lot hog with fins. I've seen some big carp before. The ones at Rio in Gaithersburg but nothing like these. I've seen some torpedo size grass carp in Florida but none had the girth of this fish. 

 

None of the fish in this spot would eat a fly. 

 

What is the biggest freshwater fish you have encountered? Where were you? Did you catch it? Did someone else catch it? 

 

Rob Snowhite

 

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