Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Biggest Wild Freshwater Fish You Have Encountered

I saw a flathead catfish in the Potomac a few years ago that I am confident was close to 4 ft long. Can't think of anything larger that I've seen in freshwater.

On Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 2:55:40 PM UTC-4 Jeff Silvan wrote:

When I was young - maybe 13 or 14 - I was wading in a local pond on Cape Cod and going after bass in some tall reeds. I remember seeing a monster fish being between 3 and 4 feet long, although that very easily could've also been my younger eyes not comprehending size properly. I made one cast at it and it spooked. At the time I had no clue what it was, but looking back, I'm 98% certain it was a carp. It feels like that was the biggest freshwater fish I ever encountered, but who knows. Next biggest is probably the ~35lb grass carp I caught in my parents' old backyard in Bluffton SC. I feel like I'm forgetting another, but who knows.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 10:55 AM Rob Snowhite <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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