Just for Gil...

[bowriter]

I doubt if I could even hold that fish up today. Or for that matter, want to.

 

[gil1]

HOLY CRAPOLY!!!!! :sick:

I bet that was a heckuva fight. You were thinkin' you had the world record smallmouth, huh?

Remind me of the story behind that Shamu.

 

[spitndrum]

Monster

 

[bowriter]

Knew it was a drum the minuute I set the hook. They just hit different. Caught one a couple weeks later almost as big. Handed the rod to my fishing partner to save my wrist.

 

[Kimberman]

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I saw a pic of a big drum, so I had to post a pic of this beast I caught last weekend night fishing on Dale Hollow. It hit a black/blue hair jig about 1:45 in the morning. Our scale only went to 20 lbs, he is WAY over that. Knew it wasnt a smallmouth about 2 seconds after I set the hook.

 

[Football Hunter]

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I saw a pic of a big drum, so I had to post a pic of this beast I caught last weekend night fishing on Dale Hollow. It hit a black/blue hair jig about 1:45 in the morning. Our scale only went to 20 lbs, he is WAY over that. Knew it wasnt a smallmouth about 2 seconds after I set the hook.

But you were hoping

 

[Football Hunter]

I set the hook on Center Hill in March of this year,nothing,thought I was hung,then........head shaking,my fishing partner said,"it aint a small mouth" a minute or so later a "smallmouth" BIGGEST iVE EVER seen came up and wallored on top,hook came out.Still wake up thinkinking about it,gives me chills,will hunt that 7 lber till I die ,cant shake the image.


Cant imagine what holding a 7 lb smallmouth would be like,but I ll never quit trying.

 

[gil1]

Kimberman - that is a freaking beast!

 

[4onaside]

Until I read your post, I just assumed that it was a Black Drum.

 

[Beekeeper]

 

[JohnnyBond]

 

[catman529]

I set the hook on Center Hill in March of this year,nothing,thought I was hung,then........head shaking,my fishing partner said,"it aint a small mouth" a minute or so later a "smallmouth" BIGGEST iVE EVER seen came up and wallored on top,hook came out.Still wake up thinkinking about it,gives me chills,will hunt that 7 lber till I die ,cant shake the image.


Cant imagine what holding a 7 lb smallmouth would be like,but I ll never quit trying.

Dang I dont think I would sleep after that.

 

[stik]

I set the hook on Center Hill in March of this year,nothing,thought I was hung,then........head shaking,my fishing partner said,"it aint a small mouth" a minute or so later a "smallmouth" BIGGEST iVE EVER seen came up and wallored on top,hook came out.Still wake up thinkinking about it,gives me chills,will hunt that 7 lber till I die ,cant shake the image.


Cant imagine what holding a 7 lb smallmouth would be like,but I ll never quit trying.

i hooked and lost a smallmouth on ft. loudon several years ago that had to be 9 lbs. i fought the fish for 30+ minutes(ultralight crappie rig) and had it laying on its side on top of the water pulling it to me when the hook pulled out. i was crouching to jump on it when it took off. it was bedded right at the end of my parent's boat ramp for the next 2 weeks but wouldn't hit anything else.

 

[bowriter]

That may well have been a TN record for rod and reel. Course, that and a dollar will almost get you coffee. Gil is now about to puke.

Notice the difference ion the color between this fish and theone I caught. Are they two different sub-specie or is it just the light?

 

[4onaside]

That may well have been a TN record for rod and reel. Course, that and a dollar will almost get you coffee. Gil is now about to puke.

Notice the difference ion the color between this fish and theone I caught. Are they two different sub-specie or is it just the light?

That's why I commented that this fish looked like a Black Drum from the salt.

 

[Kimberman]

I think it's just the light, it looked the same as any other drum I have caught except it's a whole lot bigger than any drum I have ever caught. I think the state record is 55 lbs, I don't think this one would have made that, but you never know, he was very heavy to drag into the boat and hold up for the pics. Another possibility is that he came off of a point that drops into about 75 feet of water, I caught him about 20 feet deep, but he may have just came up from the depths.

 

[buckhorn40]