bugcaster wrote:
There are stories of white sturgeon over a thousand pounds, but the
Canadian record is " STURGEON, WHITE 800 HAROLD HILTZ
FRASER RIVER, BC 4/22/1972".

I must have looked up the flyfishing record. In any case, even a 468lb
sturgeon would fight one hell of a lot more than any striped bass that's
ever existed.

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The strongest fresh water fighters are, I think, Channel Catfish.
And you can easily catch them on a flyrod--although not so easily
with flies. To catch channel cats I use a long strip of fresh
pork skin (not smoked) threaded onto a plastic worm rig,
with a split shot at the eye of the hook. Channel Cats don't jump, but
they sure do pull, and they never give up. A spinning rod might
work better than the flyrod, by the way.....but I don't even own one.
So I use what I have.