FIGHTIN'EST FISH?

"Wayne Knight" wrote in
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I think any fish, even trash fish, are *great* to have on a rod
and maybe it's because of that short Mass season but catching a LM
Bass is like Redneck Foreplay, ain't nothing there to excite you.

LOL. I only fish for LM Bass with top water, floating patterns. Seeing
a bass burst out the lillypads is pretty exciting, but it goes down
hill from there unless it's a 3lb+.

Wayne Knight typed:
Lionel F. Stevenson wrote:
Hi y'all,

Of the fish I've caught, these are the fightinest ounce for ounce:

[snip]
Whaddya think?

I think I'd like to catch an Atlantic Salmon one day.

But until then

1. Permit
2. Blue Marlin
3. Sailfish
4. King Mackerel
5. Brown Trout

It's interesting to read the different take on fighting fish. I've never
even fished for your #1-4 (someday, when I grow up), but the brown trout
I've caught, and I've caught a few, have been near lethargic. The big ones
I've caught have put up some fight and were fun on a light rod, but on an
"ounce-for-ounce" basis didn't even make it into my top 5.
--
TL,
Tim
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Tim J. wrote:

but the brown trout
I've caught, and I've caught a few, have been near lethargic. The big ones
I've caught have put up some fight and were fun on a light rod, but on an
"ounce-for-ounce" basis didn't even make it into my top 5.

I think a lot of *fish fighting* comes from the evironment. And IMO, if
most of the fish one is catching once felt the side of a hatchery tank
I don't think they fight very hard at all, but the last couple of
decent sized (14") browns I've hooked took some serious line out and
really put a bend in the rod.

I fish to fish these days and like trout more because of where they
live not so much of how they fight. I've spent most of my life on the
southern coast. As a teenager and a young adult I had so many
opportunities to fish the salt. Besides the Blue Marlin, I've caught
white and striped marlin, hooked a tarpon, sailfish, swordfish,
dolphin, several species of shark, etc. I think sal****er fish are the
better fighters pound for pound but I just don't enjoy that kind of
fishing anymore. Same with the Bass and Bream, I fish for them at least
twice a week in the ponds and creeks near here, nothing wrong with them
per se but I look forward to each outing for my troutlets. The wild
ones are so much more attractive.

Wayne Knight wrote:
.... I think sal****er fish are the
better fighters pound for pound but I just don't enjoy that kind of
fishing anymore. Same with the Bass and Bream, I fish for them at least
twice a week in the ponds and creeks near here, nothing wrong with them
per se but I look forward to each outing for my troutlets. The wild
ones are so much more attractive.

Very true. I don't think there are any freshwater fish that can match
*pound-for-pound* any sal****er fish.... even the ugliest little grunting,
shovel-faced, spiny-fan-finned, puke-and-mud-colored bottom-dweller.....

I'd much rather catch a 9" trout than a 9" bluegill, for the reasons you
state (beauty of the fish *and* their surroundings), although
ounce-for-ounce the bluegill will almost always fight better.

Among salmonids I've caught, I think it's steelhead rainbows brookies
cutthroat browns bulls.

But then, that's based on the specimens I've happened to run across. As
you say, things vary a lot from place to place. The browns in OR, even
the stream-bred ones, are pound-for-pound mere shadows of their cousins in
the Madison. Bull trout in the Metolius are infamous for being poor
fighters; folks on the Westfly board call them boots. In the reservoir
the Metolius drains into, though, they're reputed to fight like tigers....

JR

Jonathan Cook wrote:

I've never encountered a species that seems extremely more fighting,
for me it boils down to individual fish. Some fight, some don't.

Geez, you're a scientist.... we expect some sort of signal-to-noise
analysis here...

JR
(I mean, what if we ever discuss which countries have the best looking
women? g)

On 9/23/05 2:04 PM, in article , "JR"
wrote:


(I mean, what if we ever discuss which countries have the best looking
women? g)

Oh sure, like THAT'S ever going to happen!

:-)

B

Originally Posted by Tim J.

Wayne Knight typed:
catching a LM Bass is
like Redneck Foreplay, ain't nothing there to excite you.

I guess I'll just have to take your word on that subject. ;-)
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TL,
Tim
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Exuse me for bargin in but I'm gonna have to say the Stripers in the Tailwaters of Lake Texoma are #1 on my list and #2 is the Brown Trout on the Lower Mountain Fork River at Broken Bow, Oklahoma This is a Designated Trophy Trout Stream
Jeffrey B.

Lionel F. Stevenson wrote: "Of the fish I've caught, these are the
fightinest ounce for ounce: 1. Atlantic Salmon 2. Rainbow trout
3. Mackerel 4. Sea run speckled trout 5. Brook trout 5. Pond trout
(brookies)Whaddya think?"

Try Jack Cravelle and a redfish. Bluegill are fighters too.

Sarge

Jonathan Cook wrote:
JR wrote:

analysis here...

Well I think I'm casting my vote for the neon tetra...we're
going ounce for ounce, after all :-)

(I mean, what if we ever discuss which countries have the best looking
women? g)

I not well traveled enough to comment...hafta defer to riverman
on this one...didn't he say something about latvia or one of those
baltic states?

Jon.

Absolutely. I read somewhere (and I've been looking for it again ever
since) that back in the 18th century, some rich Duke or something
embarked on a round-the-world tour looking for the most beautiful women
in the world. After several years of what was probably as unscientific
as it was enjoyable, he declared that the women of the baltic states,
particular some island off Estonia (I believe it was Saaremaa) were the
most beautiful. Having been there, I will personally declare that the
women of Riga have them beat, hands down.

Having conducted my own extensive research, and SWMBO being exempted
because she would tilt the scales (as well as the front door lock), I
earnestly declare that the Latvian women are #1, the Hong Kong chinese
have a few very strong frontrunners, and the Isareli women can
certainly hold their own. The congolese are not to be
misunderestimated, as there were certainly a few diamonds in the rough
there. The Brits, sorry to say, are not even allowed in the
competition...

--riverman

"riverman" wrote in message
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..The Brits, sorry to say, are not even allowed in the
competition...

Roight, ladies!.....back to the scullery then, wot?

Wolfgang
o.k., they can't cook and they're ugly. small wonder that the scotts and
the gordons and the cooks and the livingstones and the drakes and the
fitzroys and the burtons and the rhodes and the raleighs and the kitcheners
all left home and went gallivanting about the globe civilizing the bloody
wogs.