toughest fish
Submitted by Italiano on Sun, 2008-03-30 12:27
If you had to rate the top five fighting fish you have ever caught what would they be?( on fighting quality alone) mine are
1. giant trevally
2. yellowfin tuna
3. baldchin
4. sambo's
5. cobia
It is a question that has alot to be debated about i just wonder what other people think fight harder
jay_burgess
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1. Giant Trevally2.
1. Giant Trevally
2. Bluebone
3. Mangrove Jack
4. Black Jewfish
5. Cobia
PilbaraBrad
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would probably throw a black
would probably throw a black jew in there and an XOS Bluebone possibly even a big chinaman
Rodrat
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Fish
1. Sharks
2. Trevally
3. Bluebone
4. Cobia
5. Mackeral
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milsey
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1.travally 2.ytk 3.sambos 4.s
1.travally
2.ytk
3.sambos
4.sharks
5.spanners
seansurfy
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tough fish
Only going off fish I've caught, here is my top 5
1. Tuna(any type)
2. Kingfish
3. Tarpon
4. GT
5. Marlin
Pound for pound, I would rate Yellowtail Kingfish as the toughest.....big kings never come easy....just look at the record books....to achieve the easiest world record on marlin, you would need a line class ratio of about 11:1....where with kingfish...anything better than about 6.5:1 will get your name in lights. I'm not into chasing records....but the numbers tell the story
carassius
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My top 5 that I've caught
1. Black Jew
2.GT
3. Queenfish
4. Milkfish
5. Mangrove Jack
Ollie
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top 5 I've caught
1.tuna
2.travally
3.salmon (light tackel)
4.snapper (pink, queen)
5.spanners
Colin Hay
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For rock fishing
No counting the big pelagics I would suggest
Black drummer
Silver Drummer
Blue groper
Salmon
Trevally
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tailor marc
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1. Sailfish
2. 48 pound yellow tail kingfish
3. Stingrays lol!
4. Shark (Bronzie)
5. Salmon
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Adam Gallash
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Dunno, could make the list up for the different types of fishing. Each scenario having different variables on what makes that fish harder to land/pulls harder, ie - GT's in shallow water vs marlin in deap sea currents.
Just as a general thing I'd go: Coud re-arrange this order easily enough though.
1. Tuna
2. GT's
3. Chinaman Fish/Red Bass
4. Marlin
5. Mangrove Jack
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Dreamweaver
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Mine
Can't talk about northern species as, but based on my experience, they would be
1) Sambo (a 22Kilo recently gave me fair curry) for all out brute drag strain.
2) Blue Morwong - fight for size - a 10 kilo was no push over.
3) Shark
4) Big Skippy
5) YTK (was only a small one - but for size I was impressed with the tactics).
Of course, it depends on what gear and tackle you were using at the time and the depth - recently pulled in a 10kilo hammerhead on a 2-4Kg bait fish rod using 2.5Kilo mono (was fishing for bait fish in Oyster harbour at the time in 2m of water) - so that took some work and time.
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incompleat_david
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havent done much big Boat
havent done much big Boat fishing but my top 5 would be
1: Sambo
2: Pinkie
3: Banded Sweep
4: MY BAIT!!!!
Still Yet to get anything really good :(
But my time will come i hope
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scuttlebutt
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Mine would be Trevally
Mine would be
Trevally (they all fight hard)
Chinamen fish
Tuna (same as for trevally)
Cobia
Threadfin salmon
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Maverick
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Tuff fish
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seansurfy
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tough fish
Hey Scuttlebutt - interesting with the threadfin and the cobia.....two species which I've found to be totally unpredictable......I've caught 15lb threadfin that fought like a sack of spuds....while smaller fish detonated like a cruise missile.....Same with Cobia....caught a 28kg fish which did nothing...until the gaff hit....OMG....have a look at a video on here....coral sea sportfishing...you'll see what I mean...Coral sea carnage
scuttlebutt
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Yep, totally agree
Yep, totally agree Sean,
I've had similar experiences. Threadfin and Cobia that I've plainly wound to the boat with very little resistance. I had a decent Cobia one day trolling that hardly kicked all the way in. As soon as the gaff hit it, it went wild, jumped off the point and tore off on a screaming run eventually going around a bommie.
They're both a bit unreliable, but when they put on a stink I reckon they qualify.
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prince
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Tough fish
My toughest fight ever :
yellowfin tuna 55lb
35 Min fight //
location : RED SEA / Hurghada / Egypt