# Best Fish To Catch **URL:** \ **Category:** Utah Fishing General\ **Created:** [April 17, 2003, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344 "2003-04-17T10:28:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/bigfishtackle/original/3X/1/8/180926762da1240f76b2aed5515c2fc9f63c17e0.png) [@system](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/21 "2003-04-18T13:32:27Z")
dats a big one! sm ---
**Author:** ![Hellsangler69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@Hellsangler69](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Hellsangler69)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/22 "2003-04-18T13:57:05Z")
Nice Fish IFG , but where is the ice gear ? He He !!! When I was a kid I always enjoyed catching big crappie and Gills . Need to hook some here now !! ---
**Author:** ![icefool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ec9cab/32.png) [@icefool](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/icefool)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/23 "2003-04-18T14:05:58Z")
That would of been something to pull through the ice. Nice fish ---
**Author:** ![fuzzyfisher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a183cd/32.png) [@fuzzyfisher](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/fuzzyfisher)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/24 "2003-04-18T14:40:59Z")
here is my vote yellow fin, blue fin, and big eye tuna.. pound for pound they will rip your arm’s off.. Form the fuzzyfisher---------------fish on dudes ---
**Author:** ![MountainMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@MountainMan](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/MountainMan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/25 "2003-04-18T16:20:53Z")
Fish caught out of a stream always put up a better fight, not just because of current. I think it comes because of their competative nature from living in a harsher environment. The king of stream fish is the tiger trout. Never caught one over 12 inches, but they fight like the dickens. ---
**Author:** ![IceFishingGod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecd19e/32.png) [@IceFishingGod](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/IceFishingGod)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/26 "2003-04-18T16:57:26Z")
Lake Texoma is on the Texas - Oklahoma border. It’s a huge man made impoundment formed when the Corps of Engineers dammed the Red River. I was fishing just north of Denton Texas with Striper Express Guide Service. I highly recomend them if your ever down that way. And no I didn’t get her through the ice. I just squnted real hard and pretended. She’s still in the lake, since I let her go. IFG ---
**Author:** ![Kayote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cdc98d/32.png) [@Kayote](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Kayote)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/27 "2003-04-18T17:12:52Z")
Pound for pound the hardest fighting fish I’ve ever had the pleasure to catch is the albacore tuna, hands down. It’s like hooking the bumper of a truck. I’ve had longer tussles with yellowfin tuna, but they were much larger. Try it sometime. Good Fishing, Kayote ---
**Author:** ![tightline](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@tightline](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/tightline)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/28 "2003-04-18T17:45:42Z")
I saw no one mentioned silvers. They have got to be the craziest fish I have ever hooke into. I have had them burn up my drag on an expensive reel. I seen them jump over 5 feet in the air and even had one jump about 3 feet on shore. Now that is the way to land them. Pound for pound there is nothing like a fresh silver. At least not that can be caught in fresh water. I have caught musky, kings, steelhead, macks, and Stipers all in the 15 pound class and none of them were anything like a silver. Have yet to catch a small mouth so I can’t really compare. I must admit a striper is a close second. tightline ---
**Author:** ![aquaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@aquaman](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/aquaman)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/29 "2003-04-18T23:54:27Z")
yeah i gotta go with fuzzy big tuna are just brute strength i’ve seen them make grown men cry !!! aquaman ---
**Author:** ![IceFishingGod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecd19e/32.png) [@IceFishingGod](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/IceFishingGod)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/30 "2003-04-19T01:34:24Z")
Did someone say Tuna? I’ll look for my Tuna pictures and post them later. I love catching Tuna also, especially Blue Fin and Big Eye. Heck, there is no fish I don’t like to catch. Except for Moray eels, but, they’re not really a fish are they? Here are my big 5, the 5 species I like for fighting quality the best. I just listed the general species, since to break them out is impossible. Jacks, Tuna, Salmon, Stripers and Cobia. Maybe next week we’ll do favorite ones to eat. I know Walleye and Triggerfish will be on my list. IFG ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/bigfishtackle/original/3X/1/8/180926762da1240f76b2aed5515c2fc9f63c17e0.png) [@system](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/31 "2003-04-19T01:40:19Z")
WAHOO ! sm ---
**Author:** ![TBear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c77e96/32.png) [@TBear](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TBear)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/32 "2003-04-19T03:01:43Z")
My votes - #1: Sockeye salmon in a river fresh from the ocean; #2: Summer run steelhead (like fighting a fish that is turbocharged). ---
**Author:** ![muskyhunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@muskyhunter](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/muskyhunter)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/33 "2003-04-19T04:45:27Z")
I have cought the anchor rope a few times and it out fought most of the fish I cought!!(too many beers)"BIG FISH RULE"M.H.😲😲 ---
**Author:** ![fuzzyfisher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a183cd/32.png) [@fuzzyfisher](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/fuzzyfisher)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/34 "2003-04-19T04:54:06Z")
lamo dude that’s a good one.. i have seen that alote myself dude fish on dudes ---
**Author:** ![aquaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@aquaman](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/aquaman)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/35 "2003-04-19T13:26:27Z")
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**Author:** ![SoUtDuckHntr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@SoUtDuckHntr](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/SoUtDuckHntr)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/36 "2003-04-19T15:31:57Z")
without a doubt the very best fish to catch is the one ya have on your pole whether it be little 6 inch native trout to the huge tuna. I really don’t care what it is as long as I catch it 😛 and feel the fight. ---
**Author:** ![TIBBZZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TIBBZZ](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TIBBZZ)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344/37 "2003-04-19T21:25:49Z")
Well\*\* icefishinggod, as far as fresh water fishing, I have to say deffinetly \*\ ***WIPERS!!!** TIBBZZ [Previous page](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/best-fish-to-catch/10344.md?page=1)