What's the biggest fish you've ever caught?

[gvanzant]

MountainMan: Some of your reactions on these boards indicate to me the kind of angler that I always have hoped to be. When one talks about the biggest fish caught that means something other than the quality of the catch, which in my mind is "the biggest fish caught". I have caught many fish in the 100 pound class but the biggest I ever caught was a 16 inch brook trout that evaded my efforts for over 5 years in an Eastern Sierra brook. When I slid that denizon onto the bank, words cannot describe my feelings. I had cast all kinds of different stuff into that hole and missed him so many times that it became almost boring. I released him immediately but I never saw him again...darn-it. Yes, the feeling of catching that "brookie" outweighed that last swordfish I caught and even better that 230 black sea bass that I speared in 1948.
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