What's the heaviest fish you've caught INSHORE

[Charlie's Custom Rods]

I don't know if it's my biggest but most memorable big fish was a 25 lb. jack in POC.

Caught him wading w/12lb test.

[trophytroutman]

didnt have scale but took measurements and did the formulait measured 46" long and girth was37 1/2".according to formula 80.86 lbs.12 lb test.

[RonE]

Does a 106 Lb Leopard Shark count when I was 13 years old in San Francisco Bay?

[Moonpie]

Don't have a weight but my biggest bull red was 52inches.

Best black drum was 58lbs.

Best shark was a blacktip at 120+lbs.

[WestEndAngler]

didnt have scale but took measurements and did the formulait measured 46" long and girth was37 1/2".according to formula 80.86 lbs.12 lb test.

I've found that the calculation is WAY off with Black Drum... I bring a 100lb scale every time I go after them.

[Kylie Howard]

I don't know if it's my biggest but most memorable big fish was a 25 lb. jack in POC.

Caught him wading w/12lb test.

i caught one just a bit bigger than that out of my kayak on 12 lb test with no leader. one of the best fights of my life.

[only lures]

the biggest fish i caught insore was a 39 inch jack crevelle wieghed 20+ and longest was a 4 and a half foot black tip idk how much it wieghed

[shallowist]

I think that my most some of my most memorable have been this past year in WGB. Fisrt Jack was in Xmas in March, against the shoreline down by Arcadia, sight cast against the Grass, had just missed a big trout, and saw this wake that I thought was going to be a big red. When I realized what it was, I thumbed the spool until it straightened the hooks on Spook Jr. I think that I actually landed 4 in 09 that were over 20 and one over 30, maybe 35. All were on tops, in various locations in WBG.

Probably had a handful of reds over the years that were in the 20 pound range, my favorite was a trip to Sabine in 01 or 02 with customers on a big trout hunt. Had just landed a trout that was 27 3/4 out of the boat, so we dropped the hook and the very first cast I made with Mr Fatboy hooked up a 38 inch red. Dude, that should have been a giant trout!!!!

Most of my Texas stuff has all been wading, and I didn't decide on Shallowist for a name for any reason other than, I like fishing shallow. With that in mind, I don't have any channel of Jetty stories.

Back in my Florida days, it was more like good fish on light tackle. I have Tarpon on fly up to about 40 pounds. Most memorable was a day that I got a 20 pounder on fly then went to my 4 pound spin gear and got a 24 pound tarpon, followed by a 9 pound red. That is truly a battle on line that light. I guess that I have had a few 35 to 45 pound black drum, got a reef that they inhabit every year in November and get in my way when I'm trout fishing. And for the all around biggest inshore, I think that a nurse shark on 10 pound while snook fishing with the old man back in maybe 90, she was 5 plus feet and probably a bit over 100#.

By far, the old tarpon memories, and the jacks while wading are the toughest fights I have ever had. I love to catch the jacks, it's just that they become an annoyance when I'm catching big trout!!

[trophytroutman]

I've found that the calculation is WAY off with Black Drum... I bring a 100lb scale every time I go after them.

i have to agree.my wife actully hooked it but couldnt handle it.was fishing for trout and she hooked that.do you have a formula to guesstimate drum?

[dPop]

My biggest inshore would have to be the 25-30lb Jacks, have caught a few in West Bay. That along with a few Reds in the 44-47" Range also in West Bay. All those were caught on Topwaters and alot of fun.

Now I did manage to catch a 45lb, a 65lb and a 100lb Roosterfish inshore but those were in Costa Rica this past November.

[Robalo]

In 1984 under the Galveston Causeway I HOOKED a 5-6' Tarpon-made three jumps and cut my line on the causeway piling-that was before Mike Williams or anyone else was talking about tarpon in Galveston bay except historically. I didn't "Catch" it, but had it on for several minutes while yelling at my buddies to cut the anchor and start the boat so we could chase it all day long-the head would not have fit in the boat net. I've caught 44" reds, 40" drum -likely 30 #s-never weighed them. Caught and boated 2 25-30# 3' tarpon in Port O-yes inside the Jetties/Bay system and lost two about same size-I screwed up and let a buddy try on the two I lost-the sumagun immediately clamped down his thumb on my Chronarch (12# test) and pow, so next one I hooked, I said don't thumb it azzhole, he didn't until it made the second run and pow again. I learned NEVER let a rookie use your r/r when catching Tarpon-I coulda had 4 that day!! Caught 25# estimate crevalle while wading near Dollar Pt. and Dickinson Bay.