Hardest fighting fish and weakest fighting fish in NJ?

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Originally Posted by Dave B.

I have to agree with most, for Fresh it's stripers and smallies as the hardest with an Honorable mention to Carp for pure tireless bulldogging power. As for the weakest Fresh, LMB are lame and Fallfish give up real quick too.

For the salt, blues obviously have a huge edge over most other species pound for pound but albies beat them out by a good bit. As for pure power in the salt cow rays are just plain tough! Lamest salt fight IMHO goes to...horseshoe crabs. Okay just kidding, the tamest salty IMHO is either blowfish or northern stargazers.

Only ever caught 1 Stargazer, but yes, that is a LAME fish.. NO fight, and so ugly I was afraid I was going to turn into a stone statue or a pillar of salt or something when I looked upon it...
btw, Spider Crabs are worse fighters than Horseshoes...lol...bob