Post Your Big Fish of 2012

[Eskimo]

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This thread is intended to be a fun, completely self-serving, ego-driven brag thread where people can post (or re-post) their favorite catches from 2012.

There is no obligation to include any information in this thread like who, what, where, when, or how. Posting pictures also doesn't obligate anybody to answer any posted questions, either. Just post your fish!

A while back somebody accused this forum of becoming a "bragging forum". I think some people may feel this way because they came here looking for specific information and are reading threads that read like " I caught this, but I ain't sayin' where or how.". There will be no hard feelings in this thread. It's just for people to post their big fish of 2012.

Ready...set...GO!

[Eskimo]

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I'll go first.
Here is a Largemouth Bass i caught and released this summer.
It measured 18" long, so I figure it was about 3 pounds.

[bigfishy]

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[catfishonthelake]

I caught a 200-pound sand tiger and battled a 250-pound blue marlin, but below is what I consider my best catch of the year...and maybe my life. February 24th, 2012 in a rented boat from Dow's on Lake Hopatcong in at 20+mph NW wind with water temps hovering in the mid-30's. Found, hooked and landed all by myself. Put my camera on my cooler on the front bench seat, set the timer, took the big girl out of the net for the pic and then let her go alive. I was more concerned with getting her back in the water than getting a measurement, but almost everyone I've asked in Muskie Inc. and anyone I consider to be a good musky fisherman has told me this was a 50-inch fish. Absolutely the fish of a lifetime.

[Skunk City]

*Hybrid Striped Bass was 26" and 7lbs 2oz on my digital scale...hit a livelined herring at Lake Hopatcong.

*Yellow Perch was a little over 14", no weight...hit a crankbait meant for a Pike . Caught at a Top Secret location.

*Smallmouth Bass was 18", no weight...hit a live shiner on the Passaic River.

*Largemouth Bass was a little over 21", weighed 5lbs 4oz on my digital scale...hit a big jointed firetiger Rapala also meant for a Pike lol. Caught in the Passaic River.

*Northern Pike was 38", no weight...hit a white/gold spinnerbait on the Passaic River.

[jimmythegreek]

between the countless stripers, smallies, largies this year so far, my PB walleye is the most rewarding catch of the year so far. They are so tuff to catch in NJ I love the challenge......and theres alot of fizzin to do yet

[kcritch]

My wife caught this Muskie - Oxford Furnace

My biggest LMB - 4lbs Lake Musconetcong. (Caught a 20" SMB that I'm sure was heavier than this but no pic)

And just for fun......this aint a fish but it's the biggest dog I've ever seen!

[SkillfulAngler908]

Pike - 32in caught you know where on a bucktail
Pick - 26in D&R Canal on a bucktail
Walleye - 24in RR on Husky Jerk14
Crappie - 16.5 in on Jig n Pig
Smallie - 18.5in and thick, RR on a Zoom Fat Albert Grub
LMB - 20.5in about 5lb on a Jig n Pig in Feb

[Leif]

24 inch Brown

Leif

[msgdan]

Here is one of my best salt water fish this year, caught off Christmas Island, 1300 miles south of Hawaii.



Here is the biggest pike that I got a picture of this year.



Danny V