Personal Bests

this isn't meant to be a contest.....
being that i'm a quality and not a quantity kind of guy.... share some of your personal bests worth mentioning of any fish species...
 
steelhead i've got a few around 30 and the ten pounds
and a couple over all from erie tribs never got any big ones from a ny trib...
 
the brown in my pic is by far the biggest i have caught definitely bigger than ones my friends have caught.....HA HA.... that was one i regret releasing and would've liked to have put him on the wall
 
caught a pike twice in the same day while walleye fishing a few years ago that was 36 inches.
 
 

nice fish and cool story.... i haven't ran into frank in a while he used to ALWAYS fish the end of the rocks .... and yes he talks A LOT 

nice brown... i cant seem to catch ANY browns in erie..... 

jat1007
nice brown... i cant seem to catch ANY browns in erie..... 

Feels like 5% of anglers catch 95% of the Browns LOL. Wonder why they're not doing as well in Erie as they are in Ontario. After all, they can tolerate warmer water and prefer to eat species like Gobies in water 100' or less, so it sounds like Erie would be a perfect fit for them.

Steelhead  19.5 lb hen SRNY
Brown 16 lb hen Oak
King 33.5 lb male SRNY
Coho 15.5 lb male SRNY
Walleye 34 in 13.5lb Lake O OZ'
Largemouth 24 in 8lb Indiana Public lake
Best trout on dry fly 21 in holdover brown Broadheads Creek PA
 
WCW

Divemaster

jat1007
nice brown... i cant seem to catch ANY browns in erie..... 

Feels like 5% of anglers catch 95% of the Browns LOL. Wonder why they're not doing as well in Erie as they are in Ontario. After all, they can tolerate warmer water and prefer to eat species like Gobies in water 100' or less, so it sounds like Erie would be a perfect fit for them.

 
imo they just don't stock as many and is it true that browns don't imprint like steelhead and salmon?

genieman77
One of the best to date
an 8 pounder that came last night at 11:47
Our first Grand Son !!
 
..L.T.A.

CAPTAIN HOOK
Congrats,  Gman ! 
 
When you think of Browns think of Carp. lol.....
Browns love dirty muddy bottom water . All the best NY Brown Trout creeks are just that.
Oak Orchard is silt mud bottom 95% of the creek as is 18 mile (Burt Dam).
Johnson , Keg , Sandy , Wilson , all mud silt bottoms with slow flow.
Some reason Browns are attracted to those sluggish style creeks.
We caught Browns in the Niagara but never huge numbers like the slow muddy creeks.
I bet the Cat gets more Erie Browns then all the others it's always dirty.     

how are the michigan tribs? "muddy" also? 
 
i know there's some HOG browns up there too... check out eric hataaja 25+ lbs
 
i wonder if they just chase the salmon in there to feed and being the majority of ontario tribs are "dirty" anyways

There you go! Don't know why but they are attracted to that type water.
 
I seen a pack of huge Browns one year on Johnson Creek that were in a huge mud bottom area just loaded with bank roots and fallen timber. I'd say none were under 10lbs.with some probably pushing upper teens. Couldn't hardly cast let alone land one !
 

since brownies seem to be the talk heres my biggest one to date 22 inches 6 lbs from trout run caught him on a glob of powerbait, i hate admitting to what i caught him on but hey it works this was 2014
 
 

 
these next 4 were all this year and are all personal bests this walleye was caught january 31st in frigid cold waters while wading the river fish just missed 30 inches coming in at 29.75 and just under 12 lbs, it was worth freezing for 
 
 

 
this next fish  is my favorite bc lets face its who doesn't like big bass, no length but weight just under 6 lbs

 
this cat seemed to never wanna come in no weight but measured 39.5  caught on a giant bluegill from the beaver river

 
last but not least, caught this past weekend up erie on 11-5 from the pier jiging for whatever wanted to hit, and it hit. after a 15 minute fight and almost spolling me twice  this fish was measured and weighed at 31 inches and 22lbs this picture doesn't do this fish justice