Difficulty of fish..

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What is the easiest and the hardest fish to catch?

Question for you all....

[MichaelAngelo]

(05-31-2012 12:26 AM)--G-- Wrote:  What is the easiest and the hardest fish to catch?

Question for you all....

What I've found for me....

Easiest for me is river chub. So easy it's annoying hahah.

Hardest for me has been trout. But only if the river is busy It's very easy if you find an undisturbed fish. Finding an undisturbed fish is very hard LOL.

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To me ALL fish seem hard to catch..ha ha

[OldTimer]

Answer depends on so many variables.

For example: Rock Bass for me in some lakes I fish are like M.A’s creek chub in his local creeks – there’s LOTS of ‘em present and they’ll hit most everything presented in their blind purpose competition for food in order to survive……….. hence: real easy to catch………

Maybe………………….

Catch either of these species 8 miles out on Lake Ontario…………… no doubt – real tough sledding……..

Another example – I used to think that catching Muskie was a super tough thing to do – but once I had the opportunity to fish with a knowing friend on the “right water” with the “right gear” at the “right time” , etc… - we caught fish more regularly than most.

However, I would say that in my days - the toughest fish for me to catch (when I knew they were actually present, and I’d actually seen them) was a large RESIDENT river (not lake run) Brown Trout. I did eventually get one – but I became close to a compulsive fishin’ maniac psycho to do it.

Hmmmm………… perhaps I should fish for M.A.’s “disturbed” fish?

…smile

Cheers,

OldTimer

[fishfight]

Musky is hardest fish to catch for sure if one really tries to aim for them , lot of hours of soar arm. I landed few through out the years without aiming for them and nothing over 36" long. Even harder to catch them in the USA .

Sturgeon would also be way up there. Few were being landed at Niagara river every year, nothing too big around 48" long