Hardest Hit You Have Ever Had? 2024
BammerBass reply :
I've had quite a few hard hits from various kinds of fish, but by far the hardest hit I ever had was almost 2 months ago when I hung what probably would have been my personal best bass had I managed to actually grt to hold it. Slow retrieve of the panfish assassin, and BAM, it was like getting slammed by a defensive lineman in football. Good thing I had a good hold of my rod, or else it woulda taken it up the river. Sheesh, I will never forget that one, it definitely wanted it! Still kicking myself for grtting over eager and trying to horse it up such a high distance from thr pier to the water, got a good long look and it made my 16" bass I posted a pic of, look small. I believe one could have just about put a baseball in its mouth!!! Anyway back to the topic, it clearly put its weight into that strike, I've caught numerous 10-12 lb cats and a 19 lb carp that didnt slam the bait/lure THAT hard. It even kinda scared me and caused me to say a four letter expletive because I was not expecting that in the least.
Bluebasser86 reply :
Either this jig bite,
Or this A rig bite.
BammerBass reply :
Now those are heavy hitters!!
SirSnookalot reply :
For sheer strike cudas are on the top of my list, pure pound for pound fight a permit.
BasshunterJGH reply :
My personal best smallmouth, 4.5 lbs. I lost a 5-6 lber that day, probably the hardest hit I've had.
rippin-lips reply :
None of my top 3 biggest bass have hit hard. I wade the Potomac for smallies and I'd say those are some of the harder hits I've had.
BassinLou reply :
The one of the hardest hit I have had and landed was this 5lb this past May with my buddy MCS. I was quickly reeling in my frog to set up for another cast and as soon as I was going to lift the frog out of the water this bass came up right against the boat and slammed my frog!!
BammerBass reply :
shoot, id be absolutely thrilled if I ever even hooked a 5lber.On 12/11/2014 at 3:23 AM, BassinLou said:The one of the hardest hit I have had and landed was this 5lb this past May with my buddy MCS. I was quickly reeling in my frog to set up for another cast and as soon as I was going to lift the frog out of the water this bass came up right against the boat and slammed my frog!!
Decent fish, could have sworn after the water cleared it was going to be bigger....
Felix77 reply :
To date the hardest hit I have ever had was on an alabama rig this past year. The bass was just over 2 lbs BUT man ... you would have thought it was a 10 lber. Nearly took the rod out of my hand. What a surprise.
roadwarrior reply :
Regardless of the size, bass punish an Alabama Rig.
desmobob reply :
On 12/11/2014 at 3:23 AM, BassinLou said:
The one of the hardest hit I have had and landed was this 5lb this past May with my buddy MCS. I was quickly reeling in my frog to set up for another cast and as soon as I was going to lift the frog out of the water this bass came up right against the boat and slammed my frog!!
Decent fish, could have sworn after the water cleared it was going to be bigger....
+1 :-)
I had a big one do the same thing. Startled me so much I almost screamed like a girl. Ok... I might have screamed like a girl. Maybe.
Tight lines,
Bob
Darren. reply :
For fresh water, probably a bass I hooked
a few years back. Heard a splash behind me,
turned and saw where a bass had attacked a
school of shad.
Threw a Senko there and BANG!! Unfortunately
I never saw her as she was such a fighter and
kept my rod bent, line taught then SNAP, it
pulled so hard my 10 lb (new) Yo-Zuri Hybrid
leader just snapped.
everythingthatswims reply :
While we were trolling offshore, we went through some grass and had to pull in lines to make sure everything was clear...I picked up a rod to bring it in and a blackfin exploded on the bait and started peeling drag, I'm lucky I was able to hold on to the rod!
5 Dollar Fishing Game reply :
Hardest hit was on my PBLMB. 6lbs. 6oz. Hit the scatter rap so hard last summer that it just about doubled over my medium heavy rod. Was a great day!!
I've also had some dinks give good effort too :-)
wuchr20 reply :
geo g reply :
Ten years ago I was fishing Weston, Florida from the bank, and saw vertical bars positioned in what looked like a bed, on a huge flat. It was out at the edge of my casting distance. I only had worms with me but I noticed that anytime I got close to the bed, the vertical bars would move. After about the 20 times of hitting the worm and moving it to the side an 8 pound peacock slammed the bait. This was my first time hooking a big peacock and new immediately it was not a largemouth bass. It blasted the bait with vengeance, and immediately took a 30 yard run off to one side. Then it made two huge jumps, doing complete flips, and then it ran another 30 yards back toward the bed. At that time I was using 20 pound braid and needed it to land this fish through all the weeds. Once you hook a good size peacock it is like hooking a snook, with long runs and jumps. They fight and just never stop including once you land them. They are a true treasure of the fish world. We are so luck to have them down here in South Florida. It was a day I will never forget.
speed craw reply :
Bank fishing during the spawn. In a super shallow cove to skinny for a boat .Quiet amazing seeing the fish hit so violently and feeling the rod doubled over.
Weld's Largemouth reply :
On 12/10/2014 at 5:00 PM, SirSnookalot said:For sheer strike cudas are on the top of my list, pure pound for pound fight a permit.
Was that permit caught in Boynton beach? Looks familar
SirSnookalot reply :
Yes, that permit was caught at the inlet. The amazing thing was I caught it inside the inlet, not on the beach, a habitat they don't frequent. Secondly I caught it on a bucktail, normally they feed on crabs. I ran this permit down on foot 300 yds with 10 knot inlet current, then pulled it in at the ICW in the back. One of my most memorable catches.
Yesterday was bass fishing at it's best for me as far as strikes go. About 8:30 am fishing my community pond with my ul and top water. Not a ripple on the water I land about 6 of them within 30 minutes, estimating 4-5lbs each. Each strike was more violent than the previous one, this was some fun stuff. Fast forward to the afternoon I head out to a canal that produces some very good fish, caught 4 or 5 with nothing over 8", go figure.
Bankbeater reply :
I was in the back of a small cove about 8 years ago. I was using a fluke around some grass, and the line started really moving toward the front of the cove. When I set the hook the fish didn't seem to notice and just kept heading out of the cove. The drag was working and the rod was bent when all of a sudden the fluke came flying out of the water. The line didn't break and the hook didn't bend. I guess I didn't have a good hookset. Sometimes when I am fishing that lake, and I go back into that cove I replay that hit over and over in my head.
fisherrw reply :
probably on a topwater... dident git the fish though...
NJSalt reply :
Bluefin Tuna vertical jigging hammered diamond jigs.
Like a truck
Sam reply :
I have had a few bass fishing that shocked me as to its force.
The two big ones I caught were "soft" hits.
Go figure.
HardcoreBassin reply :
My hardest hit by far was a 28lb king salmon. I was throwing a glow in the dark casting spoon at about 4:30am on lake Ontario. I had a medium retrieve on the spoon, and BAM! It felt like I hooked the bumper of a car going about 30mph in the opposite direction! The drag was on pretty heavy for the initial hookset, so that added to the impact as well. Not the biggest salmon I've caught, but it was the only one I've caught on a spoon and it was one hell of a hit!!
If anyone ever gets the opportunity (if you havent already) to fish for Salmon, do it!
Chris S reply :
Trout fishing and this Snook and I hooked up!! Did not expect it one bit but BAM!
MIbassin reply :
Jigging for rockfish and halibut….OH MY
BooyahMan reply :
Maybe not the absolute hardest hit I've gotten but most memorable: my first fish on a top water frog. It was pretty memorable as a first regardless, but the best part was that it took me by such a surprise that I fell onto my back turtle style when I set the hook. I'd like to think it's just because I was standing on mud, but if I'm being honest it's probably because I had never seen (or felt!) such a violent surface strike before. My girlfriend saw the entire thing and she could not stop laughing at me!
Dwight Hottle reply :
My hardest hit fishing freshwater fish would have to be a Niagara river salmon or Tennessee river striper. In saltwater it would be a big kingfish or a 35lb permit in the gulf.
OntarioFishingGuy reply :
On 12/12/2014 at 6:11 AM, HardcoreBassin said:My hardest hit by far was a 28lb king salmon. I was throwing a glow in the dark casting spoon at about 4:30am on lake Ontario. I had a medium retrieve on the spoon, and BAM! It felt like I hooked the bumper of a car going about 30mph in the opposite direction! The drag was on pretty heavy for the initial hookset, so that added to the impact as well. Not the biggest salmon I've caught, but it was the only one I've caught on a spoon and it was one hell of a hit!!
If anyone ever gets the opportunity (if you havent already) to fish for Salmon, do it!
Nothing better than chucking spoons on the lake at night.
My hardest hit would probably be a 13lb hen steelhead I caught in November in a tiny creek. Chased my spinner up and smashed it right at my feet.
*Hank reply :
I believe mine was on a gitzit tube!
Teal reply :
Hardest hit... idk I think it was on finesse jig I skipped under a dock. A small bass about 1.5-2lbs slammed the jig so hard It nearly took then rod from me. I've had some hard hits but most the hardest ones were smaller bass.
Stripes are another story. I had 28" striper on a live shad that hit me hard.
shanksmare reply :
By far the hardest hit I ever got while fishing occurred in 1969. A friend and I had chartered a trip with Cape Cod tuna fishing guru Capt. Charlie Mayo. It was his last trip of the season in October. We had trolled daisy chains on the outriggers unsuccessfully all day and were headed across Cape Cod Bay towards his home port of Provincetown. When it happened it was like some one had thrown a locomotive into the water (my buddies exact words). After a hellish 40 minute fight we landed the 723 lb giant bluefin tuna. Man what a topwater strike that was!!
gulfcaptain reply :
Hardest hit, winding in a little blue runner at an oil platform and just as it got to the boat about a barracuda tried to eat it which was quickly overpowered by about an 80lb amberjack. Needless to say, I didn't far to well on my little bait rod I was using but it was an awesome hit. Freshwater, this last year flipped a bait on what I thought was a bass chasing bluegill off a bed and when it hit the bottom was ingulfed by about a 10lb chanel cat. That hit and lit up harder then any bass I've ever caught flipping a creature bait not to mention getting to see the whole thing 20ft away in about 2ft of water.
Texas Hawg Hunter reply :
Yesterday afternoon on a buzzbait was my hardest hit.
BammerBass reply :
nothing quite like actually SEEING your fish torpedo the bait/lure huh?On 12/14/2014 at 10:05 PM, gulfcaptain said:Hardest hit, winding in a little blue runner at an oil platform and just as it got to the boat about a barracuda tried to eat it which was quickly overpowered by about an 80lb amberjack. Needless to say, I didn't far to well on my little bait rod I was using but it was an awesome hit. Freshwater, this last year flipped a bait on what I thought was a bass chasing bluegill off a bed and when it hit the bottom was ingulfed by about a 10lb chanel cat. That hit and lit up harder then any bass I've ever caught flipping a creature bait not to mention getting to see the whole thing 20ft away in about 2ft of water.
gulfcaptain reply :
On 12/15/2014 at 6:13 AM, BammerBass said:nothing quite like actually SEEING your fish torpedo the bait/lure huh?
No, even better using surface poppers and seeing a whole color spot of 25-30lb jack crevelles charge your bait and seeing a half dozen brown backed ajs trying to push them out of the way to get a chance at it or try and take it out of the hooked fishes mouth.
SirSnookalot reply :
One thing we have down here in Florida are jacks. Catching them of any size is fight that is pretty hard to comprehend if you haven't caught one, but 10# and up is something special. Catch that first larger one and you might buy a condo down here and be a snowbird, and never again view that fish as trash. We catch them 2 at time on topwater all the time, these are small, 2 of them 5 or 6# a piece I probably couldn't land let alone big ones. Umbrella rig........lol, like to see that.
Jtrout reply :
Monster carp in a local river they pull like freight trains
BassinLou reply :
My hardest hit off shore was earlier this year. We were trying to catch wahoo, which I have never done before. We were trolling faster than usual which is common for Wahoo. We trolled for a while with 0 luck, my BIL, told me to start reeling the lines in when my reel went from 0 to 60 in 2 seconds lol!! I have never heard drag fly out of reel like that before. It seemed like it was never going to end. Luckily I took my time and landed my first hoo!!
Basswhippa reply :
I had a dolphin grab a hooked Spanish one time. That was a hit! But check out the following:
This one.
http://www.sliptalk.com/shark-bait/
Wayne P. reply :
Culprit 7 1/2" plastic worm
Siebert Outdoors reply :
Years ago I was throwing a Ledgebuster 1 oz spinnerbait and had something probably musky or pike absolutely hammered it ripping the swivel in half that held the blade on. I never caught the fish.
jitterbug127 reply :
Gotta be the 20 lb carp from this summer
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