Alligator Gar is the largest of the seven species in North America, which can grow to more than 300 pounds. They are mainly distributed in the coastal rivers and estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico from Mexico to Florida, the lower reaches of the Missouri River and the Ohio River, and even two lakes in Nicaragua. The world record of the eel caught with a pole is 279 pounds, which was caught by Bill Fulvard in Texas in 195 1 year. The big mouth full of teeth and its habit of dragging for a long distance before swallowing the bait make it difficult to take the bait. Therefore, many fishermen prefer to hunt with harpoons instead of "big floating fishing". Large-scale floating fishing is a long-line fishing method, in which a large piece of foam plastic is used as a float, a 4-foot-long PVC pipe is tied or a branch is tied to a solid connecting ring, and a 2-foot-long metal brain thread hook is tied to the other end of the connecting ring. Fishermen use cut carp meat as bait, and at night, they cast a lot of big floating fishing on the water at a time.

Sparrow eel likes to swim on the surface of the water with bait in its mouth before swallowing. Because PVC thin tubes and large floats can move with them, there is no tension, so it will not arouse the vigilance of Sparrow eel. When the eel is hooked, it will jump out of the water, and then it will yank the fishing line or roll beside the boat. We subdue them with sticks, but the sticks are often broken. There are so many finches in many reservoirs in Texas that fishermen like Kruger transport them to the fish market in Louisiana for sale. Because this kind of fish is abundant and harmful to other fish, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Service issued a license to allow commercial fishing. The eel fish is delicious, but it is not easy to process. Killing the eel requires a machete, a flat-head scissors for cutting metal sheets and a large fish fillet knife. We even joked that we would use a chain saw to cut it open.

(Accessibility: 4 points-some places are easy to reach; Caution: 4 points-poor vigilance; Abundance: 3 points-some waters are abundant; Maximum weight: 8 points-300 pounds is not uncommon; Actual weight: 7 points-/kloc-more than 0/00 pounds is very common; Fierceness: 8 points-very fierce, once it is hidden, it cannot be caught; Extraordinary: 10 points-often jump, can yank and jerk, tumbling and rolling in the water. The total score is 44 points, ranking tenth. )

The ninth king salmon (salmon)

In Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, a fisherman struggled with Chinoods Salmon for 36 hours. At that time, some TV cameramen were present, trying to shoot this new world record, but the result was that the line was broken and the fish escaped. "Fishing this kind of fish is like fighting a war," said Chris Bading, an outdoor enthusiast and writer in Alaska. "It collides like a locomotive. It can pull hundreds of feet of fishing line in one breath, and then dive to the bottom to save strength. If your fishing tackle can't pull it when it tries to rest, you may have to wait for a day. If your fishing tackle can't stand the test, you'd better stay at home. "The king salmon swam into the river in order to lay eggs. They live in rivers for a year or two when they are in the stage of fry and young salmon, and then swim back to the ocean when they grow into adult salmon at the age of two or three. They live in seawater for most of their lives, and finally swim back to the river where they were born to lay eggs and complete the mission of having children. The naturally growing king salmon is distributed in this large area from south to California and north to the south of the Arctic. Now people have successfully transplanted them to the Great Lakes and some large reservoirs in North America, but the king of king salmon still exists only in Alaska, where there are many 60-pound big guys in the rivers. 1May, 985 17, Lars Anderson set a world record of 97 pounds and 4 ounces on the Kenai River. How fast can the king salmon swim? Batin said, "When it comes to the chase of whales, they often land on the beach because they can't stop swimming too fast. "King salmon will play all kinds of tricks to try to break free after taking the bait. They can hit the ship with their bodies like the Kamikaze team in Japan during World War II, can smash the aluminum hull, can destroy the wooden bow, can jump on the boat and shore, and can easily destroy fishing tackle with poor quality. Alaska king salmon grow so big, perhaps because it needs extraordinary endurance and strength to make a long-distance migration in cold and fast-flowing water. Ba Ting said, "Alaska king salmon has more fat than fish anywhere else. In yukon river, king salmon can swim 2,000 miles without eating anything in 60 days. “

(Accessibility: 4 points-relatively easy to reach; Caution: 6 points-most of the king salmon who just swam into the river have never seen the bait, and eating the hook is very bold; Abundance: 6 points-a relatively large number; Maximum weight: 6 points-about100lb; Actual weight: 7 points-many fish reach 50 pounds; Fierceness: 7 points-very fierce; Extraordinary: 9 points-hold on to the fishing rod, remember the times it jumps, run with it, and don't let it pull the fishing line completely. The total score is 45, ranking ninth. )

The eighth giant bone tongue fish

As a ichthyologist and outdoor activity planning expert at Yale University, Ed Migdolski has the opportunity to fish all over the world. One of his "unforgettable memories" is that 1953 met a Pirarucu in the Rupruni River in Guyana (then British Guyana). He has caught two such fish, one is 5 feet long and weighs 93 pounds, and the other is 6 feet 4 inches long and weighs 148 pounds, which is amazing. Migdolski and two aborigines from western Kyle struggled for 1 hour for 40 minutes before getting this big fish into their canoe. The body of the fish was almost as long as that of the boat, and its weight left the boat 3 inches above the water. His fishing achievements became international news, which was reported by The New York Times on the front page and reprinted by some scientific magazines. Giant bone tongue fish is an old fish species, which lives in the most primitive tropical jungle waters in the world. They are commonly found in the Amazon river basin in Brazil and Peru, as well as in the tributaries of the Amazon river system in Venezuela and Colombia. This behemoth has a long, pointed head, a blue, metallic back, bronze sides and large scales, and some scales show bright red edges. The giant bone tongue fish mainly lives in slow-flowing rivers, and even can survive in water with low oxygen content, because it has a huge airbag, which is composed of lung tissue and can be used as an additional respirator. It can also float to the surface for oxygen like the Atlantic silver carp. Migdo pointed out that the giant bone tongue fish often lurks under the obstacles on the water surface, waiting for an opportunity to open its huge mouth to swallow its prey and bait. Although this fish does not jump out of the water after being hooked, it also desperately swings its body or rolls hard on the water surface.

(Accessibility: 10-Few people can reach the best fishing waters: Caution: 5-Super carnivorous fish; Abundance: 7 points-extremely large giant tongue fish is rare; Maximum weight: 6 points-maybe 200~250 pounds; Actual weight: 6 points-the big giant tongue fish is between 50 ~100lb; Fierceness: 6 points-struggling fiercely after being hooked, but strong fishing tackle can catch big fish; Extraordinary: 6 points-if you don't jump out of the water, you can swing it to make a large area of water boil. The total score is 46, ranking eighth. )

Seventh, six-fin catfish

The longest freshwater fish in the world is undoubtedly the white sturgeon, but it is closely followed and even more mysterious is the Welsh, a snake-shaped giant salamander that is said to be up to 16 feet long and weighs 650 pounds. But there is no photo, no skeleton and other physical objects to prove it. The legend about it is widely circulated and fascinating. How big is the six-fin carp? Kevin Maddox, a British fishing expert and fishing columnist who is addicted to fishing, described his fishing trip of tracking six-fin catfish in European countries in the book The Catfish. He said that patience, suitable fishing tackle and knowledge of the waters where six-fin catfish are produced are necessary factors for catching giant catfish over 50 pounds. Maddox's fishing team fished in the Schnakensai River in Germany. In most continental European countries, there are six-fingered bream in rivers and reservoirs. This kind of fish has also been introduced into British waters, but their largest size seems to be a little smaller. It is reported that the largest bream grows in Russia, Turkey and Eastern European countries. Like the American catfish, the six-fin catfish also likes to live in caves or underwater sundries. The big catfish mainly preys at night or when the light is dim. This carnivorous fish eats everything and never misses any predation opportunity. Maddox successfully catches the six-fin catfish bait, including "Tang Yuan"-it is made of flour and dough, then kneaded into balls and cooked with live ones. After being hooked, the giant catfish will swing violently, roll or make a strong sprint with a short distance. It takes 9~ 12 feet long to catch them.

(Accessibility: 6 points-fishing spots in Spain, France and Germany are easy to reach, while fishing grounds in Russia and other countries are more difficult to go; Caution: 8 points-it is difficult to get hooked and the density is very small; Abundance: 7 points-the number of medium-sized mullet is not very small; Maximum weight: 8 points-today's extremely large six-fin carp may exist; Actual weight: 6 points-rarely caught 100 pound giant catfish: ferocity: 6 points-very strong; Extraordinary: 6 points-great strength when running away, but not particularly difficult to deal with. The total score is 47, ranking seventh. )

Sixth place: Hucho taimen

Taimen and Huchen are both mackerel, which are widely distributed in continental Europe, Russia and Central Asia. The largest recorded Hucho weighs 23 1 lb and is 84 inches long. It was caught by a commercial fishing net on the Koutuyi River in 1943, and the largest Cholo on the Danube weighs 132 lb and is 73.2 inches long. It was caught on the Danube River in 1873. John Bates of Kehrein Berg Global Travel Agency in Seattle, USA, has made several field trips to Siberia. Bates thinks, "They are like a hybrid of salmon and pike. Hucho is a tenacious and tricky opponent. In the first 10 minutes after it is hooked, you are completely dominated by it. After a 60-pound Hucho jumps out of the water several times, it swims towards the nearby underwater obstacles. If it still can't get unhooked, it will try its best to escape downstream. If you are lucky, it will be good for half an hour. " "Hucho is definitely the fiercest kind of freshwater fish. I have met them who straighten all the triangular anchors, and their sharp teeth like blades can even bite off the metal brain line." Hucho is an aggressive carnivorous fish. According to Bates' companion Tom Knight, they once cut open an 80-pound Hucho, and found four salmon in its belly, each weighing four or five pounds. Another researcher found a dead Hucho 1 1 pound, and it was trying to swallow a/kloc with the same weight. People who fish for Hucho taimen often imitate the bait of winter mice and lemmings, and Hucho taimen especially likes to eat lemmings crossing rivers during migration. The best bait is a 6-inch rat-like bait, said Liz.

(Accessibility: 8 points-it takes a lot of time, but the route to go is not difficult; Caution: 6 points-At present, Hucho is not afraid of people, but it will soon become cautious; Abundance: 7 points-only according to the estimation, the big hucho is rare; Most important: 6 points-maybe 100 pounds; Realistic weight: 5 points-20 to 40 pounds; Fierceness: 7 points-more fierce, but inferior to some other fierce fish; Extraordinary: 9 points-like special airborne troops, they can escape quickly. The total score is 48, ranking sixth. )

Fifth place new guinea bass

In the fishing camp on the southern coast of New Britain, the second largest island in the New Guinea Islands, there is a saying: "The thicker the fishing line, the louder the sound of disconnection." Morse stressed that to catch the fish here, it is necessary to connect 40 pounds of fishing line with 80 pounds of metal brain line, hang 8 inches of bait with a large anchor hook, and match it with a very strong carbon mixing rod. He said, "You can't let the fish catch an inch." But it is almost impossible to do this. The current here is fast, with a speed of 5 nautical miles per hour, and there are driftwood weeds in the water, and the terrain is extremely complicated. There is a fish bite! The tip of the pole was immediately pulled straight into the water. The fisherman struggled to keep his balance, but he was dragged to the edge of the boat step by step by huge pulling force ... Finally, when the fish pulled the boat against the current, the high-quality nylon thread was broken from the reel. Boom; The old saying mentioned earlier has come true. Morse said that there are two kinds of sea bass in New Guinea, one is called black bass, which is mainly born in rapids; The other is called spotted-tailed bass, which lives in the upper reaches of rivers. Perches have teeth like German hounds and are as strong as bulls. It is said that 70-pound perch has been seen, but most of the fish caught with hooks and lines are 18~30 pounds. A 48-pound bass is the largest fish ever caught.

(Accessibility: 10 score-difficult to reach; Caution: 8 points-the big fish will soon be alert to the engine sound and bait imitation of the ship; Abundance: 5 points-there are a lot of fish there at present, and the key is how to catch it there; Maximum weight: 5 points-there are obviously not many fish that reach 50 pounds; Typical weight: 4 points-one of the smallest fish in the top ten; Fierceness: 10 point-it is the fiercest in the same heavyweight; Extraordinary: 7 points-New Guinea perch has many tricks, but it never jumps out of the water. The total score is 49, ranking fifth. )

Fourth place Nile perch

This carnivorous fish eats fiercely. After being hooked, it will keep jumping out of the water and trying to decouple. Nile perch is the largest member of the Clavididae. It is said that it once had a big fish weighing more than 400 pounds, but the world record of the International Fishing Federation is 19 1.5 pounds, which was caught by Andy Davidson 199 1 year on Lake Victoria in Africa. Nile perch is a big fish native to many waters in Africa. In the 1950s, people raised this kind of fish in Lake Keyoga, and let Nile perch prey on the fishes of the family Lepidoptera, which were not caught by local fishermen. In this way, the perch can grow bigger and have more delicious meat. Before people had time to evaluate the impact of raising perch in Lake Keyoga, Nile perch was introduced to Lake Victoria. Between 10, the perch in Lake Keyoga has gained a firm foothold and produced offspring. By the 1980s, the Nile perch has become the main carnivorous fish in Lake Victoria. They feed on dozens of small fish and make several of them extinct. The introduction of perch has brought disaster to the native fish in the lake and reduced the commercial fishing, but on the other hand, their growth has also provided good fishing species for this area. We can predict that there will be more fishing records on Lake Victoria.

(Accessibility: 8 points-far away in Africa, but there is a route to reach; Caution: 6 points-some people say that they are easy to bite, but the big ones are definitely difficult to bite; Richness: 7 points-a lot in Lake Victoria; Maximum weight: 8 points-possibly up to 400 pounds; Actual weight: 6 points-most perches weigh 50 to 100 pounds; Fierceness: 7 points-great strength, but only struggling in the open water, skilled fishermen and good fishing tackle rarely let the fish unhook. Extraordinary: 10 points-can jump out of the water many times and struggle hard. The total score is 52, ranking fourth. )

Third place: bighead fish

John wilson, a British fishing expert, declared: "No fish can be compared with the giant bighead fish." It's common to fight a medium-sized bighead fish with a 40-to 50-pound pull line for a few hours and it shows no signs of fatigue. It can pull all the fishing line from the reel with one charge, and the angler can either jump off the rapids and swim with the fish, or stand in the same place and wait for the fishing line to come back like a bullet after being pulled off by the fish. Big-headed fish can grow to 100 pounds and 9 feet long. However, the main reason that makes them the most difficult freshwater fish to catch in the world is its brute strength and its habitat. The bighead fish lives in the fastest rapids of Indian mountain rivers, where the water speed reaches 10~ 15 miles per hour. Wilson and his companion Andy Davidson (who holds the record of Nile perch in the International Fishing Federation) visited the caffery River in southern India. This fish has huge scales (as big as the palm of your hand! ) and has thick lips, which are used to suck small fish, shrimps and crabs and other creatures on the rocky river bottom. It also has hard and powerful big pharynx teeth, which can chew fish, shrimps and crabs and even large fishhooks. As for the bait, Wilson and Davidson made spherical bait from flour and dough, a staple food in southern India, or used 6-8 inches long fish as live bait to hang the bait. In order to keep the bait from being washed away in the rapids, they needed a 3-6-ounce weight pendant. The bighead fish was very fierce in feeding, unlike its close relative carp, which was so cautious.

(Accessibility: 10 score; Caution: 7 points-as long as it can get there, it will eat your hook; Abundance: 7 points-when you get there, there will be fish; Maximum weight: 7 points-maybe 100 pounds; Actual weight: can catch 40~60 pounds; Fierceness: 10-the more complex the terrain, the fiercer the fish; Extraordinary: 8 points-running is extremely powerful. The total score is 55, ranking third. )

Tied for first place: white sturgeon

The sturgeon grows in the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, and goes up the Volga River and ural river in Russia. The largest recorded paddlefish is 28 feet long and weighs 2860 pounds. There are also big fish above 1 ton that have been caught, but obviously they were not caught with a fishing rod. 199 1 year, a group of Swedish fishermen came to Russia. They caught the 250-pound white sturgeon with a large float 1~3 pounds of live bait and 50 pounds of polyester thread. The largest reported white sturgeon, one of which was caught in the Columbia River in the United States in the19th century, weighed 1800 lbs. The other was caught on the Suresa River in British Columbia, Canada, and it was also 1800 lbs. The highest recognized record is 1285 pounds, 12.5 feet long paddlefish, which was caught on the Dellas River in Oregon in 195 1. Due to the construction of dams and overfishing, such a huge fish no longer exists today. The fishing law of the Columbia River stipulates that sturgeons caught less than 40 inches and more than 72 inches must be released. Now, the practice of "catching and releasing" is very common. According to the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Service, the paddlefish has surpassed the salmon to become the most commonly caught fish on the Columbia River. After being hooked, all kinds of sturgeons will jump out of the water repeatedly, and then struggle hard to sprint, or stubbornly sink to the bottom to avoid being caught. Those who use floating fishing or fixed-point fishing can catch them.

(Accessibility: 10 points-sturgeon habitat is difficult to reach: Caution: 7 points-only according to speculation: richness: 6 points-in some areas, some sturgeons (such as white sturgeon) 100 pounds or more are large; Maximum weight: 10 point-the largest sturgeon may not exceed 2000 pounds now, but there are still more than 500 pounds of paddlefish; Actual weight: 10 minute-200 mining sturgeons are very common; Fierceness: 8 points-great energy; Extraordinary: 10-jumping up and down, sprinting, and rolling around desperately when you reach the boat. The total score is 6 1, tied for the first place.

First place: Amazon catfish

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In some tributaries hundreds of miles away from the main stream of the Amazon River, the water is fast. Large catfish with a body length of more than 10 feet can be seen in the local market, but the river is still like this, so how big are the fish swimming in the main stream? "As soon as I put down the hook and looked down, I realized that my 50-pound pull line would break in half a minute." A fishing expert named Todd Smith 1989 wrote this in an article in the magazine Fishing Fans. This is his first attempt to catch the giant catfish in the Amazon, and the fishing spot is on the Bani River, a tributary of the Upper Amazon River in Bolivia. The local Indians admired Todd's massive figure and strength, but looked down on his fishing tackle and 50-pound fishing line, saying, "This can only amuse giant salamanders." Although Todd also caught a big fish weighing 80 pounds, the giant catfish that he had never seen before was disconnected again and again. Todd also told us some legends, saying that giant catfish can drag canoes around at will, and even drag people off the boat and bite off people's fingers. On two occasions, he hooked a fish weighing 10 pounds with a shark as bait, then tied a 400-pound line and tied it to a tree-and the next day, the tree and fishing line were all gone ... Professor Mitchell Golding, a scientist, began to study the fish and fishery resources in the tributaries of the Amazon from 1976. He said that he had seen 250 pounds, 7. 19 14, when Teddy Roosevelt led an expedition to investigate the Amazon River, a doctor accompanying him measured a giant catfish more than 9 feet long.

The spindle-shaped shape of this kind of fish makes it swim fast enough in the fast-flowing river, and it also makes people who catch them with conventional fishing tackle break their poles repeatedly and do nothing. Another kind of Amazon catfish, which belongs to the same family as Giant Catfish, can also grow to more than 250 pounds. It eats many fish, so it can be caught with live bait or lump meat bait. Locals like to fish with a free line. It is obvious that they are difficult to conquer if they want to fish with a round rod in the rapids where they live. On the contrary, a 200-pound fishing line connected with a metal brain line with the same tension, coupled with a big drop and a shark hook, can completely catch a 300-pound big fish. As long as there are no sundries such as underwater stumps, strong sea poles can catch hundreds of pounds of big things. Remember, when fighting with big fish, you should fasten your safety belt or put on your life jacket to prevent accidents. Recently, scientists have pointed out that the increase in fishing has endangered the survival of giant salamanders. Similar to the situation all over the world, the number of these huge guys is decreasing sharply. Perhaps the next few years will be the best time to catch giant salamanders.

(Accessibility: 10-the area where they live is difficult or even almost impossible to reach; Caution: 5 points-they are unscrupulous eating machines; Abundance: 8 points-unknown, with different densities in different regions; Maximum weight: 10 minute-perhaps the largest carnivorous fish in fresh water; Actual weight: 10-a good fishing tackle can catch 200 pounds of giant catfish; Fierceness: 10 point-can pull up trees; Extraordinary: 8 points-great pulling force, but not jumping out of the water. The total score is 6 1, ranking first. )