Thought I caught a world record....

[ful-rac]

Was out fishing some of our local rockfish with a shimano flatfall jig...and what do you know..? I hang a good one! Now granted this is not that big of a fish overall but for what it is....it's a GIANT! I can't say that I have ever caught one this big before...and I have caught about a million rockfish in my fishing carrer....:eek:









































































It's a HUGE BARBERPOLE!!!!
Not quite the all tackle world record of 3 pounds 3 oz....but pretty damn close...Mine weighed in at a respectable 2 pounds 8 oz :eek: !

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[MrPatrick]

Beautiful fish. Congrats

[jlabs63]

That is a monster barber. Im curious how you were working the flat fall for rock fish? That had never occurred to me.

[Reel Anxious]

Tony
That's a beauty :jig:

[Deamon]

I know your hand (not that well and only from a distance:the_finger:) ...it is very big...that is a big fish...Jim

[ful-rac]

That is a monster barber. Im curious how you were working the flat fall for rock fish? That had never occurred to me.

Just getting it down to the bottom metering fish and bouncing it, nothing fancy. The flatfall seems to work pretty good as a rockfish jig, it seems to sink at a reasonable rate, the rockfish do seem to like it.

[walrus]

That's the best!

[Zed]

Flag rockfish...

[TJones]

:wsb:. :rolleyes: .Way to research the stats . :cheers1:. Very respectable pole . Now show us the on the water jig shot . No pics = b.s. . :icon_bs: :jig:.

[roby]

I know your hand (not that well and only from a distance:the_finger:) ...it is very big...that is a big fish...Jim

Just because of your weird-ass response, you are going to get two sand dabs in your truck next time.

[AirborneYak]

Just getting it down to the bottom metering fish and bouncing it, nothing fancy. The flatfall seems to work pretty good as a rockfish jig, it seems to sink at a reasonable rate, the rockfish do seem to like it.

Can I fish with you next time?

[alanhighhand]

Nice fish.

[blitzburgh]

Nice Tony!

That's an old Barber Pole. I hope you're happy with yourself you fish killer.

If you feel guilty I will eat it for you :D

[cabojohn]

Thats a very nice Stone Mouth BP.
I'd have that one mounted and on the wall. :cool:

[Rambo]

That's one giant size barber to add to your fishing timeline. Congrats and hope one of us on this board break some IGFA record on a kayak.

[ful-rac]

Can I fish with you next time?

Why would you want to do that? :confused:

Sure you can fish with me next time, the next time will be down in mission bay this weekend. You can also fish with jorge, jim, makobob, Sig hansens cousin Sven Hansen....

See Ya there!

[Caden]

Nice catch, the barber big because of me. Barber

[Ramos23]

Beautiful fish

[TJones]

If we are still hitting this post. ;)

[T-Rex]

That is a nice Barbaer Pole. About twice as big as the next biggest I've seen caught.

[Aaron&Julie]

Great BarberPole!!!