Best fighting Fish Pound for Pound

[roger de dodger]

none of em smoothy,s lb for lb best fight

[seanie35]

aah the humble mackeral on a spinner, the sugar ray leonard of fish

[bigsod]

none of em smoothy,s lb for lb best fight

Im with Roger on this one, hounds rule

[ShaneH]

conger at 30 or 40 yards on a beach caster none of this dropping down the side of the peir crap and smoothies

[dbrock]

smoothies all the way

[donal domeney]

I split this from the original but putting it in as the best Pound for Pound fight fish may not be the best heading.

Maybe the fish that nearly gave me a heart attack would a better heading.

You know the way it is a non angler asks you what’s the biggest you ever caught. When the biggest fish you caught is not the fish you had the best fight from.

For me I had a 9ft. + blue shark on 33lb.braid on an abu 6500 that I brought to the boat 3 times.
Or maybe the 12.5 pound bass on an 8lb snood and a size 2 hook pulled through weed under Youghal Bridge.

I for one could not name any specific fish that would be my best fish ever caught but Pound for Pound it has to be…….a? When I get it I’ll post it here.

As for now the jury is still out.

[eric]

smoothies sand gobies also display fine abilty on feeder rods

[dbrock]

spose your right donal,
for me has to be the tope in my avitar, caught it on a two hook flapper 1/0 hooks 15lb snoods
fishing for whiting on killoughter beach
an amazing fight

[Mohawk]

aah the humble mackeral on a spinner, the sugar ray leonard of fish

I'll second that! the mackerel is a real heavy weight

[JOHN1]

aah the humble mackeral on a spinner, the sugar ray leonard of fish

i would agree with seanie on this
a lot of us know what a good hound fights like,but imagine what a good 6lb mackeral would be like
give me a good 6lb mackeral any day

[trout hunter]

sorry lads the mighty sea trout wins hands down

[FisherKing]

5 lb + Ballan Wrasse & a big Mackeral on light tackle lb for lb

[ShaneH]

sorry lads the mighty sea trout wins hands down

try a 20lb conger on trout gear and see who wins then

[keith]

I'll go with hounds too,

[beachcaster]

haveing never caught a smooth hound have to be between seatrout and the humble makerel got to love them.if they grew to ten pounds they would put up some battle.

[evan699]

Congers all the way. I'd agree that the mack put up good sport on light gear but they don't put much weight on the line. Do any of the tackle companies still make 1lb line?

[mickmick]

Mackerel on light gear for me. If they grew to 6lbs nobody would fish for Bass

[sea serpant]

a 4 or 5lb pollock on a spinnin rod with braid ...... now thats a nice scrap i never get enough of then in kerry

[Stephen8wood]

A good mackerel on a light spinning rod (Cormoran Bullfighter) with 10 lb line and a small spinner can make for great sport. Have to say though that I had a 5lb Rainbow trout on a light fly rod with 6lb breaking strain leader 4 weeks ago. Now that was some fight, Stockie or not!!

[Pat]

Mackeral or seatrout both great fighters. Followed closely by Thick lipped Mullet and Golden Greys.