Largest smallmouth yellow caught?

[FlyFanatic]

Hey guys, I was privileged enough to be able to catch a bus of a smallmouth last week, a full 4kg!! PB!! For someone who's only been fly fishing for a year, me thinks thats pretty lucky!!

It got me thinking, what really is the largest smallmouth ever caught on fly?? Ive heard of one just over 7kg's!! And I know for a fact, fishing buddy of mine caught a 5.9kg fish.

So please share photos of your biggest fish ever caught, would be nice to find out how big they really can become!!

[Scythe]

Very nice.

Having had the or so on the 6Kg mark in the last year, let me tell you they fight like demons.

A mate of a mate caught ether an 8.16kg or an 8.61kg specimen (weighed on a certified scale) last year or the year before. I've been working on getting a pic but these guys aren't the type to care about records or acclaim, just catching massive fish.

[FlyFanatic]

DAMN!!!!! Thats a monster!!! 8kg's????? Thats scary stuff.. because if smallmouths can grow to 8kg.. what the hell does largies grow to??? 25kg? 30kg?

[Scythe]

Well if you read some of the literature from the days of yore, you will find farmers in the 60s/70s complaining that the fishing isn't as good as it used to be because they 'only caught a handfull of 20lb fish this past weekend'

Largies are known to get to 25Kgs, I bet you will find them even bigger than that.

[dleroux]

I caught my PB in Sept and although there was no scale to confirm the correct weight, I new it was one of my biggest SM. I estimated the weight between 3-4kg.. Whats your take

[FlyFanatic]

well mine was 4kg, weighed with 2 separate scales, so my guess is that bus of yours, is at least 4 kg, maybe even in the 4.5 region!! Beautiful fish!!

[Herman Jooste]

It is almost impossible to "judge"the weight of a fish from a picture.
Normally the pic does not show the girth of the fish.

Length alone means nothing, A Kariba Dam tiger of 10lbs, would be half the length of a Chirundu tiger of the same weight.

The 4 kg SM I caught this winter was "shorter" than than my PB of 4.3 kg by far. She was however in prime winter condition, (Something like me), Fit fat and flourishing.

[Shamwari]

It is almost impossible to "judge"the weight of a fish from a picture.
Normally the pic does not show the girth of the fish.

Length alone means nothing, A Kariba Dam tiger of 10lbs, would be half the length of a Chirundu tiger of the same weight.

The 4 kg SM I caught this winter was "shorter" than than my PB of 4.3 kg by far. She was however in prime winter condition, (Something like me), Fit fat and flourishing.

I was there...I saw that friggin bomb....on an Olive Klinky...mine was 2.8kg...my PB also on a Olive Klinky...