What fish fights best?

[Blaine Ferguson]

So, which fish really is the strongest and the most fun 2 fish?

 

[Ron Troversial Clay]

Again a question that is very hard to answer.

Size for size in the UK freshwaters, there is nothing to touch a fit well conditioned overwintered rainbow trout. After that I would say a sea trout.

Of fish in salt water, a mullet really takes some beating as well as a bass.

Other fish that really fight are male tench, barbel and common carp caught from rivers.

Brown trout come well down the scale here. I would put grayling as a better fighter that a brown trout.

 

[Ron Troversial Clay]

The blue variety of rainbow trout are absolute dynamite by the way. Probably the best of the lot.

 

[Deecy]

River Carp Sea Trout Roach Bream hybrids .

 

[The Monk]

sea trout without doubt, pound for pound finer fighters than Salmon

 

[Bill Cox]

What about non game fish? I would say the Tench would give you a good run for your money.Sea water fishing i've gotta agree with the monk the sea trout is the daddy.

 

[MaNick]

pound for pound...

if you caught a perch at around 12lb i reckon it would give you a run for your money!

 

[jason fisher]

river carp and the conger eel.

 

[Graham Whatmore]

I don't think anything fights as hard as a crucian carp on light tackle, they really are fiery little critters, little pocket rockets. I could imagine them being a lot more popular if they grew to the sizes their cousins reach.

For sheer doggedness and strength you can't better the barbel, they will fight until they absolutely exhausted.

 

[alan]

smouthhounds.

 

[John Jones]

lb for lb (or rather oz for oz) the bonny little gudgeon beats all comers.

 

[The Monk]

hooked a twelve pound Mirror carp up the bum once, what a fight that was!

 

[Darryl Rogers 2]

gudgeon,dove barbel trout trent barbell common carp

 

[Paul Hicks]

Among coarse fish it must be barbel, but I caught a spring salmon once and that pulled as hard as a barbel but lasted twice as long. In stillwaters I once hooked a bionic tench which made a 40 yard+ run (honest!) before coming off. The same week a mate landed a male tench of 7-11 from that water so maybe that explains it. Trout are alright if you want something that just just splashes around a lot.

 

[Andy S]

lb for lb i'd say that Dace are the hardest fighting coarse fish. However for a sheer adrenalin rush i'd say river carp and barbel.

 

[Bully]

Bream foul hooked in the tail while spinning. I thought I was in for a 20lb plus pike !!

 

[iveadenuf]

cats, barbel, wild carp, eel anything thats got a hook in its ....

 

[Gary Knowles 2]

cuberro snapper.

not sure of the spelling though...

 

[Mick Parkinson]

River carp and barbel and when in Ireland the hybrids really give you a good battle. When we went on our holidays in our group of 10 or so, all agreed they fought like demons, its amazing when they come to the net and you see that there not that big either!

 

[Simon Wyatt]

Has to be an eel.

You'd need far stronger tackle to get a 10lb eel out of a water than any other fish of the same size.