15.20 pounds

Hope everyone is doing well.

That's a great walleye Andy.

Wow!!! Awesome!

That's a slob, Congrat's

That's a Toad there Boy!!
Congrats

Nice.

Holy mackerel (no pun intended)... what were you using as bait? Your leg with a treble hook dangling off it?

Sheesh, beauty. There's a sow full of eggs.

Osky

State Record? How long? Girth? A true trophy.

Put it back....mount it ...?

Ok!,give us the story! Where with what and how long to land.?

Awesome

A True, Bonifide WALLOW-HOG!!!


Erie ? Bay Of Quinte' ? Lake Diefenbacker ? Chaumont Bay ? Columbia River ?

Where's The HotSpot, Android ?

w

Awesome big fish

Thats a little guy.
Lol thats one heck of a fish!! My walleye of a lifetime was 8 lbs

Nice !

Cheek and release, lol.

OMG, walleye of a lifetime...congratulations!!

Looks like a lake Winnipeg walleye.

Osky

man the cheeks on her would be a meal!! nice fish id take a pic and steak her up !!

I think that walleye would have a good chance of being able to eat the biggest walleye I ever caught. Nice fish!

Keith

Thats a pig Andy, thanks for sharing.




I hope Andy doesn't make me look silly but I don't thinks it's the right color for a Winnipeg walleye. I'm going with Eerie.

Watta hawg!

I don't have the foggiest idea how many walleye I mounted over the years, but that beast is bigger than all of them. What a beautiful fish.

Doesn’t even look close to a Lake Winnipeg walleye.

Holy Cow!!! Congratulations!!!

Ditto on that.

Awesome Catch! Great Picture fish looks way bigger then 15 lbs you sure the scales are right lol

Congrats

That's a wallagator.

i say Erie

Great fish!! Congrats!

Nice fish!!! You'll get some good fillets off of that one. How long was the eye? The longest eye I've ever got was 32.5" just over 12lbs.

And that my friends, is how Jesus feed the 5 thousand. 5 of them bad boys! Heck of a fish! Didn't even know walleyes got that big!

Nice fish I'll bet it did a good job of testing the drag on your fishing reel !
Allan

9r... I was thinking along the lines of the oversize females we were catching up there not that many years back, not the coloration.

Osky

2 much color for a whinipeg fish.
That's a true" hogger"!

Hogggggggg!

come on man,your killin us.at least what country?

It's Coloration To Me Says It Is A Great Lakes Walleye.

Either Lake Erie, Or Lake Ontario's Chaumont Bay Or Bay Of Quinte'.

Looks Long Enough To Be Nearly 35" Inches With A Corpulent Girth !!

w

is a fish like that how ya got your nickname??

I hear what you are saying Osky.

Walleyed wins, Bay of Quinte.

I've never seen girth on walleye anywhere like Lake Ontario. The picture doesn't even do it justice, built more like a carp than a walleye. Truly unbelievable!

Put on 10's of thousands of miles dreaming of a 15 pound walleye but wasn't sure it would ever happen. Dumped one at the hole two days earlier that was probably 14 pounds, couldn't get the head started and the spoon stuck on the bottom of the hole. Watched it rip the hooks and swim away, heart broke.

Last hour of the last day; big mark floated up off the bottom. I started raising and knew by the way it was coming up "it was going to bite". Wasn't the normal "dunk" bite but one of those mush bites, set the hook and didn't even move it on the hook set.

Saw it coming up and it was perfectly lined up towards the hole, subconsciously thought "that's a 15lber and its now or never". Put pressure on the spool with my fingers so it couldn't run and just kept pulling. Pulled it right into the hole, the head came up and knew it would be to big to grab with one hand. Set the rod down, grabbed it with both hands and slid it out onto the ice.

Maybe 30 seconds - lol

Weighed it, measured it, took some pictures and let it go.

Hugged my friend, told him I'm done for the day, picked up my stuff. Went and had a steak dinner with a couple Amaretto Stone Sours.

Thank you for all the nice comments, it was something I've always wanted to experience!

story is as great as the fish.Congratulations.

That's a lifetime walleye for
99.9999% of us. Well done.

Beautiful fish besides being huge. Great story too. Length?

That's a baby ! Still got milk on it's mouth. Heck put it on a hook and use it for bait. Maybe you can catch a big one.

(don't feel the jealousy do you)


LOL Beauty

Walleye of a lifetime for anybody... congrats!

Okay Andy,

Now Narrow It Down A Bit ?

Off Picton ? Mouth Of Hay Bay ? Lower Adolphus Reach ? Napanee ? Telegraph Narrows ?

Or Were You Down By Pig Point Off Amherst Island ?



The Ontario Provincial Record Of 22 LBS. Set Years Ago Is From The Niagara River

But All The Recent 18+ Lb Walleye Have Come From That Stretch Of Water/Ice

From The Mouth Of Hay Bay Down To Picton.



Outstanding You Released Her.

Well Played Sir.

w

Excellent narrative Andy. Thanks for sharing your catch-of-a-lifetime story with us and congratulations, heck of a fish.

Outstanding! I would only dream of one like that.

What a pig! Congrats on a once-in-a-lifetime fish and very cool that you released it.

Definitely the catch of a lifetime! Congratulations!

Great story and pics - congrats - good on the release..
My largest to date was Canadian blue walleye , pushing 12 lbs ...

See what you went and did Andy.

I have Eerie on the bucket list and now Ontario. I gotta get these kids out of high school.

That's a beaut, a real beaut.

Makes me want to dust off the Paashe airbrush and order Andy a replica! Dangit that's a whopper.

Excellent in all respects. From beginning to end.

I'm still looking for that 24" smallmouth. Got a 23 1/2" several years ago, but the 24" has eluded me. Will I be able to release it after the pics have been taken. Now that is the question.

Nice job.

I think your scales broke..... Looks closer to 20#. That things a slob! Good catch!

Brad

WOW

Nice!!!
Here's a 32 1/2" walleye out of the Des Moines River by Emmetsburg
Never weighed it though. Thats my son that caught it.

Nice one! Out state record is only 12lb 13oz. About ten years ago my brother and I got on a pattern (actually my brother) and we caught several in a two week period in the 8 to 12 pound range. We just knew we were going to catch a new state record any day but never did. The two river pattern that was congregating them that year has not been repeated. We were also catching some big sauger at the same time that summer.

Correction! That is a walleye of MANY lifetimes right there!! Very cool, congrats!!

That's a hog congrats!

Nice fish from Des Moines river too!

Wow, great fish Andy! Congrats, I know you worked for it.

Zim

Awesome Catch!!! Super Congratulations

Bruiser.

holy waa that's a dandy,way to go

Great catch. A real trophy!

big congrats Andy good luck to you and the fish!

Thanks for dropping by, wonder about you from time to time.

Great story! And you put her back to lay more eggs!!! Excellent

I thought this 9 1/2 pounder was big, but yours is huge. You are a better man than me because I'm fixing to eat this one for supper and another 7lb one