What's the heaviest bobcat you've ever gotten? I read something the other day that said on rare occasions big males can reach 50 pounds.?

A guy from the UP last year got one right around that size it was a hog of a cat, heck 30lb is big cat most days!

I never weighed one but im confident this one wasn't over 30. 50 would be a monster


heres another big tom. no where near 50 pounds


about one in a thousand (maybe) of the 30 pound coons you hear about will really weigh 30 on a scale

these two fish were both over 50

I’ve handled a lot and the biggest I have actually weighed is 38#. I know of a few that go over 40. I’ve heard the 52# story, but can’t verify one way or another.
I think it is safe to say that over 40# would be a 1 in 1,000 (or more) thing.

had a 38 and a 43 the same year.

Biggest one I've caught sold to a Taxidermist last year and he weighed it almost 29lbs Tom. He Said it was one of the bigger Males hes seen, and he does a ton of cats. He said everyone has a 30lb cat until you put it on the scale lol. Missouri's record is a 35lb female, but I'm sure people have caught larger and never messed with getting it officially weighed. I've seen a few in Coyote Tournaments up here that have Deer eating shoulders on them.
His Pad filled a 550.

Biggest one I’ve ever seen in person weighed was 38# and that was an absolute toad. I see thousands a year and the real big ones are 30-34lbs

42 pounds on my scales. extremely fat cat

58 lbs and change. Caught by Sid Berg in 89 if memory serves. Officially weighed and acknowledged by the MN DNR. The rug looked like a small lion. He has passed, I'm not sure who has that rug now.


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game warden had a road kill bobcat awhile back...

VERY large bobcat!

32 lbs. on certified scale.

they look WAAAAY bigger than they WEIGH!

I have caught a few in the mid 30 to high 30 that's not uncommon here

Heaviest I can recall from years of hound hunting with my friends in northern Wisconsin, was 44lbs. Maybe like 3 or 4 have exceeded 40lbs. But big toms in the 30’s is not uncommon.
I’ll let you know when I get mine this season. Only took 11pts. to draw. lol

34lb is my biggest but there are alot of hounds men around here that have told me they have got much bigger.

The biggest I caught was on my birthday 2 years ago. If memory serves me correctly he was 36 lbs.
Caught a female the day before she was 28 lbs. The wardens were shocked on how big it was.


Here's both

Good Stuff, You guys up north WI, MN have some huge cats.

The biggest I've caught was 30 lbs.I weighed one from Utah that went 42 lbs.I'm very happy when I catch a 25 lb tom.

Great pic...looks like a real nice cat....I've tracked some big cats in the snow, only going off the stride, I hope to snag one of those big toms someday...

There was one turned into NAFA that came from the 52 parallel and th Ontario boarder that was to weigh 52 pounds. It was much larger than the adult lynx that was in the bundle

Back before I quit mounting Bobcats (violent allergy to them) I took in a bunch of them. I did a couple that were in the low-to-mid 40's, both the same season actually, but the heaviest I know of from personal friends/acquaintances was a 'cat chased for 2-3 years by the same 'cat guide. He told me he figured it went an honest 50 on the hoof. One of his clients shot the cat the next season after he told be about it. It was skinny and going down hill and weighed 48 pounds. He was pretty close on his guess of it's size.