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.


Osky

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.


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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.

I don't have a lot of experience with Lynx, but any I have been around seemed to average smaller than the average Bobcat as far as weight. The darn things look bigger though, what with all that leg, feet, and fur!
Some of you Lynx trappers need to chime in.

.....biggest one I've caught around here....didn't weigh it

30 pounds

Great cats...

This one weighed 35#. My taxidermist said it's the largest he's seen in VA.

Around here the only cats over 30 lbs are yellow and live under a big rock in the river. Well, I guess I should say that after 35 years of catching them I’ve never caught one over 30. Lots of guys say they catch them 35, 42, 38 but it’s odd they catch one of those “ big uns” when they first start out.

Caught a 25 and 28 lb. last year in NC.

Matt Lovallo, PGC Furbearer Biologist told me that the average adult male bobcat in PA is right at 24 lbs.

This is a medium sized lynx.Its weight was right on 25 pounds.
I don't weigh any fur.

...man y’all have some stupid looking big foot having cats Boco lol

38 lbs. I'm 6'4".

35 lbs.

I weighed one 31#, heaviest I've caught.

Every so often I hear of someone getting one on trail camera, but they can't see the tail and think it's a cougar.

Over the last 12 years i've caught a few 40 and 40lbs plus cats,2 at 40,1 at 41,1 at 45 and my largest at 48lbs.I've caught a fair amount of cats 35 to 38lbs,my largest female weighed 28lbs.Here's a picture of a 40 and 48lb cat,both went 50" to the base of the tail with 10" base width,plus a live pic of the 48lb cat.Had one huge cat measure 54" to the base of the tail,cat weighed 37lb with a empty belly.It was also the BEST OF THE BEST MN bobcat i've ever caught,graded Western in 2007 Top lot that year was $580 i think,mine brought $280.Later years had northern cats grade top lots at $340,280 and 270.

Those cats make ours look like rabbits.

the biggest I have weighed is 41 lbs. but also have a 40 and a 38. All pretty looking toms.

I've never weighed any bobcats, but I doubt I've caught many toms that went much over 30 pounds. My most memorable is a medium sized female I caught on a log crossing when I was a kid. I saw that the trap was gone and stepped down off the bank looking toward the creek and almost stepped on her. She didn't care for it at all.

Beautiful cats everybody, thanks.

Those are some Huge bobcats Mr. Olson. Awesome pics!

that's what I love about 'cat trappers...their UNDERSTATEMENT of the experience!

found this one when i heard a growl right on top my head

Lynx look bigger because they have longer legs and a slimmer /longer frame. like a daddy long-legs with fur. Plus the fur on a lynx is very long making them look bigger. Think of an average red fox versus a gray fox. Reds have longer legs and longer fur making them look bigger. Grays have a thicker frame and generally more fat. but have shorter legs and look smaller.

Danny that's a cool photo.

I meant to comment on these cats yesterday too, Danny. Man, those are nice! Just a little bigger than the bullheads I catch around here, too.LOL How are they taste wise, when they get that big?

Great cat Taxi,did that one go 38 lbs,have a couple of friends in Bozeman that weigh a few 36 lbs was their largest for those AWESOME WESTERN CATS.We have large cats but not nice cats compared to the western cats,some are not too bad here,but still day and night difference.

Taxi what a dandy cat...and Clifton great pic bet that was exciting...

I couldn't even come close in print, to the way she expressed it at the time, so I figured I'd just leave it at that.LOL

I rarely weight them. I measure tip of nose to base of tail. 31" is a typical XL. 36" is a monster (assuming normal body proportions).

That looks like a Bobcat/Wolf Hybrid.

I was talking to DNR recently & they told me bobcat size in Wi's Southern Zone has increased since our harvest season started ~8 years ago. The cats seem healthier so they say. Wi has done a ton of cat research in the Southern zone.

I've caught 3 over 40 pounds.

There's nothing like cat trapping. So many stories and so many exciting times.

Biggest lynx I ever weighed was 35lb.only weighed a few out of many.Some were over 40 for sure.
Average adult lynx is 25 to 30.
Lynx are decieving to look at because of their long thick fur some look much bigger than they are.
I always go by pelt size to score size.

32lbs is the biggest I have gotten.
My brother got a 36lb

Having weighed hundreds of western cats, I have only seen 4 go over 30 lbs. biggest being just under 35Lbs.

Caught a few legit 30+ pounders. 32 being the biggest.

... I should start weighing.. here’s a couple thick ones

I have a female now at the taxidermist, weighed 36lbs

There was only one form out of around the 30 or so he could get that it would fit, he thought it was probably the biggest cat he's seen.

A lot of those houndmen are like trappers (I know, I'm both) and those cats never seen a scale. That being said, biggest I've ever hung on the scales weighed 41 1/2 pounds. I've caught three in my life that I know were bigger than that one. One of them the day before. The biggest I ever caught was in Wyoming and I honestly figured him at around 50 lbs. I actually made a wider stretcher to stretch him on he was so big, and he still stretched 56 inches.

If I get a big 1 I'll post it. Ultimately I'll probably be happy w/ any cat this winter. It's only the 2nd time I've drawn a tag. I have some spots in mind. Hopefully someone in the early season doesn't tag out on the ones I have in mind

.... you win lol

I got me some Mark June Windwalker & Silent Stalker lure this month. 'Sure hoping I can get a cat this winter.. Drawing a winter tag in Wisconsin is tough. Mark seems to be the best Bobcat trapper in the USA. Now I need to figure out more about trap placement & his walk-through sets . 3 years ago when I had my first ever Bobcat tag I probably relied too much on fencing.

AJE cats are easy. Your problem is more likely location

My best was 29.5 lbs.

Man you guys get some big cats. The boys and I caught several around here. The biggest only weighed 29 and We can’t seem to get one over that magical 30 pound mark.
Jim

Make your best coyote set and they’ll clog it up, lol, especially dirt hole sets.

I have caught a few males in the low 30s. Most that look big are usually in the mid to upper 20s. The biggest one I have ever seen in person was right around 50 lbs on a scale that I trusted. I taxidermied it and it took the largest mannikin close to the style I was looking for and then SOME. It came out of northern Nebraska right on the SD border.

Have caught a few in the thirties but this guy was a skinny 38.

Yeah, I am thinking about trying your approach this year. The 1st time I had a cat tag a few years ago I think I got too fancy & tried to make eccentric sets with too much flagging & fencing. It's tough to draw a cat tag in Wi. I don't want to come away empty handed on this, my 2nd attempt

Caught a 39 lb tom 2 years ago, spouse is 5'11".

1 at 40 and one at 41 lbs.