any monofilament lovers on the boards

[Crankbait]

Originally Posted by RavYak

Handlining??? Not sure why you would cut your hands if using a reel...

maybe ice fishing or the odd time you have to grab the line. braid goes through skin like a hot knife thru butter.

[binnzer32]

Tightening knots, grabbing the line when your cradling a 45 inch pike alone ... You wouldn't know anything about that though, i have seen your pics... They look like bait to me...o

Originally Posted by RavYak

Handlining??? Not sure why you would cut your hands if using a reel...

[binnzer32]

Originally Posted by crankbait

maybe ice fishing or the odd time you have to grab the line. Braid goes through skin like a hot knife thru butter.

x200000

[binnzer32]

$2000 in 1987 that's awesome.. on the brookie record? ?

Originally Posted by Crankbait

maybe ice fishing or the odd time you have to grab the line. braid goes through skin like a hot knife thru butter.

Originally Posted by Speckle55

I used mono always have never quit

my spin casts have Berkley mono on them

even got paid by Berkley for using their line when catching a WR in 1986
got paid in 1987




David

[Speckle55]

no it was a IGFA line class World Record 3# 5 oz Rocky Mountain Whitefish on 12# Berkley Triline Athabasca River Aug 5 1986 where the Snaring runs in Jasper National Park

the brookie 12#13oz was 1984 June 28 on 8 # Triline mono Maligne Lake Jasper National Park

David

Originally Posted by binnzer32

$2000 in 1987 that's awesome.. on the brookie record? ?

[binnzer32]

That thing is a tank. I have fished the exact spot before as well.

Originally Posted by Speckle55

no it was a IGFA line class World Record 3# 5 oz Rocky Mountain Whitefish on 12# Berkley Triline Athabasca River Aug 5 1986 where the Snaring runs in Jasper National Park

the brookie 12#13oz was 1984 June 28 on 8 # Triline mono Maligne Lake Jasper National Park

David

[Crankbait]

Originally Posted by Speckle55

no it was a IGFA line class World Record 3# 5 oz Rocky Mountain Whitefish on 12# Berkley Triline Athabasca River Aug 5 1986 where the Snaring runs in Jasper National Park

the brookie 12#13oz was 1984 June 28 on 8 # Triline mono Maligne Lake Jasper National Park

David

hold on, 3 lb 5 oz rmw on 12 lb test is a record. no offense but how or why is that a record?

[AppleJax]

Originally Posted by Crankbait

hold on, 3 lb 5 oz rmw on 12 lb test is a record. no offense but how or why is that a record?

Line class world record.

[Crankbait]

Originally Posted by AppleJax

Line class world record.

i know but 12 lb test sounds extreme, in this case i have broken hundreds of records, its not the thing i think about on the water.

[AppleJax]

Originally Posted by Crankbait

i know but 12 lb test sounds extreme, in this case i have broken hundreds of records, its not the thing i think about on the water.

No offence but I don't think you have... Sounds like a fishing story to me. Speckle is a world class angler IMO. Multiple works records.

[Crankbait]

Originally Posted by AppleJax

No offence but I don't think you have... Sounds like a fishing story to me. Speckle is a world class angler IMO. Multiple works records.

well based on his post i have and i know that many others have too. some people fish to get in the books, some dont, if i started focussing on how the record system works, then i'd understand how 12 lb test becomes a class line record for an rmw, maybe speckle will fill it in on how it works.

and why would i be a fish story and someone else not. 1 million fishermen in alberta probably have a canon of amazing experiences, how many factual experiences are on these forums, they just arent formalised under a notary like the guiness books. all the best to speckle and his getting out of fishing what he wants from it, but to discredit someone for not getting a fish notarised as a lousy fisherman is strange thinking.

[AppleJax]

I did not discredit you or say you were a lousy fisherman. You were the one who implied the discredit to Speckle. No strange thinking going on here..... David will fill in the particulars on line class records and then maybe you will understand. There is a lot of technicalities to the process.

[Crankbait]

Originally Posted by AppleJax

I did not discredit you or say you were a lousy fisherman. You were the one who implied the discredit to Speckle. No strange thinking going on here..... David will fill in the particulars on line class records and then maybe you will understand. There is a lot of technicalities to the process.

my apologies, i misread you. i'm interested in what constitutes a line record, i just have no interest in being a record maker. for me it's nice fish and bye bye, or sizzle sizzle. and i wasn't discrediting speckle, it just seems 12 lb as a bit extreme line for a rocky.

[binnzer32]

Yea 12lb test is lots of poundage for line but a 3.5lb rocky is an absolute tank...... if he was using 20lb test it still probably would have been a record. .

Originally Posted by Crankbait

my apologies, i misread you. i'm interested in what constitutes a line record, i just have no interest in being a record maker. for me it's nice fish and bye bye, or sizzle sizzle. and i wasn't discrediting speckle, it just seems 12 lb as a bit extreme line for a rocky.

[Speckle55]

Here is the story in mid 1980s Berkley did a promotion that if you caught a WR line class or all tackle they would give you 1000$ if it lasted for the rest of the year if you used their line (they had a sticker on packages of line)
in 1985 or 6 they also said that if you used their new Lighting Rod they would give you a 1000$ too

so I looked in the record book IGFA(had to be IGFA only) and saw that they had added a new line class division of 12# for RMWF and that the record was 2#12oz for RMWF which I thought I could beat it here as Art Dunn (late) and other local anglers had caught up to 5#3 in Jasper National Park and around Hinton

so in April of 1986 I started my quest of get a RMWF to beat the 12# record.. I had a new son so my time limited abit but I put in about 60 days or part days and on August 5 1986 I caught a Rocky mountain Whitefish that beat the record on 12# line and it lasted about 18 months

after filling in all the paper work and sending it away I received notification that I had a new line class World Record for my Rocky .. then I received a note from Berkley that mine was entered in their program

in 1987 I received the check photo copied in picture and took it to my bank and asked my manager what the exchange rate was on this 2000$ cheque
she said it was worth 2623$ Canadian so I ask her if she could photo copy my cheque before I took it to a teller and cashed it ..

the first thing I bought was a plastic trike for my boy

so for fishing with Berkley line and rod and catching a line class World Record I got my name in the record books again and helped pay for all the gas and hooks/equipment I used

Who said fishing doesn't pay

Omega Oils too

Food for Thought

David

[Speckle55]

Here is Art Dunn's (late)World Record Rocky Mountain Whitefish

thanks Bill


David

[allenford]

awesome story David! thanks for sharing.

[jackrabbit000]

Mono is all I ever use. Stren Golden Yellow line, 10# test. I think I have 10,000 yds of it.

Great story David, thanks for posting the pics.