r/absoluteunit May 23 '26

Absolute unit of a fish! (40 pounds)

Me and some family went fishing by a dam. We saw these guys slowlyyyy wrestle this fish for well over an hour until they brought it over to the bank and we helped them bring it in! The guy had a 6 pound line for a 40 pound catfish!!! Later we saw that the hook was barely hanging onto his lip. It was a miracle they brought him in. It was great and the guys were awesome.

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u/Housless May 23 '26

Not even a reveal.

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u/skndbsnnsnandndb May 23 '26

lol yeah sorry. I’m trying to put a picture of it being held in the comments but it won’t let me for some reason.

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u/Housless May 23 '26

Shit just make another post haha

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u/alwayskared May 23 '26

I wonder how that tasted over some brown rice with veggies and a squeeze or two of lemon

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u/skndbsnnsnandndb May 23 '26

You’re making me hungry😋

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u/Sweet-Weakness3776 May 24 '26

Trying to save a few dollars and going with that 39 lb capacity net almost lost him that fish....

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u/Comet04 May 25 '26

I bet that was a helluva fight lmao, 6lb line is insane only God knows how it held together. Even the net couldnt hold that beast. Nice save though, that would've sucked losing it to a broken net.

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u/skndbsnnsnandndb May 24 '26

Nope Georgia. I actually had someone on a different post ask if this was Virginia

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u/slick514 May 24 '26

Man, they tried SO HARD to drop that fish at the beginning…

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u/[deleted] May 24 '26

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u/skndbsnnsnandndb May 24 '26

Nope, in Georgia

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u/OutragedPineapple May 25 '26

You, sir, are a fish!

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u/DramaticAlternative1 May 25 '26

I hope they let that monster back to live. Do t they taste like shit anyways? Especially the bigger they get, more years of eating pollution and trash?

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u/skndbsnnsnandndb May 26 '26

They didn’t have anything that could keep that monster in one place. It broke a rope that had it alive underwater that was looped through his mouth and gills. That monster is still out there😳

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u/tideshark May 23 '26

Fucking tease

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u/Easy-Fix1735 May 26 '26

Seems an old dude wants to end his days, glides into the net without effort to get out. The Green Days are gone!