Hey! I recognize that spot!😉 Great fish!

 

That's awesome. Congrats

What do you think the weight would have been?

 

That's awesome man. I've gotten a couple on the 12wt but not that big yet. Good luck on your conquest!

 

Dang! Do you have any more photos?

 

Long arm weight versus short arm weight…bwahaha

 

Need longer arms to get that official world record

 

I long armed my personal best trout years ago and still catch hell about it.

 

Uploading a few more photos

 

 

 

 

It's very unofficial so no one get their panties in a wad. Long arms or no this thing was freaking huge. I'd estimate over 30 pounds, it was HEAVY. Maybe like 35-40" long. Hard to know for sure I had no measuring devices. Was concerned about getting the fish released properly also.

 

That’s a nice Red Snapper on any tackle. But on fly?? You’re lucky if you could do that once in a lifetime.

 

THIS!! ^ ^ ^ ^

Even dink snapper earn my total respect on fly or any tackle! But that thing is a monster!!!

 

That's pretty cool -- looks like he choked that fly! How heavy was the bite tippet?

 

No bite tippet at all, couldn't believe it was landed. Just a little bit of fray on the 12lb.
Had the thin diameter line on mainly trying to get the fly to sink down to the triggers we could see faster. Didn't think this would happen...

 

Man that is a beast!

 

not biting on that one

 

What does that mean?

 

 

All I know is I’d love to catch that fish world record or not haha

 

Nice red snapper.

 

Impressive fish.

 

Good grief you guys everyone has said it’s a nice fish! The photos are still funny, the camera is like 3 inches from the fish, take a compliment and some chafing. And next time take a normal photo too if you think it’s a world record your gunna release! I think you have my biggest snapper on the fly by double!

 

Awesome fish.
It deserved a better photo.
Your buddy’s tiny head is distracting.

 

Y'all are great😅 As soon as I saw the freakin thing I knew a lot of people wouldn't believe it anyways... that's how you know it was a good one.
For those ragging about the photos, I honestly think some of them are pretty good. I was literally standing like 4 feet away in a couple of those, no matter what angle or distance you took a photo it was absolutely massive. I included a photo of the fishes head AWAY from the lens, and standing back.

I'll make sure to take shitty photos to make it look smaller when I catch the actual record so everyone is happy 😊

 

 

Heck with the record ………I’m lamenting the lack of fish sammiches from that big boy.
All those starving kids in Africa.

 

Heck with the record ………I’m lamenting the lack of fish sammiches from that big boy.
All those starving kids in Africa.

I'm all about catch and release, until it's a snapper, then it's to the grill.

 

Good work man! Stoked for you that’s so badass!!