Smallest fish ever caught

**LauraMJ** · 11-Jun-2006, 07:35 PM #1

My son had his fith birthday party at the stable I teach at. We had pony rides and then the cake and icecream and presents, and then they all went fishing. My mother swore that would be a disaster, but I told her it would be great, because this pond is amazing. The kids got bamboo poles with lines and little hooks and corn for bait. You throw the hook in and THAT QUICK you've caught a fish. Sometimes, they are jumping out of the water as the hook comes down, lol. I've seen fish jumping up out of the water after the hook when someone brings it up to check on it.

Every kid there caught numerous fish in thirty minutes. Many parents literally had to drag their kids away.

Of course, us parents just had to give it a try, too. I ended up catching the very smallest one. It was so small, we checked to see if it still had eggshell on it's back

You can barely see it because just as the picture was taken, it rotated to the narrow side!

It is not much wider than the fishing line, lol.

Diamond Geez · 07:52 PM

Hi Laura, I do not have pictures of this but I actually won one fishing match here in the UK with STICKLEBACKS, no one caught anything else, most of mine escaped through the net mesh they were that small.

Keith

PS your catch actually looks a LOT bigger than mine that day lol.

hewee · 12-Jun-2006, 01:32 AM #3

He hee that is very small.

but hey now you have bait.

**LauraMJ** · 12-Jun-2006, 09:24 AM #4

Hewee, yes that is what we figured, too.

Diamond, I guess mine would be the smallest actually caught on a hook!

katonca · 12-Jun-2006, 10:34 AM #5

But did you fillet it?

**LauraMJ** · 12-Jun-2006, 10:48 AM #6

We couldn't, the knife was too big!

Diamond Geez · 12-Jun-2006, 11:45 AM #7

Laura, mine WERE caught on a size 22 barbless hook, they were taking maggots.

**LauraMJ** · 12-Jun-2006, 01:19 PM #8

BUT..............was it with a bamboo fishing pole??

Diamond Geez · 12-Jun-2006, 02:13 PM #9

No you have beaten me there

lol, latest carbon rod no less (this was back in approx 1987).

hewee · 13-Jun-2006, 05:35 AM **#10**

You got me bet because I never got one that small.

He hee you just eat those small fish whole.

KMW · 13-Jun-2006, 06:15 AM **#11**

Quote:

Originally Posted by hewee

you just eat those small fish whole.

Don't much like the sound of that

Thats a relation of mine I will have you know

hewee · 13-Jun-2006, 06:32 AM **#12**

he hee but I don't eat fish that way.

KMW · 01:09 PM

lol, I have done, in New Zealand they net whitebait, they're about 1,1/2 inch long and 1/8 wide, supposed to be gourmay food. I don't miss them. Make a whitebait fritter and fry them up is how they are prepared.

Mulderator · 13-Jun-2006, 01:53 PM **#14**

You want to see really small, check out Izme!

**LauraMJ** · 13-Jun-2006, 03:53 PM **#15**

Quote:

Originally Posted by KMW

lol, I have done, in New Zealand they net whitebait, they're about 1,1/2 inch long and 1/8 wide, supposed to be gourmay food. I don't miss them. Make a whitebait fritter and fry them up is how they are prepared.

I think mine could have been sucked down like a piece of speghetti............

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