What. In Your Opinion. Is The Hardest Fish To Catch?

[stang1]

None of you have experienced a struggle trying to catch a fish until you try and catch fish in a tanks that when on top of its cabinet is 6ft height in the air. I have to get up a ladder then try to catch fish. CKF are quiet hard to catch as they can swim backwards and any large fish are hard to catch due to there immense power and trying to keep them from hurting them selves when lifting them out. But the hardest fish of all time to catch would have to be eels, last week I had to catch an 18" and a 14" eel in my 8ft and boy it took 2 hours. I had to split the tank down the middle with a large carp landing net and try to catch them pretty much mission impossible I was soaked by the end of it.

I beg to differ! Only being a mere 5'2", trying to catch fish in a 5ft tank which is nearly as tall as me is a nightmare! Usually have to use a stepladder unless the better half is about. He's 6'2", so not such a problem for him!

 

[mark7616]

I beg to differ! Only being a mere 5'2", trying to catch fish in a 5ft tank which is nearly as tall as me is a nightmare! Usually have to use a stepladder unless the better half is about. He's 6'2", so not such a problem for him!

Lol my 5ft tank was a piece of cake to catch fish in as im the same size as your better half im 6ft1. Now you try catching fish in this and btw im on tip toes.

 

[aaronnorth]

My bronze cory! Spent 10mins 1st w/c, then 30mins, then 15mins, 3 weeks on and still in there, i am trying to transfer him to a smaller tank. Going to have another go today!

I can even catch my 8.5" plec quicker! now thats saying something!

 

[blueline-uk]

young Keyhole Cichlids, they see ya coming and scram pronto with bursts of speeds and quick direction changes

 

[Faythee]

I have to use a step stool too. Then there is that stress bar in the middle top of the tank. The fish just dart side to side ! LOL

 

[CFC]

Deffinately african cichlids, though wrestling with a 2 foot long catfish in a pillow case is no fun either.

 

[aaronnorth]

I have to use a step stool too. Then there is that stress bar in the middle top of the tank. The fish just dart side to side ! LOL

Same here, just about to get it then bang, you hit the bar argh, so stressful

 

[Ace Of Spades]

When I go Fishing I hate Common Carp, especially big ones you get them to the bank and then all the way back out again and then once youve got them out of the water they still flap around like mad.....Oh you meant in the tank, Well I hate getting the tetra's or daino's

 

[geo7x]

Out of all the fish that had jumped tanks whilst I was on work experience the danios were the most frustrating.

Probably doesn't compare to what a lot of people have had to deal with but I did not enjoy having to strip down my whole planted tank in order to catch and move my flagtail cats

 

[cheesy feet]

Ohh zebra danios are easy to catch compared to CAE's

 

[Shrimper]

I thought my shrimp would be hard to catch as it took the guy in the shop over 30 mins to get 10 of them into the bag, but i managed to catch them all within a minute each by holding the net still and herding them in with my algae scraper on a stick.

Of course you have to spot them first but once you have found them it didn't take long.

 

[shroob]

Out of the fish I have got/had the hardest to catch were my small spotted silver dollars. Not only quick but they hid under the juwel internal filter, where we couldn't remove or get the nets into.

 

[george4]

i agree silver sharks.. impossible and they jump out of the tank whilst you are trying to net them

 

[Davo86]

As they say practice makes perfect
but I agree that CAE's, kuhli loach, African cichlids and smaller shrimp are probably the hardest,

I also tend to find its pretty hard to catch fish that are larger than 1 foot without getting a little wet

 

[dusky]

I recently did a large tank change and had to remove many fish and was wondering what other people thought were the hardest fish they have had experience catching? IMO the Chinese Algae Eaters were impossible to catch (so hard they r still in the old tank).

So what do you guys think are the hardest fish to catch?

Took me two hours to catch one and had ended up vitrualy stripping tank out