An Impossible Catch!

Since opening our Community Forums people have been submitting great fishing logs, but one member has done something truly impossible!

Adam Eibling caught this 5.11 pound, 20 1/4 inch Pacu in the Sandusky River while fishing for carp! (via Toledo Blade)

Wow folks, just joined this site recently and already have an epic fishing story to tell… Man, Fishing Fury musta given me some good luck, maybe in the fine print it says “if you join the forum you may experience a substantial increase in bigger and more interesting catches!”… lol

So this past Monday evening, 8/31/09… I decide to go fishing at my parents house who reside on the Sandusky River near Fremont, Ohio. I’ve been in a recent fishing slump so I decide to use dough balls for carp – you know just want to fight a bigger fish regardless of species… was in dire need to hear my drag, been way too long. Who would have ever guessed I wouldn end up bring in a PACU?! I’m still in shock, excited, speechless yet can’t quit talking about it…. hard to describe what it’s like to catch something like this – so off the wall and unexpected.

Read the more in the Fishing Fury Community Forums..

Oops We Forgot Our Own Birthday!

Seriously, we forgot our own birthday, we must be getting old! Fishing Fury began on June 8th 2004 when we purchased the domain, and that following July we launched our site and personalities on the intertubes and earlier this year we took a look at the changes the site has been though over the years.

Many things about Fishing Fury have grown over the last five years. We started this site to cover our own fishing antics and legendary ability to catch fish. Early on we were both young and single, every weekend was spent fishing without question. As our readership grew we expanded our coverage outside of our own personalities and in to news and events that we found interesting or incredible, everything from current events to videos and photos, while still publishing our own 100% original editorial content. We’ve also started our own community forums where readers and contributors can talk about anything.

Together we brought our legendary fishing powers to places like Little Vermilion Lake, Baja California Sur, the Toronto Islands – all over Ontario, the British Virgin Islands, even the famous flats of Key West.

These days we’re both approaching 30 and our tastes and ideas of the world have matured, well Clive’s probably have. Clive is now living in Nova Scotia with his lovely wife Gillian and their totally awesome son. Clive has grown a beard, forgoing the handlebar mustache, and still makes fun of me for not even being able to grow either. I’m still living on my own, happily employed doing what I love, and living in Ontario.

We’ve got a lot of great things planned this year so keep your eye peeled for updates. Here’s to another 5 years!

Sunbathing Northern Pike in Cobourg Harbour

Last week Chad Miller posted this amazing photo in the photography section of our community forums of a Northern Pike hanging out in the clear water shallows of the Cobourg Marina. The photo was so awesome that I asked him to send me the photo so that I could post it here. I’ve included a cropped close-up of the pike as well.

Continue reading for the close-up!

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The New NEW Fishing Fury Forums

OK, I know we just released our “new” community forums only a few months ago but we’ve decided to jump ship to some (IMO) better software. I’ve set the whole thing up and it’s ready to go.

This should be an exciting year for Fishing Fury as we have plenty of gear, contests, and giveaways planned for 2009 and a lot of that will be centered around the forums. So get signed up!

I’ve been trying to get the old forum imported in to new one, but it’s not going well. The old forums will remain online for now, I will make a post redirecting people and disable registration. Click the image below for the new forums!