I've caught chum that I thought were pretty good, but it's mostly their size that makes them a hand full. I can't think of anything better fightin' than a nice chrome winter steelie from 15#s and up.

I do agree with Lip-Ripper though, those Vedder whites are absolute kick your butt fish! Last one I had on my fly rod, with 25# leader, fast sink 9wt line, took all of about 15 seconds to clean all the line and 150yds of backing off my reel, I never had a chance, nearly busted my thumb trying to slow the departure even with the drag all the way down.
Never had any other fish do that before or since!