Ever Been Scared By A Strike?

[QUAKEnSHAKE]

Today I was scared, suprised, caught off guard whatever way to put it by the strike of this bass. My heart pounded had an adrenaline rush with a bit of shakey leg too follow. I just wasnt ready for the bite when it happened I threw to the target area retrieved back and stop to swat a mosquito then when I went to put hand on knob BAM!! I didnt react quickly more like WTH but still managed to land it wasnt hard just pull to shore it was so close.

Ever been taken by surprise by a strike?

[Highhawk1948]

Startled many times.

[Mad Fisherman]

Yep, sometimes.

[ChrisAW]

A couple times by some BIG pike, two feet from the boat.

[00 mod]

Not scared, but caught off guard MANY times. I try to not let that happen much anymore!

Jeff

[shootermcbob]

My first fish EVER caught was in the dark...on a jitterbug...about 3 feet in front of me. Scared the bejesus out of me. Been hooked...so to speak...ever since.

[BASSHUNTER1961]

Yep, all the time......

[wakeeater]

yeah...it's my favorite. usually when topwater fishing.

[Bankbeater]

Topwater fishing and you think that the lure is out farther than it really is. A strike comes and for a second your heart stops.

[Bluebasser86]

A couple months ago when my buddy and I were bass fishing with buzzbaits right at dark when a 34" muskie ate his bait about a foot from the boat, that scared both of us. Had a 5lb bass absolutely destroy a spook a few feet from the boat while I was night fishing by myself, that got my heart going. The 40lb flathead that crushed my jig this spring hit it so hard I was almost afraid to set the hook.

[Sam Fisher]

That happens to me a lot topwater fly fishing peacock bass.

[roadwarrior]

[EastTexasBassin]

I've had a few strikes on buzzbaits and rage tail shads just as I was pulling the bait out of the water, each of them scared the crap out of me. That last second strike at the boat makes me jump every time. I love it

[Sam]

Yep!

[SirSnookalot]

Scared, never...........surprised many times. Only time I was a bit nervous was catching a bleeder like a bonita, within seconds a group of 6-8 bull sharks circling the boat. That's a good time not to grab the fishes tail to pull it in.......lol.

[dale.m]

I've never been scared, but I have been startled several times! Most of the time its when I'm frogging and stare at my lure so long I zone out. When a fish explodes on it, it makes me jump and sometimes even break a sweat.

[Jigfishn10]

Every year my first topwater strike startles the crap out of me. I prepare myself prior to that first strike by staying alert, but then I start to zone out by the sounds of that dogwalker over a point - swish, swish, swish, real up recast: swish, swish, swish, real up recast: swish, swish, swi....BANG! My heart starts pounding.

Then after that, I'm pretty good until ice out again.

[clayton86]

A couple times by some BIG pike, two feet from the boat.

there the worst I had one jump up and grab a terminator spinner not even in the water but hanging off the edge of the canoe because I was going between the spinner and a jig I had the spinner hanging off the side on my one pole just set it down and picked up my jig pole and this pike roughly 35" grabbed it if I hadn't had my leg over my pole well moving around I would a lost the pole instead just lost the fish after getting soaked fighting it right next to the canoe with out playing it out.

I get startled all the time especially when its slow and iv been throwing for what seems like eternity and then out of no where a huge splash explosion on the water startles me usually resulting in my yanking the lure usually a frog of sorts out of its mouth and sailing for my head at mach 3 lol.