Your Funniest Catch

[LWD]

Howdy. One time I casted a jig that landed right on top of a bass's head that was waiting in the shallows. It was a lucky cast, instantly when it hit the water the bass attacked it. It was hooked, I reeled it to the boat but right before I was able to boat it, the bass jumped off. I thought it attacked my jig because it was startled more than anything else, it was funny to see a fish react like that. Thanks for reading

[clayton86]

I'v had some comical catches in the past especially as a kid wading the rivers in my back yard. My most recent one was probably 2 years ago fishing the pond in front of the school I worked at. One of the buses had been late so all the kids were waiting out front and a few of mine came over to talk to me while I fished. I got a hit and when I set the hook the anti reverse or something went in my reel and I set the hook basically in free spool complete mess. Well I still managed to land the fish after slipping in the mud doing a split almost holding onto a branch with one hand biting my line then pulling swinging the rod with my free hand then bite more line and repeat. It was only like a 14" bass but I got em the kids thought it was the funniest and craziest thing they had ever seen. How I didn't loose the fish I have no clue it wasn't hooked the greatest and it was on a finesse war eagle spinner.

[MCS]

Was throwing a zoom toad one time. Already caught one and working my way around the pond. I passed a culvert, decided to cast back to it one last time. It was like the fish was playing centerfield. I didn't hear the toad hit the water, see a splash ring nothing, my bait was gone. I thought it went past the culvert to the bank or I threw the bait off. I started to reel and the line suddenly came to life. It was hook and pretty far down, landed it and returned it safe. but it was certainly a surprise and made me laugh.

[Curved]

The best one I can remember was this one time I was jigging for crappie. I felt a bite and set the hook. Reeled it in and everything seemed normal, except there was a bit more resistance than usual for the amount of fight. As the fish got closer, I could see it was a bluegill sideways, as though tangled on the line. As I took it out of the water, I could see what happened. The hook wasn't in his mouth, but instead stuck in some of its scales on its side. The fish must have spit the hook out before I set it, but the hook still caught some of its scales. I had a laugh, unhooked and threw it back in.

[Fontana Finesse Man]

Fishing a point and threw a super fluke across the point, water boiled and fish grabbed it, set the hook and missed the fish and it got my fluke. Re-rigged with another fluke and made another cast to the same spot, water boiled and felt the fish, set the hook and got the 2 lb spot to the boat, netted it and the fish was hooked with the fluke and was carrying my other fluke in it's mouth.

[unionman]

I was fishing a squarebill crank and hooked a blugill that was about twice the size of the crank. He was HUNGRY!!

[Bankbeater]

About 3 years ago I was fishing around a very small island with only a couple of trees growing on it. Maybe only 90 or 100 square feet total. The spinnerbait I was throwing got away from me when I cast it, and the wind took it up into a low hanging tree limb. I took the boat around the island to get my spinnerbait back and saw that it was hooked in a hornet's nest. I was maybe 50 feet away and was able to pull the bait free. After that I opened up the motor and got the heck out of there.

[shimmy]

The other day i got a bite and set the hook into a decent sized largemouth bass. When it came closer, i noticed there was something attached to outer side of the fishes mouth. Once i got it in, it turned out to be my custom made jig and monster trailer i had tied on when i missed the fish in a similar location 4 months earlier this year in May. That was crazy. Did you know that a regular sized lobster rage craw almost doubles it's size when left in the water for 4 months??? The thing was huge! I found that to be very odd. Thought about reusing the thing but the trailer was comically huge at this point and the thick jig hook had almost rusted away through the portion that was attached to the fishes outer side of the mouth. Just crazy.

[via]

one time when i was fishing at the pier, i was reeling my bait in so i can change it. while i was reeling it in, i felt something really heavy on the end of the line so i set the hook. as it came closer, i saw that i had two walmart spinning combo at the end of my line and a sandbass on the other end of the other combo. that day i went home with two spinning combos and a sandbass

[TNBassin']

I casted into a tree one time, and ripped it free and it fell in the water. As I was reeling in the slack, it wasn't 5 seconds and I hooked a bass.

[Busy]

I was fishing for catfish bait one time using a cane pole to catch some bluegill out of a pond. Caught a bluegill and when I was lifting him out of the water a bass inhaled the bluegill and I pulled them both out.

[DeadEyeDavey]

I was fishing in a little cut off the Saginaw Bay, and I just missed a fish, figuring that it took my bait I kept reeling in. Then there was a little resistance so I thought that I had a little gill on, ended up catching a nice little pager.

Another time I was fishing a little catfish honey hole that I found a few years back. My buddy snagged a stump in the water and couldn't get the hook out, being a good friend I am, I took my Ugly Stick catfish edition with 65lb braid ( nick-named "The Crane" ) and cast right where he was hung up. Sure enough i hooked into the stump, I broke it free and dragged it onto shore, as I pulled out my buddy's hook I saw that there was a another line hooked in the stump and I began to pull on it and felt something on the other end, pulled it up and got a brand new (kind of soggy) Okuma rod and reel.

[Kenneth Lee Owen]

I was fishing a spinner alongside a submerged bush or small tree top. I was being very careful to give myself some distance with how close I ran it since I snagged it several time on previous trips. Even with carefully making sure I was close but not in it I still managed to get snagged. Drove the boat over to un-snag it and found a 2-3lb. bass on the hook. I'm assuming he darted out, grabbed it and darted back in.

I was fishing that same lake with a couple of buddies of mine. Neither had bass fished before so I was trying to teach them the things they needed to do. We rounded a point and I knew there was a submerged stump about 20 feet from us (because on a previous trip I ran into it with the boat haha, also had pulled a nice fish away from it on another trip after finding out it was there). I was talking to them about submerged cover and isolated cover being good spots to cast to (this stump was pretty well away from anything else). I cast my spinner out past it, so my retrieve would bring it right passed it. Literally just as I finished telling them that fish like things like that, I hooked into a 4lb largemouth. Needless to say, it gave me some credibility in there eyes and a sense of accomplishment and pride in mine.

[Helluva_Engineer]

I was trying to cast under an over hanging tree, but got my line over a limb. I was yo-yoing the line with the worm dipping in and out of water so that I could time when to jerk it out so I could get it out of the tree. Right as I jerk, a bass comes clear out of the water and takes my bait. Hook set, fish caught.

[rb56]

I was fishing a squarebill crank and hooked a blugill that was about twice the size of the crank. He was HUNGRY!!

kinda like this? one thing...you can't pick what fish will bite your bait! kinda like you can't help who you're kin to. my other was my parents bought a ouachita bass boat back in the 70's. my best friend and i met them at the lake to try it out. when they returned my friend and i took it out. it was the two seater front streering. we crossed open water to the river channel and i pulled off into the stumps to try out the foot pedal on the motor guide. we began casting around and he tells me alright i'm hung use that motor and get me over there. as i teased him about being hung up he says whoa that's no stump, and realizes he has a fish and after a couple of minutes...7.13 lb. bass in the net. my friend was a big guy, he let's out a big yell and said d**n i gotta smoke. he lights a cig and said something about i had cast right there as he cast into the same spot and then says...ok now i'm hung up. i look at him and he looks at me and says oh d**n...he starts reeling and same song, second verse. 6.7 lb. bass. now we had a problem. normally we used an ice chest for fish and since we were basically checking out the new boat we didn't have one. no stringer. the 7 pounder i had just put in the front storage under the deck. now...open door and flip 6 pounder in with it and take off to the marina to get a stringer. we pulled up and the guy comes out asking can he help...yeah we need a stringer. he says a stringer? i said yeah as i opened the storage and pulled out the two nice bass. he cracked up laughing. an added note, it was late evening, he was using a black bushwacker spinnerbait with gold leaf spinners. later at home the barometric pressure was on the rise as a storm was coming in that night.

[Sam]

My friend plays in a band and he gets to our club's blast off sites after his gig without getting any sleep inbetween.

He was a nonboater in a tournament and when he and the boater arrived at their first spot in the morning he threw a white frog towards shore, sat in the boat's passenger seat and went sleep.

When his rod starting moving and the boater yelled for him to wake up, he set the hook and caught the tournament's big bass of the day.

Only problem was that the big bass was the only fish he caught all day. But he did win the big fish pot.

[LWD]

@Helluva_Engineer, you wouldn't imagine how many times I've managed to cast my line over a limb, I only pretended to myself what if a fish actually took my lure while it was in that position, that must of been awesome.

[The Rooster]

Dad did that on a bad cast with a crankbait. The lure was just tipping the surface and a large sunfish began circling it and striking at it and finally ended up snagged in the side with a hook from each treble. We were untangling his line at the time so that's how it had time to do all that.

My brother hooked a bass in the mouth and when he landed it, it turned out to have been dead for some time before that. It was hooked on line that was snagged and broke off. Died on the line, and then my brother's hook found it later.

A not so funny catch......I was using a nice spinnerbait that I didn't want to lose when it got snagged on old fishing line. I just had 12 pound line but my brother (who just happens to dislike lure fishing and thinks bass are baitfish) fishes for LARGE cats with 50 pound or more super lines, so I asked him to cast out and hook that line and pull until it breaks. He did and the line snapped with me just holding slight pressure on my own line. My bait comes through the air so gently that I reached up and caught it with just a finger and thumb. His 1 oz. sinker came straight at him like a bullet and beamed him right on the tip of his........you know!! I never heard so much cussing as he said for me to never ask him to do that again.

[BassAssassin726]

I once caught a 2 pound bass on a bare 2/0 hook. .lol

[MIbassin]

was fishing about 2 years ago up north in Ludington MI and i was fishing with a little golden Kwikfish type lure for bass, caught a few nice ones and all of a sudden as I'm lifting the bait out of the water, a 38" tiger muskie jumps out after in and into the boat! I'm not kidding! it was amazing

[MIbassin]

jumps out after it*

[Bass Slayer 72]

My mother and Aunt were fishing in her bass boat; my mother was using a night crawler harness and had just put a large worm on the harness. She swung back with the rod to cast and as she came forward she snagged my Aunt through her nose with one of the hooks, so my Aunt is standing there with a hook through her nose attached to a slimy giant worm. She was not happy, and my mom was laughing so hard she had trouble clipping the barb to back it back out of my Aunts nose…..Needless to say that wasn’t mine, but it’s a family classic….

[ww2farmer]

A buddy and I were fishing a tournament just a couple weeks ago, the bite was painfully slow. With about 45 mins to go we still only had four fish in the boat, all we were catching was dinks and pike, then he gets a solid bite..........or so we thought. Put the fish in the boat, as I take it out of the net I burst into laughter, he some how managed to foul hook the fish, about a 2lber, smack dab in the butt hole with a tiny dropshot hook. Brief hillarity insued afterwords, then we continued sucking. We ended up finishing fourth, on the strength of a fish caught in the a.$.$

[SAC2]

i managed to lasso a larry while jerkbaitin one day in the early spring. it was early march probably 40 degree air temp but i had the fever. went out and was throwin a suspending rogue and catchin pickeral and stuff. finally lay into something and it was fighting decent, get it to the boat and i somehow managed to wrap my line around the fish once, and thne hook my line. ill never be able to pull that off again.

[Sam]

Fishing the James with a friend when he got snagged.

So he takes his snag retriever and slides it down the line. Only the heavy weight comes off the line and he pulls the light line back into the boat.

So now he is hot. Mad. Angry.

He pulled and pulled on the line and it finally broke the snag off and he reeled in an army boot.

I started to laugh. And I said to him, "Look in the boot. Maybe your heavy snag retriever is in the boot." And he does!

Only mud is in the boot.

So I ask him, do you want to drag the bottom to try to find the boot's mate?

He never saw the humor in catching an old army boot.

To this day I still laugh about the event when I think of it.