Your Funniest Catch

[Sam]

One more story.

Fishing a tournament on the Nottoway River when it had beautiful pad fields.

Take my Senko and cast it on the pads and start to bring it back.

I got to the last pad and let the Senko rest for a few seconds.

Out of the water jumps this dumb bass and hits the pad, inhales the Senko, and takes off.

Needless to say it was helpful in getting my five fish limit.

Don't know who was more surprised. Me or the fish.

[PABASS]

Cat-fishing/Carp fishing had a metal bucket full of water cant recall why as I wasn't using live bait, anyway walked away for a few min and heard a loud noise like a metal bucket of water tipped over and fell into a lake. I had my rod propped up on the bucket of water, when I ran over the bucket was in the lake and my rod/reel was gone and whatever took that combo must of been a monster, funny now, not then.

Recently I was river fishing and thought I hooked into a decent sized smallie turns out its a large freshwater clam, this has happened three times this year and man do they put up a fight hehe..

[fishthedayaway]

one time i was fishing a crankbait in the river and snagged a sock?

then another time i was jigging for walleye, and snagged a 10 lb carp in the....anal hole

[rockchalk06]

About 3 weeks ago, my son and I are fishing this little pond in a friends housing development. There is this little fountain on a chain in the middle. He was using his new spin cast reel I had gotten him the week before. It came with 4# test line and he has been catching some 2 plus pound fish so I took the line off and replaced it with 15 pound braid.

Anyway he throws his jig out and it lands right on top of the fountain. He asks what to do and I told him to pull slowly and let it fall to the bottom and work it back. As I am telling him this he screams and I look over. There is a bass out of the water and grabbing his jig off the top of this fountain. Its only about 1/2" above the water, but non the less out of the water and grabbing it. It reminded me of watching my lab as a kid steal cookies off the counter with his tounge.

It gets better too. So this fish grabs the jig and runs with it. Jacob sets the hook and the fight is on. The fish ends up getting itsself all wound up in the chains on this fountain. Fish is still on and hes snagged. Rather than loose the fish, jig and let the fish die wrapped around this chain, I take my boots off and go for a swim. I bring this fountain on a chain back and he gets his fish. Along with about 300 snail hooks with busted line and sinkers all rusted out.

I don't know what was funnier, me swiming for a fountain, the fish stealing his jig off the fountain or watching him (hes 6) try and tell the story.

[DeadEyeDavey]

Another time I was up at my uncles property in Rose City. It was afternoon and the bite was slow, so I threw out a live blue-gil under a bobber. I was also throwing out a spoon, and the spoon just so happened to snag my other line and cut it. I reached into the water,picked up the line and began to tie it back on. Halfway tying the knot the line was yanked out of my hand and the bobber plunged under. I couldn't grasp the concept of what just happened. a few seconds later I saw the bobber pop back up not too far from the dock I was fishing off. I took off my hat and shirt and dove into the water. After chasing the fish around the lake I finally grabbed the line and pulled him on to shore. T'was about a five pound pike.

[StinkyBass]

i took the wife out fishing one night. i left all my lures at home and we went worm drowning. she lands this 3-4 pound bass on a night crawler and bobber. she gets it to the bank and the bass breaks off at the bobber! the bass shoots off to the middle of the lake but never takes the bobber below the water line. with the wife upset over losing her big bass, i quick rig a bullet weight and # 5 worm hook and cast past the bobber. i bring the t-tig back and i foul hook the bass, reel her in to the bank and she flips off! i repeated this 2 more times and each time i foul hook the bass. she flips off the hook again! i feel bad about poking holes in the side of a beautiful bass so we let her go, never got the original hook out or the bobber. for 2 weeks we could see that bobber floating around attached to the bass...good memory for us, not so much for the bass...

[Hyrule Bass]

not bass related, but i do a lot of night fishing with night crawlers and other baits. one night i was out on the dock talking some lighthearted smack to my uncle about how i had a fish on. when i reeled it in and swung it on the dock i saw a white perch fall of the hook on the dock, but there still was a white perch on the hook. i was using a single gold 1/0 abeerdeen gold hook. apparently one got hooked and i guess the other hung on for the ride. my uncle couldnt believe it either, we got a good laugh out of that.

another time, same deal except no uncle there. i reeled in a white perch and there was an eye of a white perch on the hook as well, the fish had both of its eyes though, apparently i snagged the eye out of a fish before hooking the fish i caught.

them white perch are aggressive feeders

[Shewillbemine]

I'd just bought my first baitcasting setup (Walmart cheapy) and used it to fish for carp at Lake Hodges. I cast out, set the rod on the pier and sit back to relax with my friend.

A carp snatches my bait and zooms off with the line along with my brand new rod and reel combo. The whole thing is dragged into the water before I can react and my heart sinks.

Ten minutes later, I reel back my other setup and I notice extra weight on the line.

Yup, I reeled in my original line--one end still connected to my brand new combo and the other end with a really tired carp.