Catching Other Fish While Bass Fishing

[Packard]

Pike, my home lake is stocked with them.

[JT Bagwell]

I have got a handful of nice Muskies, some big crappie, little pike, freshwater drum, dogfish, a couple of Bluegill and two that surprised me a little.

 

One morning I was fishing for smallies with a little Yamamoto shad shape worm and within my first 5 casts something just crushed it. After a few seconds I knew it wasn't a bass. It ended up being a 19 lb Flathead catfish. It was fun to catch on light spinning tackle. We went on to catch several dozen smallies that day too.

 

On another outing I flipped a jig into a brush pile, felt a tap, set the hook and it felt like I stuck a tree limb. After a couple of seconds the "tree limb" started to swim away from the brushpile. A couple of minutes later I landed a 17 lb Channel catfish.

[motodmast]

Using finesse worms on a dropshot, ive had trout & perch take it, and also had a trout take a wacky rig senko

[ProCrafter]

Yesterday while taking a friend and his two kids to American Lake in Lakewood Wa. we were dropshotting for Smallies and caught 2 Smallies...one was 3 pounds...a Yellow Perch, a Red Eye Rock Bass and 5 Rainbow Trout and 4 of the Trout dressed out a 7-1/2 pounds!! all other fish were released. Great day to see some kids get their outdoors on!!

[flyfisher]

I have caught lots of pickerel a few catfish bowfin and carp. The craziest thing I ever caught though was when I was throwing a weightless Texas rigged yum dinger and as I crawled it over a grass mat a 16" crappie nailed it on top....first time I have had that happen.

[rcr1959]

Crappie, catfish, black drum, sunfish, gar and snagged a carp all while fishing for bass w/ lures.

[Arv]

Not as impressive as most of what I've seen, but I did catch a 4lb-ish flathead on a 1/4oz home-made jig

[Fishmaster10]

I've caught a lot of different species while fishing for bass, and they're pretty similar to what everybody's been posting. I've caught: bluegills, crappies, freshwater drum, muskies, rock bass, warmouths, green sunfish, channel cats, flatheads, hybrid stripers, and probably some others that I'm forgetting about. 

[KU_Bassmaster.]

The only thing I have ever caught on a spinner bait.  It is hard to tell because this was from a camera phone circa 2003ish, but that is hooked through the mouth.  Not a snag.  I have snagged quite a few others with cranks, jerkbaits, and lipless cranks.

 

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[Bankbeater]

catfish, bluegill, sunfish, warmouth, carp, and muskie. No gar or walleye yet.

[zildjian]

yeah this pike on a kvd 1.5 crank lol so random

 

[bigbill]

I have to say I enjoyed the fight and the battle from all three 30" chain pickerel

While bass fishing. But it was a 6lb.1oz. Large mouth that gave my lure a tour of

Small dammed up river that was used once for water power well over 150 years ago. She just never tired out. I find these small dammed up old places that hold the biggest bass here.

[Bluebasser86]

14lb Red Label and a 7/16oz home made jig in black/gold glitter fooled this guy this morning, 25 1/4 pounds.

[CPBassFishing]

15+ blue cat on a spinnerbait, slow rolling. Thought I had a new PB largemouth at first.

[bmbfishing]

How about a 19 inch Brown Trout while fishing for small mouth!  Two weeks ago on the Niangua River by Bennet Springs MO I was throwing a six inch chartreuse finesse worm for small mouth and he hit it.  That was the weirdest catch to date.   

[Broc]

I was ripping cranks through weeds and snagged into a 25 pound carp earlier this week.  I had to put my trolling motor in reverse to keep from being pulled to the middle of the lake, haha.  Ive caught some really nice pike and walleye while bass fishing in MN.

[destroyer350]

Ive caught catfish,bream,gou,gar,choupique and redfish

[Dwight Hottle]

I have caught lake trout, brown trout, steelhead, channel cats, rock bass, white bass, largemouth, walleye, pike & perch while fishing for smallmouth with jerk baits.

While fishing for largemouth I have caught bowfin, pickerel, gar & an alligator.

[BassOnKlinger]

I had a 9" bluegill hit a little square bill crank this past weekend.  Also had an 18" northern pike hit one of my deep cranks.  Everything else was all largemouth.

[shimmy]

 

yeah this pike on a kvd 1.5 crank lol so random

 

 

Not too random. I think that 1.5 and 2.5 are candy to those nasty things. A few weeks ago, i caught 15 northern in less than half an hour on that crankbait. I was holding out for that big bass, but the northern just kept biting and getting bigger...

[NEjitterbugger]

How about a 19 inch Brown Trout while fishing for small mouth!  Two weeks ago on the Niangua River by Bennet Springs MO I was throwing a six inch chartreuse finesse worm for small mouth and he hit it.  That was the weirdest catch to date.   

 

Same, mine was 17.5 inches

 

[jhoffman]

on chautauqa this spring my buddy hooked a 40+" muskey on an xrap fishing flats for smallies

[Bluebasser86]

My buddy Chris, kanasbassfisher08 on the forum, caught 2 muskie about 30 minutes apart on a buzzbait fishing for bass on a small lake in northeast Missouri last year. First one hit right next to the boat and threw water all over us, scared both of us.

Second one rushed the bait from behind and all we saw was the top of it's head and teeth when it hit his bait.

His buzzbait was brand new when it started, all it managed to catch was 2 muskie before it looked like this.