Craziest Thing That Happened To You While Fishing.

[Scott F]

I was fishing in Canada one time when a small water spout, like a dust devil on water, not big like a tornado, passed directly through the boat I was in. Just soaked me and my fishing partner.

[slonezp]

Was fishing the lakefront in Chicago and I watched a homeless addict, unprovoked, reinact a crime scene I assume he was a part of. This went on for 1/2 hour and he played both the roles of the police and, I assume, himself. The scenario involved a shooting and he had what appeared to be bullet hole scars on his chest and legs.

[BassAssassin726]

Was fishing the lakefront in Chicago and I watched a homeless addict, unprovoked, reinact a crime scene I assume he was a part of. This went on for 1/2 hour and he played both the roles of the police and, I assume, himself. The scenario involved a shooting and he had what appeared to be bullet hole scars on his chest and legs.

I saw a homeless guy once while fishing. He was mumbling something about George W. Bush and Texas A&M. Lol

[BadContrakt]

Hmmm I don't have anything too crazy... YET. But I was fishing with my parents a few years back on their boat. They had some shiners in the water for Northern and I fish Bass exclusively. So I had a spinner bait on, throwing it to the edge of the lily pads and sure enough. WHAM! Fish on!

 

I was reeling him in, adjusting my drag because he felt pretty big, and none of us got a good look at the fish, cause he was still deep, and out of nowhere my line went completely slack. Thinking that the line broke, I pulled my rod up and started reeling.

 

It went from a big fight instantly to silent still water with me reeling my rod in disappointed that I lost him. Not 2 seconds later the beast of a bass came DIRECTLY VERTICAL at full speed 2 feet away from the edge of the boat, mouth wiiide open and my mom was hanging off the side of the boat to get a good view of the fight. When he came up she screamed so loud. It was hilarious. I did end up getting him in the boat. My PB was also my best fishing story. Was a good night.

[Bluebasser86]

This past winter I was tossing a crankbait at some riprap when it got hung up. I tried to pop it loose once and it didn't work. Second time I tried to pop it loose it had moved to the side a few feet from where it was supposed to be. I reeled down again and when I leaned on it again (the first time I'd pulled when it was snagged it wasn't moving and was without a doubt a snag) it swam off pulling line slowly. I assumed a catfish or carp had gotten itself snagged on my bait while it was stuck and pulled it loose until a big head and massive mouth were on the top attempting to shake my bait loose. She was barely hooked but we still managed to get her in the net. The end results was the 7.76 pound bass in my avatar. 

[brgbassmaster]

All I've seen is lights........but they move like no other lights Ive ever witnessed anywhere else.  Unfathomable speed and manueverability

 

 

This happened to me and my dad one time near ft leonardwood down in an ozark mountain valley pond. Were outside fishing late at night and we were just watching these crazy lights all night and we were becoming believers real quick. Well next morning were telling all the guys around the area about it and they just started laughing hard. Turns out it was the strip club right outside the base that has crazy flashing lights all night.

[CountBassula]

I actually caught a fish!

[TylerCA]

This actually happened last night. Was fishing with my cousin in a local pond. We put our float tubes in the water on one end of the pond and started fishing down the bank to the other side of the pond. We fished for about 2 hours and started heading back to where we put in. We saw something swimming about a hundred yards away and couldn't really tell what is was. It went under water for a few minutes and resurfaced about 20 yards from our tubes and........wait for it.......WHAMO! It slaps it's tail on the water! It was of course, a beaver. Being scared out of my mind and not wanting to pee in my waders, I took off back toward the other side of the pond. No way was I messing with that thing. My cousin is a little harder headed than I am, he just kept right on going. He get's about 40 feet from the bank and......wait for it......WHAMO! Two very angry beavers! They were both around 40-50lbs.They circled around him within two feet of his tube slapping their tails over and over, so close they were splashing him. He went ahead and followed my lead and took off to the other side of the bank. It was a pretty scary experience, I can't stop laughing out it though! I heard beavers are pretty docile if not provoked, I really didn't want to take the chance.....

[AK-Jax86]

Today I was using a Square Bill Rapala that dives 2 to 5 feet and I snagged into a big alligator. By far the coolest experience of my life.

I cast out and was about to reel in and then the beast emerges from the water right in front of my lure. So I take out my iPhone and video it, if someone can tell me how to upload a video I would post it in a thread. There were 4 other gators all watching me and it was cool that I snagged the BIGGEN lost my lure though obviously.

[davew41]

Went to Gander Mtn. a local outdoor sporting goods store here in NC earlier. Bought my self a nice $200 spinning rod and reel combo and refused the one year warranty and went on my way to a lake near home to try it out. Pitched a senko under a tree, got caught on a small branch in the water, went to jerk and snap my line.... snapped my pole in half. Craziest thing to this day. Just fantastic.

Don't you have a 14 day return policy? then you can also purchase a extended warranty

also the manufacture has a 1 year warranty you can use if you still have the receipt.. so you should be still covered either way

[200racing]

my dad and i were on a hot stretch of grass where we caught about a dozen in 60yds. 

 

we had one of these sitting close by 

everytime we would pull a fish out of the water or the livewell he would go to squawking and would not quit till the fish was out of sight.

[bigbill]

I lost my crawfish red crankbait. A week later fishing in the same spot the hook on my crankbait snagged it. I had twin cranks on the same line.

At dusk just before daybreak I seen two freshwater otters splashing two fawns near the waters edge while trying to get a drink of water while the doe looked on.

Another time while fishing off a low bridge at first light I had 3 or 4 otters swimming parallel right at me. I thought of the movie predator and froze. All of a sudden they stopped and poked up there heads.

I can imagine one of these otters feeding on a new state record bass.

[rockchalk06]

Today I was using a Square Bill Rapala that dives 2 to 5 feet and I snagged into a big alligator. By far the coolest experience of my life.

I cast out and was about to reel in and then the beast emerges from the water right in front of my lure. So I take out my iPhone and video it, if someone can tell me how to upload a video I would post it in a thread. There were 4 other gators all watching me and it was cool that I snagged the BIGGEN lost my lure though obviously.

Upload it to YouTube and the. Post the embedded code here.

[TexasRigger21]

One time, my friend was fishing from the front of the boat, and his line snapped while he was setting a hook. I felt bad because I thought he lost it. When the line snapped, it state on top of the water, and when he grabbed the bundle of line there was a 7.5#

[gandergrinder]

I think it was 1984...I was fishing on Conesus Lake here in NY with my grandfather. There was a guy flying a biplane over the lake, and he was doing all kinds of loops and crazy rolls. On one of his loops my grandfather says "he's not gonna make it"! Well, he didn't! The guy crashed his plane head first into the lake. We were in his small fishing boat with a 9.9 Johnson on it, and were about a eighth mile away so we motored over to help. By the time we got there someone had already pulled him out of the water. Craziest thing I've ever seen while fishing!!!

[Smallmouth Hunter]

Well I don't have any great stories YET, or maybe I just can't remember them, but here Is an ok one.

So I have this small pond in my neighborhood an it has grass carp, bream, bass, minnows (mud minnows I'm guessing) and lots of turtles. I decided to go fishing here one day after buying some new equipment. I believe it was a red eye shad I was trying out. Anyways, I ended up getting a snag on a fallen tree and was forced to break the line. About 3 weeks later I was talking to a neighbor of mine who said he caught a big carp with his cast net and that it had a lure snagged on it. He isn't a big bass fisherman so he had no use for it. Well, it turned out to be the exact red eye shad that I snagged earlier that month. Hahaha i was shocked. I guess the big carp swam past the log and got hooked and pulled it off the log/tree.

[BadContrakt]

One time, my friend was fishing from the front of the boat, and his line snapped while he was setting a hook. I felt bad because I thought he lost it. When the line snapped, it state on top of the water, and when he grabbed the bundle of line there was a 7.5#

Oh that one's awesome. Must have been a good fight with hands only.

[BassinB]

A few years ago I saw a jetski literally explode and start on fire while on the lake.  The dude got like 2nd degree burns all over his chest.

[Tuckahoe Joe]

This actually happened last night. Was fishing with my cousin in a local pond. We put our float tubes in the water on one end of the pond and started fishing down the bank to the other side of the pond. We fished for about 2 hours and started heading back to where we put in. We saw something swimming about a hundred yards away and couldn't really tell what is was. It went under water for a few minutes and resurfaced about 20 yards from our tubes and........wait for it.......WHAMO! It slaps it's tail on the water! It was of course, a beaver. Being scared out of my mind and not wanting to pee in my waders, I took off back toward the other side of the pond. No way was I messing with that thing. My cousin is a little harder headed than I am, he just kept right on going. He get's about 40 feet from the bank and......wait for it......WHAMO! Two very angry beavers! They were both around 40-50lbs.They circled around him within two feet of his tube slapping their tails over and over, so close they were splashing him. He went ahead and followed my lead and took off to the other side of the bank. It was a pretty scary experience, I can't stop laughing out it though! I heard beavers are pretty docile if not provoked, I really didn't want to take the chance.....

Gotta watch them beavers.  We had a thread on here a couple months back about a fisherman who was killed by one.  Sure, if you keep your distance, they usually keep theirs but the have crazy sharp teeth and can really mess you up if they have a mind to.

[TylerCA]

Gotta watch them beavers.  We had a thread on here a couple months back about a fisherman who was killed by one.  Sure, if you keep your distance, they usually keep theirs but the have crazy sharp teeth and can really mess you up if they have a mind to.

Yeah I read about that a while back, some guy from Belarus. I guess he was on the bank and tried to grab it.....I wouldn't dare haha.

[senile1]

About 7 years ago, I was fishing a pond in a jon boat.  At the time, the pond produced some solid fish and I had just gained permission to fish there.  The owner of the pond kept the jon boat on the bank.  I had been fishing for 30 or 45 minutes and had already caught two or three bass in the 3 lb range if memory serves me correctly.  I was sitting down in the boat and, at that point, I happened to notice some movement on my foot.  I looked down and there was a spider crawling onto my foot and its body was huge.  I swear, it looked like its body was an inch wide.  I jumped out of my skin for a second and shook my foot.  When I jumped I tipped the boat way over and water poured in.  The boat righted itself but there was too much water in it to really stay afloat, or so I thought.  I grabbed my rods and jumped out of the boat holding them high over my head.  The pond was a bit over 15 feet at its deepest spot, but fortunately for me, the water where I was standing was only up to my neck.  So walking with my rods over my head and with one hand on the bow of the boat I headed for shore.  My tackle box was still in the boat, underwater.  However, when I got to shore I had the task of pulling the boat through a few feet of thick cattails.  I picked the thinnest spot I could find to do this.  With the water in the boat, it was quite heavy, and after a couple of minutes of work I had the boat next to the shore.  Then I reached my next obstacle.  The shoreline was quite steep so I had to drag the boat up far enough to tip it and pour the water out.  I finally reached my destination, covered in muck and all manner of vegetative debris, thankful that I had not encountered a snake.  I started to tip the boat up to empty the water and as I was doing so I noticed the big spider was still in the boat, floating on top of the water, as if gloating over its conquest.  I gladly raised the boat and the spider was swept away into the pond with the water, though I suspect that didn't do him in.  After all, it was walking on water.

 

I poured the water out of my tackle box and straightened everything up as well as could be expected and then continued to fish.  I finished the day with 16 bass and a silly story to tell.

[lucasrd]

Caught the ghost walleye on my lake!  I landed a 26-inch 7lb walleye on my lake that does NOT have walleye.  I think someone must have dumped it in there.

 

The lake has a healthy northern pike and largemouth population, so I almost stuck my hand in its mouth (thinking it was a bass) to pull it out of the net...luckily I noticed those sharp teeth before I stuck my thumb in there!

[ChicagoEd]

About 7 years ago, I was fishing a pond in a jon boat.  At the time, the pond produced some solid fish and I had just gained permission to fish there.  The owner of the pond kept the jon boat on the bank.  I had been fishing for 30 or 45 minutes and had already caught two or three bass in the 3 lb range if memory serves me correctly.  I was sitting down in the boat and, at that point, I happened to notice some movement on my foot.  I looked down and there was a spider crawling onto my foot and its body was huge.  I swear, it looked like its body was an inch wide.  I jumped out of my skin for a second and shook my foot.  When I jumped I tipped the boat way over and water poured in.  The boat righted itself but there was too much water in it to really stay afloat, or so I thought.  I grabbed my rods and jumped out of the boat holding them high over my head.  The pond was a bit over 15 feet at its deepest spot, but fortunately for me, the water where I was standing was only up to my neck.  So walking with my rods over my head and with one hand on the bow of the boat I headed for shore.  My tackle box was still in the boat, underwater.  However, when I got to shore I had the task of pulling the boat through a few feet of thick cattails.  I picked the thinnest spot I could find to do this.  With the water in the boat, it was quite heavy, and after a couple of minutes of work I had the boat next to the shore.  Then I reached my next obstacle.  The shoreline was quite steep so I had to drag the boat up far enough to tip it and pour the water out.  I finally reached my destination, covered in muck and all manner of vegetative debris, thankful that I had not encountered a snake.  I started to tip the boat up to empty the water and as I was doing so I noticed the big spider was still in the boat, floating on top of the water, as if gloating over its conquest.  I gladly raised the boat and the spider was swept away into the pond with the water, though I suspect that didn't do him in.  After all, it was walking on water.

 

I poured the water out of my tackle box and straightened everything up as well as could be expected and then continued to fish.  I finished the day with 16 bass and a silly story to tell.

 

Wow, I would have called it a day after that swim.  I'm glad you finished off the day on a good note!

[tallen316]

I was fishing with a buddy of mine in a local river where he hooked a nice smallmouth. We were fishing an area that is widely known for musky. While reeling in his smallmouth a musky came up and bit his fish and lure! The musky came up a few times and would eventually go back to the bottom. Unfortunately his line snapped and he lost both fish and lure. Yeah this is a fish tale but I actually have this on video!! I couldn't believe it happened!

[bmlum415]

It's not crazy per say but really cool. I was fishing one day and out of nowhere one of those old school bi planes came speeding overhead. Guy started doing barrel rolls and corkscrews, all sort of awesome stuff. Went on for like a half hour. Needless to say, I wasnt really paying attention to fishing for that half hour.

A similar thing happened to me. I was on the Delta about a week ago and watched 3 jets do stunts, the jets were navy blue and red but I couldn't figure out who they were. Anyways they did barrel rolls, flips, let smoke out of the jet and all sorts of cool stuff for about 45 minutes. I was distracted from fishing the whole time and ended up missing a lot of bites