Same Fish !?

[Mainebass1984]

 I was uploading my old pics onto my new computer when I noticed something pretty cool about a couple of my photos.

 

I caught this 6-3 on a spinnerbait on 4/8/12

 

 I went back fishing the same spot on 4/27/12 and caught this 6-5 on a jig.

 

I am pretty sure its the same fish.

That is pretty cool.

Has this happened to anyone else ?

[webertime]

There's a Largemouth in the trailer park pond that was a fin (behind the gills) that looks like a senko(deformed). I've caught it twice and a buddy got her once through the ice.

Got a sick smallie from the same mooring a couple times.

[ww2farmer]

 

 

 

Has this happened to anyone else ?

 

 

 

Yes....multiple times, the last few in recent memory was  a 5-3 off the end of a point on a wacky jig one morning, the next morning I caught it again on topwater. The other was a fish I had hooked......to the surface and broke me off, and almost in the net. I caught it the next day with my hook/bait still in it's face, it also was a decent sized fish, a 4-8. Funny thing is...........the bait I caught it on the second day was the SAME exact bait it broke me off on the day before, that was still hanging out of it's face. How's that for the theory that bass remember baits that stuck............it couldn't even remember that it had the same thing stuck in it's head. ROTFLMAO

[NEjitterbugger]

Same fish for sure... Pretty cool

[Lil'Gunner]

Yup... I caught a 9lb this late summer in my local lake (~30 acres). She has a blind eye that distinguishes her; caught her again about 2 months later. Same fish; same 4" black watermelon senko.

[AK-Jax86]

Yea I have caught the same fish before. I know because it had a gash on its right side this was last season, caught it three separate times.

[papajoe222]

A private club I belonged to years ago had a taging program. One season I caught the same fish four different times. It was about a 60 acre lake/pond with a max. depth of 15ft.  Twice I caught that fish in the deepest water that pond held and the other two times in shoreline cover on opposite ends of the lake.

[Bruce424]

Yep happened to me too. Caught the same fish three days apart. Fish had a broken crooked tail.

[Waterlogged]

You mentioned that you caught the fish in the same spot. I believe the fish get comfortable especially in rivers or any water with current. I fish a spot where our local wastewater treatment plant discharges in the river. The water there has a much higher concentration of dissolved oxygen and there is some what of a slack area from the current. Every time I would stop by that spot it always seemed like I would catch the same 3 fish. Probably the 3 most educated fish on in that river now!

[Bluebasser86]

No doubt it's the same fish in your pictures. 

 

I caught the same little crooked backed largemouth on the same jig twice in the same day off the same stump. Fishing a private lake with a tagging program I caught the same largemouth 3 times one summer on 3 different baits in 3 completely different areas. 

[Sam]

Yes. In my double secret pond.

 

Caught many over six pounds.

 

And the ladies are still there, waiting for me to return.

[TrippyJai]

Pretty cool. It's the same fish looking at the cut on the mouth and tail.

[inrll]

Thats the same fish.

 

I have actually caught the same 16 inch smallie with a gash near its tail twice within 20 minutes on the same inline spinner.

 

If this doesn't illustrate the importance of catch and release I don't know what does.

[J Francho]

Nice, it does look likr the same fish.  Now you have a "pet bass."  I have a few pet bass myself.

[Siebert Outdoors]

Very possible.  Either way.  Very nice!!!!

[roadwarrior]

My favorite pet bass was caught and kept by a guy I taught to fish at one of my local

ponds. 10-4 which he claimed he mounted, but I know it went straight to the frying pan.

[Pete-K]

Caught a 8.4 large-mouth on a Wed. Then in a Tournament on Saturday caught the same fish same spot. Had a big black spot on the side of its head. And sad part is did not get big fish, Guy came in with a smallmouth that beat my fish out by 2 ozs.

Pete

[PABASS]

When I was younger there was a larger bass (maybe 4#) in a local pond that I would catch every year multiple times a year for at least 10 years, few tears ago visited this area and sadly she is no longer with us..

[Bankbeater]

If I caught the same bass I never noticed it.  Good job!

[Smokinal]

Buddy and I going down a bank. I hook one on a pearl fluke, red end weighted hook. He breaks me off so I, jokingly, tell my partner to throw at that stump and get my rig back. 3 seconds later he sets the hook and pulls the fish in with my fluke and hook in the side of his mouth. Man did we laugh.

[Mainebass1984]

A couple years ago I took a friend of mine out fishing in the springtime. The bass fishing was excellent. My friend had been fishing a couple times in his whole life. I gave him a spinning reel and a rubber worm. I was giving him first cast on everything going up a shoreline. He made a cast towards the tip of a tree. I finished out my cast and he still had not moved his line. He was snaking or taking a drink or something. I cast to the base of the tree, at the root wad. My line instantly jumps and the fight is on. Meanwhile my friends line starts taking off like crazy. He hadn't moved it since the initial fall. I am now fighting my fish. He had reeled in his line and fighting the fish. As the fish got towards the bought it started feeling really weird fighting weird kind of pulling sideways towards the front of the boat where my friend was. As I got the fish close to the boat my friends drag would go then mine would go. In the insanely clear water I can now see the bass. It appears that there are two lures hanging from the fishes mouth. I tell my friend to stop fighting and net the fish. We lift on board to discover that both of us had hooked the same fish. It weighed in at 3 lbs 9 oz a largemouth. My friend had gut hooked it (his hook actually never left the worm, the worm was swallowed down the gullet) and I had hooked it in the roof of the mouth. We had a good laugh over that fish. So who's fish was it ? We debated the rest of the day who caught that fish.

[KU_Bassmaster.]

Ohhhhh me!!  Me!! Me!!!  Notice the sore on its tail.

 

 

April 2006

 

May 2005

[mnbassman23]

I got the same 20" twice this year about a month apart. She had a distinct indent in the top of her back. Ate a swim jig both times and the spots were about 50 yards apart. I actually took a picture of her the first time I caught her and got her on the gopro footage the second time. 

[fishguy613]

awesome photos everyone... definitely why i release all my fish and encourage everyone to do the same!