Just Lost A Fishing Pole

[Jr.Bassmaster77]

today i was fishing off a dock with live bait and i got up to get another minnow on my other rod and as soon i got up i heard my drag so i turned and saw my pole being dragged in by a monster bass.Probably the funniest fishing story ever.Anybody else have hilarious fishing stories?

[bclark7b]

That's pretty good. Heres a good one. I fish in an old aluminum canoe. I took one of my buddies out in it and when I fish alone I always stand up in it and have never fallen out or tipped it. S we had been fishing awhile and I stand up totally forgetting I wasn't alone this time. We both get dumped on the water and i had my pole went to the bottom of the lake. We swim to shore get back in the canoe. None of my tackle had fallen in luckily. As we are paddling back I see a line on the surface of the water. I go over to it and remember I had braided line on my pole. I start pulling on it and up came my pole! Thank goodness for floating line!!!

[Jr.Bassmaster77]

funny story Ben. I wish i was that lucky. haha

[AQUA VELVA]

Iv'e seen guys make a cast and watch the rod fly right out of their hand and into the lake. It's not funny but it makes for some interesting expressions on their faces.

[Hyrule Bass]

Iv'e seen guys make a cast and watch the rod fly right out of their hand and into the lake. It's not funny but it makes for some interesting expressions on their faces.

who are you kidding? its absolutely hilarious LOL

 

you might feel bad for the person, but its still funny. i would eventually laugh if it were myself throwing the rod out.

[Jigs 4 Pigs]

Was shore fishing a power plant lake a few years ago with a buddy. At the time, he had just purchased a BPS PQ combo. He was fishing an older setup, new combo laying next to him on shore. What I saw next was amazing... He casted, snagged his new combo off the ground and sent it on it's "maiden voyage"...gone...into the abyss!!! It was hilarious, not so much for him!  

[rippin-lips]

I haven't lost one yet. Very close though a time or two. Took two friends fishing on my boat and one went to cast and hooked the others rod and launched it into the air. Down it went never to be found. I wish I had a go pro for that situation.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

Does snapping a rod in half and throwing it into the lake count?

[TrippyJai]

My brother lost one of his rods a couple years ago and he didn't even have the lure in the water.  He had the rod laying on the deck with the lure hanging over the side a few inches out of the water.  The boat was moving with the waves and the lure would hit the water every once in a while.  All of a sudden a fish boiled right beside the boat, hit the lure and took his rod right out of the boat.  Never saw it again.

Ron

 

Same thing happen to my buddy except the boat wasn't moving, we heard a splash and was like what was that? The bass almost took his rod off the deck, he managed to grab his rod in time and the fish came unbuttoned.

 

I has a similar experience when we were in a row boat moving to another location, I was probably 10 years old at the time. I tossed my 4" grub on a ball jig head only to see its action on how it swims. I had no idea how to fish plastics and only used live bait. A giant pike took it, stripped almost all my line, so I locked the drag and it broke the line.

 

When I came back to fishing in 2007, I was still in the learning phase. I went to a local pond that was very weedy. I couldn't get a bite all day and I see my gf toying around with frogs by dangling over them, they would jump up and grab the tail. I told her to stop in case one swallows the hook. We move to another end of the pond and she starts dangling her bait in the water and bam, she catches the first fish. I learned something new, I guess you can call it weightless punching and I still do this and catch fish all the time.

[RighteousFishing WI]

One day a long time ago, I was throwing a popper made a cast, n then the phone rang, it was my boss. Put the pole down and answered, the popper must have been sitting there for awhile and all of sudden I heard a splash, it wasn't a fish it was a freaking seagull, it made a hell of a time getting those hooks out of it.

[Missourifishin]

A couple years ago when I first got back into fishing, I was doing quite a bit of live bait fishing. One weekend I went camping with my friend and his family at a small lake. None of us were having much luck. I think the only "keeper" all weekend had been a catfish caught by my buddies wife. However, I was getting a lot more bites than everyone else fishing among some submerged trees. Problem was, I wasn't actually landing any of the fish that were biting my night crawlers. And to make matters worse, I kept getting hung up on those submerged trees and breaking off, losing my hooks, worms and bobbers. On the day we were going to be leaving I noticed my friend's stepson fishing my spot, so I walked over to ask him how he was doing. He said nothing was biting, and said he was tired of fishing, so I took his rod n reel and took over for him. A short time later I got hung up on a tree yet again! Frustrated with all the hooks I had lost, and now was going to lose my buddy's son's hook and bobber too, I sat down in a lawn chair, cracked open a cold one and just set the rod down with the line still hung up in the tree. About 10 minutes later I found myself spilling beer as I dove headfirst to keep the rod from going into a lake. Turns out a 5 pound channel cat got the hook unsnagged for me! I reeled it in and triumphantly held it up above my head as if I was actually a skilled angler or something A short time later I also caught a 4 pound bass on a nightcrawler too!