Ever Caught A Bass Or Fish W/ A Lure In It's Mouth???

[ghost]

I haven't but have lost a few to some bass.  I did catch a steelhead trout with 3 hooks in its back, that's as close for me.

 

What lure did a bass or fish have in its mouth when you caught it?

[riverbasser13]

Baby bass senko and arkie u head jig; which I had lost the night before in the same spot. It was a nice three pounder living in a laydown. I was glad I my senko back and got that hook out of the basses belly so it could swim on!

[Fishes in trees]

That has happened to me a few times over the years.  Once just a random snelled hook that the fish had swallowed and my crank bait hook caught the loop.   Once, I got my 6 lb line snapped, lost my jig & eel combo - retied and cast to the same area and the same fish hit a similar lure again, not more than 3 or 4 minutes apart.

 

Another time I caught a fish with a Bagley shaky head jig stuck in its mouth.  As I reflected on how weird that was, I realized that I was in a similar area where I got a shaky  head snapped off a couple of weeks previously.  I'm pretty certain that no one else who'd fished that lake recently hadn't ever heard of  that brand of jigs - so I got my own jig back - a few weeks later.

[gulfcaptain]

Caught a bass I lost when I was 16.  It hit a roostertail and broke me off on some standing timber.  Couple days later hooked a bass on the same color roostertail and when i landed it, my other rootertail was in the other side of it's mouth.  When I lost the fish I thought it was much bigger.  To my suprise it was only 2lbs, but I swear it when it broke me off it was atleast 5+.

[Catch and Grease]

Foul hooked a bass with a long top water popper and broke him off at the bank, came back like 2 weeks later and caught him again on a spinnerbait while this big popper is sticking on his side.

[Fisher-O-men]

I heard that a fella named Peter caught a fish with a gold coin in its mouth! 

[RSM789]

I have never had that experience with a bass, but have caught many catfish with a hook or hooks hanging out of their mouth.  Most of the hooks tend to be pretty small, so I can only surmise it was from kids fishing for bluegill off a dock with their Snoopy poles when Grandpa catfish comes along and spools them.

 

I also caught a catfish once that pooped out a rusted hook, right on the floorboard of my boat.

[Siebert Outdoors]

I've caught a couple with hooks in their mouths but never a lure. 

[Raul]

 

 

 

What lure did a bass or fish have in its mouth when you caught it?

 

Another fish.

[EvanT123]

I caught a nice smallie on a top water. After I took the hooks out the lure drop out and caught on something looked in the fish mouth and it was gut hooked with a live bait hook. I used the hook removal trick and got it out. Hopefully he lived another day.

Something different I got snagged on someone's line pulled the line in and there was a big minnow on the end. Unhooked him and let him swim away.

[Ratherbfishing]

YEARS ago, I was razzing a friend because he needed to change his line-which was looking pretty shabby.  Anyway, he hooked and broke off a better than average fish.  Even though I wanted to say "I told you so", I refrained from doing so and we kept fishing.  After awhile the fishing died down and I decided to fish a night crawler under a bobber.  After a few moments my bobber went under and I hooked, fought and caught a pretty respectible smallmouth.  In it's mouth was my friends Rooster Tail.  I just kinda smilled and handed it back to him.  He was like, "Yea yea, I don't wanna hear it."

[fishballer06]

Never caught any fish with a plug in/on them, but I have caught a few with a hook in them. 

 

I caught a salmon over the weekend with 3 different hooks in it. That was a new record for me. 

[fishguy613]

caught a largemouth that had an old discoloured senko in its mouth, no hook looked like he'd been holding onto it for months

[desmobob]

I was fishing a T-rigged worm this weekend and missed what I thought was a small fish, and lost the worm.  I put on another different brand and color of worm and cast to the same spot.  I hooked about a three-pound smallmouth and when he was right next to the boat, he spit out my other worm.  It sunk before I could grab it.  :-)

 

Over the years, I've caught a few fish that had swallowed hooks and the shells hanging out of their mouths, but never a lure.

 

Tight lines,

Bob

[AK-Jax86]

I got a crazy story...

I was fishing a popr last year and a fish broke me off and took my lure. Few days later I am back at that spot and I am fishing the same area where I got broke off. I wasn't paying attention and my popr was just sitting there. I hear a strike look up and there's ripples around my popr but I can still see it. I reel it in and to my surprise the popr I lost few days ago was attached to one of my hooks!! My buddy was with me the day I lost the popr and I sent him the pic and we both couldn't believe it.

Another time I was fishing a lipless crank bait and I'm reeling it in and notice a piece of fishing line attached to my hook. Then a few feet behind is I see a jointed Swimbait swimming along lol. I looked it up and it turned out to be a Kanan Swimbait and this particular one retails for $20 not a bad catch at all!

[Pinoy_Basser]

We where fishing for grouper on a pier near a beach a few years back.

The pier was a quite known for its quality grouper sizes.

My buddy got a good sized grouper with 9 circle hooks around its mouth (10 if you count his).

[Comfortably Numb]

Caught a three pounder with two identical green Senkos and hooks in its lip. Other guy should have used heavier line LOL

[Bluebasser86]

Had a buddy break off on a smallmouth last year first thing in the morning. Went back to that spot in the afternoon and I caught it with an almost identical bait and got his bait back for him.

 

I broke a monster off in a tournament at LOZ several years ago. Told a buddy where and on what for his tournament the next week. The night after his tournament he texted me a picture of the 8lb 2oz bass he'd caught with my football jig still in her mouth, I almost puked. 

[Ozark_Basser]

I caught a smallmouth with a bluebird in its mouth one time.  So if you use live (or dead  ) blue jays as bait, then yes, yes I have. 

[PersicoTrotaVA]

I've never found anything out of the ordinary in their mouths.  I have cut catfish and bass stomach open before and found many interesting things.  I think the most interesting thing I found was a fully rigged steel wire bottom rig leader, weight, hooks and all in the stomach of a 2lb catfish.  I have no idea why he ate the whole thing, It must have hurt going down...

[moguy1973]

I was trout fishing once at Taneycomo and was using a rooster tail.  Super clear water so I could see the rooster tail coming in as I reeled it back.  If you've never been to the upper parts of Taneycomo, you can see a lot of fish usually when the water is low.  One of the fish started freaking out about 4 feet from where my rooster tail was coming in and then I saw my rooster tail shoot off in a different direction without any fish around it other than the one that was freaking out.  Come to find out I had wrapped the rooster tail blade around a tippet that the trout had broken off.  The line was wound around the blade enough that I was able to land the fish that had a small #16 or so fly in it's mouth.  I still have that fly.

[iceintheveins]

I've caught bass with various soft plastics in there mouth and even a couple that puked up a soft plastic and I removed it.

[Bluebasser86]

I was trout fishing once at Taneycomo and was using a rooster tail.  Super clear water so I could see the rooster tail coming in as I reeled it back.  If you've never been to the upper parts of Taneycomo, you can see a lot of fish usually when the water is low.  One of the fish started freaking out about 4 feet from where my rooster tail was coming in and then I saw my rooster tail shoot off in a different direction without any fish around it other than the one that was freaking out.  Come to find out I had wrapped the rooster tail blade around a tippet that the trout had broken off.  The line was wound around the blade enough that I was able to land the fish that had a small #16 or so fly in it's mouth.  I still have that fly.

I was in my boat at the upper end of Taney when I spotted an indicator that appeared to be snagged. Hoping there was a good micro jig or nymph on the end, I motored over to grab it when it plunked under    Took a little wrangling but I finally chased it down and handlined in a small rainbow with a T.J. micro jig in it's mouth. Ended up catching a bunch of fish on that jig under the same indicator.

I've had that happen with a channel cat at a local lake with a bobber the size of a small beach ball too. 

[Robert Riley]

Several years ago my friend caught a log and snapped his line in frustration. A few minutes later, I caught the same log. Turns out it wasnt a log, but a 5 pounder with his beetle spin still in his mouth! 

 

The look on my friends face was priceless. (And I still have his lure to this day)

[hatrix]

A couple years ago we were fishing this pond at a party. I made a dropshot with a spinning rod that was available. I had a gulp minnow on it and something came and grabbed it hard and started running. I knew instantly I was screwed cause I could feel it pulling so hard. Well I never checked the drag and my line broke. Like 10 mins later one of the girls i forget who someones wife/girlfriend have a decent fish on. It was a catfish that probably went about 8-10# and it had my red hook in its mouth. It was also on the other side of the pond now. The pond is was about 7-8 acres and now it was on the total other side. It was crazy cause I just hooked its face like 10 minutes ago and now its on the total other side. I didn't really think fish bite again so fast. It was not like a miss or almost hook type deal. That hook was in it good "being a catfish and all" it was like it broke my line then instantly swam to the other side and chowed down on some hotdog like I never even hooked it or it didn't matter to it.