Crazy Story

[b_spill]

I just remembered a story that happened to my uncle and I a few years ago.  We have been fishing partners for a while and have had many stories but none as crazy as this one.  I was not with him on the first day, but he was fishing a stretch of bank on the river with a Rapala Shadrap.  He threw over a little point and hung on a submerged laydown.  He was unable to recover the bait and had to break it off.  This is where it gets interesting.  We were fishing the same stretch of bank a week later, me being with him this time.  We were moving along and came up to the same point he broke the shadrap off on the previous week.  He told me he broke it off here as we moved closer.  As we were fishing the laydown, he noticed something causing a disturbance on top of the water 50 or so yards up river.  We could tell it was a fish, but it seemed to be in distress.  We trolled over to investigate, and as we came closer we saw that it was a drum with something stuck in its mouth.  I got the net and netted it.  As I set it down in the bottom of the boat, we saw what was in its mouth: my uncles shadrap.  We stared at it in disbelief and then broke out into laughter.  We could not believe how crazy it was that everything panned out as it did.  We just so happened to come back to the same stretch of bank at the exact time that drum was nearby: how crazy.  We removed the bait from its mouth and worked it back in to the water until it swam off.  Needless to say, it as a win-win.  We saved the fish and most off all my uncle got his shadrap back! How many of you have had crazy fishing stories like this?

[Senko lover]

That's pretty awesome!

[Big C]

My brother and I were night  fishing from a pier in the saltwater with live bait.  He had a bite fought it for a second then got hung up on an oyster bed and broke off.  About 15 minutes later I felt a tug set the hook and brought in a nice sail-cat, then I realized I didn't set the hook in the fish but my brother's tangled line with oysters on it.  The catfish must have swum over my line and gotten the tangled line on my hook good enough for me to fight it in, and haul it up the 10 or 15 foot pier.  Pretty crazy stuff happens night fishing in saltwater.

[massrob]

That's funny I kinda had a little similar thing happen the other day. Last year at my favorite pond I lost a crankbait on a tree right near the dam. Went back for my first trip this year found it floating in the water tied it on and two cast later had my first bass of the season. Pretty funny way to start the year.

[Big C]

Another time fishing in saltwater I was using a 9' Okuma surf rod with 50lb braid.  I was bank fishing near a bridge with cut bait, when the rod went down.  I got spooled in like 30 seconds with the drag cinched down.   It was like tying my line to the back of a truck and it driving off, I chased it for a second then after that I never got an inch of line.

[Brayberry]

About 4 years ago I would fish a small creek in Alaska for rainbow trout.  The creek was shallow, averaging about 2 feet deep, but one particular spot had a hole about 6 feet deep.  There would alwyas be a pile of trout in that hole, waiting on food to wash down to them.  Well I was fishing the area with my girlfriend, and we were tossing inline spinners and small grubs catching fish when we came upon the deep hole.  I decide I'm going to try and jig a small spoon in the hole.  The side of the creek there was steep so I was a few feet higher then the water so jigging the sppon was very easy.  Well I start jigging it thru the hole, and the current is washing the line downstream ahead of the lure, then I feel weight.  I set the hook and reel the fish twards me.  Upon trying to lift the fish out of the creek I notice the fish is upside down on the line and my spoon is 2 feet or so under the trout.  The trout had somehow gotten tangled in the line, and the current just wrapped the line around him like a noose.  A truly one in a million type of event 

[fisherrw]

One time I broke of a dropshot rig twice in different spots on a lake and managed to snag them both with my next cast!!!

[Turtle135]

I was fishing a bridge piling this past February in 30 feet of water. On one rod, I have bait on a circle hook on the bottom intended for a blue catfish. With the other rod I am vertically jigging a lipless crankbait. I feel a fish pop the crankbait and as I am fighting that fish up off the bottom I noticed the bait rod is dancing about. Sweet! I'm thinking double! I get the crankbait fish up to the surface. It's a 6 pound blue catfish, who also has the circle hooked bait in his mouth. Greedy cat!

[everythingthatswims]

I was fishing a power plant lake with my friend this winter when we both made a pitch at a dock with our drop shots. We were both bit within seconds and got a double hook up. My friend's fish jumped but we instantly realized that my drop shot was also in the bass's mouth. We proceeded to laugh our heads off before he opened his bail and I reeled the fish up to my kayak to unhook it.

[Jmoose]

Oh I love fishing stories. Here's one: I'm in Florida with my friend (a fellow BR member) and we are fishing a residential are. Anyway, there were a lot of birds around and my friend casts right into a nice big cormorant. Needless to say, we had quite the time trying to free this bird. We eventually got it freed but not with the sacrifice of a few permanent scars on our hands and our egos. It's beak was sharp and pointy and its neck is like a snake. It'll bite you from like three feet away. Boy, what a time we had and a half with that thing. We learned our lesson there: casting accuracy is key.

[b_spill]

Awesome stuff guys! Love reading yall's feedback and getting to hear some other crazy, cool stories!

[everythingthatswims]

Oh I love fishing stories. Here's one: I'm in Florida with my friend (a fellow BR member) and we are fishing a residential are. Anyway, there were a lot of birds around and my friend casts right into a nice big cormorant. Needless to say, we had quite the time trying to free this bird. We eventually got it freed but not with the sacrifice of a few permanent scars on our hands and our egos. It's beak was sharp and pointy and its neck is like a snake. It'll bite you from like three feet away. Boy, what a time we had and a half with that thing. We learned our lesson there: casting accuracy is key.

My brother caught a Royal Tern last week in Florida on a live herring. Cool part is that the bird had a band, we took it off with a set of pliers before releasing the bird. It was banded in Ocracoke, NC!

[Ozark_Basser]

That's funny I kinda had a little similar thing happen the other day. Last year at my favorite pond I lost a crankbait on a tree right near the dam. Went back for my first trip this year found it floating in the water tied it on and two cast later had my first bass of the season. Pretty funny way to start the year.

Were the hooks still sharp????

[Ozark_Basser]

Oh I love fishing stories. Here's one: I'm in Florida with my friend (a fellow BR member) and we are fishing a residential are. Anyway, there were a lot of birds around and my friend casts right into a nice big cormorant. Needless to say, we had quite the time trying to free this bird. We eventually got it freed but not with the sacrifice of a few permanent scars on our hands and our egos. It's beak was sharp and pointy and its neck is like a snake. It'll bite you from like three feet away. Boy, what a time we had and a half with that thing. We learned our lesson there: casting accuracy is key.

I have experienced this. I hooked a duck mid flight. I engaged the spool, It pulled drag, came back down to the ground, then I had to get the hook free. Not an easy task.

[Jmoose]

My brother caught a Royal Tern last week in Florida on a live herring. Cool part is that the bird had a band, we took it off with a set of pliers before releasing the bird. It was banded in Ocracoke, NC!

That's really cool. It's amazing how far they travel.

[Jmoose]

I have experienced this. I hooked a duck mid flight. I engaged the spool, It pulled drag, came back down to the ground, then I had to get the hook free. Not an easy task.

Wow, you got lucky with that hook out. It's always scary when something unexpected like that happens.

Haha, idk how they do it. Sometimes it seems like they aim for it in the air.

[StinkyBass]

One summer night my wife was fishing for grass carp while i was fishing for bass in a ditch behind some houses. the ditch was 1 foot shallow dropping off to probably 6 feet. she hooked a carp and fought it to the shore. she grabbed the line to lift it over the tall grass and the line snapped just above the bobber. she was so disappointed to see the bobber swim off to the middle of the ditch. it swam right past my tx rigged worm and actually bumped into my line. i quickly reeled in my worm, removed it and cast the bare hook and bullet weight towards the bobber. 2 casts later i was able to foul hook this carp in the middle of the ditch and bring it in! needless to say the only skill involved was casting in the swimming bobbers direction, the foul hook was just luck, but to this day my wife and i laugh at the memory.

[wuchr20]

These are crazy stories!!!