Heartbreaking!!!!! Your Worst Misses.

[SchlottyD]

Fishing a booyah poppin pad crasher today on and around grass mats when I made a cast to the outside edge, frog hit the water and I let it settle and BOOM, huge blowup on it, let it take it reeled my slack, felt the weight of the fish, set the hook hard and started cranking in, made it to the inside edge and the fish spit the hook. There were several kids watching that were interested in how I was fishing and I would have loved to show them what blew up on my lure.

[Grizzn N Bassin]

I lost seven lbers on back to back cast . I was fishing a topwater and just got to excited and tried to horse them in.

Had the same thing happen but she only bite once, in one of higher percentage spots . i was fishing all year for this one fish. This was last year. So i threw out my ms slammer let it sit for about 2 mins as soon as i twitched it BAM! brought her in a little then she stared pulling drag i tightened it up and started getting her in closer. She made one more hard pull and then nothing pulled right off the hooks. It was my fault tried to horse her in with my 8 foot swimbait rod and \30 # big game.  NEVER AGAIN 

[Montanaro]

My worst miss was in a BASS Federation tournament at Truman Lake , Mo. where when I weighed in I came in second place and was.006 lbs. behind the winner. When I got home and flushed out my live wells I found two large craw fish that would more than cover the.006 #'s. made me a loser and cost me about $400.

Gutted

[gulfcaptain]

I can't say how big the fish was I missed this last Monday fishing, but I do know it was a nice one.  I had already gotten 2 nice fish, one that was somewhere in the 4.5lb range (that's the last number I saw on the scale before she decided it was time to go).  Pitched my bait into a weedbed and noticed the line pick up and start moving.  Awesome, love it when they eat it on the drop.  Clicked my reel in gear and the line came tight, set the hook, felt solid and then gone.  Did I break her off, nope.  Brought my punch weight and skirt in, no structure bug and a bent out 4/0 Gamma Flipping hook with 2 scales attached.  That was a first.  All I can say was it felt solid, and much heavier then either of the 2 fish earlier that day or the 3 from the day before which also included one over 4.5lbs.  Maybe it was a faulty hook, but still makes me wonder how big she was to bend out that flipping hook.

[visagelaid]

If it wasnt a faulty hook, I would imagine it would have to be a monster to bend out a hook.

[visagelaid]

If it wasnt faulty, you would imagine the line would give out before the hook.

[NathanW]

Was short lined by last year my a small mouth that nearly jumped out of the water to grab my crankbait as I was pulling it up out of the water. This fish was a giant and I was helpless trying to land it. Never had a chance regardless of how good it was hooked. I catch a lot of big smallmouth in the 4.5lbs range but this thing had to be a 7 maybe an 8. I have never seen a smallmouth this big in my life. It haunts me all the time knowing that I never got this thing on my scale. Maybe a new PB but maybe it just looked huge.

[NathanW]

How many of you feel you lost one because you tried to lip it but still won't use a net out of principle? 

haha, yeah. I lost one memorable one trying to handland but way too many boat flipping. I only get out the net when I have friend out that doesn't fish a lot, a fish means a lot more to them and their day than it does to mine. I lost a 4lbs LM boat flipping where I over flipped right back into the water on the other side of the boat, that one actually got me sick to my stomach as I had to work so hard to figure out the largemouth bite that day.

[1bad281]

I can't say it was heartbreak for me but a guy I work with took me fishing and it was my first time ever.  I caught my first bass ever during this trip.  So it was getting late so I made the bet the next person to catch a bass has to buy the first beer at this restaurant.  My buddy hooked this bass and as he was lifting it into the boat it came off the hook.  I then caught the next fish and won the bet  

[d-camarena]

Today i caught a 4 pounder on a zoom lizard. I had it in my kayak when the fish made its last attempt to unhook itself and my snap swivel broke. I lost the fish with the hook in its mouth

[Darren.]

For me, the worst miss was what I assumed 

to be a new PB at around 8+ pounds. I thought

I had that sucker buttoned up, but as I brought

it close to the yak, I had my youngest son hold

out the net to get her secured.

 

As he held it and as I pulled the fish toward the

net, she promptly puckered her lips and spit the

hook back at us and did a tail dance before she

dove back down to the depths.

 

At least we got to see her. Wish I coulda weighed

her, but c'est la vie!

[everythingthatswims]

This morning I was throwing a deep crank on a point in about 15 FOW, bait stopped, I made the textbook sweep set, line took off to the side and the hooks pulled within seconds. I'm telling myself that I just hit a big carp in the side of the head with the crankbait.

[CrazyFluker]

Last weekend, I was fishing alone, had been a slow day with 3 in the boat, when the sun popped out. Getting over a cold I decided to head in but saw this sweet tree in the water on the edge of the lake. I got my boat up close, dropped a chatter bait down and started jigging it. I brought it up to drop over a branch and a huge bass came up from the depth following the bait and just started to open her mouth. I'd bet at least 7lbs. She saw me and went over the branch and out of site. I dropped it and a super fluke all through the tree for another hour without ever getting a nibble. I'm going back this weekend to see if I can get her on the boat and this time I will have my tackle box where last time I just brought a handful of stuff. I could've cried lol.

[masterbass]

I had another heart breaker yesterday.  I was bank fishing in this little pond catching little 1-2 lbers.  I cast senko to a patch of weed in the middle of the pond and all of a sudden my line starts moving quickly so I set the hook and I know it's a good one because the rod bends into the back bone and stays there.  I reel the fish in with a mouthful of weeds and get a good look at her.  She's a beautiful 5 lber.  I'm getting excited to get a great picture.  I get her to me and reach down pull the weeds off her face and she's a real pig for this size of pond.  Then she pops off the hook and swims away.  All I wanted was told lip her and take a picture!

[Rob96]

Not a bass but this sunk my heart. I was wading in a river and I hooked into a Rainbow Trout that was around 9lbs. On my ultralight. After fighting and playing him I got him all the way in and as I was bringing the net around he raised his head out of the water and shook the hook.

[Lunker Addict]

I had another one yesterday. I was fishing at a local lake and landed a 5 #er and the next cast I cast in the same spot and get nailed. I get it to dock and as I set my rod down he jumps and spits the hook. He was probably in the 6# range, which would have been the largest I have caught to date. It is now my mission to get that dang fish by the end of the year.

[FishinCop646]

About a month ago I had a tournament on Mosquito Lake. My morning started of slow and my co-angler was ripping lips. I was absolutely miserable in the pouring rain. Anyway, I went to swing a small one in to the boat and it came off while swinging. Needless to say it was lesson learned, no more swinging fish. 2 weeks ago I had a 3+ on the line while fishing alone. I went for the net, the fish jumped, and out came the hook. By far my worst lost fish of the year. Luckily I had a great night and still took the win by a few ounces. That fish definitely would have helped though. Still torn on boat flipping or netting...

[d-camarena]

Same thing happened to me, lost a couple trying to get the net. I now flip and have not lost one. Yet

[papajoe222]

I've come to the conclusion frog fisherman have the equivalent of battered woman's syndrome... Sometimes the kick our butt, but we just keep coming back for more!  

Kind of like Cubs fans. Sorry, that just sounded so familiar.

My heart breaker wasn't a miss, but a fish I actually landed that was disqualified because I didn't know all the rules. Heart breaking only because she would have won me both big fish and the tourney.

[zeth]

1. Out on the Delta not too long ago in a tournament. It was a long two days. Had a decent boater day 1 and day 2 not so much. Day two was a grind. We were in some areas that were definitely holding fish but my boaters reluctancy to slow down and work over an area properly definitely cost us some good fish and some other things. Anyways so I'm just going with the flow getting frustrated because it is a combined weight tournament (not a team tournament). Last 45 minutes or so the tide is just right and I start catching them on every cast over one stretch. Nothing that would cull however. Then my donkey rig snags up in the weeds and I'm shaking it to get out with the rig hanging off in a pocket.  A monster way over 10 inhales the bait jumps out of the water and as I watch my bait go flying back at my face as I was pulling to get it free at the moment it jumped. All happened so fast. That single fish would have put me in the top three if not first. 

Couple days later I'm out on a local electric reservoir that is fished heavily and sadly has a good amount of people going out and keeping what they catch. Still however the bass seem to be smart and grow big on the regular trout stockings and avoid lures rather well. So here I am out throwing a Huddleston 69 Special creepin it in over some weeds in about 10-15' of water. I'm getting near the boat and the bait is coming up. Bam! out of nowhere a dolphin of a bas way way way over 10 (this reservoir has many and you can see them everywhere with the water being so clear but catching is another story as 6.05 is my best on the reservoir) comes and smashed the Huddleston but grabs only the tail and heads straight at the boat. My hookset rips it out of its mouth right in front of my very eyes.

I'm back on the Delta a couple days after the above incident and having a rough day overall. I mean I'm catching huge stripers, and small bass all day. So eventually I'm like yo lets fish this area (undisclosed for a good reason.) I'm throwing a spinnerbait along some pilings in like 35' of water. I just knew there was a pig down there. I made maybe 50 casts to the exact same spot paralleling the columns. Line get mushy and all day I've been fishing shallow in slop so in my head I'm like oh weeds so I just keep reeling in rather then setting hook (STUPID!!!) and right up to the boat another 10+ as my lure swims freely out of it's mouth. 

10 minutes later on the opposite bank on the same bait my rod instantly bends over like nothing I've ever seen and my bait just comes to a dead stop. I swing for it and it's there fora  few seconds and it's big. Then SNAP goes the 15lb. test fluorocarbon. Not at the knot but maybe 15' up from the lure. 

Hasn't happened yet. Went to Clear Lake caught dinks up to 4 lbs. Nothing to write home about. Haven't been out in two weeks now. 

[CDMeyer]

I was throwing a swim jig on a creek bank and casted to some pads one nailed it. I thought it was small till it headed towards the stems..... Once I got it free it flew up in the air cause I had my rod tip up in the air to get it out if the pads.... It came out in open water and jumped at spit the hook. It was a biggin that runs through my head now at night. This was this Wensday in a tourney..... It all worked out though I did end up winning

[BooyahMan]

Not me, but my girlfriend has been trying desperately to catch her first frog fish this year. For some reason she either goes with me when they're not biting topwaters or she misses them when they do strike as up until recently she hadn't figured out how to set the hook when using frogs.

 

During the last trip she came with me she had 6 blow ups and hooked 3. The first two came off pretty fast but the third one was a little more memorable. I didn't hear or see the blow up but I was looking at her when she suddenly set the hook, and her rod starting pumping with furious head shakes. I looked to where her line was and saw a huge splash and then a big tail disappear under the canopy of lilies. Maybe it was the heat of the moment but it looked like a solid 4lb+ fish, though I definitely could be wrong about that. Regardless, it was a bigger than average fish for this lake. I scrambled over to help her land it, but when I got to where she was standing the line suddenly went super tight and wouldn't budge. Being shore-bound, she put her faith in the 65lb braid that was loaded up on her reel and pulled the rod straight, in the hopes of just dragging up whatever it was stuck on. The line came untangled from the snag eventually, but the hook also came unhooked from the fish.

 

I feel terrible as this would have definitely been a PB for her. She's been trying so hard with the frogs and I almost feel bad the times I go out alone and have luck. I'm hoping she'll strike some better luck next week when she tags along again.

[Kevin Beachy]

Was fishing a pond yesterday, and was bringing my mattlures boot tail bluegill right by a "floating branch" and just when It got to the edge I felt a thump and saw a HUGE swirl, but it must have just grabbed the tail because I didn't get it;)

 

probably was 10+

 

~Kevin