Strange Times

[EricTheAngler]

Whats the most strange and or intriguing experience you have had out on the water? 

 

Mine would intriguing, I lost my hook and worm in a basses mouth then a few casts later, I missed the hookset but I reeled in my old trick worm i had used.

[soflabasser]

That is intriguing,I wonder how that happened.Don't really believe in luck but I have been fortunate to catch several different types of rare fish.

[BassMaster17]

caught my PB by some lilies took some pics and released, then about two months later my friends dad caught the exact same fish on the complete other side of the lake, i could tell because there was a distinct red rash like thing on the fish, it lost a lb though so it wasn't as big when he caught it. not really strange but just really cool

[bennettkolls]

Once I lost a brand new crank bait in an underwater tree branch.  A couple weeks later I was fishing the same tree with heavier gear and pulled the whole thing up.  Got my crank bait back and the hooks hadn't even rusted yet.

[EricTheAngler]

Once I lost a brand new crank bait in an underwater tree branch.  A couple weeks later I was fishing the same tree with heavier gear and pulled the whole thing up.  Got my crank bait back and the hooks hadn't even rusted yet.

Nice, I wish that would happen more to me, Ive lost many cranks on trees at the places I fish. 

[Meldawg]

Was doing some catfishing about 2am one night, my dad and me. We both were fishing with two rods apiece. Had one take the rod right out of my hand, figured I had just lost a good bait caster. So we decided to try and hook the rod with the other rods. After about 20 casts each my dad actually hooks my rod, fish was not on there, but in the midst of reeling my rod in his second rod takes off from the boat and we see it skidding atop the water. So here we go again trying to hook his rod and after 20 minutes we gave up, he lost a brand new rod and reel.

[Big C]

There's this stretch of lily pads I fish everytime I go to this particular lake during the summer.  There's always some logs floating in it, usually I cast over them, reel the frog on it,  and let the frog "jump" in the water.  Well, this particular trip there was a new log about 5' off the bank, for some reason I didn't fish it or around it.  When I got near it it wasn't a log, it was some weird dead animal.  So I took my brother to it (we were in kayaks), he poked it with his paddle to get a better look at it.  I don't know what that sucker was but it wasn't a dog, or cat.  It was about 3' long, with a fat body, it had short kinda sparse black hair, and the creepiest face/ eyes I've ever seen.  It looked kinda like a pig, dog, chubacabra mix.  A couple days later we went to check it out, and it was gone.

[EricTheAngler]

Was doing some catfishing about 2am one night, my dad and me. We both were fishing with two rods apiece. Had one take the rod right out of my hand, figured I had just lost a good bait caster. So we decided to try and hook the rod with the other rods. After about 20 casts each my dad actually hooks my rod, fish was not on there, but in the midst of reeling my rod in his second rod takes off from the boat and we see it skidding atop the water. So here we go again trying to hook his rod and after 20 minutes we gave up, he lost a brand new rod and reel.

Ive hear of people trying to catch their rod when they lost it. I always wonder can fish get broken off hooks out of their mouths after a while..

[Meldawg]

Ive hear of people trying to catch their rod when they lost it. I always wonder can fish get broken off hooks out of their mouths after a while..

The fish was gone for sure, Was only about 15 to 20 minutes. I assume with the tension not being on the line that maybe it was spit out somehow. Would have like to have seen how big it was to yank out of my hand.

[scaleface]

I was Carolina rigging one of those old Manns worms with the exposed hooks . I set the hook and reeled in a crappie . It wasnt hooked . The line went around the fish and the hook caught the line and pulled tight .  

[Ratherbfishing]

I was Carolina rigging one of those old Manns worms with the exposed hooks . I set the hook and reeled in a crappie . It wasnt hooked . The line went around the fish and the hook caught the line and pulled tight .  

Bet you couldn't do that again in a million years-even if you were trying to.

[Todd2]

I've seen a lot of things...random tree falls, one really big one. Saw some guys in a tournament going so fast that they hit a wake and co-angler got ejected. He climbed back in and they kept fishing...crazy. Last summer I saw a Local Fire and Rescue lifting a sunken pontoon.

There's a lot more and I haven't even got to the fish stories...lol

[WIGuide]

Had a somewhat similar situation to scaleface's. Pitched my craw up by a grass bed felt one wack it so I set the hook pulled up a northern in the mid 20" range. The fish had hit my tungsten weight which wasn't pegged the line somehow was back far enough in the mouth that it looped around the extending jaw bones that northers have and my bait wound around my main line. No hook in the fish at all.  Had to be about a 1 in a million catch since had the line not been wrapped the way it was around both sides the razor sharp teeth would have cut it almost instantly. 

 

The oddest catch I've had came this last summer when I was fishing a new lake. I was idling out of a bay and there were some cribs showing up on my side scan. You could see a few isolated fish on them, but there was one that had schools of fish around it. There were streaks all over the locator so I dropped a waypoint and turned around to fish it. I threw my worm out there and felt a good thump, set that sucker hard and my bait came flying up to the top but something wasn't right. It skipped sideways a little bit and there was no resistance.

[desmobob]

I was fishing a 1/2 oz jig/craw one summer day and noticed something on the hook after a retrieve.  It was a TINY little yellow perch ( about 1" long) that somehow got into the little space between the jig's weed guard and hook point and then somehow became completely impaled on the hook, wacky style.  Poor little fella! 

 

I can't figure how it was even possible for that big hook to go clean through that tiny little perch.

 

Tight lines,

Bob

[HoosierHawgs]

I was fishing a 1/2 oz jig/craw one summer day and noticed something on the hook after a retrieve.  It was a TINY little yellow perch ( about 1" long) that somehow got into the little space between the jig's weed guard and hook point and then somehow became completely impaled on the hook, wacky style.  Poor little fella! 

 

I can't figure how it was even possible for that big hook to go clean through that tiny little perch.

 

Tight lines,

Bob

 

This little guy got impaled by my crankbait early this spring!

[everythingthatswims]

I was Carolina rigging one of those old Manns worms with the exposed hooks . I set the hook and reeled in a crappie . It wasnt hooked . The line went around the fish and the hook caught the line and pulled tight .  

I did that once bluegill fishing

[mbtharp1]

Was fishing with my grandpa late in the summer, throwing squarebills. Found a bunch of bass that had pushed a ton of bluegill into the back of a cove. Started catching a bass every cast. Hooked into a nice one, and he wrapped me around a dock post, and broke my line. Tied on a new crank and kept fishing. About 5 minutes later, I heard a splash right next to the side of the boat. I see the crank I lost floating right next to me, and the bass swimming away. The bass had come to the surface and spit the crankbait out right next to me. My grandpa and I laughed for a solid 10 minutes, we couldn't believe it. Definitely my most memorable fishing moment.

[soflabasser]

Had something similar happen to me like that. I hooked a decent bass and it broke my line near a dropoff. A couple days later I went to the same spot with a different lure and caught the same exact bass with my other lure hanging from its mouth.I was shocked that this bass would hit so soon and I took both lures off and released it.

[mbtharp1]

Had something similar happen to me like that. I hooked a decent bass and it broke my line near a dropoff. A couple days later I went to the same spot with a different lure and caught the same exact bass with my other lure hanging from its mouth.I was shocked that this bass would hit so soon and I took both lures off and released it.

 

I bet you were shocked lol. When something like that happens it's hard to believe even though you're seeing it right in front of you.

[soflabasser]

I bet you were shocked lol. When something like that happens it's hard to believe even though you're seeing it right in front of you.

Yes I was quite shocked and happy at the same time since that was the first time that happened to me!After I took both lures off I released the Bass and it swam away quickly.

[Bankbeater]

We were catfishing one time with the anchor out of the front of the boat.  The fish stringer with our catch was hanging over the side toward the back of the boat.  We were fishing out of a rowboat.  Somehow the stringer came loose and went in  before we could grab it.  About an hour later we were going to try a different spot, and when we pulled up the anchor the stringer, with the fish still on, was tangled around the anchor line.

[lo n slo]

This guy put on quite a show several times throughout the day a couple of weeks ago while I was fishing Davidson Lake!

[Tweek1106]

Caught a pickerel with my bare hand because I'm just that manly!

No, but I did see something thrashing in the water while fishing a lake in Massachusetts. After investigating what it was I found a small (18" maybe?) pickerel who was choking on a bluegill that happened to be just a little bit bigger than it could handle.

It was so exhausted that I was able to paddle my kayak right up to it and scoop it up with my bare hand. Took needle nose pliers to crush up and remove the bluegill and released the pickerel after about a min of letting him chill in the water.

[corn-on-the-rob]

This year I was drop shotting some rip rap. The fish must have hit the weight on the fall and it fell through the gill slits in the bottom of his mouth and reeled him in that way. Had to cut my sinker off as I couldn't get it back through.

[lo n slo]

I'm guessing that I was around 13 or so at the time. A friend and I was fishing off the bank at the state park. I was walking the rip-rap bank when I noticed the tail of a fish waving back and forth, just beneath the surface. It appeared that a crappie had gotten itself wedged, somehow, between the rocks. I reached down to pull the fish free but it would not budge. So I moved one of the rocks aside.....only to find that a rather sizeable water snake had it by the head. The fear that ran through me made me jelly legged scared. Needless to say, I got the helll outta there post haste.