craziest (true) fishing stories

[Pondboss16]

anyone have any crazy fishing stories or weird things that have happened while fishing? 

[Big C]

Your emoticon of choice is pretty weird.

[Pondboss16]

Just now, Big C said:

Your emoticon of choice is pretty weird.

 I saw it and couldn't help but use it! 

[FloridaFishinFool]

One day a fellow worker and I went to fish a small pond. He was on one side and I was on the other. We were both using live shiners trying to catch big bass free lining the shiners and we both hooked into the same fish.

I had cast my shiner out towards the middle and he did the same from the opposite side of the pond, and he set the hook first and then as he was reeling in the fish I noticed my line moving and I went to set the hook not knowing it was the same fish he was reeling in.

What made this story kind of funny at the time was that he tried to crane lift the fish in to shore and his line snapped when it came out of the water only a couple of feet flapping away. Both of us got to see it was a nice size bass in the 5 to 6 pound range. Once his line snapped the fish dropped back into the water and he started hollering obscenities, and I laughed at him and said don't worry, I got this one!

So I reeled in that fish back to my side of the pond and removed his hook and mine and let the bass go.

[everythingthatswims]

This fish had quite the appetite for zoom z-drop worms. Fished jumped between the kayaks and we realized we were both hooked into it. 

[Oregon Native]

I remember many years ago when my dad first took me bass fishing to a coastal lake in Oregon.  He cast a live newt into the tulles and it was hanging about a foot above the water.  A short time passed and this five pound largemouth jumped out of the water and grabbed it.  Boy was he surprised.  (Miss Him)

[BareHook]

My buddy and I were on a multi-day fishing trip off Baja California. The boat had stopped over some bottom structure about 60 feet deep and we were dropping down to the bottom with whole live mackerel (about 10-12") for bait, when his line suddenly heads out and a striped marlin tail walks about 20 feet away. Seems it grabbed his bait while it was dropping to the bottom.

[buzzed bait]

well none of my fishing stories are ever really true....

[everythingthatswims]

1 hour ago, BareHook said:

My buddy and I were on a multi-day fishing trip off Baja California. The boat had stopped over some bottom structure about 60 feet deep and we were dropping down to the bottom with whole live mackerel (about 10-12") for bait, when his line suddenly heads out and a striped marlin tail walks about 20 feet away. Seems it grabbed his bait while it was dropping to the bottom.

That's why I love the ocean. Just when you think you've seen it all, something happens again

[Dwight Hottle]

I was slow rolling a spinner bait while fishing a pond from shore in the late afternoon when I felt a bite. After a brief struggle I got the fish close to the bank. As I tried to lift the fish towards the shore I saw my spinner bait but no fish but I still felt the fish struggling. I continued to lift & up comes the fish. I'm puzzled  because the fish is about 2-3 feet behind my spinner bait. As I reach down to lip the bass I see some braid attached to my spinnerbait. My buddy had hooked a fish in the morning and it broke off half way in the shore. He was using a T-rigged creature bait. The bait was still in the fishes mouth with a section of braid trailing. My spinner bait had the braid wrapped around the clevis of the blade. I thanked my buddy for breaking off a nice 6lb bass which allowed me to catch it and then gave him back his hook & bait. 

 

[RichF]

This one's kinda like Dwights... I was fishing a team tournament with my father a couple years back on the St. Lawrence River, flipping thick milfoil for a quick limit of largemouth in the morning before trying to upgrade with smallies.  My jig hooked up in some REALLY heavy braid buried in the weed bed that someone must have broke off at some point.  I started to hand line it in (to remove the litter from the water) and felt some weight on the end, like I was dragging in a small anchor.  When I got the line closer to the boat a 6 plus pound smallmouth tail walked and spit out the tiny wacky hook/senko combination attached at the end.  That fish must've spooled whomever hooked it because I ended up with a massive handful of  80 lb braid.  I wonder if I could've weighed that fish had I gotten it in the boat, definitely would've helped!  What do you guys think??

[Scott F]

I was on a fly-in trip in Canada to an outpost camp that had no running water or electricity. One of our guys used to go down to the dock every morning to brush his teeth. While rinsing off his toothbrush in the lake, a northern came out and bit him on the hand!

Another time, we were all having a very tough time catching fish. At the end of the day, another fisherman and I were standing on the dock commiserating on our bad luck that day, when a gull landed on the dock, and dropped a small walleye. The gull looked at us, then picked up the walleye and swallowed it whole. He looked back at us as if to say, "See guys, this is how it's done" and flew off. This is why I don't like gulls. Smart__s birds.

(Limiting this to true stories takes some of the fun out of this thread)

[Tracker22]

My PB also.

While fishing a small farm pond you could cast across, I had one break my line on a grape Carolina rigged worm. Five casts later I landed a 8lb largemouth with my previously lost worm still hooked in his mouth. He must have been starving!

[Pondboss16]

39 minutes ago, Tracker22 said:

My PB also.

While fishing a small farm pond you could cast across, I had one break my line on a grape Carolina rigged worm. Five casts later I landed a 8lb largemouth with my previously lost worm still hooked in his mouth. He must have been starving!

caught my pb bass the same way, line snapped on a big fish near some structure. rigged up again and casted to the same spot and hauled a 6-7 pound beast with the senko and part of my line still attached

[Florida Cracker2]

Well this story isn't mine...I was down doing some fishing in the Ten Thou. Isl.s area at the mouth of Lost Man's River and a fishing guide working the shoreline by himself eased up to me and started chit-chatting and told me a story about him seeing a friends boat drifting with no one in it. He went up to it and found his friend laying down bear-hugging a large tarpon. While fighting him, the tarpon jumped into his boat hooking him also with a large saltwater lure. After he beat the tarpon to death, he clipped off the hooks to free his buddy.

[Tristin blades]

I used to fish bullshoalS lake in missouri with my dad. He fished for everything, so at the end of the week we had caught,largemouth,crappie, smallmouth, catfish, gar, carp, and bluegill. So the last day of the trip, my father. Says well no one caught a white bass this trip. Not even 3 mins later we are loading the boat and my rod was rigged up with a roadrunner. It was dangling over side of boat about 2 inches from waters surface. Sure enough a white bass comes out of water snatches that roadrunner and takes off. I jump after the rod into the water(my zebco prized possesion at the time, i was 8 yrs old) and got the rod. He jumps out of the truck comes running back bye the boat, what the hells going on back here! I stand up in about 2 feet of water, reel in the fish ,hold it up grinning from ear to ear. Heres your white bass i said. I,ll never forget the look on his face lmfao. He shakes his head, as i let the fish go, and says showoff! Lol, best memory i had with my old man.?

 

[everythingthatswims]

My brother and I caught this fish a combined 3 times in 3 days from a pond in Myrtle Beach including jumping it off and hooking it again and landing it an hour later the first day. Fish was not on a bed.

[fishblitzer]

My PB fish is a crazy story. Fishing a ledge with a black/blue jig and I hook into a big bass! I fight him for a little bit and get him to the boat finally! I reach down to lip him and he thrashed and popped off the jig. He had a bucket mouth so I knew he was a big un. I sat down and took a few minutes to gather myself as well as drink some water. About 5 minutes later I go back to fishing the same ledge, with the boat in the same position. I cast my jig out, let it sink, engage my reel, and my line is swimming off to the right quickly. I set the hook, and can tell right away it's another big fish, get him to the boat, lip him, and get him in the boat! It was the same fish I had hooked and lost not 5 minutes before. He had the trailer claw in his gullet and a hole from where the jig had tore out of his lip the first time. He ended up being 6.5 pounds. Probably the craziest fishing story I have because I have never heard of anyone catching a big bass after getting it to the boat and losing it, much less on the very next cast.

 

 

 

Edit: Just read a few posts above this and apparently I'm not the only one!

[Jtrout]

I was fishing off the coast of ft lauderdale we were kite fishing with google eye and the bait got stuck in a pile of seaweed on to top of the water then a huge sailfish appeared circling like a shark the first mate grabbed the line and popped it out of the seaweed and instantly the sailfish grabbed it and took off about a 7 minute fight it was in the boat 84 inches long!

[Catch 22]

I used to wet wade a small stream a few nights a week. Dumest smallies for spinnerbaits I have ever seen.There was dead fall tree about a foot diameter that was half submerged. I placed the sb over the log in a pocket behind it.The bait crawled over the log real pretty with a smallie in hot persuit.It jumped over the log   and smashed the sb

I broke off a jig in a flounder only to catch it an hour later and get my jig back.

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[junyer357]

Me and one of my fraternity brothers were fishing at my usual local private lake.  When we pulled up another guy was there fishing for catfish.  While we were getting out our gear he hooks and breaks off on one. He decided then he was done for day. Several hours later, my buddy hooks one dragging a tex rig.  He gets it in and ita the catfish the guy broke off on earlier.  My buddys hook had caught in the eye of the weight on the steel leader.  Ended up being a nice 10lb catfish we kept and he fried up. 

[Airman4754]

On 2/17/2016 at 3:38 AM, Oregon Native said:

I remember many years ago when my dad first took me bass fishing to a coastal lake in Oregon.  He cast a live newt into the tulles and it was hanging about a foot above the water.  A short time passed and this five pound largemouth jumped out of the water and grabbed it.  Boy was he surprised.  (Miss Him)

One of my best friends growing up had a lake house on what I'm pretty sure is the same lake you are talking about. 

We were there for the weekend during the summer back in the early 90's and at about 5am we hear a young child screaming bloody murder from down the shoreline. We all roll out of bed like fireman and ran towards the screaming. 

We get there and it was a little boy with about a 5lb bass laying on their dock. He caught it on a little Zebco push button setup with a piece of hotdog. He was pretty excited to say the least.