Most Interesting Fight

[Bluebasser86]

3 hours ago, BassB8Caster said:

That's what I thought from watching other videos of yours. But in the video above at the end it seems like you are keeping that one.

My 50lb scale wasn't big enough to weigh her so we went to the boat house to see if they had a big scale, which they didn't. So I took a few pictures at the ramp and turned her loose, much to the chagrin of a couple locals.

[UPSmallie]

My most interesting fight came icefishing earlier this year.  One of  the last days of ice because of the high temps.  60 degree sun and about 6 inches of slush ice over 4 FOW.  One of the last days to catch pike/muskie/walleye before the season closed for them to spawn too.  Inside my little pop-up I rigged a deadstick with a live minnow hooked behind the dorsal fin in one hole and a seperate hole for me to jig in.  The day dragged on and the only action I had gotten was a missed walleye.  I was chumming like crazy since I knew it would probably be my last time out.  I had to have dropped 25 crushed up dead minnows down my holes that day.  Sitting back in my chair jigging a blue and silver do-jigger tipped with a minnow head.  Up and down, Up and down.  Had to have been an hour or so of just doing this.  BAM!!  Something slams my do-jigger and my drag starts screaming!  Like literally screaming!  Battle this fish for probably about 5 minutes and it finally starts to tire.  I look down and see that it's a decent sized pike.  Keep in mine that I'm not using a steel leader.  It takes off again, and out of  the corner of my eye I see my deadstick start jerking up and down.  You have got to be kidding me.  He picked up the minnow on the deadstick as I was battling him with a do-jigger in his mouth!  I can't gain any progress on him now because not only am I battling him, but also my other rod!  I flip the bail on the deadstick and keep cranking with my 6 lb flouro.  Finally I get him up to the hole thrashing, pick him up by his gills and throw him on the ice.  Sure enough, both hooks are pinned in the corner of his mouth!  Only 24 inches, but an incredible fish.  As I went to get the hooks out of his mouth, I see that he had bitten through the line on my do-jigger!  Pure luck that I was able to land him before he snapped the line.  Later when I gutted him, he had at least 23 mostly digested shiners in his belly.  Not mine either.  Go figure.  His head rests planked on a wooden head mount in my room to this day.  (Self preserved using rock salt and after 2 months applying clear finish).

[jr231]

When I was a young boy . Probably 10. My younger brother (7) was with us at a lake we had access too. Me n my buddy would troll jointed rapalas from a paddle boat and do ok. (It's what got me hooked on artificial) . Anyway we left my brother at the dock. And when we came back he was fighting a fish that seemed like a monster to us. We got over to the dock and thought it was the biggest bass we had ever seen (probably about 5 pounds) . He didn't know what he was doing , and neither did I.  He tried to horse it with some old pole from the shed and the line broke with the bass right in front of us. I asked him how he hooked it. And he told me he didn't want to take off a small bluegill that he caught so he just kept casting it out hoping it would fly off. Ha-ha ! 

[OCdockskipper]

Had a unusual catch this past Saturday.

I came upon a dock that was about 25 feet wide jutting out about 15 feet from the shore with a boat moored to the front.  From the right side, I skipped a weightless wacky Senko a good 20 feet under the dock, so it was actually closer to the left side.  After it settled down, I went to pop it up and found that it was hung up on something.

There was no way I could access it from the right side of the dock, so I stuck the rod about 3 feet into the water (to clear the boats propeller) and moved my boat to the left side of the dock.  The idea was to give the lure a tug from the opposite direction in hopes of making it come loose, but as I was working around the dock, I realized there was a weed bed along the front of the boat.  So now my line is sawing through & collecting weeds as I move left.  I can feel the lure is still snagged, but there is about 1500 lbs of weeds (or so it felt) hanging on the line.  I give the line a guitar strum and feel the lure pop free, only to then the pop,pop,pop of a fish struggling on the line.  I start reeling in a bass, who ends up with this mess of weeds around his head and when I landed him, I found he had been foul hooked on the bottom of the jaw.  

Apparently this poor guy was just minding his own business, watching this snagged senko on the bottom, when it suddenly came loose & hit him in the face.  He then got dragged into a mess of weeds before being unhooked & released.  He probably has an unusual story to tell his friends... 

[dwh4784]

My most memorable was when fishing with my dad, we were about to line up with a dock in a great spot and I was in the back seat and tried to hole-shot him and failed nicely. He laughed as I went right over the corner of the dock with my slug-go, and just as he asked what my plan was if I got a bite there I hammered a ~2lber and hook set it over the dock and into the boat in front of my feet in a single motion. I said something smart like that was my plan the whole time. We still laugh about that one.