Strange things that have happened while bass fishing.

[Sam]

I have been giving this thread a lot of thought and I can't seem to remember anything "funny" or out of the ordinary while fishing.

 

I must be concentrating on my presentation too much and am missing a lot of things going on around me.

 

The funniest things I have seen are at the ramp when others launch and trailer their boats. As I have said before, if you have a local ramp near by and nothing to do on a weekend in the summer, take a chair, cooler, umbrella and sit back and enjoy the show.

[IndianaFinesse]

2 hours ago, Chris. said:

Was fishing at a pond and felt burning on my leg.. Thought it was maybe a pricker bush or something.. Looked down and saw about 10 bees stinging my leg... Threw my rod and started running around.. they were all over me.. It was nuts... Got stung probably around 20 times... Beer and Benedryl took care of it...

Ouch. Once I was hiking though the woods in Michigan to fish a secluded lake, and around lunch time I came across a little clearing and decided to take a break and eat lunch.  So I sat down, took my bacback full of gear off, and started eating.  Problem was I didn't notice that the clearing was full of fire ant holes, tons of them.  I was sitting down eating a sandwich when the first fire ant bit me, so by that time I was covered with them.  I had fire ants on my legs, up my shorts, on my arms, all over me.  I ripped my clothes off while running as fast as I could out there, while screaming and cursing.  It would have been funny to watch, and it's funny now, but it sure as heck wasn't at the time.

[scaleface]

1 minute ago, IndianaFinesse said:

Ouch. Once I was hiking though the woods in Michigan to fish a secluded lake, and around lunch time I came across a little clearing and decided to take a break and eat lunch.  So I sat down, took my bacback full of gear off, and started eating.  Problem was I didn't notice that the clearing was full of fire ant holes, tons of them.  I was sitting down eating a sandwich when the first fire ant bit me, so by that time I was covered with them.  I had fire ants on my legs, up my shorts, on my arms, all over me.  I ripped my clothes off while running as fast as I could out there, while screaming and cursing.  It would have been funny to watch, and it's funny now, but it sure as heck wasn't at the time.

The Benny hill theme song was playing in my head while reading this .

[IndianaFinesse]

Just now, scaleface said:

The Benny hill theme song was playing in my head while reading this .

Benny hill?  Never heard of that show.

[wdp]

7 minutes ago, IndianaFinesse said:

Benny hill?  Never heard of that show.

It's an old British comedy variety type show. It's pretty funny. Benny Hill was the comedian. 

[Choporoz]

I had an eight inch long baby bass swim off my port quarter while I worked a shoreline for over half a mile.  Stayed about three feet from the boat the entire time....occasionally swimming up to check out my retrieving lure...and then returning to his place off the back corner of the boat....crazy....guess he was drafting

[wdp]

1 hour ago, Sam said:

I have been giving this thread a lot of thought and I can't seem to remember anything "funny" or out of the ordinary while fishing.

 

I must be concentrating on my presentation too much and am missing a lot of things going on around me.

 

The funniest things I have seen are at the ramp when others launch and trailer their boats. As I have said before, if you have a local ramp near by and nothing to do on a weekend in the summer, take a chair, cooler, umbrella and sit back and enjoy the show.

This jogged my memory. A buddy & I were fishing on Father's Day when a guy & his 2 teenage sons show up and launch at the ramp for what was obviously a father & son Father's Day outing. This was an old gravel ramp & the water was low so it was easy to get the back tires down in the mud where the gravel ended. They fished a while & headed back in while my buddy & I continued to fish nearby the ramp.

 

And of course, they got stuck once the boat was trailered & they went to pull off. We must've chuckled for near 30 mins watching them try to get their truck outta the mud. I'd have offered assistance but had no rope or anything in my truck to help pull em out. Not even sure my lil 4 cyl Ford Ranger woulda been up to the task. 

 

They cussed & hollered the whole time. The highlights were when 1 of the sons yelled to his Dad who was spinning the tires non-stop. Dad! Dad! Stop!!! You're just making it worse. The dad got out yelling at the top of his lungs, I knew it! I knew it! I knew something like this was gonna happen! To this day, my buddy & I yell "I knew it!" as a sort of catch phrase. ?

[d-camarena]

I was fishing in a creek, i got a bite and set the hook on a bass that looked around 2 pounds. As i was about to grab it out of the water a snake comes out of the water and grabs it from the tail. 

RIP bass, i wasnt gonna fight that snake. I watched helplessly as dragged it into the water, later i saw the snake appear with the bass in its mouth on the other side of the creek and ate it.

[DrMarlboro92]

On 1/1/2017 at 9:18 PM, wdp said:

I had an egret swoop down & pick up the Spro frog I was fishing. It flew up about 20 ft before I kinda snatched back a little and my frog plopped back down into the water. I had to reel it back in real fast as it tried to swoop down & take it again. 

You know this type of thing happens a lot more than you would think. I've caught a loon, and great blue heron.... I've never managed to get my baits back though.

[wdp]

5 hours ago, DrMarlboro92 said:

You know this type of thing happens a lot more than you would think. I've caught a loon, and great blue heron.... I've never managed to get my baits back though.

Wow. Well, that was my fear which is why I kinda gently popped back my rod hoping the hooks wouldn't get the bird's foot. Luckily, my frog popped out. When he came down for that 2nd pass at it, I was gonna make sure he didn't get it again. 

[Lunker plucker]

My wife and I were out fishing and had been on the lake for a few hours it was mid summer and hot so I had anchored the boat near the shore to get in the shade of the overhanging trees to take a break and re-tie some tackle. My wife picked up my zebco 33 rigged with a live worm and a cork; I typically bring it along in case nothing else is really bitting. So there we sat me re-rigging poles while she fished. I was about half way through with what I was doing when I looked up and saw my wife with the Rod she was using nearly bent all the way down to the water. "You get hung on some timber?" was the fist thing I asked with a smirk. That smirk quickly vanished as the line began to scream off the reel. She quickly handed the rod to me and I immeditly felt how much weight was on the other end. 12 mins later I finally got to see it, she had hooked into a 28lb grass carp. It was a heck of an experience 

[bassinhole]

Had an owl pick up my Super Spook Jr. 3 times one day. He was convened it was edible. I'm glad the owls feet didn't have any soft tissue to hook. 

Also had a sparrow fly right into my line on a cast. (Worst Birds Nest Ever) 

[bassinhole]

 

One more... When I was about 11 I went snook fishing with my dad near a spillway which was flowing rather quickly. When he got a blowup behind his topwater plug he totally quit paying attention to the current/trolling motor as he got ready to set the hook. Needless to say the boat drifted swiftly into piling and he toppled out and broke his rod. As he was struggling to get back in the boat, like a good son, I grabbed the broken rod from him and landed the fish.

 

It never occurred to me why he would be so upset at me when he got back in the boat. It was a good catch!

[DrMarlboro92]

9 hours ago, wdp said:

Wow. Well, that was my fear which is why I kinda gently popped back my rod hoping the hooks wouldn't get the bird's foot. Luckily, my frog popped out. When he came down for that 2nd pass at it, I was gonna make sure he didn't get it again. 

Yeah when I hooked mine the loon skated across the water and dove on my paddle tail that i was throwing over a school of shad, and I tried popping it free and when I did the leader snapped up close to his bill from the looks of things. The heron scooped up a spook and I knew then and there it was gone and I thought about pulling it to me but i was worried jerking him out of the air might be too hard on it and couldn't figure out what I would do once I got him there so I cut it off. I felt extremely bad for the birds in both situations. Someone needs to start a "What to do when a bird takes your lure" thread. 

[IndianaFinesse]

2 hours ago, DrMarlboro92 said:

"What to do when a bird takes your lure" 

Fight him for it.

[scaleface]

I was night fishing for channel cats in the middle of a reservoir . The bats were drawn in by the bugs attracted by the light . I kept feeling the bats hit my line . I guess one of them actually bit it because when I set the hook on a fish the line failed a few feet from the tip .

[pondbassin101]

The only thing that comes to mind thats kind of strange is that iv'e caught snapping turtles on senkos and spinners and catfish on square bill cranks

[Largemouth21]

One time i was fishing a live sucker in a river mouth because a huge pike kept flopping (I think it was a pike but I cant be sure) A seagull came down and grabbed the sucker and took off with it. At first i thought i had a big fish and set the hook but then realized it was a seagull.  It took off and started pulling my line out, i didnt want to lose all my line but there were people everywhere and the game wardens patrol the place too. So i started reeling the bird in and fighting it like a fish. By then there was a bunch of people watching. Finally the bird let go of the sucker and flew away. That was my weirdest day! Though that was a long time ago

[BigSkyBasser]

This happened last year while we were driving from one spot to another. The area we were fishing is littered with deer so you will see them all day long. My girlfriend yelled at me to stop because she thought she saw something strange with these deer like a cute fawn or something. When I backed up so I could see the clearing they were in, we see these two deer keeping close company with this turkey. At one point they were even laying down with this enormous bird as if they'd raised it from birth. We spend nearly every weekend up here and had never seen something this bizarre.

 

Then as if nature couldn't get weirder, we pull up to this dredge pond we like fishing and I hear this strange shrieking sound coming from behind a point around the other side of the pond.  We walked around to this end and found an enormous bald eagle dive bombing a great blue heron, and the heron would scream at it when it came close to it's fishing spot it had secured on a log. I regrettably couldn't find the pictures we took of the birds fighting.

[WTnPuddleJumper]

fishing one of our many river runs in my neck of the woods, I was bank fishing one day with a spinnerbait throwing around cypress trees and knees.  I hung a quality 3 lb largemouth to realize my braid was riding a top a cypress knee which eventually cut a trench in the wood during the fight.  I tried to wrestle the fish over the knee but the the fish slid right up the side of the knee and then my line broke.  So there I am standing on the bank with a quality fish hanging off of this knee (I didn't want the fish to die)  So I tied on another spinnerbait and tried to flip it over to the knee to hopefully pull the fish off of the knee.  1st attempt my bait went past the knee so as I was reeling back in another good bass hit the bait and I reeled him in.  After a few more attempts I pitched it right in his mouth, hooking him with a 2nd spinner bait.  After a few jerks the fish was freed and I got my spinnerbait back.

[the reel ess]

1 hour ago, WTnPuddleJumper said:

fishing one of our many river runs in my neck of the woods, I was bank fishing one day with a spinnerbait throwing around cypress trees and knees.  I hung a quality 3 lb largemouth to realize my braid was riding a top a cypress knee which eventually cut a trench in the wood during the fight.  I tried to wrestle the fish over the knee but the the fish slid right up the side of the knee and then my line broke.  So there I am standing on the bank with a quality fish hanging off of this knee (I didn't want the fish to die)  So I tied on another spinnerbait and tried to flip it over to the knee to hopefully pull the fish off of the knee.  1st attempt my bait went past the knee so as I was reeling back in another good bass hit the bait and I reeled him in.  After a few more attempts I pitched it right in his mouth, hooking him with a 2nd spinner bait.  After a few jerks the fish was freed and I got my spinnerbait back.

Mad skills

On 1/5/2017 at 1:59 PM, wdp said:

It's an old British comedy variety type show. It's pretty funny. Benny Hill was the comedian. 

That song's named Yackety Sax.

[mixel]

My partner and I were in his boat working a rocky bank and we slowly trolled around a point. On the other side was a small sandy cove. And in that cove was a beautiful mid 20-ish girl, fully nude, posing in front of a similar aged photographer. Almost as if we were reading each others minds, my partner and I remained as quiet as possible for the same reason, to get a longer look before they notice us.  They didn't notice us for a bit and then finally the photog looked up and scrambled to get a jacket for her. They hid behind some rocks until we motored out of there.  

[NYWayfarer]

I was bank fishing once when I noticed a wake heading my way. As it got closer I was able to see through the clear water that it was a muskrat swimming underwater right towards me.  

 

I took a few steps back ready to run if it came out of the water but just as it reached the waters edge it disappeared. Upon closer examination it had went into an underwater entrance to its den which I was standing over the whole time.

[Wayne P.]

A couple of unusual incidents I can think of involving bears:

Was heading back to the ramp on an electric-only lake and as I got near the ramp area I heard someone yell "there is a bear behind you". I stopped and turned around, saw it swimming along about 20 yards away, and it changed direction and swam back to the shore. After I got to the ramp and got my vehicle back to the ramp, the bear was swimming across the lake again and stopped on an island. I got my video camera and filmed it leaving the island going to the opposite shore.

 

Another lake I kept hearing a lot of splashing and went in that direction and saw a bear on top of a beaver hut. Two beavers were swimming back and fourth out from the hut smacking their tails on the water to try to scare the bear away. The bear noticed me and ran away. I then could hear some beaver pups calling from the hut.

 

Another one involving a beaver. I was fishing along a shore line with a topwater plug and a beaver surfaced, ran into my line and that pulled the lure into it. The hooks stuck and the beaver kept going submerging and surfacing splashing its tail occasionally with me following it with a tight line. After about 100 yards, we got away from shore, I got around to the opposite side where the lure was and it pulled loose.

[UPSmallie]

This was more of a lack of common sense, but one time my cousin and I were fishing at my Uncle's lake in his johnboat with a trolling motor.  Had done well on catching the bass along the weed edge, but decided we wanted to start fishing the other side of the lake not even a quarter of the mile away.  Turned on the trolling motor and for whatever reason the propeller would barely spin.  We were moving literally 1 inch forward per 5-7 seconds.  Sat in the boat for about 35 minutes and had covered about 50 feet of water.  Finally I looked down and somehow the boat's battery connection was loosened up.  Screwed around with it and we then reached the other side of the lake in less than 2 minutes.  Felt pretty dumb at the time, but pretty funny looking back.