Caught a bass while snagged . Has this happenned to you?

[scaleface]

So yesterday I hung a crankbait in a brushpile about 8 foot deep . As I was jiggling the lure , hoping it would come free a two pound bass hammers  it . I mean it hit so hard the rod bowed over . The bait was a flat-sided Strike King,  no rattles .

[flyfisher]

yup had it happen multiple times.

 

[Bird]

The more common scenario is lure over a limb at the surface, caught some really big bass that way but not by design. 

 

But yes, had a shaky head hung in limbs just last week and while trying to free it.....THUMP.

[MountainMan83]

I've had that happen before, but I think the most memorable "hang up" is when I first started learning on a baitcaster and got a horrible backlash. My buddy and I were out in the canoe and he was the more experienced, so he worked on getting it out. Must have been a good 5 or 6 minutes he sat there before he said it was a lost cause and started hand lining to get my hook and senko back. As soon as he got tension on the line he hollered and soon after pulled up a 3 or 4 lb channel cat.

[RoLo]

 

Yup, that's happened to us multiple times.

 

One incident stands out in my memory. Lois & I were in a local tourney on Lake Easy, Florida.

I was tossing an unweighted Senko, and for 2 to 3 hours I could not generate a single bite.

Then my bait got snagged on the bottom (Takes a special talent to get hung on a perfectly clean bottom).

When the bait popped free of the snag, a bass promptly swallowed the worm. 

That provided an important cue, and I immediately switched from an unfettered descent

to a fall with twitches and jerks. We limited out that day, but were out of the money.

Why? Because my opponents figured it out sooner than I did.

 

Roger

 

[haggard]

I got a line hung up on a dock a couple weeks ago even though I deliberately made the cast away from the dock. Lure was a soft plastic paddle tail on a 1/8 oz light jig head. Couldn't figure it out but went in to unwrap the line, which was being pulled in an unnatural way. I thought the fenders tied to the docks were pulling the line as they bobbed around. Followed down the line and saw the bass under the dock. Just as I freed the line, the knot came undone. I hope the bass didn't gut hook it and could shake it free (barbless) - since I didn't know it was there, I didn't set the hook. I'll never know. The fish must have come out to take the lure and swam back under the dock.

[Dens228]

Last summer I was working a shoreline and cast a crankbait over a tree branch about 10 feet or so up but the lure was laying just barely in the water.  I thought was to paddle over and cut the lure off and reel the line in.  Just as I started to do that a bass hit it, pulled it down and spit it out.  The branch had bent, sprang back up and wrapped the line and my crankbait several times around well up out of reach.  It was worth the $6 just to have that story. 

 

[Koz]

39 minutes ago, MountainMan83 said:

I've had that happen before, but I think the most memorable "hang up" is when I first started learning on a baitcaster and got a horrible backlash. My buddy and I were out in the canoe and he was the more experienced, so he worked on getting it out. Must have been a good 5 or 6 minutes he sat there before he said it was a lost cause and started hand lining to get my hook and senko back. As soon as he got tension on the line he hollered and soon after pulled up a 3 or 4 lb channel cat.

I had the same thing happen to me. Picking out a backlash and a catfish picked my spinnerbait off the bottom.

[Log Catcher]

I has happened several times for me. It has happened with crank baits a few times and even with soft plastics when I was trying wiggle the bait over a limb the sinker was trying to snag on.

[LonnieP]

I’ve caught several bass trying to get a jig unhung from Lily pads. Caught my personal best years ago at a pond trying to free my Texas rig from a snag about a foot off the bank.

[Bluebasser86]

It's happened to me many times. Most memorable was a 7.76lb fish that ate a snagged squarebill off a rock while I was trying to pop it loose. Popped it once and it stayed stuck. Second time I tried it was moving and I  cranked and pulled and watched a big head and bug eyes wallow on the surface with my bait.

[Cdn Angler]

I had this happen last night. Snagged a whopper plopper on a lily pad. Yanked it and the pad underwater and pulling on it for a bit and hooked an OK bass. I thought i might of foul hooked it, but nope, right in the mouth. 

[schplurg]

I wish that would happen to me. Having a rough season so far - I'll take a fish anyway I can right now.

[Mjmj]

Last year fishing a clunker tournament, I was the first boat out. I get to my spot on a point almost in the middle of the lake i cast my drop shot and get hung up in a huge rock pile. While im  trying to shake it free, I see the other boats coming.  I didn't want  to look stupid getting stuck , so while the other boats got closer, ii just pretended to be fishing it normal. As they are passing me I feel a thud on my rod. It ended up being  a 3.68 lbs bass. It was also the second biggest bass of the night, which put me in the money

[WRB]

One of the most bizzar catch occurred casting a T-rigged worm into a bush through some branches. I carefully pulled the worm up to free it when a bass came up through the bush after the worm. I set the hook and the worm came flying back, the bass was still thrashing around in the bush. Got on the trolling motor to see what was going on and the bass was hanging by it's gill covers between 2 branches. Reached the bass and lifted it out of the bush by it's mouth and released it.

I had several bass strike hung up jigs or worms trying to shake lure free.

Tom

[Teal]

On 6/5/2020 at 6:15 PM, haggard said:

I got a line hung up on a dock a couple weeks ago even though I deliberately made the cast away from the dock. Lure was a soft plastic paddle tail on a 1/8 oz light jig head. Couldn't figure it out but went in to unwrap the line, which was being pulled in an unnatural way. I thought the fenders tied to the docks were pulling the line as they bobbed around. Followed down the line and saw the bass under the dock. Just as I freed the line, the knot came undone. I hope the bass didn't gut hook it and could shake it free (barbless) - since I didn't know it was there, I didn't set the hook. I'll never know. The fish must have come out to take the lure and swam back under the dock.

Same thing has happened me many times

I've become a fan on dead sticking or leaving it there, if I toss it in a Bush before I pop it loose

[lo n slo]

yes indeed 

[Uncle_MC]

My PB shown in my current profile pic came on a bad backlash. Spent about 3min picking it out while my Rat-L-Trap just sat on bottom motionless. Got squared away, and she whacked it as soon as I started reeling. 

[Lead Head]

I had a ned stuck on a submerged log. It was shallow enough I could see it plainly. As I was trying to pop it free (water was far too shallow to troll over) I watched a small bass fly in and grab it off the log. He didn't even eat it, just pulled it off the log and sped away... almost as if he was tired of watching me fiddle with it and wanted me to be on my way.

[Jaderose]

Ever hand-lined a fish in because the backlash was so bad?  Lol...yeah.  So have I

[Dwight Hottle]

Numerous times. I have also had hooked fish snag me up on the bottom. I had several smallmouth hooked on a jerkbait try to rub it loose in the rocks & consequently snag the bait or the line. Some of them would come loose but most would result in a lost fish. They always felt like monsters when they got off. 

I caught my PB striper ticking the rocks & subsquently snagging the pencil weight in the rocks. I could feel the fish on the line while hooked to the bottom. It finally came free after what seemed like an eternity. I guess that's why they call them rockfish.  

[sdowiat]

I was Texas rig worm fishing around docks on Chickamauga.  My worm had been hit a few times,( on other docks ) was pretty torn up and was barely hanging on but I was gonna use it as long as I could.   After a long cast the worm came off my hook about 10 feet from the boat.  I try not to litter and made a couple of quick casts to pull the floating work to where I could grab it... I tried but it still wasn't quite close enough.   I was on my knees and my rod beside me had several feet (10 ish) of line out because I was intending to put another purple worm on....   So I grabbed the line and swung the hook out to try to pull the floating and mangled worm to me.  I got the hook around it ( not through it obviously ) was was pulling to me by hand when wham a 3 pounder darted from beneath the boat, grabbed the worm and got caught on the hook.

 

That 3 pounder was a handful to get in bare handed.   I'm surprised the line didn't cut me, but I got him in bare handed and caught him on a hook that was only pulling a worm in its crook.  My best fish for that day.

[T-Billy]

Many times. Usually while trying to pop it loose.

[king fisher]

I have the opposite luck.  Hook a big bass I loose the fish, and the lure ends up hopelessly snagged.

[Captain Phil]

Oh Yeah...   Some years back in a club tournament I had a big fish located in some pads.  The non-boater I drew was a nubee who hadn't fished much.  First thing out of the gate I ran to that fish.  I worked the fish for some time, but she wouldn't bite.  My partner in the back hung a Rattle Trap in the pads.  As he was attempting to jerk it loose, the lure popped off and my big fish ate it.   Sometimes it's better to be lucky.