Have you ever caught your own lure?

[12poundbass]

A few weeks ago I lost a bladed jig when my line snapped. A couple casts later with my jerkbait I noticed line on my hook, I pulled it in and there’s my blades jig. 
 

Fast forward to a few days ago, my son was on our dock throwing a buzz bait. He got a pro backlash and his line snapped along with 20 or so feet of line. The very next day he calls me while I was working to tell me he got his buzz bait back! The exact same way I did. He was fishing and had line on his hook, he pulled it in and there’s his buzz bait. 
 

What are the chances of this happening, and twice? Have you had similar experience? 

[MassYak85]

Slightly different but I've been bit off by a pickerel, and a few minutes later I catch it on a different lure, reel the thing in and pull both lures out of it's mouth. It sure was hungry! 

 

I've also snagged someone else's line that had broken off while I was dragging a jig. To my surprise there was a small bullhead still kicking and alive on the other end. 

[Luke Barnes]

Ive caught my own lure a time or two. The first time it was a squarebill. Tied on a lipless after I lost the squarebill and as I'm reeling I feel it catch and set the hook in case it was a fish. Started reeling and noticed it wasnt a fish, but was not just my lipless. Got it up and saw, I got my squarebill back!!!!

 

Then had a buddy break off a t rig. I ended up catching the line and got the hook, lure, bead, and weight back!!

[Uncle_MC]

Last summer, I snapped my leader while setting the hook on a wacky-rigged Senko. Heartbreaking, I know. I retied my leader and exact same worm and cast to the same spot.

 

Staring at my line, I see it start swimming off to the side so I reel up slack and set the hook. Just following procedure. I recall it was a roughly 2lb LMB. As I pulled him up...there was my leader hanging out of his mouth! He had completely swallowed my Senko, I could just see the tip of it sticking out. He really liked those Senkos.

[Hower08]

Broke my line on a hookset. About 20 minutes later I get hung up, realized I'm on someone's fishing line so naturally I start complaining about it. Get it reeled up and go well hell that looks like my line. As I started pulling it in I realized the fish was still on that I broke off on. About a 2# largie that choked a tube. My line broke between me and the fish 

[walleyecrazy]

I've only done it once, and it was on a top water so not really that remarkable. I snapped off a spook due to a backlash midcast while night fishing so I couldn't see where it ended up. I grabbed a rod that had a baby bullshad on it and casted in the general direction of my previous cast and was lucky enough to snag some of the line and then the spook along with it. 

[Bluebasser86]

Broke off a lipless on a point while I was bank fishing once, XR50. Went back in my boat the next day, got snagged for a second and it popped free, using a different color XR50. Reeled in what I thought was small stick, found I'd caught my lost bait by the hook. Still have it several years later too.

[JoePhish]

I lost a black Chatter Frog in some heavy weeds once. About two weeks later I was fishing that same weed line and got snagged. Turns out it was my Chatter Frog. Hook was a little rusty but looked good enough. I wasn't catching much that day so I decided to tie it on. After that it was like someone flicked on the fish catching switch.  

[Koz]

Unintentionally? No. On purpose? Yes.

 

Keep in mind I fish from the bank, not a boat. I've had topwaters like Whopper Ploppers break off and targeted them with other lures to snag and retrieve them. A few months ago I had a line break and lost my favorite buzzbait. I tied on another one and used it to drag the area where the first broke off, snagged the line, and was able to hand line it in.

[Captain Phil]

This has happened more than once and it has not always been lures.  One day on Okeechobee nature called and I had to pee.  I had just made a cast with a worm.  I laid my rod down in the boat and left the line out.  While I was doing my business a fish grabbed the worm and pulled my rod and reel into the water.  Luckily the water was only about 6 feet deep.  I spent the next hour fishing for my rod and reel.  I eventually caught the line and pulled everything back into boat.  There was a three pound bass still hooked on my line. 

 

Back when trolling motors first became popular, a member of our bass club bought a brand new Motorguide with a foot control.  This was a big deal back then and expensive at the time.  He mounted it on his deck with wood screws.   The first tournament after that was in the St. John's River.  In practice he hit a log and the whole thing broke off the deck and fell into the river.  Our club spent all afternoon fishing for it.  The river is deep in places with lots of current.  We never found it.  We did learn how to properly mount a trolling motor. 

 

I have fished for my hat more times than I can recall.  

[Bankbeater]

Years ago my dad and I were fishing around a point that had a bunch of trees growing on it.  My dad made a cast and the crankbait got away from him and landed high up in one of the trees.  Fast forward 11 months and we are fishing the around the same point.  I get snagged along the bank and my dad runs the boat over so I can get loose.  While I'm digging my jig out of the rocks I hear my dad say HEY.  I turn around and hanging about a foot over his head is the crankbait he lost the year before.

[snake95]

Have caught other people's lures, including a spinnerbait and a jig with a curly tail bait.

 

Buzzbaits are good for snagging floating lures that were cast off.

 

I sometimes use a deeper fishfinder and have contemplated putting a Tile or similar tagging device in it in case I cast it off.  

 

 

[DanielG]

I wish!.... it's on that branch off the the right... About 20 ft up... don't ask.

 

[Dirtyeggroll]

Well technically is was my fishing partner's lure that he had just broke off on a hookset, and technically I didn't catch the lure directly.

[12poundbass]

7 minutes ago, Dirtyeggroll said:

Well technically is was my fishing partner's lure that he had just broke off on a hookset, and technically I didn't catch the lure directly.

That’s pretty wild! Bass are pretty opportunistic feeders that’s for sure. 

[ATA]

13 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

A few weeks ago I lost a bladed jig when my line snapped. A couple casts later with my jerkbait I noticed line on my hook, I pulled it in and there’s my blades jig. 
 

Fast forward to a few days ago, my son was on our dock throwing a buzz bait. He got a pro backlash and his line snapped along with 20 or so feet of line. The very next day he calls me while I was working to tell me he got his buzz bait back! The exact same way I did. He was fishing and had line on his hook, he pulled it in and there’s his buzz bait. 
 

What are the chances of this happening, and twice? Have you had similar experience? 

That happened to me, I got snaked with my jerk bait, after two hours I was throwing lipless and I catch my own jerk bait, my friend couldn't believe that and we rate it one in million something like that will happen. that feels good,

[snake95]

Takahiro Omori caught a spotted bass early on Day 3 and along with the fish was a crankbait he broke off at this spot on Day 1 of the event.

 

This was a pretty amazing example.

 

https://video.bassmaster.com/detail/videos/lake-martin-2018/video/5730835687001/takahiro-s-lucky-catch?autoStart=true

[Squarebill79]

One night I was throwing a Rapala jointed minnow from shore, cant remember the exact size but it was one of the larger ones. Somehow it broke off on my cast. The next summer I was fishing the same place and found it in some moss, hooks were all rusted out and it had alot of mud and dirt on it. I couldnt believe I actually found something a year later.

[snake95]

36 minutes ago, Squarebill79 said:

The next summer I was fishing the same place and found it in some moss, hooks were all rusted out and it had alot of mud and dirt on it. I couldnt believe I actually found something a year later.

I once cast a nice one knocker spook off into a pond.  Found it 3 years later washed up on shore.

 

It was very distinctive so I'm certain it was mine.  Plus the hooks had completely rusted out.

[Cgolf]

I have once, but when I caught it, it was no longer my lure. We had a local kid that didnt have much so I gave him some lures and one happened to be a swimming image I hadn't used much. 6 months or so later, I snagged some line and sure enough I caught the lure I had given away. Never saw the kid again till many years later, so wasn't able to give it back to him.