The Strange And Unexplainable

[Mobasser]

When I was much younger, in my latter twenties, I had a wife and four children at home. On Friday nights,the kids would be asleep between nine and ten o clock.                    I'd take a casting rod, a small one tray tacklebox, a good flashlight and go walk the banks at a small lake near home, night fishing for bass.                                         My night box contained a few spinnerbaits, a jar of #11 pork frogs, and a bag of large Culprit worms, hooks and weights, as well as two Jitterbugs, a 5/8 oz size, and a then new muskie jitterbug.                        I always fished the same cove. The cove was not very large, and had an old half rotted wooden dock, with one light above, which put out a little bit of dim light. Some guys would promise to meet me there, but almost all backed out, so I made these trips alone. On certain nights, bats would circle the light, occasionally swooping down close by, but there was never any problem with them.                                  One humid night, I decided to hike around the cove and fish the other side. Using my flashlight, I made the hike, walked down the bank and began casting.                           Directly behind me around ten feet distance, was a large thick wooded area. Very overgrown and thick with trees, vines and deadfalls. No paths or trails in this woods, and I'm sure nobody ever went in there.                                       After a short time, I heard a tree crack in the woods behind me, followed by some loud commotion. This happened again, but sounded closer. I held my flashlight up and scanned the woods, but everything seemed still.                                                               There was something in that large woods, trying to get through, and getting closer. I heard what sounded like a larger branch breaking along with more rustling noise, and that was it. My imagination got the best of me.                                                              I quickly reeled the spinnerbait to the rod tip, grabbed my tacklebox and quickly( very quickly), made a beeline back to my truck, on the other side of the cove.                              When I got to my truck, I was sweating, and it took me a minute to calm down. I stared into the woods across the cove trying to see just what it was that made that noise behind me. Whatever it was, it was large enough to break branches and make some serious commotion.               Night fishing for bass can be awesome. Your senses become very sharp, and everything is amplified.                             This all happened over 35yrs ago. I'll never know what was in those woods that night, and I'll always wonder.                                 I still have my black muskie jitterbug too. I've never caught a single fish on it. Now, it's just a reminder of a night time bass fishing trip from years ago.

Please share any strange or unexplainable things that you've experienced while night fishing for bass.

[Captain Phil]

In my twenties and thirties, I often fished the Everglades alone at night.  The mosquitoes were horrible, but the fishing made up for it.  The bass I caught night fishing were substantially larger then those I caught during the day.   When you are alone at 2 AM in a swamp twenty miles from the ramp, your mind causes you to think the worst.   More than once I would leave and go home early when my fears got the best of me.  I never saw anything I couldn't explain, but that didn't make me feel better.  

 

 

[HaydenS]

35 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

When I was much younger, in my latter twenties, I had a wife and four children at home. On Friday nights,the kids would be asleep between nine and ten o clock.                    I'd take a casting rod, a small one tray tacklebox, a good flashlight and go walk the banks at a small lake near home, night fishing for bass.                                         My night box contained a few spinnerbaits, a jar of #11 pork frogs, and a bag of large Culprit worms, hooks and weights, as well as two Jitterbugs, a 5/8 oz size, and a then new muskie jitterbug.                        I always fished the same cove. The cove was not very large, and had an old half rotted wooden dock, with one light above, which put out a little bit of dim light. Some guys would promise to meet me there, but almost all backed out, so I made these trips alone. On certain nights, bats would circle the light, occasionally swooping down close by, but there was never any problem with them.                                  One humid night, I decided to hike around the cove and fish the other side. Using my flashlight, I made the hike, walked down the bank and began casting.                           Directly behind me around ten feet distance, was a large thick wooded area. Very overgrown and thick with trees, vines and deadfalls. No paths or trails in this woods, and I'm sure nobody ever went in there.                                       After a short time, I heard a tree crack in the woods behind me, followed by some loud commotion. This happened again, but sounded closer. I held my flashlight up and scanned the woods, but everything seemed still.                                                               There was something in that large woods, trying to get through, and getting closer. I heard what sounded like a larger branch breaking along with more rustling noise, and that was it. My imagination got the best of me.                                                              I quickly reeled the spinnerbait to the rod tip, grabbed my tacklebox and quickly( very quickly), made a beeline back to my truck, on the other side of the cove.                              When I got to my truck, I was sweating, and it took me a minute to calm down. I stared into the woods across the cove trying to see just what it was that made that noise behind me. Whatever it was, it was large enough to break branches and make some serious commotion.               Night fishing for bass can be awesome. Your senses become very sharp, and everything is amplified.                             This all happened over 35yrs ago. I'll never know what was in those woods that night, and I'll always wonder.                                 I still have my black muskie jitterbug too. I've never caught a single fish on it. Now, it's just a reminder of a night time bass fishing trip from years ago.

Please share any strange or unexplainable things that you've experienced while night fishing for bass.

Got bears?

[Mobasser]

Just now, HaydenS said:

Got bears?

No bears in my area. About the biggest critters around here are mtn lions, but you seldom ever see them.

[Captain Phil]

We have black bears here in Central Florida.  I have seen and heard quite a few of them while fishing.  I never felt threatened by a bear in Florida, but I give them a wide berth.   They come out on garbage day.  

[TnRiver46]

4 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

No bears in my area. About the biggest critters around here are mtn lions, but you seldom ever see them.

No bears in Missouri?? I thought they were everywhere 

[Mobasser]

Just now, TnRiver46 said:

No bears in Missouri?? I thought they were everywhere 

In the Ozarks they have black bears. Not any that I know of in North central Mo.

[OkobojiEagle]

Sasquatch...

[WRB]

Wild animals are quite moving through the woods unless shot at. You probably heard someone trying to get away from you just as scared as you were.

Tom

[crypt]

serial killer ? if not a bear that's what my mind goes to........    way to much Criminal Minds over the years......

[Tennessee Boy]

I think this is the first bigfoot thread we've had in at least 2 years.

[TnRiver46]

4 minutes ago, WRB said:

Wild animals are quite moving through the woods unless shot at. You probably heard someone trying to get away from you just as scared as you were.

Tom

Clearly you’ve never been around an armadillo! Or squirrel or chipmunk……

[gim]

4 minutes ago, Tennessee Boy said:

I think this is the first bigfoot thread we've had in at least 2 years.

 

[Mobasser]

4 minutes ago, Tennessee Boy said:

I think this is the first bigfoot thread we've had in at least 2 years.

Well, Holloween is coming up soon. ??

[WRB]

11 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Clearly you’ve never been around an armadillo! Or squirrel or chipmunk……

Stampede of armadillos.....

Tom

[LrgmouthShad]

Oh. That was probably Timmy. We sometimes wonder where he goes at night.

[TnRiver46]

13 minutes ago, WRB said:

Stampede of armadillos.....

Tom

They are the loudest creature you’ve ever heard when moving through the woods 

[Catt]

Me & my buddy Pat was back up in a little cove in his 14' jon boat. I was on the back deck which put me about 10-15 yrs off the bank, the bank was lined with buck brush. Wasn't much moonlight because of cloud cover. We heard something scream like something I've never heard before. This was followed by something crashing through the brush & water splashing.

 

Before Pat could lift the trolling motor up, I had the Suzuki fired up & bouncing off stumps. Didn't stop till I was a half a mile offshore.

 

Didn't know what is was but I knew where it ain't!

[Mobasser]

11 minutes ago, Catt said:

Me & my buddy Pat was back up in a little cove in his 14' jon boat. I was on the back deck which put me about 10-15 yrs off the bank, the bank was lined with buck brush. Wasn't much moonlight because of cloud cover. We heard something scream like something I've never heard before. This was followed by something crashing through the brush & water splashing.

 

Before Pat could lift the trolling motor up, I had the Suzuki fired up & bouncing off stumps. Didn't stop till I was a half a mile offshore.

 

Didn't know what is was but I knew where it ain't!

Catt, my wife has a friend that lives in Louisiana. She told us about an old legend called the Rageroo. A Cajun werewolf that lives in the swamps. Her dad actually believed this, and would never fish around the swamps at night. Not sure about this, but I think some folks may believe in these old things. Some of these old tales have been around forever.

[Functional]

was out on an all night trip up in NH in a little canoe. fishing about 30 feet off the bank offf a partially wooded peninsula and just heard something rustling through the woods, fairly small. All of a sudden the woods exploded in a bunch of heavy foot beats running and then a smaller set scurrying around. Huge tumble and heard a bunch of leaves and brush crunching, low aggressive cat growls and a rabbit screaming its head off.  Saw flashes of the chase since it was a full moon but eventually everything went quiet. Not exactly strange and unexplained but d**n did it get the heart rate up to be so close to some cat making a kill in the middle of the night.

 

Amazing how loud a rabbit can be.

[GaryH]

23 minutes ago, Catt said:

We heard something scream like something I've never heard before. This was followed by something crashing through the brush & water splashing.

 

 

 

Didn't know what is was but I knew where it ain't!

That was my buddy and me in the woods just waiting to see what Catt would do. We got a picture of Catt getting away.

[PressuredFishing]

 

huh, sounds interesting, perhaps just a person, we have alot of those out here in california.

[A-Jay]

A-Jay

[Bankbeater]

The strangest thing I've ever ran across night fishing are those dang tree limbs that came up behind me and kept grabbing the bait as I was making a cast.  I got tired of picking out backlashes and left.

[DitchPanda]

I used to night fish for catfish alot in my late teens and early twenties. Often times heard strange noises...but then again there was usually a large amount of Miller high life involved so that may explain it.