Share your crazy fishing stories.

[LunkerJunky]

Feel free to share your crazy fishing stories. Whether it was a scary near death experience or a funny experience.

[LunkerJunky]

Feel free to share your crazy fishing stories. Whether it was a scary near death experience or a funny experience.

[Skunkmaster-k]

Last night my chair blew in the lake when I got a bite. I flopped on the deck like a walrus and grabbed it right before it sank out of sight. When I let go of it to reel in my white bass it blew in again. A good friend of mine caught it that time. Long story short it blew in four more times and I have a rash on my butt and a  full cooler of fish. True story. 

[Woody B]

Back in January I was fishing in a local 1500 acre lake (Moss Lake Shelby NC)  I was catching spots in 30 feet of water on the stump covered edge of the main creek channel.   A man and woman in a nice Caymas bass boat came flying by, made a big circle and stopped about 10 yards from me.  The Woman said "we can't fish right next to that man".  He said "shutup (bad word) I'll fish where ever I want".   About the time he reached down to deploy his trolling motor his own wake hit his boat and he fell headfirst into the 44 degree water.  The woman with him was yelling "quit clowning around"  I knew he was in trouble so I went over to their boat.  He had grabbed the side of his boat, but that's all he could do.  By this time the woman was panicking.   I got in their boat, grabbed him by the shoulders and pulled him into the boat.  He was shivering and could hardly talk.   I told her she needed to get him back to the landing.  She said she could drive the boat but didn't know how to get to the landing.  She followed me to the landing.  I helped get him out of the boat and into their truck, then backed their trailer down and loaded their boat while he was in the truck with the heat on.  

 

I saw them again a couple weeks later.  He said he was OK after he got warm.  He also said never fished right on top of someone like he was going to that day.  Perhaps the Good Lord knew he was going to fall in the cold water and put him near me so I could get him back in the boat.  He wasn't wearing a life jacket.  Had he not grabbed the side of his boat he would have probably died right there.  I don't know how long he could have made it without me pulling him back into the boat.    

 

I'm not one to wear a life jacket, but since then I've been wearing mine anytime it's cold enough for a coat.  I also have started leaving a rope tied from a bow to stern cleat with a slip knot in it.  If I fall in the water I can pull on the rope, making it sag down into the water to use as a step to get back in the boat.   

[Catt]

March 19th, 2019

 

The whole episode was unreal ?

 

My friend Mike from Oklahoma had texted me before the trip about the BassCashBash. But everyone was talking about a 10# plus winning $1,500 plus an additional $5,500 for over all big bass of the event. The rules also stated that there was 202 tagged bass that would win various cash amounts.

 

So I was thinking do I really wanna bet I could catch a 10#+ in 3 days of fishing so I didn't register on day one. On Tuesday Mike said he would pay my entry fees, so I entered around noon. 

 

A couple hours later I caught that bass, I didn't see the tag because it was facing away from, & had full intentions of throwing it back. Mike screamed it tagged! 

 

After photos & cut the tag I never paid attention to the tag just slipped into my wallet. About 5:30 or so we headed back to Fin-n-Feather to see what I won, thinking ok it's probably a couple hundred bucks. 

 

When I told the lady at Fin-n-Feather & pulled the tag out her eyes got really big. The tags for the boat & truck are color coded & she said you won the truck. I put my eyeglasses on & it had on the tag Truck & the phone number

[roadwarrior]

 

 

                                

[volzfan59]

My story isn't very crazy, nor is it about bass fishing but it's something I'll never forget. One day while wading the Caney Fork River in middle TN for trout, I saw my first bald eagle flying reasonably low above me. I've seen plenty of bald eagles in captivity, but never in the wild. It was one of the most beautiful things that I've ever seen in nature! I admit that I'm a very patriotic and love this great country. God bless the USA

Edited May 8, 2022 by volzfan59
Auto correct made Caney Fork, Candy Fork. One day I'll start reading my replies prior to submitting.

[gim]

1 hour ago, volzfan59 said:

I've seen plenty of bald eagles in captivity, but never in the wild.

You've never seen a bald eagle in the wild?  They're like pigeons up here they're so numerous.

[MN Fisher]

Just now, gimruis said:

You've never seen a bald eagle in the wild?  They're like pigeons up here they're so numerous.

I remember coming past the Arcola Bridge on Tonka - it was early spring, the channel was open as well as a few dozen acres either side. Big tree near the bridge was 'housing' half a dozen Balds.

 

One year, took the wife up to Bemidji for a week, stayed at Rutger's. One day trip was to the Chippewa National Forest...her mouth dropped and didn't close again for about an hour from all the Eagles flying around.

[MickD]

21 hours ago, Woody B said:

use as a step to get back in the boat. 

Another way to get back in is to step onto the horizontal fin on the lower unit, reach for the tilt switch, and tilt the motor thus raising you to where you can more easily get into the boat.  I put anti slip tape on mine for this reason after I used the method to get my brother back in one time.

[volzfan59]

6 hours ago, gimruis said:

You've never seen a bald eagle in the wild?  They're like pigeons up here they're so numerous.

To my understanding, they've always been in west TN. They were reintroduced in middle and east TN.

[gim]

7 minutes ago, volzfan59 said:

To my understanding, they've always been in west TN. They were reintroduced in middle and east TN.

I didn’t mean to initially post with the impression that I thought you were an idiot or a shut in because you had never seen an Eagle. I’ve just seen so many I don’t even think twice about one anymore. They are a majestic bird. I believe the overall population in North America right now has never been higher.

[BigAngus752]

27 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I believe the overall population in North America right now has never been higher.

Agreed.  I've lived within the same 150 mile radius (central Illinois) my whole life (52 years).  I had never seen a bald eagle in the wild here in Illinois until I was close to 40 and that was an amazing moment.  Now when fishing two of my regular lakes I see at least one about 50% of the trips.  The small, electric only lake I fish it isn't unusual this year for a juvenile bald eagle to "buzz" me 15 feet over my head while I'm fishing.  Epic. Every single time.  

[volzfan59]

2 hours ago, gimruis said:

I didn’t mean to initially post with the impression that I thought you were an idiot or a shut in because you had never seen an Eagle. I’ve just seen so many I don’t even think twice about one anymore. They are a majestic bird. I believe the overall population in North America right now has never been higher.

No worries my friend. I never took it that way. 

[MickD]

Regarding interesting bird sightings, in recent years in the spring white pelicans are seen in Saginaw Bay, MI.  They are in migration to their summer homes in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and the NW Territories.  When I mentioned this to a friend he asked what I had been drinking.  Then I took him fishing there and on a bright sunny day we had a formation of 7 fly low right over us.  I took another friend there and we saw another group of them.  When he told his Detroit friends about them the question again was: "What have you been "drinking?

 

They have been present in Lake St Clair recently also.

 

Eagle sightings in Saginaw Bay are pretty common.  Last trip we saw 4.  I know of two nest sites near Bay Port.

 

On Lake St Clair last fall out a few miles from the Canadian shore I saw a bird flying from the north towards our boat.  It was a blue jay flying very low over the water, and it turned out that he was about out of gas.  He piled into the boat and took refuge under the console.  After a while he came out and went to the front of the boat where he just sat there while we fished.  After about half an hour we motored in to the shore, went into a channel, and when inside moved toward him thinking we would put him onto a sea wall.  Out he flew into a nearby tree.

[cyclops2]

Did he pay the 1 way ticket price ?       ?

[B-Gee]

One dark night  a few years back I took my john boat out into the Gulf to do some snook fishing. I found a good spot at the mouth of an inlet and tossed my anchor over the side. All of a sudden there was something thrashing around inside my boat. It was dark and I couldn't see what was happening. It kind of scared me so I stood up on a seat to get out of the way . When I turned on my headlamp I saw a big Tripletail jumping around in the boat below me. I guess the anchor scared it and it jumped, landing in my boat. Tripletail are tasty and it made a few good meals. I never did catch any snook that night.

[Bankbeater]

My dad and I were out catfishing from the bank back in a cove some years back. We would hook a fish, but if we were near a certain spot we would always get snagged bringing the fish in.  After this happened 2 or 3 times my dad said next time we come here we're bringing the boat and anchoring on the far side.

A few weeks later we're back on this lake, but out of a boat on the opposite side of the cove.  We cast bait into that spot where we get snagged and start getting bites.  We boat this one channel cat that had 5 or 6 different hooks stuck in its mouth. 

We ended up with a nice stringer of fish that day.

[LrgmouthShad]

-  Original story redacted - 

 

I've been caught in some crazy weather before. Nothing like some of the stories ya'll have on here.

[hunterPRO1]

my grandad once caught a 4-5lb bass on a cigarette.