crazy fish stories

[Walking School Bus]

I caught 2 bass on a small rapala one time.  Thought I had a lunker the way they were tugging.  Anyone have any crazy fish stories toi share?   

[Bluebasser86]

I think this topic may be better in the General Bass Fishing forum but I'll give one of my stories anyways. I was night fishing a small state lake in northeast Kansas one night with a black jitterbug. A game warden I had talked to earlier in the day said the state biologist had sampled a bass the he guessed between 7 and 8 pounds from the area I was fishing earlier in the week. I was pretty hyped with the thought of catching a bass that big since it would have been my PB at the time. I was on a fishing pier casting down a tree lined bank and there was a bright full moon and very warm. It had been pretty slow and the mosquitos were biting bad so I was about to give up. I made a long cast down the bank and started the slow steady retrieve down the bank and heard a huge splash and felt a ton of weight. I got her, I knew I did right from the start. Then I felt my line heading up, she's going to jump so I stuck my rod as far down in the water as I could. My line went up and up and about the time I realized my line was above the water I saw a huge owl fly in front of the moon, funny thing was my line seemed to be following it! My excitement turned to digust I tried to pull the owl back towards me while deciding what I was going to do. In my frustration I tightened my drag down and when the owl surged it broke my brand new rod right above the cork handle. I decided I was just going to end it now and break the line before anything else bad happened. I grabbed the line with both hands and jerked. The owl fell from the sky and landed in a tangled mess of briers along the bank. After flapping around for a second, the owl flew off, thankfully my line was no longer following. I walked down the bank and found my jitterbugs with mangled hooks and bent lip hanging in the thornbush. I untangled it, cut the line, and called it a night. I was minus one big fish I thought I had hooked, a new All Pro casting rod, and a couple hooks on my bait, but it did give me one heck of a story to tell.

[BassChaser57]

I was fishing Lake Fork a few years back and having a really tough time trying to figure out the bass. At a cafe there was a guy bragging to the waitress that he had been loading the boat. After a bit of conversation I asked if he would take me out and show me how it is done and he agreed. While on the boat he started bragging about the 10+ pounder he had caught a couple days prior. He hooked it, she dove hard, wrapped around a log, he jumped in the water and grabbed her. Yeah -- uh huh -- ok -- whatever--good story.

About 10 minutes later a young man was fishing close to us and asked if this was the yellow Nitro Bass Boat fishing over by that big log a couple days ago? He saw the scene with jumping out of the boat and "hogging" the big hog out of the water into the boat. Hmmm, I stand corrected! We went ahead and caught several nice Bass and had a great, and memorable morning.

Somewhere along in the conversation it came up that he was Steve Young'sbrother (of San Francisco 49ers fame) at this point I did not know what to believe. Back at the Motel I asked the gal at the desk and she said -- yep Steve was here all week fishing with his brother. We never know when fishing what adventures await us.