What's the weirdest way you've caught a bass?

[Bassassasin12]

I was fishing at a smaller lake near my house and had caught a bluegill on a little roadrunner. As I was reeling in the bluegill a huge bass, maybe 6 or 7 pounds, swims right up and starts chomping on the tail. He eventually got all the way up to the mouth where the hook was sticking out and I thought to myself there is no way I am going to catch my PB fish like this, but the big bass of course got hooked right on the bluegill and it was a pain to get the hook out of both of them. When I finally did I took a couple pictures and was going to release them and looked down the bass' throat to find it all bloody from the bluegills spikes. I didnt count that fish as my personal best and have gotten a better one after that, but boy was that a surprise. I went from a dinky panfish to a big ole' bass.

[Troutfisher]

Wow! Got any pics of this bass?  It sounds like a monster.  I've heard of people catching them off smaller fish but usually they get off.

The other day I was trout fishing when a guy said he was reeling in a small trout and a monster bass swallowed it and popped the line.  

[Whopper-Stopper]

Last year I was fishing a spinnerbait. I made a pitch that was low and close to the water and had a 3.5 lb bass jump clear out of the water and grab the bait in the air. I guess he thought it was a dragonfly.

[BassMaster_1]

I got one! but its not a Bass, it was a Pike.... Fishing my private waters, casting a spinnerbait along the docks.  This pike come out of no where to hit my spinnerbait, misses, comes clean out of the water and lands in a boat on the next dock.  I had 2 of my buddies there to witness it, Crazy fish!

[fly_freebird90]

My first bass was my weirdest.  I was using a bream buster and popping bug.  I was running up and down the bank with the popper in the water.  A small bass hammered it, it was about 6 inches long, but to me huge.  I have been hooked ever since.

[Needemp]

This pike come out of no where to hit my spinnerbait, misses, comes clean out of the water and lands in a boat on the next dock.

That had to be one of the funniest things you have ever seen. I'm laughing pretty hard just at the mental picture I have and also at the facial expression of that fish after he landed in the boat.

[Bassassasin12]

I love this thread, some great stories! ;D

Troutfisher I do have pics but they are on an old camera not a digital one and I dont own a scanner. I'm thinking about getting one thoug hit is really a site to see.

[BucketmouthAngler13]

i friend was reeling in a big hook with a big sinker, and he stabbed a bass in the side!

i was quite funny....

(fortunatly, the bass wasn't hurt much)

[Troutfisher]

I love this thread, some great stories! ;D

Troutfisher I do have pics but they are on an old camera not a digital one and I dont own a scanner. I'm thinking about getting one thoug hit is really a site to see.

Agreed, this is a more interesting thread!  

As far as the pic, that's ok!

[Daniel My Brother]

We set jugs out with live sunfish to catch flatheads. A small flathead took the bait, then a large (6.3 pound) bass took the flathead.

It's too strange to pull in a jug with a bass and catfish hanging out of it's mouth! We don't jug fish on that lake anymore, don't want to risk killing a trophy bass on a milk jug.

[Guest ouachitabassangler]

It took a while to remember this but back around 1975 I was trolling a jig under a pencil float. The float disappeared and I waited for weight to come on the line. A bass jumped out of the water about 12 feet from where I last saw the float, then it went back down pulling my line tight, and I knew I had a bite. The fish bit the float so the ends jammed in both gills.

Jim

[FlyRod]

Not once, but three times, I've had a bass jump into the boat.

Case 1: Calaveras Lake TX. Old college bud came to town and we headed for Calavaras on a cool Fall morning. Nosed the boat into some weed to free a snagged  lure and a 14"-er rocketed up outta the salad, beaned my pal, who was leaning over to reach the lure, and landed on the deck...Said pal ATE him...later.

Case 2: Private lake near Hondo TX. Owner/friend and I TM'ed the boat into a narrow "ditch" lined on both sides with lilypads. When he turned the TM on "High" to try to manuever out, a bass erupted from the pads and wound up in my LAP! Weighed over three pounds, he did, so I walked funny for a while.

Case 3: Medina Lake TX. Unseasonably balmy day in the Fall.

I'm on the TM and my GF of that era, a comely and remarkably well-formed lass in her 20's is sunbathing "Au Naturel", her head and shoulders supported by the console and windshield, beside me on the front deck(more room.) Talk about distractions!

I make a cast with a Spook, the lure tumbles and the line fouls the hooks. I skip the lure back so I can clear it and, as it leaves the water, it is pursued by a 1+ lb-er that leaps into the air, goes into a dive like a http://www.2worldwar2.com/images/stuka.jpg and lands, "coldnosing" her right "on target".

I'll bet the scream was heard so far as Tahiti!

The bass was released, unharmed, but with a big smile on his lil' green face.

True story. She told all our friends about it. They were somewhat amused ('cept for her cranky old German grandpa.)

Funny thing was, that bass tried three more times to jump into the boat! Had to bat him away with a paddle!

FlyRod

[bigdaddytre81]

Case 3: Medina Lake TX. Unseasonably balmy day in the Fall.

I'm on the TM and my GF of that era, a comely and remarkably well-formed lass in her 20's is sunbathing "Au Naturel", her head and shoulders supported by the console and windshield, beside me on the front deck(more room.) Talk about distractions!

I make a cast with a Spook, the lure tumbles and the line fouls the hooks. I skip the lure back so I can clear it and, as it leaves the water, it is pursued by a 1+ lb-er that leaps into the air, goes into a dive like a http://www.2worldwar2.com/images/stuka.jpg and lands, "coldnosing" her right "on target".

I'll bet the scream was heard so far as Tahiti!

The bass was released, unharmed, but with a big smile on his lil' green face.

True story. She told all our friends about it. They were somewhat amused ('cept for her cranky old German grandpa.)

Funny thing was, that bass tried three more times to jump into the boat! Had to bat him away with a paddle!

FlyRod

Perhaps some lure company ought to consider making a crankbait in the shape of a nude woman...if that bass liked em, maybe more do too ;D

[DR_Bass]

Well my stepbrother caught about a three pounder on a hot dog and a bobber and I've hooked a two pounder on a crappie jig before.  But the weirdest of all was when I was walking down the bank of my pond and there was a bass right next to the bank, he was also facing the bank.  When he saw me he paniced and swam right on the bank all I had to do was walk over there and pick him up.

[Guest bigtex]

I caught a fish with just my fishing line.  He got wrapped up in it and so I just reeled him in.  

[Other.]

When I wase 8 years old my dad would take me out on his kyak at whites farry MD. We always used crawfish crankbaits because that was the only thing that worked down there. Well I acully caught 2 fish on 1 crankbait! 1 fish was on the first trebel hook and the other 1 was on the other trebal hook. Pretty weird!

[Troutfisher]

Wow!  That is pretty weird.  

[Alpster]

I get to tell this story all the time, cause this bass is hanging on my wall. I was doing survey work on a big powerline and we were headed up the river in a work boat back to our truck. We saw this bass swimming on surface we eased up beside him and I slipped my hand under his belly and just flipped him into the boat. No fishing poles in the boat at all. We guessed he must have been hung on a trot line or something cause he has big hole in his lip. He was in bad shape and was dying is why I was able to grab him so easily. He hangs on the wall of my office with a little plaque that says "caught bare handed". Everyone asks to hear the story and I like to tell it. Oh yea - he's about a six pounder.

Ronnie

[DR_Bass]

Oh yeh, I hooked two bass on one crankbait too..  in a tournament no less.  That was quite a tournament.  

[Bankbeater]

Got one using catfish bait one time. I was fishing on the bottom in a small murky pond in about 2' of water and I saw a swirl around where the bait should be. I saw the line start going out, pulled back and came in with a largemouth about 1-1/2 pounds.

[Biglouie]

Just this past week I caught about a 16 inch smallmouth using a crankbait along the bottom of the river....but it was dead!   It had a big floating rapala stuck to the outside of it's mouth.  My crankbait hooked into the rapala and the fish.  There was also some line attached to the rapala yet.  I guess the fish must have broke someone else off then got itself stuck to the bottom of the river somehow and died. It looked to only be maybe a few days to a week old at the most.  

[Needemp]

I had one this year. I hooked one on a crankbait that was about 13 inches long. It didn't put up a fight at all. When I landed it, it just laid there. The fish was very skinny. I took it off the hook and kind of felt bad for it. I let it go and continued fishing. A minute later, I noticed the bass came to the surface on its side. It moved every once in awhile then drifted out of sight. I pictured it on its last leg, starving to death. Finally a meal passes right in front of its nose, only to be fooled. After he realized that he was hooked he just gave up on life. :'(

[timmyswetarded]

well i was watching some bass come to the surface and had a texas rigged senko rigged weightless so i tossed it out and dragged it across the top of the water fairly fast and before i know it i had caught a little bass....

[BLUESKY]

I was worming one time on the home lake when I felt a tap, I set the hook and landed the bass. When I went to unhook the fish, I noticed that it had broken off of someone elses line and the point of my worm hook had gone throught the eye of the other hook and had never penatrated the fishes mouth.

Another time on the same lake, I was fighting a LMB around 4 lbs on a rapala and as I got it near the boat I could see an almost identical fish looking like it was trying to steal the bait from the one that I was bringing in. The one on my line looked more like it was trying not to give up the meal to the other fish than getting away from the boat, so instead of quickly landing the fish I played with it awhile, and sure enough the other one tried to steal the bait and I landed both fish.