Ever catch a snake or a frog while bass fishing?

[BassHunter69]

I 've done something even stranger than hooking a snake, frog or a turtle, I hooked a clam !

I went fishing to a small lake between Silao and Romita, while fishing a plastic worm I felt a mushy sensation, set the hook and began reeling in, it just felt a little bit heavy, to my surprise there was a 2 inch closed clam grabbing the line :-? . Later I asked and the locals told me that there were freshwater clams in that lake.

ive had that happen to me raul ive never gotten frog or snake though i even hooked a rock once on a crank bait weird  ;D

[BASS fisherman]

I caught a frog once with a tube. I was pulling the tube out of the water and a frog jumed out and grabbed it and as it lifted into the air, he let go.

I also caught a rock once, also on a tube. That thing put up one hell of a fight too!

I also caught a snapping turtle one night on a senko.  

[dman]

what do you guys do with the frogs?   I had a huge bullfrog on a senko yesterday and thank god he got himself off!

Do you just cut your line and say goodbye to your lure (though i have no problem doing that with a senko)?   Or do you try and help the frog out and free him from the hook?  Doesnt seem like it would be easy!

[Troutfisher]

I caught this thing last weekend. Pretty mad about the whole thing but ehh what could he do I had a 4ft stick. Goin back out there today too. Happy fishing all.

Is that a copperhead?  He looks mad, lol.

[Sam]

Nope. Never caught a frog or a snake.

My friend did catch a boot on the James River.  He threw it back over my objections to try to find its mate.

Kid across the street caught a turtle in local pond fishing with me.  We cut the line.

Friend I know caught a goose when the bird flew into the line as he was casting it.  Bird was OK after he had the line untangled from his feet.

While growing up in Louisiana we did reel in only the heads of grey trout after the sharks hit them on the way in but we never could hook one of those sharks.

I am still looking for dead bodies east of Richmond, Virginia on the James River. I'll let you all know if I see or hook any.

[Tin]

No but when day I'am fishing a tourney, its 2:30, no fish in the well. I pull up to a patch of pads and start flinging a scum frog accross them when I notice a 2' snake swimming after my frog then about a six and a half pounder comes up and eats the snake that is a foot behind my frog. Just my luch I guess

[ewokmonsta720]

I hooked a clam on two different occassions, and once I hooked a HUGE snapping turtle ( I think it was a snapper) right by the mouth. When I pulled it out it was hissing at me and luckily the hook broke so I didn't have to mess with de-hooking it and I kept my "little joe".

[basspro48]

I was fishing Claytor Lake earlier this summer and I was fishing steep rocky banks with a GYCB hula grub on a 3/8oz jighead. I was just hopping it along when I felt the usual tap tap, which in my mind told me I had yet another spotted bass. So I set the hook and the "bass" did not move, after a couple seconds it started slowly coming towards me, at this point I thought it was a catfish or carp. But once I got him to the boat I saw that it was a 30lb snapping turtle

I didn't want to cut the line because I had him hooked perfectly in the corner of the mouth and those rockhopper jigheads are expensive. So i got him next to the boat, whipped out some Channel locks and gripped his bottom jaw while my dad held onto his tail, I then went in with the needle nose and twisted the hook out. He ruined my jighead but I figured it was worth it since doesn't have to swim around with a hula grub pinned to his face all the time.

But on a more serious note, DO NOT mess around with big snappers. They can take your fingers clean off in a snap, and this one almost got my dad (my dad grabbed his tail and he whipped his head around like a shark and barely missed taking his hand off)

[Bankbeater]

I've never caught one but once this year and once last year while the boat has been pulled up on the bank snakes have gotten in the mud under the boat. It woke me up real quick when I was pushing the boat out into the water and I saw that my foot was about 6 inches away from that sucker.

[=Matt 5.0=]

Oooops, thought I had a monster bass on........ :-?

[Micro]

I love snakes with a passion.  I go out looking for them as much as I can.  When I'm fishing, I'll drop everything to catch a snake.  Here are some pics of snakes I've come across (not necessarily hooked)while fishing.

I caught this big Black Rat Snake during a fishing trip.  I saw him come off the shore and swim towards the center of the lake.  I used my trolling motor to come up behind him and I snatched him from the water.  I brought him home and teated him for skin mites and a stuck eye lens, then let him go in a nearby National Historical Park.

This is a Northern Water Snake I came across while fishing.  Naturally, I had to poke it with my rod.  It went into the water and made several mad dashes for my boat.  After awhile, I lost sight of it.  That's because it attempted to climb up my outboard into my boat.  That's where I caught him.

Here is a cute little fellow I caught by a foot bridge near a favorite fishing hole.  Gotta be careful of this guy, he can ruin your whole summer.

Find me if you can!

Here's another Northern Water Snake I caught a few months ago.  Snatched him outta the water, too.  

Nippy little bass-turd.  It was a Bite-And-Run.

And a cute little Eastern Ribbon Snake on the same trip.

[wagn]

never caught a snake or frog. but i have caught plenty of freshwater mussels. If you crank across the bottom of the Merrimack river in NH, the mussels will close on the treble hooks as they go by. I've caught 3 little ones in one retrieve. It's a real pain in the @ss when trying to crank flats.

[Bass Hammer]

Yep!

Don't worry, it survived. 8-)

Hey Capt let me guess that was a 5 1/2lb california frog caught on a 14" swim ika.