Bit by something other than a fish?

[fourbizz]

littlefisher,

the otter was pretty cool. i didn't see it eat the bait and when i set the hook it just ripped drag straight perpendicular to me. i thought i had a donkey then the hook pulled out and an otter came upright where my bait was and started pawing at its mouth like you would if a bug flew into it, LOL

Osborn, i have a couple ponds out here that are FULL of giant bull frogs, my pb is 18.5" from nose to toes all extended out. got her on a Bobby's Perfect frog, sight fishing, LOL.

That video of the osprey is my favorite though, she must have hit that bait like ten times before i had my buddy film it.

[fourbizz]

Oh yeah, one of my good buddies just had an otter steal a priceless bait from him this weekend. It was a prototype of the 3:16 Real Deal, one of only three, probably worth $1,500+. Otter broke him off and he chased it around the lake for an hour before it disappeared.BUMMER!

[Perfect Hook Set]

BTW this thread is about things biting our lines other then fish not other things getting hooked by us...

Snapping turtles - which usually after fussing around unhook there self

Frogs

A huge Swan

A Geese which start flying away while hooked

A cat (without hooks) teased it with a spook

Various snakes

Last year I was fishing a very small pond less then half an acre

Long story short

My friend lost the biggest pickerel I have ever seen in person

I toss on a wiggle wart and eventually get it almost to shore when it snaps my line

I cast my other line out right away

5 cast later I see these huge waves following my senko

My heart drops DUDE IT CAME BACK FOR MORE

Bam My senko gets hit and I drag in a very mean ugly HEAVY snapper

Sadly I know someone who had a small dog which thought a jitter bug on the garage shelf was edible and sadly enough the dog couldn't up its mouth since it was hooked with about 4 of 6 hooks

[dman]

a cat....Only remember a part of it,  i was about 8....fishing a small farm pond i dont know how the cat got a hold of my rapala\rebel type lure,  maybe a bad cast onto the opposite shore or something.  next thing i knew the cat was haulin and squeelin through the grass burning the line off my reel. everyone just started screaming to cut the line so i did.  The memory stops right there, no idea whatever happened to that cat.

[Ballpark Frank]

Turtles when I am catfishing, catfish aren't the only things that like cut bait. Snakes on topwaters, cottonmouths around here are easier to catch than bass sometimes. I have had to cut off several spooks and walkers because of those beasts.

[LakeAnnaBasser]

My dad caught an owl one time when we were at this pond. Luckily it wasnt hooked it only got caught in the line. The line was also wrapped around a tree branch. I managed to cast a crankbait and hook the line to bring it closer to shore. The owl just kind of froze and we let it free with know harm.

[SV1000]

When I was twelve I wound up hard to cast a Pico Perch into a howling south wind on Lake Amistad, I let 'er rip and saw my Papa's hat go flying out in front of me about 15 yards. I turned around and saw one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life...my Papa sitting in the back of the 14' Lonestar with every Brylcreem lathered gray hair pointing at the sky at a 45 degree angle.  

[SCBASS]

When I was about 11, I hooked sea lion while fishing off a pier.   That same day I made a cast and somehow wrapped my line around a seagulls wing.  I reeled it up and the guy next to me untangled it.  It just happened that a news reporter for the local paper was walking by and took photos of the whole incident.  When my mom came home from work the next day and showed me newspaper article I was so excited.  

[Bankbeater]

Turtles while cat fishing and my left hand between my third and fourth finger while bass fishing.

[SPEEDBEAD.]

BTW this thread is about things biting our lines other then fish not other things getting hooked by us...

Thanks for the clarification   :

A good story is a good story, and I think if it vaguely applies to the topic in this instance.....who really cares?  

[ba7ss3in]

5lb Flounder,On a jig and pig, I know but the lake use to be part of the river here and it was damed years ago and the flounder was trapped. NC Sportsman Magazine did an article on another guy catching flounder and I have talked to other people on the lake that have caught them, big ones.

[AKFerzy7]

hmm lets see. last summer i caught a water moccasin on a spro frog. he made a v line behind the bait and i really couldnt see him untill he gets right behind the frog and comes up about 2 feet off the water and slammed down on the bait and began thrashing it around. needless to say he got that frog for free.

when i was young and just learning to cast a baitcaster in the back yard i had wrapped a jig around a tree branch and broken it off. a few months later my dad came inside and got me to come look at this owl in the backyard during the middle of the day. he was huge and everytime id get close it would try to fly away but couldnt. thats when i realized he had my jig snagged in his foot and the line wrapped around the branch would let him go. he wasnt very happy but we ended up getting the jig out.

last fall i was throwing a crank bait on the james river bumping bottom the whole way in when i snagged a big flounder. he was wayyyy far from where they usually are on the james but with the drought the whole river was nearly all salt water.

last but not least a couple of years ago we were flounder fishing on the chesapeake bay in my dads buddies boat. we were getting ready to change spots and had already started moving with the outboard as i was reeling in when suddenly the rod almost was jerked out of my hands. i fought and fought and fought for 25 mins till i reeled up a close to 5 foot loggerhead turtle. had him right next to the boat so i could remove my rig and save most of my line untill he surfaced and caught another breath of air and he was gone again. i ended up cutting the line that sucker would never wear down.

[EastTexasBassin]

I had a nutria take my bait once.   You'd be surprised how much of a fight you'd get from a 12 pound aquatic rat.  He eventually broke my line.

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