Oddest Fishing Spot You've Fished? 2024
Weld's Largemouth reply :
What is the oddest fishing spot that you have fished at, and have successfully caught bass at?
Mine would have to be at this pond belonging to a catering place, which i had gone to expecting nothing to be in the waters except the swans that lived there... It turned out to be a honey hole of nice fish... no big monsters but i've got a couple nice 17-18 inchers
Ratherbfishing reply :
On 1/17/2014 at 6:47 AM, Weld said:What is the oddest fishing spot that you have fished at, and have successfully caught bass at?
Mine would have to be at this pond belonging to a catering place, which i had gone to expecting nothing to be in the waters except the swans that lived there... It turned out to be a honey hole of nice fish... no big monsters but i've got a couple nice 17-18 inchers
There is a local retirement community which has a pond in the back. There's a big fence around it (which should have concertina wire on the top) because there are some swans there that make velociraptors seems like kittens by comparison. Anytime a resident goes missing, that's the first place they look-only there usually isn't much left of them! I'm kidding but just barely.
swagkid300 reply :
caught a LMB in a sewer using hot dog.
like this but it was an open hole
Weld's Largemouth reply :
On 1/17/2014 at 6:58 AM, Ratherbfishing said:There is a local retirement community which has a pond in the back. There's a big fence around it (which should have concertina wire on the top) because there are some swans there that make velociraptors seems like kittens by comparison. Anytime a resident goes missing, that's the first place they look-only there usually isn't much left of them! I'm kidding but just barely.
Have you caught anything there?
Weld's Largemouth reply :
On 1/17/2014 at 7:01 AM, swagkid300 said:caught a LMB in a sewer using hot dog.
like this but it was an open hole
sweet... where was that? toronto?
Loop_Dad reply :
On 1/17/2014 at 7:01 AM, swagkid300 said:caught a LMB in a sewer using hot dog.
This one is tough to beat!
Brayberry reply :
I had a couson that had a small pond on his property, a ditch ran into it and went for about a mile into another pond on his neighbors property. It's just a normal ditch that sits beside the road, but it's deep, maybe 4 - 5 feet of water in it, and as a kid I caught many a bass from that ditch, which was only about 4 feet wide
bmlum415 reply :
I've caught bass above 150+ feet of water throwing a glide bait about 2-3 feet below the surface.
SirSnookalot reply :
Sewer takes top honors................
Bankbeater reply :
I hope you practiced C&R and released it back into the sewer. I don't think I would want to keep that one myself.
lanzbass reply :
Oddest Fishing Spot...
In a irrigation pipe ...
Friend told me that's how he caught his bass !!!
When the water stopped flowing he would clean out the pipe and have lunch ...
This is the oddest place I truthfully ever heard of a bass caught...
Ratherbfishing reply :
On 1/17/2014 at 7:01 AM, Weld said:Have you caught anything there?
Technically, I violated the intent of your thread because I didn't actually fish there. I wouldn't cross that fence without a full suit of titanium armor. Those steroid swollen swans stand up to my chest and have that look of "Go ahead and try it!" in their eyes. But I have gazed longingly at that pond.
J Francho reply :
I kept waiting for that kid in the video to bury a jig in his eye.
Preytorien reply :
I often fish in the tiny little pond in front of our local Home Depot when I'm bored.
It's the size of about 10 average swimming pools, but it's teeming with 10-12 inch largemouth. They're nothing huge, but it's fun to just go and catch one after another. I have yet to see anyone else fish it.
In Indiana we have a DNR regulation that any publicly accessible body of water must be stocked to better control mosquito population (or so I have heard from one), so nearly every body of water has SOME kind of fish in it.
I get some interesting looks though fishing there.....HA!
geo g reply :
I fish an old dump site that was turned into a broward county park. The site was on the EPA's Super Fund List for one of the worst in the country. It has big, great looking bass that never have a mark on them. There is a warning sign that say, " Any consumption of fish will lead to a green glow under low light conditions" The wife is thrilled! 
RoLo reply :
I was around 10 years old and went trout fishing with my dad in Saxon Falls, NJ.
Darren. reply :
Can't compete with everyone here, but the Great Wolf Lodge here in Williamsburg has a little pond. We spent a night there and I took one of my long poles (no reel) to the little pond out behind the hotel and caught several nice bass up to 2 pounds.
Hyrule Bass reply :
On 1/18/2014 at 11:49 AM, DarrenM said:Can't compete with everyone here, but the Great Wolf Lodge here in Williamsburg has a little pond. We spent a night there and I took one of my long poles (no reel) to the little pond out behind the hotel and caught several nice bass up to 2 pounds.
that mustve been pretty fun. i remember fishing a pond for bluegill with a friend about 12 years ago in NC, this pond was loaded with huge humpheaded bluegill almost like the pictures you see from King Fisher Society/Richmond Mill Lake. there was also some nice bass in that pond. my friend had brung his telescopic crappie grabber pole which had no reel. i thought it was cool so he let me use it. part of the pond had a cow fence running through it along the bank. i was fishing out over the fence. my friend ties on a jitterbug and tosses it out next to where im fishing, reels it in and gets nothing, a few seconds later a 3lb bass hits my nightcrawler on the crappie grabber pole. what a fun fight that was with no reel trying to pull this bass out of the water over the fence...
as for oddest spot i fished, i guess it was a creek under a bridge. it was probably 10 feet across and pretty deep looking. i remember catching some nice white crappie over 12 inches in the creek. i never wouldve guessed that place had fish like that. about a year later a friend of mine wrecked his souped up mustang 5.0 a half mile down the road from that creek while running from the police. he slightly went off the road, lost control in the grit/gravel there and hit a telephone/light line pole and had a transformer fall on top of his car. if he hadnt wrecked they wouldve never caught him though. he had to spend a couple weeks in Duke hospital...
Scott F reply :
in Chicago, there is a major tourist area downtown called Navy Pier on the shore of Lake Michigan. Today, it is fully developed with lots of shops, a big Ferris Wheel and stuff to do. 30 years ago, there was little happening there but there was good perch fishing from the pier. The pier is concrete and there were drains about 8 inches in diameter every so often in the concrete to let rain water back into the lake. People used to take the covers off the drains and fish through them. Lots of structure underneath like the columns that held up the pier that held perch. It was weird sitting fishing through the holes, kind of like ice fishing, but it really was productive.
Teal reply :
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as for oddest spot i fished, i guess it was a creek under a bridge. it was probably 10 feet across and pretty deep looking. i remember catching some nice white crappie over 12 inches in the creek. i never wouldve guessed that place had fish like that. about a year later a friend of mine wrecked his souped up mustang 5.0 a half mile down the road from that creek while running from the police. he slightly went off the road, lost control in the grit/gravel there and hit a telephone/light line pole and had a transformer fall on top of his car. if he hadnt wrecked they wouldve never caught him though. he had to spend a couple weeks in Duke hospital...
Fishes in trees reply :
There is a subdivision lake I used to fish in the Mid-80's east of Columbia. It was a 30 acre or so lake, kind of weedy, no big deal. Anyway, whenever I went there and before it was time to go and if I didn't have enough fish for dinner you would walk over the dam, down to where the drain pipe led to a small pool 40'x 40' at the most. This little pool was dammed off and another drainage pipe let to a small creek. That little retention pond was always good for 2 or 3 or 4 fish, however many you needed for dinner. Over the course of several years, I probably took 20 or so fish out of that little area and I wasn't the only one who knew about it either. I guess every time the water got high in the primary lake, several fish went down the tube to the retention area and competition for food was intense. I never had to spend more than 20 minutes (including the walk down the dam and back) to get the few fish I needed for dinner.
Tylertut reply :
On 1/18/2014 at 11:41 PM, Scott F said:in Chicago, there is a major tourist area downtown called Navy Pier on the shore of Lake Michigan. Today, it is fully developed with lots of shops, a big Ferris Wheel and stuff to do. 30 years ago, there was little happening there but there was good perch fishing from the pier. The pier is concrete and there were drains about 8 inches in diameter every so often in the concrete to let rain water back into the lake. People used to take the covers off the drains and fish through them. Lots of structure underneath like the columns that held up the pier that held perch. It was weird sitting fishing through the holes, kind of like ice fishing, but it really was productive.
I've fished from Navy Pier a couple years back and didn't catch too terribly much
I have two odd places:
The first and least odd is the city ponds where I live. There are about 6 and range from 1-4 acres. I pulled my PB out of a little 1 acre pond there on a square bill crank bait last fall. When I first got bored and started fishing them I thought there was no way there could be bass in them.
The other place is an old canal that is dried up in the summer except for one big pool on one end. It is still used as by the historic society's canal boat for tours. While wading the river below the canal I got out and found the canal and decided to throw a topwater frog and actually caught a very good number of bass. None really big but saw a couple big ones cruising the open spots. This was when the canal was completely filled.
bigbill reply :
I fished a shallow puddle after the heavy rains stopped and the high water levels left puddles in the trail near the waters edge. I dropped my line in the puddle when I seen movement n the water. I caught a 2 1/2" bass. I released it back into the river. I tried every puddle after that. That one little bass hit the lottery that day.
I also fish in small bodies of water like mall drainage ponds(manmade). Swamps that can be first fished by me. The drainage ponds can hold up to 3lb bass. Funny I got my hands on the flying lure on clearance years ago. It worked awesome in the drainage pond. The drainage pond was
near my wife's gym. She would feed the ducks bread. She told me there were fish eating the bread too. I first tried a panther Martin spin fly there. I caught every bass in the place. They were 6" to 8" average size. Every year I fished at least once there. Every year the bass were getting bigger. The last time I was there they were 3lbers.with the flying lure.
Hyrule Bass reply :
On 1/19/2014 at 1:49 AM, Teal said:I think I know exactly where you are talking about. I never would have thought there would be any fish in there...much less huge size pan fish.
Oddest place I've seen was a drainage ditch that runs in to an out fall at a power plant. I've seen hand size bream in it. Neither the ditch nor the out fall gets deeper than two foot deep. The total length may be 250 ft...and maybe 75 foot wide at the widest point of the out fall... Which is really just a low corner of the property Pretty crazy... I wonder how they got there.
some of those creeks around halifax and warren counties will surprise you. never caught any bass out of them but the pan fishing was great. its been a long time since i fished any of them though
Weld's Largemouth reply :
On 1/19/2014 at 5:42 AM, bigbill said:I fished a shallow puddle after the heavy rains stopped and the high water levels left puddles in the trail near the waters edge. I dropped my line in the puddle when I seen movement n the water. I caught a 2 1/2" bass. I released it back into the river. I tried every puddle after that. That one little bass hit the lottery that day.
I also fish in small bodies of water like mall drainage ponds(manmade). Swamps that can be first fished by me. The drainage ponds can hold up to 3lb bass. Funny I got my hands on the flying lure on clearance years ago. It worked awesome in the drainage pond. The drainage pond was
near my wife's gym. She would feed the ducks bread. She told me there were fish eating the bread too. I first tried a panther Martin spin fly there. I caught every bass in the place. They were 6" to 8" average size. Every year I fished at least once there. Every year the bass were getting bigger. The last time I was there they were 3lbers.with the flying lure.
Sweet! There is this pond in the parking lot of the mall near me and i haven't fished it, but i wish to check it out this spring... i hope it has fish in it, it probably does as most ponds in NY do in order to prevent algae and mosquitos
bmac31 reply :
Wow, a lotta cool spots I wouldve never thought to try. Ive already thought of a couple little places im gonna try.
stratoliner92 reply :
Very small drainage ditch in a large city between 2 shopping malls. 90% of time i catch several fish there.
Tylertut reply :
Another kind of odd place was a very small creek in my hometown.
I used to seine for bait to go catfishing and waded to an area that was about 5-7 feet across and the deepest hole was only about 2.5 feet. I pulled some 3 and 4 pound smalls out of this and some smaller ones down stream. Most of them were water locked to a specific area, so you could always go back and know where to catch a certain fish.
There were a lot of tiny creeks like this where I used to live, but this one was the most productive.
boostr reply :
On 1/17/2014 at 7:01 AM, swagkid300 said:caught a LMB in a sewer using hot dog.
like this but it was an open hole
I heard about this, you can catch brown peanut bass this way 
Grizzn N Bassin reply :
haha!! a sewer you serous?!?!
evilcatfish reply :
When I was 14 or so I got access to some private property with a decent size lake (30 acres I think) and several smaller lakes and ponds ranging from 1-4 acres. I was told by the owner that there was a small pond up in one of the fields that nobody fishes. So me and a buddy decided to go try it despite the field not being mowed. We trudged through a few hundred yards of briars and bush only to find what looked like more of a slophole cows and pigs would wallow in. Thing was maybe 1/4 the size of a basketball court, muddy, and maybe 30" deep on its best day. Figured we'd fish it for a minute then head back. Well on my third cast with a spinner I pulled out a bass that according to my Stren scale was just over 6#. It was the only fish we caught out of there but it made for a cool story. Wish I knew where the pic of that was
ItsAnObsession97 reply :
My most surprising one was out of the San Antonio River. Just in front of our zoo, it goes through a series of 2-3 foot waterfalls, and at the base of each theirs a small pool of water that I'd seen bluegill in before. I was fishing for these bluegill on an ultralight rod and using a tiny jig head with a little grub on it. Couldn't have been more than an inch long. Anyways, I move to one of the smallest pools and see a pair of bass sitting in about a foot of water(the stuffs basically crystal clear), and decide to give them a shot. The little lure lands about a foot from the larger of the two, and (s)he swims right over and picks it up. I barely managed to keep her out of the bushes, but the looks I got after getting her out were amazing. A quick picture and back in the water she went. Never managed to get the other one, though.
primetime reply :
Google Earth is a fishermans best friend for finding Puddles that often are holding a double digit bass or possibly a few. I live near a very small (1/4 acre) spring fed ditch that I literally passed for years on my way to a 3 acre pond that I was proud to find all on my own. One day I was driving past this puddle when I noticed an Osprey swooping down to the water, and the bird was not able to handle the size of the Giant Golden Shiner that was 10" and FAT. After pulling over for a closer look, I noticed a bunch of birds hunting bait, and when I put on my polorized glasses and looked in the water, I was amazed at the sight of crystal clear water, bluegills, shiners, and extremely fat & Healthy Bass all swimming around slowly just cruising around this small pit, and the amount of 4-5lb Bass was endless, and for some reason I have never seen any fish larger than 6-7lbs as they swim through pipes and are only in this puddle when water levels in the lakes are high and after heavy rain in the hot summers.....I am sure a few 10lb plus fish are in this spot but with all the bait they can be tough to catch, and it is not as easy to catch them with artificials as it once was. I never fish the spot during the day as I don't want anyone to see me in this spot for a bunch of reasons, but I now often will look for tiny ponds or rock pits when taking a few hours to scout new spots to fish.
Stlbob reply :
country club golf course..about a 1/ acre pond...pulled 2 to 3 lb Bass out until they chased us off..lol..that was years ago..
deaknh03 reply :
On 1/17/2014 at 7:01 AM, swagkid300 said:caught a LMB in a sewer using hot dog.
like this but it was an open hole
Thats like ice fishing for people in Alabama.
277Volt reply :
Though in of itself it isn't odd most folks look at you weird when you say you fish the SRP canals here in Phoenix.
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