Whats your craziest catch? 2024

Will reply :

What is the craziest thing that you have ever caught while fishing? I would have to say mine would be a dogfish though I almost caught a heron when it decided my spook looked like a nice meal.

ernel reply :

Back when I was A kid, my dad was crappie fishing at night off the side of the house boat. We woke up the next morning to an awful squacking and sreaming like I have never heard. He did not remove the minnow from the hook the night before and a crow had swooped down to grab it out of the air and had hooked himself in the process. Black feathers where flying every where.

SirKevin reply :

Haha, great stories guys!

I haven't caught anything too wacky yet, hooked a couple of big water turtles...

gophersnake13 reply :

I went flyfishing with bass tackle and the fly only went only like 5 ft away and I actually caught fish.

I was fishin with a mister twister and got a hit and I thought I missed it but when I reeled in alls was left was some baby bass lips I can't believe I caught just the lips... poor fish.

njvbass reply :

Craziest thing I caught to date is a a bowfin, I caught it this past summer on a berkely crawworm. Thing hit like a ton of bricks problay went about 4 lbs. Those things have some chompers on em.

beachcomber reply :

I also caught a bowfin on a senko style worm.He hit it as soon as it hit water in lillypads.. They pack a good punch.. Caught a drum on a spinnerbait...

bullfrogs on topwater lures & turtles on bacon

duncast48TN reply :

This past summer I caught a channel catfish on a Wiggle Wart crank bait.

Nick reply :

Catching feathers is pretty odd. So far: one owl, 2 mallards, 2 sea gulls. Only bird below the surface was almost a loon. They seem to love chartreuse spinnerbaits, but they can't quite catch up to one ripped back to the boat with a 6:1 baitcaster.

Don't like reptiles but also got two water snakes. Thankfully, gators don't live this far north.

D.Taylor reply :

A bowfin aka dogg fish aka mud fish aka grennel is a very common occurence on the Mississippi River in this area. So are big drumm.

But the oddest thing i have ever herd of being caught up this way was an aligator from pool 18 or 19 it was in a net.

The oddest thing i have ever caught was a catfish carcus. Or a stringer with 1 dead rotting cat fish one that was on its last leggs and one that was alive as can be still atached.

Mike H. reply :

Caught a 2" bass once...also a bullfrog on a senko...had those underwater birds follow alot of my lures, and Ive had my share of turtles. Also seen a turtle attack a little Pumpkinseed before, funny to watch.

Off topic, but Ive hooked myself in the lip while fly fishing. So I guess you could say I caught myself, and thats a wacky catch. ;D

kajun reply :

I snagged a muscrat one time. Also like mike I've wounded myself flyfishing. I pierced my uncle's ear when I was 8.

L.D. reply :

Well it wasn't me but it was on my boat. Myself and a client were going around an island on the river and there was an eddy on the bottom end we wanted to fish. There was a Canada goose in the eddy and I told the client to cast at least 10ft to the left of it so the jig wouldn't hit the bird. The client did as I asked but when he cast his jig the goose took off at the same time and the darn jig spun around the base of it's wing. The bird is flying up and away, the reel drag is screaming. The Bird's about a hundred foot up in the air and winning the battle. The client yells "what do I do?". I said tighten the drag! He does that and the bird stalls in the air like a kite , the line breaks and the jig falls out of the sky. The client turns and looks at me all serious and says" where were you with the net"

bquittem reply :

i was walleye fishing one time and set the hook and was reeling in something, not sure what, it sorta just glided right in. At the same time my buddy set the hook and he was reeling something in and we both caught the 2 biggest turtles ive ever seen. The turtles had shells with about a 3 foot diamter. It was just crazy.

Another time i was fishing up in canada and i was reeling in a perch and a muskie or northen bit it and i ended up reeling in a perch head.

this summer i was dockfishing and i had about a 10inch bass on and i was reeling it in when all of a sudden a 35-40" northern attacked it, it bit it like 3 times and i was reeling the northern in until it was next to the boat and it got off, pretty crazy.

monarkman reply :

A snappin turttle,and yes I let him have the live bait.

AUTgrPilot reply :

Well, I was fishing at night on a little 2 acre lake. I threw my baby 1 minus out and felt a strike immediately--IN THE AIR. When I reeled it back in and something was flopping around on the top of the water. When I got it in, much to my horror, it was a bat. That's right the little vampire hit my crankbait in the air. Needless to say, that was one crankbait I gladly cut off and let go.

Mattlures reply :

I decided to have a little fun ang go carp fishing with my ultralite gear. I ended up catching the world record goldfish

Big_Bass_Rich reply :

I've caught 2 snapping turtles to date, they really seem to love corn.

Also caught a few seagulls, they love to hit minnows in mid-cast when we pier fish in the spring.

Weirdest thing I ever caught would be a bumper off an F-150 (no idea how I actually horsed it up to the boat) and a wallet with nothing in it except $50!

Glenn reply :

Cat.

No, not a catfish.

A cat.

Big_Bass_Rich reply :

Glenn, thats why when you practice flippin in your backyard you DONT USE HOOKS!! ;D ;D

Bassin101 reply :

While trout fishing a mountain lake with inline spinners I foul hooked a rainbow and reeled in only the eye. I've been watching for one with a patch ever since.

AUTgrPilot reply :

Glenn,

A cat?? I think the rest of us would like to hear more of that story. I know I would.

butch reply :

I've caught a seagull on a jerk bait . a mallard duck on a spinnerbait and several turtles. but I haven't caught a cat yet

Glenn reply :

Ok, ok.

Picture a dock that connects to land via a small ramp. Right next to the dock, next to the first piling in about 8" of water, a bed with a big bass on it.

I approach carefully, slowly... spinning rod in hand... ready to toss the tube bait on the bed.

In a moment of brilliance, I think "Hey, if I cast it on the shore first, then drag it into the water, I won't spook the bass."

So, I deftly pitch the lure on the bank at the waters' edge...

Suddenly, without warning, a cat leaps out from under the dock's ramp and pounces on the lure!

"Where'd he come from?!" I said to myself, "I never saw him!"

Somehow, I didn't set the hook or try to jerk the lure away (maybe because I was just too stunned). But that was a good thing, because such a move would surely impale the cat. As it stood, he simply was on it, but not hooked (thank God!)

So I waited...

the cat waited for it to move....

I waited....

He waited...

I waited...

and waited....

Finally the cat began to show signs of boredom...

He sat up, but kept his paw on the lure.

Dang!.... c'mon... just lift the paw... just for a second, that's all I need to whip that baby outta there...

I could feel the sweat beads on my forehead begin to drip.

I tried calling him, making a noise, trying to distract him.

Well, that did it. He decided to leave. But...not without the lure! He quickly picked up the lure in his mouth and started trotting off towards the house!!!

I quickly flip the bail open, hoping he'd stop.

Nope... he keeps going!

Now he's headed around the side of the house, proudly carrying his catch!

I grab my line clippers, frantically yank off a bunch of line and clip it off.

He's gone around the front of the house now. All I see is the trail of line disappearing around the corner.

I have no idea what happened after that, but I bet there was one confused cat owner later that day!

Mattlures reply :

Glenn that was a great story! i have a similar one but without the happy ending :-[ I wa teaching a friend how to cast a baitcaster by casting into the lawn. As I reeled past some bushes one of my neigbors cats jumped out and hooked itself in its mouth instantly. I was using a 7in T rigged plastic worm and I never seen the cat untill it was hooked. I would not have had a hook on if i did.

Any ways that poor cat gave me one heck of a fight.

it jumped about 5 times and was hissing and making all kinds of noise. I had to get some leather gloves and wire cutters to free him. The cat did end up fine cause I seen many times afterwards but when ever it seen me it took off and it didnt come in my yard anymore.

AUTgrPilot reply :

Okay, I don't feel as bad about my bat.

gophersnake13 reply :

I really wish you would post follow up stories on what you did with the things you caught

Stickling reply :

okok i got a good one. Me and my cousin, we fish alot together. and we went to the beach a few months ago. I was using shrimp as bait becouse that was what was catching at the time, But there were remanants of peir under the water that a huricane had damaged. Everybody on the peir had atleast cut their line twice becouse of it. I had to cut mine atleast 15 times. literally. But i got stuck one time. and my cousin got me out of it after a 10 minute battle. When i reeled it all in i had a toadfish about an inch long. :-[

Another time, the same day- while we were fishing i was crabbing too using some cut mullet. I reeled the net up as fast as i could and found a baby sea bass on to of the mullet. That was very shocking to me. :-/

Yak_Pedaler reply :

Way back when I was a teenager, I caught a Copperhead snake while fly fishing...gave him all of my brand new leader line!

Nick_Barr reply :

well me and my buds were out fishing on a weedy lake with a sumo frog on the matted vegitation

first a big lm bass jumped on it but didnt get hooked and as i was reeling it in a 10 inch toad grabs ahold of it didnt hook him but he swallowed the darn thing so i cut my line.

Klinger988 reply :

I caught a 5lb, 18in smallmouth when i was perch fishing. I was using a dead minnow on the bottem in 60ft of water. what a fight! at first i thought it was a sheephead because i was fishing so deep, but to my suprise it wasnt.

harpo reply :

Earlier this year my craziest catch was actually one of my lures. While fishing a public lake from the bank one evening I lost a Zara Spook in some brush and it was getting dark so I decided to leave it. The next day I returned to the lake and decided to go in after my lure. It was only about ten feet from the bank and the water was only about eighteen inches deep. My first step in the water resulted in my foot sinking in the mud pretty fast so I thought to myself "I'd better hurry". The next couple of steps got me to the spook and after I had it in my hand I realized I was sunk in the mud past my knees and still sinking fast. After a brief battle with the mud I was back on the bank with my beloved spook in hand. It's funny now but it was pretty dad gum scary while I was in the water sinking and wondering if I was going to make it out.

Fatdaddy150 reply :

A couple years ago I was night fishing on Patoka lake Indiana. I was throwing a 1/2 oz black buzzbait when a OWL swooped down and grabed my bait in mid air. The owl hooked himself and flew about 30 yards before I could cut my line. I miss the buzzbait but it leaves me with a good story to tell.

Tight Lines,

Fatdaddy151

JHall reply :

My Wife. And is she a great catch!

Stickling reply :

another nice catch if mine is my finger. i cought a 1 lb bass and he started flopping. It resulted in a treble hook in my finger and a treble hook staying the basses mouth. I had to cut him off. i couldent reach him good enouph to get it out so i cut it. Hookin my finger didnt hurt, it felt weird tho.

bowjunkie35 reply :

Oh, this is a good one! Glad I am looking at some of the older topics.

When I still lived in Arkansas, a real good friend and customer of mine had this AWESOME pond that was really only a bit bigger than an olympic sized swimming pool. He even had cattle that would wade in this pond, so it was AWAYS muddy!

Didn't affect the fishing one bit, except for the fact that you needed a noisy, vibrating presentation when fishing for the bass, something they could home in on.

And this pond was LOADED with catfish.

Wayne had 2 rules. Take all of the catfish you want, and release all of the bass. I actually caught my biggest bass from that pond, a 7 1/2 pounder.

So, here is the story. My stepdad and I were catfishing like normal, using biscuit dough (yes biscuit dough, Wayne turned us onto that and it worked there better than anything else)

So, I set one of my rods up with the dough and proceed to walk around the pond with another casting for bass.

Big Mistake!!

Pretty soon, I look back at my other rod set up for catfish just in time to see it take off into the water!!

I start running around to try to save it but it was gone!!

In the midst of my panic, I thought of something that turned out to be pretty smart, although at the time I was thinking no way will this work!

I tie on a deep diving crankbait and start fancasting in the general direction of where I last saw the rod before it disappeared into the deep!

Lo and behold, after about 10 casts, I hooked something. (there were a lot of brush piles so I figured that I probably had a limb or something)

I reel it up and see that I have my rod, hooked through the end eye with the crankbait!

Carefully, I reeled it up enough for my stepdad to lean over the steep bank and grab it. He hands the whole mess to me, I unhook the crankbait and start reeling my drowned reel. Something is tugging back!

After a few minutes, I reel in about a 4 pound catfish!

It wasn't what I caught that made this the strangest, but the way I caught it! I will never forget this one!

That technique actually came in handy for me again while prefishing for a tourney a couple of years ago.

I knocked one of my rods overboard and it sank like a stone in about 10 feet of water. big lake, lots of trees and I was moving when it went overboard.

I thought it was gone for good, but after 10 minutes of casting for it, I got it back!

metalhack reply :

Thanks for reviving this thread......

Strangest thing I have ever caught... I was fishing a shore fishing only reservoir and I hooked a pair of Vise Grips on a tube.

DDbasser reply :

Last weekend while I was throwing a c-rig parallel

to a weed line, my line suddenly felt real heavy so I immedietly set the hook.

Theres something heavy on the line but it's not fighting back.

I get it up where I can see it and It's a cast net.

i got my lure back and let the cast net go to fight another day. LOL!!!

Matt Fly reply :

NOt my catch!!! I'm 44, and a few years back I had learned that in the early 70's my dad and brother were fishing on Amistad with my Step mom. Funny I never heard this story until my stepmom passed away a few years ago. My dad actually caught my stepmoms new wig on a cast that swipped it right off her head and into the water 6' in front of the boat. At that time neither dared laugh , but they both admit to having to hold the laughter back as she was highly ticked off. But it was a diffenent story now, it can't be told with tears coming so hard from laughing. I do believe a fight came after the boat hit the shore cause my brother had told some of the family at camp. Camping was miserable after that. My dad replaced the wig, she never stepped foot in the boat again. The moral of the story is: It was my summer before I went into the second grade, I got to do some plugging as my dad refers to crankbaiting back then. in her place in the boat. Been fishing for bass ever since, If I had known that I could have move up in the pecking order, I'd burned that wig long before that.

bowjunkie35 reply :

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NOt my catch!!! I'm 44, and a few years back I had learned that in the early 70's my dad and brother were fishing on Amistad with my Step mom. Funny I never heard this story until my stepmom passed away a few years ago. My dad actually caught my stepmoms new wig on a cast that swipped it right off her head and into the water 6' in front of the boat. At that time neither dared laugh , but they both admit to having to hold the laughter back as she was highly ticked off. But it was a diffenent story now, it can't be told with tears coming so hard from laughing. I do believe a fight came after the boat hit the shore cause my brother had told some of the family at camp. Camping was miserable after that. My dad replaced the wig, she never stepped foot in the boat again. The moral of the story is: It was my summer before I went into the second grade, I got to do some plugging as my dad refers to crankbaiting back then. in her place in the boat. Been fishing for bass ever since, If I had known that I could have move up in the pecking order, I'd burned that wig long before that.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!! Now that's funny!!

Max-in-Mn reply :

Believe this if you want or not, but I swear it is true. Me and 2 friends were fishing smallies on the Mississippi river one evening, using jigs and minnows. My buddy lays down his rod for no more than 20 seconds and poof, a fish, catfish I presume, steals his rod. Well, about a month later I'm fishing the spot, I catch his rod, take it home, clean it up, and I've never told him to this day that I caught his rod. I'm so evil

bowjunkie35 reply :

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ROTFLMAO!!!!!!! Now that's funny!!

Had a few ask me what ROTFLMAO means. So here we go...

Roliing on the floor laughing my arse off!!

basser89 reply :

Ok, how about an 8 point buck! Well it would have been an 8 point if the other antler and the rest of the deer would have been attached! LOL! This happened a few weeks ago when I was working a crankbait on the upper Potomac. It would have been a real nice buck, I just wish I could have seen it before it shed its antlers!

Raul reply :

Well it 's aquatic, sort of :

One day I went to a farm pond that holds monster carp, as big as a torpedo, I took my rod and carp reel for those monsters, 6 pound test line and a spinning reel to make the battle endure. Farmers use domestic geese as watchogs and to control weeds in the ponds, specially cattails, those things are not only noisy but nasty biters too, watch out if they don 't know you. So I rigged up my outfit placed a big chunk of bread dough ( Raul 's special formula for carp ) and cast it in the middle of the pond, there I was smoking a cigarrette and minding my own businnes when I see one of the geese swim and take a dive right where my bait was; yup you guessed right, I hooked the sucker, oh boy the best fight I 've ever had in freshwater ;D, man, I can switch to geese fishing any time, so after a good fight I was able to reel him in, but as soon as he sees me he jumps out of the pond and begins running into the field screaming like crazy with my line still attached to him, I ran after him with fishing rod in hand trying to grab him, hey they run prutty fast !, interesting their legs aren 't that large, well after about five minutes of chase I finally grabbed him by the neck, ever fought a professional wrestler ? cuz those things sure know how to wrestle, since I wasn 't able to unhook him while wrestling I grabbed him by the neck and choked it until he became unconcient, grabbed my pliers and unhooked him. Ahhhh, nothing compares to a 15 pound goose.

Ben reply :

Let's see, I've caugt a bat, birds, snakes, tiny fish on huge lures, a couple of aligators, couple of logger heads and few other type turtles, but I think the best has still been when my dad and I caught the same bass.

Back when plastic worm fishing was just catching on, the theory was you let the fish run with the bait for about 10 seconds or waited until he stopped, before setting the hook. (needless to say, this was a long time ago). We were both fishing a plastic worm, I got a bite and gave it some line, shortly afterwards he got a bite. After the fish took several yards line and stopped, I set the hook. Soon after that my dad set the hook on his fish. I was in the front of the boat, my dad in the back and during the fight managed to get the fish under the boat with me pulling from the right front and him pulling from the left rear, we both thought we had a monster bass on. I was fishing much heavier line and bigger reel so I managed to out wrestle him for the fish. Thinking this thing was gonna be huge, when I finally got the fish to the surface was when I saw both our worms in his mouth. The bass was about three pounds and we had dang near ripped his jaws apart. Needless to say, both our dreams of having hung the next world record bass went down the tubes, but have gotten a kick out of telling this story many times over the years.

kevthebassman reply :

fishing in a stream that feeds the meramec with my ultralight, i caught about a 3 inch gar, it was the most tiny thing i had ever seen, looked like a pencil nub.

one time when i was running trot lines on the river, i caught 4 turtles, a monster drum, and a gar on the same line. as i recall, i didnt get one catfish that whole day.

Matt Fly reply :

Conversiving with my two older brothers about the wig washing last night, I was reminded of a dove hunting trip long ago. Late evening, we had been shooting some dove at one of my dads tanks, we had one more dove to retrieve before dark and the wind died down so it wasn't making land fall fast enough. Being a bass fisherman. I told my brother that there was a rod with a lucky 13 tied on in the truck. He went to fetch the rod, mean time the dove disappeared a few seconds, came back up, it did that a couple more times. My older brother got back and saw it happen, he said a turtle was probably messing with it. Sounded good. He made a couple of casts at the dove. His second being the closest yet. He reeled it closer to the dove, snagged it for a second before it was free. His third cast hit behind the dove a few inches. The dove has gone under again, this time a little longer. He waited for the dove, and it floated up again after being down a little longer. He made a couple of twitches to get in position to hook the dove when the water errupted around the dove. My brother successfully landed a 5lb lmb on artifical bait, only artificial bass in his 57 yrs.

guest reply :

This happened to my fishin partner and if I weren't in the boat to see it I dont know if I would have believed him. He decided to play with the pickrel for a while and he put a Mepps inline spinner on. He fished it for a while and we were going to the shore to pee. When we got close to the shore he leaned his rod so the spinner was over the side about 8 or 9 inces from the water. Dont you know that a biga-- bluegill jumped out of the water snatcehed the bait and hooked himself. I have nerer seen anything like this before or since!!!!!!!!!

Kana reply :

ok, here it is, was fishing with a friend in oregon, on the clakamas river for chinook or steelhead. after about 3 hours of nothing he got a bite. as he was reeling in the fish, a seal, yes a 200 pound seal came up and took the salmon, little wretched. my friend reeled back a head of what looked like a nice 15 pound native salmon. i gave up salmon fishing after that.

i caught a friend in the leg with a blue fox, thats what you get for moving in on my spot! he was ticked and i felt so guilty, it was an accident. caught my cousin in the arm ona back cast, myself in the leg fishing tight cover... i think that covers it on body parts.

when i was 10, my street flooded after a rainstorm about 3 feet of water, and my uncle and i caught a small bass by the mouth of a storm drain on a grub!

great stories everyone thanks for sharing.

bassaddict62 reply :

Today, I caught an Oscar! Yes, the type you put in aquariums. At first I thought a bluegill was following my bass plug, like they do sometimes. Then, I noticed the fins, and knew this was some weird fish! So, I tied on a small Mister Twister, and the fish inhaled it, and fought like a demon!

I took it to my work, and my buddy said it was an Oscar. I guess some idiot wanted to get rid of it, but couldn't bear to kill it. Of course, it would have dies come winter, but how unresponsible can you get? I sure hope they didn't dump a bunch of them in the lake.

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mferris reply :

a fews years back i hooked into something really big..at first i thought it was either a large bass or big pike or muskie...after about 5 minutes of following it around with the trolling motor(it kept burying itself it the weeds) i figured it must be a huge bass because a pike would have broke my line by now..after about 10 minutes i found out i snagged a huge carp by the tail...quite a battle but also quite dissapointing..

Okeechobee_Cracker reply :

Ive caught a seagull some turtles a gator and a frog ;D

knkfiend reply :

i just caught a bullhead and a frog this afternoon, all on a plastic worm

Rebbasser reply :

One was a catch and one wasn't-of which I was real happy. First the catch:

I was fishing an electrics only lake and was fishing a flooded tree on the far side. I pitched a jig-n-pig into the tree, felt a thump, and set the hook. From the way it pulled I knew it was a BIG fish-and it was. Turned out ot be a 20 lb flathead cat.

Now the non-catch:

A couple weeks ago I went with a buddy to some stock tanks (Farm ponds) south of town. As I was reeling in a watermelon candy brush hog it went over aome matted weeds on the surface and a 3-4 foot allogator grabbed it. Fortuately it only grabbed the tail-not the hook!

bassmaster043 reply :

My friend lives on a canal and he called me one day and told me to come over and help him catch this crockadile and get it moved somwhere eles so i brought over a penn international a dolphin jr. and a hunk of baracudda. Anyways i casted it rite next to him and he attacked it. Well when we got it up we called the Wild life and fish commision to come get it well they sent about 5 cops over and they told us that if we had purposley done it that would land us in jail so we told them we were bass fishing.

Rattlinrogue reply :

I was sitting in my boat before the sun had come up one morning.While waiting for it to lighten up a little bit,I threw a topwater bait out on a long cast trying to get the line straightened out on that particular baitcaster.I was in 10 ft of water,working furiously on my line by flashlight.I heard a big splash in the direction of the topwater that had just been sitting stil for a couple of minutes .I reeled in the slack and had a fish on.When I got it in it was a 3-4 lb. channel cat.

Yankee_Bassman reply :

There was a story on the news the other night about a bass fisherman in Vermont catching a 9" Oscar....the F & G people weren't happy. They said that populations have been established in Florida that have taken over the waterways where they're established. Those thing are eating machines.

My weirdest catch happened when I was about 8. I was fishing off my dock, and my dad was up on a ladder painting. I went to cast a big old Heddon River Runt...remember them? As I brought the rod forward, it stopped, followed immediately by the most pitiful howling ever heard.....I turned and saw my Beagle's ear standing straight out, with four out of six of the trebles buried.....I started screaming, my dad almost fell off the ladder trying to get down to see what the Hell was going on....neighbors came running....dad had to drive 50 miles round trip to a vet to get the hooks out...the dog wouldn't come near me for weeks, and never set foot on that dock again....I also had a bat tangle in my line while fishing cut bait for striped bass with my rod in a spike holder.....cut that line quick...that bat was not happy......

bassaddict62 reply :

a long time ago I was tossing a crankbait for LMB, but there are some SMB in the lake too. I hooked something huge, that was making long, fast runs. When it got toward the surface, I could see a brownish tint, so I assumed an Arizona State Record SMB. Sadly, I had snagged a big carp in the tail.

Hookhead reply :

I've caught frogs and other usual wetlands type of animals. The one catch that stands out in my mind is when I reeled in a 3 pound LM and while taking the hook out of his mouth discovered a leader. With the fish lipped in one hand and the leader in the other I slowly pulled out a 6 inch brush hog with an exposed rusty hook out of his gullet. I was amazed the hook didn't snag his insides (gut) at all while in there. The brush hog was discolored and was starting to break down. The legs and arms of the hog were nubs. Strange days indeed.

Michael H reply :

i have caught lots of weird thing like turltles, frogs and i once i got a bowfin

but me craziest catch would be a seagull i was fishing on a pier in lake erie and when anybody catches a gobie they need to be killed so they are thrown to the gulls but any way i was fishing a lipless crank and got a hit and when i set the hook i missed the fish and it flew up out of the water and just about hit me it landed a couple feet from the seagulls and before i could do anything one grabbed it and hooked it self so i just slashed the line and watched the seagull fly away with my crank

Bass Hammer reply :

Two weekends ago my buddy chucked a buzz bait up into some timber and had about a 5 pounder just explode on it.

After the hook was set it hung up on a stump.

My buddy let out some line so the fish could swim out. As soon as that fish moved a otter ripped it off the line and swam about 60 yards, crawled up on the bank and ate it like a piece of corn on the cob.

Still had a purple buzzbait in his mouth.

Hammer

LowCountry_Lunker reply :

A baby aligator is the wierdest thing I have hooked. I was fishing a farm pond and was working a jointed rapala along the edges of a weed bed close to the shore. I didn't notice the little critter hiding in the weeds. As I got the lure close to where he was he lunged at it and hooked himself. I reeled him up to the dock I was standing on, lifted him out of the water and removed the hook. He was only about a foot long so I didn't have any fear about grabbing him.

rellz reply :

bowfin/dogfish. i caught one when i was 10 that was around 20 inches. my mother caught one in NY last fall, 22 inches, and this past spring i caught a 24 incher! so i've caught two dogfish now. the 24 incher was a monster, cast into some thick weeds and just let it sit for a bit. never felt it hit, but when i went to pull it in i felt a HUGE tug. i thought it was just snagged at first, but then it happened again. weird thing was when i gave it slack, it didn't move. it took about 15 minutes to finally get it out of the weeds and until i saw it surface i thought it was a musky or pike. boy was i upset when i saw what it was............

so my mom goes fishing w/ me and my dad in a small row boat. we got out fishing for 3 hours, and catch literally nothing. mom had a real nice fishing pole that dad bought for her, but dad was using it and just told mom to use the junk one. so she complained about the pole all day. so we head in and she gets out of the boat and onto the dock. dad and i are cleaning things up, so she just drops her line in the water w/ less than 1/4th of a nightrawler on it. next thing we know she's screaming. i look over and her pole is bent and drag is ripping out. she got the dogfish to the surface and i netted it w/ a very old net and got it onto the dock. she screamed again and ran up to the cabin. it thrashed the old net into pieces so me and my brother were holding it down, each of us w/ two hands. he repositions because he's losing grip on it, and as he does, it wiggles loose, between his legs and starts flopping towards the end of the dock. i go over my brother and scoop it back into the middle of the dock, and my fiance gets back w/ a real net. funniest thing ever, true story. all that for a picture.......

rellz reply :

oh yea, i forgot about the time when i was really young and said the famous words "watch this". sure enough, the duck wanted my worm and the hook went through his beak. it flapped around and made some weird noises until it shook itself free. scared the crap out of me.

heresdustin reply :

Okay, weird story. My friend and I used to tie huge magnets on our poles when this reservoir we used to fish alot was low. We'd drag them across the bottom and reel them back slowly retrieving old lures that were on the bottom, and various other metal objects. Anyhow, there used to be alot of ducks in this reservoir. One day, we're out there dragging magnets, and a huge group of ducks comes swimming by, but like sixty feet out from where we were. And believe me, you can cast those big magnets VERY far. So I fling one out there, and right into the group of ducks, scattering them......all except for one. I actually hit one of them in the head, knocking it out, and somehow it gets tangled around this poor little duck. So I actually reeled in this limp duck that probably feels like he went a round with Mike Tyson. My friend behind me, rolling around, laughing his butt off. But I untangled him, and set him on the bank. It wasn't any more than two minutes, when he woke up, extremely confused, and stumbled his way back into the water. Very funny scene. And Duck, if you ever read this, I'm very sorry! :'(

basser89 reply :

Sorry all but I had to bring this one back up! LOL! I fished a small community pond this evening. I caught 5 small bass and this little monster. I was fishing a 5" Kinami Flash when I felt a tick so I set the hook and all I felt was a little grass. So I reeled the bait in and this is what I found. I think I laughed for at least 5 minutes after I CPR'd this bad boy! LOL!

Fishin_Machine reply :

My brother and I were fishing a pond one time and we had been catching a few bass. Things got a little slow and I hear this splashing underneath a willow tree. There was no way to get a bait under it. So I said to myself, since I can't go underneath I'll go through the top. I casted my jignpig up in the air and it crashed down in the tree. I peeled off some line and it went straight down to the water and as soon as it hit the water, the water boiled and I said man I've got a bite. I set the hook pretty hard and what I thought was a fish went about 20 feet in the air and then landed on the ground between my brother and me.

Turns out it was a big old frog. The frog looked like someone shot him out of a cannon. I thought I was gonna have to take my brother to the hospital he was laughing so hard. Since I practice catch and release, I released the frog.

Then since I didn't get hung up I threw back into the tree and caught another one on the next cast. My brother was useless for the rest of the day. ;D ;D

directlink reply :

The only thing other thing i've caught instead of a bass while bass fishing was a 3lb flathead catfish. He was caught on a 3" Kalins grub. I don't think that's too crazy though since flatheads will usually only take live bait.

.ghoti. reply :

On back to back trips, my wife caught the biggest bullforg I've ever seen, followed by a 4' copperhead. The bullfrog was kinda fun. THE SNAKE WAS NOT! Both were caught on a 4' senko. Before the next outing, I was compelled to tell her; fishing, dear, we're going fishing. Not reptiling. She was not amused.

Good luck to all,

BassinFever reply :

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Cat.
No, not a catfish.

A cat.

Hey, I did that also.

I almost peed my pants laughing about it later. It was fun and sad all at the same time.

It was mostly my fault, There was this cat on a ramp that went down to the dock I was fishing, I had a jig a pig tied on. I flipped the jig up onto the dock to see if the cat would come down the ramp. Well he did, and the jig was caught on a sliver or something, and the cat grabbed it before I could pull it away. He grabbed it and went for the ramp, I free spooled it hoping he would let go of it but he headed for the house. I flipped the reel in and the fight was on. I dragged him screaming and clawing all the way down the ramp and on to the dock. I had to wrap him in my coat to get the hook out. God I'm glad the people that owned him didn't hear or see what happened, I would have been sued for sure.

Siebert Outdoors reply :

This is one of mine. Hooked a hole in the rock.

torky reply :

A dead half digested 5" perch

I was just beginning to fish senkos earlier this summer and didn't have the technique down yet. After I casted my senko into the water I let it sit for about 10 seconds. When I went to initially twitch it I felt a fish on so I set the hook pretty hard. After getting the bass 1/2 way to the boat my line just went dead. After loosing the bass, I reeled in the rest of my line and to my surprise there was a dead perch attached to my hook!

bass86 reply :

fishin off a bridge snagged a trout int he butt, a seagul off the peir, my grandpas wifes nipple(and her shirt) and a subaru. yes a subaru car. i was flyfishing on a bridge and i snagged a bike rack on the back cast, and like a true fisherman held on to my pole.after the car took all the line out of the reel,the line snapped. and oh yeah, the butt hooked fish and the subaru where within half hour of eachother.

paparock reply :

My craziest catch was a seagull. It took my topwater lure off the surface but boy was he surprised when I jerked him out of the sky.

Rocky

BassinSoldier reply :

I have had quite a few!! Have caught a Talapia on a lake in Lakeland FL on a redshad culprit. Caught the biggest bluegill of my life on a rapala shadrap in bluegill color!! Hooked a gator before and caught numerous mudfish or dogfish, whatever ya'll call 'em. My buddy and I used to intentionally fish for those! They put up a helluva fight! If ya wanna try it use a bright (white with pink tail) grub anywhere in the south on still water fished texas style. Big fun when you're messin around!

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