Just went fishing and caught a nice chain pike about 20 inches got him towards shore and was about to lift him out of the water when it decided it had a little more fight in it. started to run out again i turned him back towards shore and it surged for a jump and its teeth cut my line but his momentum carried him right up onto the bank. I picked him up holding him around his back behind his gills and he shook very hard and threw the hook and plastic worm out of his mouth and hit me in the chest then slipped out of my hands and back into the water tough little guy. Anyone else got any cool fish stories? I've got a million of em but this is the first good one of the season.
Chain Pickerel with attitude
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One time while fishing for bait with a tiny rooster tail I was reeling in a small crappie when a big bass ate it! The hook from the rooster tail stuck and the bass broke my 4lb line. Anyhow, later that day, while fishing for monster LMB I landed one and low and behold there was my roostertail stuck in the basses mouth!
Once, we brought a 4.5ft bullshark on the boat that was too green...that was scary!
Once, we brought a 4.5ft bullshark on the boat that was too green...that was scary!
when i was 13 or 14 i was teachin my little sister to fish using flies for sunfish and she was done reeling in a blue gill she had caught and was waiting for me to take it off the hook she had the bluegill in the water right next to shore when i heard a huge splash she got so scared she dropped the rod i jumped and grabbed the rod as it was heading into the water and after a good fight on light tackle reeled up a 6lb large mouth.... the sunfish was gone and the fly was in the top part of the bass's mouth
I as fishing alone one summer morning two years ago fishing for catfish. so im bored and walked away to the picnic table when i heard my rod fall over and thinking its just a turtle hitting the line wlaked over slowly but suddenly the rod jerks toward the water so im running now and the rod is already in the water when i reach jerks again going up to waist deep water so i grabbed the rod and jerked back and a big ass catfish just blows up at the surface. So after about 3 minutes its really close to shore and i was about to grab it when it did a 180 and dove my drag was to tight and the weight covered in eight hooks flung back at my face leaving my wet and bruised.
i had a hook go clear through my thumb last week, taking a bluefish off a popper boat side got one set of trbles out, and while he was shaking around one of the trebles went clear through, luckily it went so far through i was able to cut the barb off and slide it out hurt like a female dog
voss345;1755863; said:
That's one reason why I don't like treble hooks. I either cut one hook off, or replace the treble with a single hook.
While ice fishing a few years ago, I sent the orange colored sounder to the bottom. I had attached it to the loop in a snelled hook. Started to lift it up but it felt really heavy. There was a 12" bass on the hook. Guess you don't need bait after all.
Was crappie fishing 2 yrs ago, when my rod nearly got yanked in. I caught it, played it for a while, then realized it was a carp. I got excited at the challenge, so I continued to work him. Luckily we for some strange reason had a net, got him to the surface and my brother netted him. Long story short, I caught about a 20lb carp on 4 or 6lb test. (I can't remember what I had on that rod)
Another, doing some midnight catfishing below a local dam, got hit hard, and it took off. Thought it was a beast cat, then realized it wasn't at all. I knew there are a lot of spoonbill below this same dam, as they migrate up the river to spawn, so I knew that was it. That damn thing ran me left, right, left for 15 minutes (in and out of the water, too, since my light had just died). Banked him, and realized just how big he was. I couldn't do anything with him, since I was in my camaro and just fishing for fun, so I cut him loose and rolled him back in. My only stories are me catching fish I wasn't even fishing for!
Another, doing some midnight catfishing below a local dam, got hit hard, and it took off. Thought it was a beast cat, then realized it wasn't at all. I knew there are a lot of spoonbill below this same dam, as they migrate up the river to spawn, so I knew that was it. That damn thing ran me left, right, left for 15 minutes (in and out of the water, too, since my light had just died). Banked him, and realized just how big he was. I couldn't do anything with him, since I was in my camaro and just fishing for fun, so I cut him loose and rolled him back in. My only stories are me catching fish I wasn't even fishing for!