Best tall tale fishing story?

[slabsntaters]

Does anybody have a tall tale fishing story they would like to share, maybe spark the board and put some life back in it, I feel some have lost interest since its gotten so flippin hot. Try your hand at a fishermans tale.

[CrappiePro]

While Fishing Greers Ferry in the Fall of 1996 near Higden with my Dad and Uncle, I pulled up into a small cove verticle jigging timber when i felt a thump on my jig. I set the hook and reeled up what I thought was a small fish. Suddenly after fighting the fish for a few seconds the rod stopped cold and I thought I was snagged for about five seconds. Then the snag started to move off and I knew I was hooked into something really big. I was using only six lb test so we followed the fish around and around in the cove. After about 10 minutes I began to see color and realized I was hooked up with a World Record Class Walleye. The fish continued to fight until it reached the surface. It was truly around a 20 pounder. As I got the fish to the surface and just out of reach of the net. The monster opened it's mouth while looking at me, and out popped about an 7 inch Kentucky Bass hitting me square in the chest and knocking me back in the boat. One last look and the fish turned and went back down into the depths of Jarassic Walleye Park. Man I wish I could have got my hands on that one. Every now in then I look at a map of Greers, and I see that small cove and I say to myself im going to return to even up the score.

[RCC]

While fishing for catfish I hooked one that ran real good then wrapped up on something underwater. I told my buddy to hold the line tight and so I could dive down and untangle the fish. When I dove down, there was an old 49 Ford pickup someone had driven off into the lake and the catfish was wrapped up around the steering wheel. Everytime I would try to reach in and untangle the line, the catfish would roll up the window on me.

[RCC]

I was fishing over on the St. Francis and I noticed a squirrel trying to walk out on a little bitty limb to get at a wild pecan out on the end. Everytime the squirrel would start out toward the end of the limb. The squirrels weight would cause the limb to bow down and the nut would go underwater. The squirrel would back up the limb and the nut would come back out of the water. This went on for some time until the squirrel finally ran down the limb, jumped, grabbed the nut, and fell off into the water. When the squirrel hit the water a huge bass swirled up and ate the squirrel whole.






























































In just a short time the bass came back up and set another pecan out on the end of the limb.

[olduckhunter]

several years ago i took my sons, then about 8 and 10 years old, fishing for bass with crawfish on a very small sunken island in norfork lake. i got on top of the island and told them to let the crawfish down to the bottom. they were probably 8 ft apart in the boat. no sooner had the first one let his down he got a hit and i told him to wait till the bass swallowed the crawfish. bout that time the other son got a hit so i told the first one to wait until the second one was ready to set the hook and for both to set the hook at the same time. they did an both were hooked up to a bass. as they fought their bass and brought them to the boat their lines kept coming towards the middle of the boat. when they got the fish to the top they had both caught the same kentucky bass.

[RCC]

I believe Crappiepro and ODH are fibbing. I choose to stay with the truth:D

[RCC]

A buddy of mine caught a huge catfish and wanted to show it around so he put it in a 55 gallon drum of water in the back of his pickup. Everday he would take a cup of water out of the 55 gallon drum and after a few weeks the catfish was surviving in the drum with only the bottom just damp. The catfish had been weaned from water. The fellow was driving along one day and hit a big bump and the drum fell over and the fish fell into a flooded road ditch and drowned.

[olduckhunter]

you are a nut. i got to meet you at the lake deal if it ever comes about. then again i may want to avoid you like the plague. i'll have to check with others that know you to see how safe it is to be within 10 miles of you.

[RCC]

I haven't met but a few people on here. Tom, BillyE. and Krappie KG. All fine fellers. I told my wife when we came through the land of the big black bird on our way home last friday that we needed to stop and visit you.

[CrappiePro]

I was punked by a Walleye, that fish still haunts me to this day.