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Was fishing a tourney one time and a fellow came out on his pier. He told me to cast right in front of it with a worm and a fish would be there. I made my cast, felt something spongy and set the hook. What i thought was a decent spot was an old metal pole. It fought like a 4 pound spot.lmao
Was fishing Grand Lake in Oklahoma for schooling sand bass, with an Acme Castmaster when I hung into something that didn't really fight back but was really difficult to reel in. Turned out to be a perfectly rolled nylon line 1/2" diameter like would be used for sail boats or dock line, only there was 100' of it. Covered in moss, but took it home and ran it through the washing machine. Looks like new rope now!
I used to fish in a lot of bass tournaments with my father, he would get a bit lazy and therefore would no pay attention to details. Well we were fishing with big buzzbaits and I noticed that he still had on a swivel from his previous lure about 18" up the line. Like a good son I gave him a ration of hell and laughed at him, a few casts later there was a hungry Martin that mistook dad's swivel for some sort of flying insect. The next thing I saw was dad reeling in this little purple Martin that was flying all around the boat. :Rofl Seems that in his attack fueled by hunger the Martin managed to wrap my dads line around his neck. After a short fight my dad landed the Martin, unwound him and released him. Dangest catch I ever witnessed!:dono
Weirdest fish - Sea robin. Weirdest item - flippin' stick. Released the fish; reconditioned the combo and sold it at a yard sale.
I hate to admit this but I caught my brother in law once. I hooked him in his ear. He had a night crawler hanging down behind his ear. I had to take him to the ER. Once they had it out, we returned to the fishing hole...embarrassing but true.
Not I, but saw this in Marsh and Bayou Magazine.
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When my son was little, I'd take him with me when I fished bass tournaments in a local club. Being like most kids, he'd get bored if he wasn't catching anything. I taught him to use a fly rod and reel and would let him take it along to give him something to do when the bass weren't cooperating. We were fishing around some buck brush one day and he was using his fly rod, all of a sudden I heard him holler and when I looked back, he was reeling in a Blue Heron that had hit his fly! He asked me how we were going to get him unhooked and I told him to cut the line!
My friend was fishing a bass tourney on Pickwick. He and his partner found the body of a missing elderly man floating in the back of a creek. A couple of weeks later, we were jigging spoons next to a deep bluff wall on Smith Lake near Cullman, Alabama and he hooked a timex watch that was still running. It kind of freaked him out a little bit. It was an hour off due to the time change and he still has the watch attached to his tackle box. Lots of people jump off that particular bluff into the water and we think it may have got knocked off someone's wrist.
Used to set a ton of bank poles on the Embarass river here in Illinois. Came down the bank one day to a set that was notorious for decent flatheads and saw what looked like a large pile of leaves on the bank...........until its large yellow-eyed head swiveled and glared right at me!!!! Great Horned Owl had swooped low on the river and ran the large O'Shawnessy hook off my pole in its shoulder and was ready to take its anger out on me. Shot the end of the pole off with a 12 gage I kept in my truck and the old boy flew off a little wiser i assume.
Some retired couple on one of the lakes I used to fish as a kid owned a pair of floating bicycles. The guy managed to run over my line just as I casted out and got his water bike paddles tangled up. Then he fell in (fully clothed) trying to get the line unwound. Boy was his wife pissed at me, but if you ask me it was their own damn fault for cutting too close to the fishing dock. Hooked a duck the same way not too long afterward. Funny thing is, I was using a bottom rig both times. They just happened to run over my line while the weight was near the surface.
I also hooked a grebe a couple of years ago. I was standing up on an embankment about 5' above the water casting a jig across a shallow channel off the main lake in the early spring for crappies, and the bird ran into my jig underwater. Hooked him right in the foot. The same area has some huge largemouths, and I saw someone catch one that was pushing the state record on a crappie jig just a few days before. I thought I had a whopper bass on the line, until it shot up out of the water and tried to take off. A guy standing in the water came over to help, but the grebe broke the line before it managed to peck him to death. Those things have really sharp beaks too.
I've hooked a seagull too. Was fishing for silvers in Puget Sound with a strip of herring under a big bobber. I was letting line out, and damned if that stupid bird didn't swoop down and pick up the herring strip right off the surface. Luckily that one came off before I could get him in.
Me and birds just don't get along while fishing.