Weird stuff while fishing

Today I was pulling crankbaits at the lake. I had 8 poles out
2 BnM 8 ft
2 BnM 10 ft
2 BnM 12 ft
2 BnM 14 ft

A 5 lb catfish hit one of the 8 footers and I didn't have my spyder loc locked down. Pole fell from 45 degree angle to flat and out the back of the boat she went. I'm sitting there numb and pizzed off for not tightening the nut on my spyder lock. All the sudden the other 8 footer goes off. I grab it and it feels like I have the hood of a 62 Cadillac but definitely a fish. As I start winding I see what looks like a fishing pole. OMG it is a fishing pole and looks just like the one that went in the lake. I ease the pole in and get the crank bait out of the eye and still land the fish. I am glad I have a witness cause it was the dangest thing I ever seen. What are the odds


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Was it a crappie or?

WOW.... you should have left right then and went to the casion's....:cheers2

Your living right!!

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Originally Posted by crappie cowboy

WOW.... you should have left right then and went to the casion's....:cheers2

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X2!

Boy Howdey what luck

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Originally Posted by canebreaker

Was it a crappie or?

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No it was a 5 lb catfish


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LOL, least something finally went your way

Lucky man! I hate to admit the same thing happened to me once..........Not a fish, though. Just dropped the durned pole in the water trying to get it into the rod holder. Caught it on the pole right beside it about 20 seconds later.

Very lucky


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I dropped one of my ultralight spinning outfits over the side this spring in 25 feet of water. I didn't even bother punching a waypoint. Kissed it goodbye since we were moving at 1.0mph. We were long lining with jigs no more than 12 feet deep and all of a sudden one of them went down. My buddy reeled it up with my rod and reel attached.

I drag up 3-4 outfits a year but most are rarely worth bringing in the boat. Some times they are. Got a Shimano reel on Falcon rod a couple of years ago and one of my clients dragged in a high-$$ Okuma spinning outfit in May. It was his to keep but he was surprised I let him have it.

Sometimes we just get lucky. Sometimes not.

It's better to be lucky than good sometimes. Yikess and I were pulling cranks on Grenada. I noticed a chartreuse bandit floating in the water. We swung over and picked it up. There was fishing like attached. We pulled it up and a fishing rod and reel on the other end

I was being rear-ended by my father in law at the rez one day- basically playing "gatekeeper" of the livewell. He was smoking me like an illegal Cuban. To top it off, I kicked a brand new Sam Heaton in the water that had a small spinning reel on it- which caused it to sink.

5 minutes and 10 fish later, my father in law hooks another fish and is yelling for the net. I told him he could put the net somewhere, and it wasn't in the water...

He commences to catching a 15" sow AND my new pole.

I had to talk him outta releasing the pole so it could live to fight another day.

your lucky day for sure

your lucky day for sure