Fishing Stories

['eyesmaster89]

Anybody have any wierd/stupid/funny things that happened to them while they were fishing.EYES

[opsirc]

kids and I were out fishing eyes this weekend, caught a ton of little ones. Hooked one that I thought was a monster, got it to the boat, was a little eye. But it got caught on an ice fishing setup that some-one had lost this last year. Threw the fish back but kept the reel. works well once I got all the mud out of it.

[Guest]

Two weeks ago, while the inlaws and I were fishing the Cannon river in Northfield for buffalos, an inlaw caught a bra. The funny thing was he thought he was onto a buffalo until it surfaced.

[Guest]

When we were kids, our parents had a small cabin cruiser - probably a 20 foot boat.

The following events all happenend at the same time, while we were trolling slowly.

My sister caught the boat motor.

My dad cut the engine.

My brother fell off of the bow because he happened to be off balance when dad cut the engine.

My mom started screaming because she's just reeled in one of those huge lake leeches.

And I got my line wrapped up in the stringer of walleyes hanging off the boat.

It was utter chaos. I wish I could see it all over again!

[Aquaman01]

Just remembered this one -

Couple of years ago my son (2 at the time) and I were at a popular shore spot a bunch of folks were circled around this little inlet catching crappies, sunnies & bass, when I decided to try a minnow, 'cause those black & white fish the locals are all excited about looked pretty cool and I was ready to smell something besides sunnies. I'd been ignoring the gulls all day, so I didn't notice one come down and grab my minnow from the water - just felt a weird kind of tuggin'. Went to set the hook, and one of the gulls starts flying downwards all goofy, and my rig comes back to me from out of the sky. Now for the weird part.

Nobody noticed.

A dozen people were so intently staring at their bobbers, that nobody saw me almost catch a gull. Except for my son, that is, who said in his 2 year old voice "I don't want to use a minnow, daddy. I don't like those birds."

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Peace and Fishes

[Granny]

Ice fishing story.
My aunt, cousin, and girlfriend were ice fishing for some crappies. This house was only a 6x8 with 6 holes. A northern comes along and takes one line and then wraps the other 5 lines up with it. There were three women trying to grab 6 lines all going down at the same time thinking there was a fish on each line. It took them a while to figure out that all the lines were connected to this one fish. What a mess!!

[Guest]

A few years back, my son and I fishing close to the bank in small lake in Itasca County. My son casts his jig close to the bank hangs line over tree limb, drops jig in the water, catches crappie, he reels line in-up out of water, we pull under tree and take the crappie off the hook.

[chunkytrout]

Couple of years ago I was fishing a local trout pond which is also known to hold enormous bucketmouths. Trouting was slow so I moved my boat into the timber and starting chucking plugs around for fun. One underhanded toss onto a weed bed and wham, explosion on the surface. This was a big bass. When I finally got it to the boat to my surprise there were two (around 2-3lbs) hooked on the plug. One on the belly treble and one on the tail. That one took a while to sink in.

chunky

[kslipsinker]

A couple of years ago I was fishing crappies with an ultralite and a FruFru. I hooked into something that gave me a heck of a tussle. After a workout on the drag, I landed a 39" muskie. The ironic thing is I was on the exact same spot fishing a week later. I was telling the story to a guy fishing by me, and he said he had never seen a muskie. Right after he said that, the ultralite drag started sing. I landed another muskie idential to the first one. He thanked me for getting a look the fish.

[Mueske]

Not my best story by far but the most recent. In March me and a buddy fished an alpine lake in the Wind River Mountains for lakers (known as macs around here) through the ice in 54 feet of water. He had few bites but caught most of them. I can take partial credit for only one. As he reeled one through the hole it fell off the hook when he hoisted it up. I noticed his second line he had been jigging in the same hole was moving and leapt over the sled to grasp the mac that was tangled in the line. Funny how the fish had entrapped itself only 18" from freedom. We weren't sure if it was OK to tell the game warden who visited later about the less than perfect capture.
Kevin

[Northlander]

Caught a 21" smallmouth on the ST.Louis River. Once in the boat I noticed fishing line coming out of its Anus hole. I pulled on the line lightly and out popped a 1/8th oz. jighead. Brand new not a scratch on it. Sharp enough to use later.

[fishinphyl]

We just had the same thing happen only the other end. We pulled in a really nice smallie and it had a leader sticking out of its mouth.

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Phyl