Accidental Catch Stories??

[MNUser]

Years ago when I was a teenager, my buddy and I use to go to this little creek and catch pike one after another. This is when you could fish for them during the spawn.

I was using one of those big red and white daredevils. It was a weedy, shallow, cattail infested area. You would get hung up often but if you pulled hard enough it would come free. Well, I cast my trustly lure as far as I could and it gets hung up good. Back them we used barb wire for line so I knew there was no way it was going to break. So I started pulling really hard and would give that rod many good jerks in an attempt to free that lure. Well, free it came. It came flying across that water so fast that I did not have time to react. I can still see it to this day! It came back and caught me square in the right cheek. Now what? My buddy says, "Come on, let me try and pull it out". I say, "OK". Well, needless to say that thing was NOT coming out. I can remember my cheek stretching like it has never stretched before. After what seems like an hour, my buddy takes a pliers and cuts the hook off and leaves the barb in my face. We ended up going into the emergency room where they removed it in about 1 minute. The staff at the hospital got a good laugh at my expense.

Now whenever I'm hung up and it will not come out, I cut the line. It is a good thing I had on sun glasses on that day. If not, Karma would have had that lure hitting me square in the eye!

[TRZ]

last year i fought a sturgeon for 2 hours in a backwater of the st.croix. i hooked it pike fishing, maybe it was snagged not sure. after 2 hours it took me to the main river and 2 party boats came by made huge waves and it knocked me out of the boat, i handed the pole to my buddie and he continued the fight. i got back in the boat and fought it for another 2 hours and then the 10lb xt line finally gave way. 4 hours never seen the fish, had to go over 100lbs, i have landed 65 inchers. also had on spool me on the croix in under 1 min. just kept swiming like i hooked a submaine, it never even knew it was hooked, and i have landed 50+ inchers in the winter before.

[so haaad]

This is not exactly a hook catch, but my dad's cousin was out getting minnows on a river in SW Minnesota. He put his chisel through the ice and instead of hitting the bottom, he heard the chisel hit something metal. It turned out to be the roof of a car, with two guys inside that had been missing for the last month.

[WAG416]

Hard to beat that story.

[federline]

Nope can't beat that. That is gruesome.

But anyway, here goes.

I grew up near the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Dad would take me out to the fishing boat harbor rock jetty. We'd slip and slide on all the seagull [PoorWordUsage] until we could take it no more, and casted big bait. Well, I must have been about 11 or so, and out on the end of the jetty. I recoiled and slung my cut bait out as far as I could. Out of no where swoops this dang skyrat, and chomps down on my bait before it hit the bay, drag a-buzzing, he's flying up and up and up, it looked like I was sailing a kite for 5 seconds. Dad says "tighten 'er up and yank hard" so I do, and he divebombs into the bay. I reeled him in, all tangled up in the line by the time I landed my first skyrat. I had set the hook on a dang seagull. I was so embarrased. A local had come over by then to help out... he actually managed to free it and unhook his beak, and he swam off, delierious from the experience. To this day, if I see a seagull, I think of that.

[The Grebe]

so haaad....I had forgetten this, but you know, now that you mention it....I was driving south out of Champlain, a number of years ago, on west river road and right at that curve before you get to the Coon Rapids Dam Park, I noticed something in the river that looked like the roof of a car.

I called the Brooklyn Park police when I got home and told them what I had seen and where I had seen it. I called later to check on the situation and was told that the car and the person in it, had been missing since December.

They must have missed that curve and launched out into the river, pretty tragic.

[Riverratpete]

DUDE. I remember that, used to take the bus to school up that road everyday.

[The Grebe]

Pete...I used to trap all up through the area and even around Coon Rapids Dam, both sides, before it was a park.

Trappers notice things and I knew that thing in the water was out of place. With the few busted off saplings, it was'nt hard to figure out.

I was hoping that whoever put it there had made it out, but I guess not?

The officer was'nt going to tell me anything about it at first, but when I told him I was the one that spotted it to begin with and had the sense to report it, I figured I deserved to know what the he11 was going on!

Young fella missed the curve, hit the river and then it snowed, covering up any sign, there he sat until the car was spotted. He had been reported missing

[dirtydog]

OK, here is one I have not seen in any of these posts. 2 years ago, I was fishing with my brother and a friend (eyeguy54). We were fishing with jigs and minnows. My brother yells out that he has a fish on. We thought it must be huge; it dove down and fought hard. After a minute or so, it came up right next to the boat. It was a Loon. It must have swam by underwater getting the jig hooked in its wing. It was flapping, and squawking like mad. We must have looked like the keystone cops in the boat. After getting the jig out we carefully released it. He also caught a turtle, but that is a different story.

[joefish130]

this catch didnt involve a rod or hook at all. was up north near 2 harbors before opener a few years ago and had caught some nice perch, with opener only being a couple hours away<brought boat in about 7> i figured id leave the perch on stringer and clean what i caught the next day all at once. well saturday morning rolls around and i mosey down to the boat to get out for the morning. i pull up the stringer and instead of the 4 perch i had friday i had 3 perch and a 5 pound northern, from 8 inches of water. that critter just didnt want to let go and died with the perch in its mouth and stayed on the stringer.