Lost nice northern one day, caught following week :)

[Hooliganz]

Just thought that I would share my story of a rare occurance.

A week ago I was fishing on a metro lake pike fishing with a tip up and sucker minnow. Tip up went up, and I had a nice fish on my line only to have it break off on the edge of the ice hole. I thought ohh well thats they way it goes.

I went back to the same lake this week, set up about in the same spot and what do you know I caught a 8 pound northern only that when I was trying to take the hook out of it I saw another hook in its mouth with two feet of line on it. To my surprise it was the fish that I had lost the week before.

Pretty funny.

Anybody else have stories like this also??

[fishuhalik]

Several. Several times crappie fishing i've had pike bite me off only to catch 'em 15 minutes later

[TiNK3R]

lol nice!

[Scottie Thomas]

Very cool story!

Not a pike, but fishing on the Red River in Grand Forks this fall I caught an 8 pound catfish at a 'community' fishing spot that had 2 hooks in its mouth, 1 with about 2 feet of line and one with only a few inches, and one hook snagged in its side. This in in addition to the hook I had in the corner of its mouth! 4 hooks! There were a lot of snags/branches in the area and people down there with fairly light line.

I think your story is unique because you hooked it twice, whereas the hooks in this catfish were from other anglers.

[terrible_fisherman]

I have caught pike summer fishing with spoons still in there mouth twice. Once I got a nice new red eye and the other time a new daredevil for my efforts.

[buddha]

I caught a 15" walleye a few years back with a chunck of gulp I tossed overboard. I was fishing in 10' of water with a bobber and I guess he was hungry. I also caught a big bowfin this summer with my floating lindy rig hanging out of his mouth that I lost an hour earlier.

[ZEEK1223]

I snagged a little jig rod while I was pan fishing. The pole still had line on it so I started pulling it in. To my surprise there was a pike on the other end. He was tired, but when he got one look at me he bolted and broke the line. I still have the little jig rod.

[andrew chadwick]

I have had this happen numerous times. I think three times just last year. One pike can often found in the same areas all year round, if the conditions are right. Its realy cool when it happens beacuse its like getting a gift of a new lure

[ZEEK1223]

I believe a big fish spot is always going to be a big fish spot. They dominate an area, and when they are gone the next biggest fish will move into the same area.

[polarsusd81]

Very cool story. I have not caught a fish that broke my line previously. Closest I have come was sight fishing bass, I hooked a mama three times before I got her to the boat. She wasn't on the bed, but had just finished up and was resting by a stump.

[traveler]

fishing on a remote stocked rainbow lake a couple years ago...we were shorefishing, and i caught a rainbow, and somehow got my feet tangled in my wifes line and broke it off. No big, retied for her and kept fishing. Next day, tossing spinners from the canoe accross the (small) lake, I snag a line, handline it in and theres a fish on it! Yup, it has my wifes lime green floating jighead in it's mouth:) Mind you, she hadn't even had a bite when I broke her line the day before...

[bemidjibasser]

Not a northern, but I did this twice this last year. Once on a smallie and once on a largemouth. Both fish were under docks and I broke them off on the hooksets, never moved the fish, obviously had a knick in my line... I retied in both cases and pitched back in to the dock and was able to land the fish with my other hook still in it's mouth. I had never done that before this past year and managed it twice in one season...weird.

[b1gf1sh1]

several times over the years with pike. did'nt break it but my favorite pike re-catch is this one. i caught a 38''er on a fathead fishing for smallies/walleye. i have no idea how long it was on but my line was in the water for at least half an hour and never moved. i was going to check the minnow and started pulling up my slack. there was weight so i set the hook and my 8 lb. test screamed off my reel. when i got her in she had swallowed the little otopuss i was using. so i cut the line and released her. that was sunday. the next sunday about twenty feet away from there i plopped a sucker minnow in and the bobber never came up after it landed, lol. so i set the hook fought the fish and it was the same pike with my orange hook in her. nice thing was i did'nt need to measure it again.

[weBfishn]

we fish lake of the woods on first ice out and stay on oak island for 5 days

we do a biggest fish every day and for the trip.

2nd day, the wife caught an eye that was 24 1/2 and won the day.

we always take a lot of pix and yes we snapped a couple of her fish that day.

next day i took the biggest eye prize @ ,,yep 24 1/2

4th day was a snowy day and we didnt go up the deep water bay

and the biggest was 16

last day my cousin landed the biggest,,,yep 24 1/2.

we started comparing pix on the biggest fish and realized that the biggest fish was the same fish caught three time!!

the walleye had a kink in its top fin and a triple split in its tale.(unmistakable unique markings) it was the same fish all three times, all within the same drift area along mica piont on falcon island.....

this left us with a problem,,, the biggest fish of the trip.

who should get the title.

we can to the agreement that the fish had grown a day larger with each passing day, and would be a fraction larger with each passing day and so the last person that caught it, caught the largest fish.

i really didnt care i just thought it was good publicity for the catch & relase practice.

the poor old eye swam away 3 times and gave three fisherpersons quite a thrill every time,

[TurnUpTheFishing]

Couple years ago on the St. Croix I caught a short walleye that was gut hooked so I cut the line and released it. Next drift caught a walleye, same walleye I had cut the line on earlier. About an hour later drifting the same area caught a short walleye, again, same walleye. Im guessing that fish isnt going to live very long....

[BuckKiller]

one time fishin' leech my uncle caught a rock bass that swallowed the hook way deep and instead of digging it out cut it off and threw it back. my grampa caught the same fish a little while later. (not sure how long between but probably like a half hour)