Ever Catch Anything Wierd Bass Fishing?

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Permalink Reply by islandbass on March 16, 2009 at 4:33pm

Boxer shorts with mud and muck! Yuck!

Permalink Reply by Aaron Christel on March 16, 2009 at 4:33pm

Oh, and I thought that I was he only one to ever catch a clam on Washington. Glad to hear I'm not crazy. It was a heck of a surprise.

Permalink Reply by Marc Marcantonio on March 16, 2009 at 7:54pm

I can't even begin to list all of the weird things I have caught while bass fishing. I have even started to write an article about it and may publish it some day.

How about the huge burbot on the photo page I caught on a dropshot rig on Banks?

Or the time I was fishing Chemical Bay in a tourney and had a huge blowup on my Sammy, and it turned out to be a 12 pound carp, and it ate my Sammy and was hooked solidly in the mouth?

Or when in March on the Willamette River I cast a Green Pumpkin Flippin Tube, and caught and landed a 20+ pound chrome Springer, with salmon charter boats all around complaining because they hadn't had a bite all day. I sure upset a lot of guides that day...

Or when I was trout fishing in a stream with a single salmon egg, and I had a strike and fought a nice large brooder rainbow trout. As it got closer I couldn't understand what was going on because my hook came into view above the surface, but I still had a trout fighting a couple of feet below my hook? Somehow, someone else broke off this fish, and the fish had his hook in him still, a 2 foot leader, and a small brass barrel swivel. My salmon egg hook somehow went right through the eye of the barrel swivel!!! How can that happen unseen in a flowing stream with a big trout attached? That is one of the most unbelievable events that ever happened to me.

And then there was the IGFA World Record Walleye 6-pound test line class I caught on the Columbia on a dropshot worm during a Northwest Bass tournament...

One day in California I hooked a 3 pound Goggle Eye Goldfish on a Fat Rap crankbait...someone's old pet or bait that liked living in the wild.

I caught an Alligator on a spinnerbait in the Okeefenokee Swamp in Florida, and a water moccasin on the same day!!

I have caught two snapping turtles in Maryland on plastic worms. These guys are nasty and tough to get off your hook...but they sure tasted good when I made soup out of them!

I caught a bat once when night fishing...I donated the lure to that one. Then when I came in and started to go to sleep I hear my reel drag screaming from my trailered boat next to my tent. I look out the tent and a pair of raccoons are running away with my favorite topwater in one of their's mouth! I broke that one off before my rod broke bouncing around the deck of my boat. Darn I miss that lure!

OK, that's all I have time for now.

ciao,
Marc

Permalink Reply by Tag Watson on March 17, 2009 at 9:20am

This is by far the wildest thing I've ever seen/caught while bass fishing:

I was fishing an October Open tournament at Lake Whatcom in 2003. It was about an hour into the morning and my partner and I were on one of our best big fish spots. I had just landed a 4+ smallie, followed by a 5.3 lb. smallmouth, which ended up holding up for big fish of the tournament. Shortly thereafter, my partner gets a good bite on his dropshot rig but misses the fish. He reels up his rig and the fish had stolen his sculpin shaped dropshot worm. We didn’t get any more bites in the area so we moved on.

About six hours later, towards the end of the day, we returned to this area. I was dropshotting in the same exact spot my partner had gotten bit earlier and I had a solid pick up. I put a good reel set on this fish but I didn’t stick it. I’m telling my partner as I’m reeling in my rig that it felt like a good fish and I thought I had it dead to rights. I couldn’t believe I didn’t hook this fish based on the way it had eaten my bait. Here is where it gets crazy: When I finish reeling up my dropshot rig, I realize I had just nose hooked the bait that my partner had lost earlier that morning. The point of my dropshot hook was covered up by the head of his worm, therefore impeding the hookset. My partner and I were both laughing in disbelief. What are the chances??? I would say infinitesimal. We started speculating about how this could happen. My theory is that a fish had the tail of my partner's worm partly in its crushers, with the head hanging out. When this fish ate my bait, I nose hooked my partner's worm when I set the hook. What do you think, Marc?

We ended up winning the tournament and my partner got his bait back. Double bonus!

Permalink Reply by Marc Marcantonio on March 17, 2009 at 3:58pm

Great story, Tag. I concur with your assessment! However, if I had been you I would have pulled out a Gamakatsu Double EWG Frog hook and nose hooked your plastic worm on one barb and your partner's on the other barb and gotten after that Bass!

ciao,
Marc

Permalink Reply by Geneo on March 20, 2009 at 10:45am

A few years ago my brother and I were fishing a small lake near the Pot Holes. I caught a 2.5 lb largmouth and while taking out the hook I noticed a black feather. Upon further inspection there was a full sized black bird in the fishes gut. The bird was almost as big as the fish. Ww had three cameras in the boat and were so shocked none of us took a picture. The fish was released and swam off like nothing had happened. Strange but true

Geneo

Permalink Reply by Tag Watson on March 20, 2009 at 11:00am

A friend of mine was fishing a tournament at Potholes and had several bird feathers in his livewell at the end of the day. Interesting....

Geneo said:

A few years ago my brother and I were fishing a small lake near the Pot Holes. I caught a 2.5 lb largmouth and while taking out the hook I noticed a black feather. Upon further inspection there was a full sized black bird in the fishes gut. The bird was almost as big as the fish. Ww had three cameras in the boat and were so shocked none of us took a picture. The fish was released and swam off like nothing had happened. Strange but true

Geneo

Permalink Reply by Mark Byrne on March 22, 2009 at 12:53am

I too caught a cat on Lake St. Clair, He spit the hook, I was pretty happy about that!

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