Ever Catch Anything Wierd Bass Fishing?

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Permalink Reply by Keith Brooks on March 14, 2009 at 7:12am

Once I caught a crawfish trap under the I90 east channel bridge, it had several craws in it up to like 10 inces, They looked like lobsters! I let them them out and put the trap on the dock at Mercer ramp... but probably the strangest thing I have caught was my own rod... I was pitching a spinnerbait under a tree and hit my trolling motor with my rod, the rod spun out of my hand and sank. This was my first baitcast combo and I really wanted it back so I tried everything I could think of to drag the bottom to get it back, I even came back the next day with a metal trout stringer with all the hooks opened ang weights on it and spent like 45 minutes trying to hook it but no luck. So the next year my buddy and I (same guy was with me when I lost it) are fishing the same area when I get my texas rig hung up... It wiggles fee and I figure I have an old branch off the tree but up comes my rod from the year before, hooked right in the tip eye by my texas rig! That rod is hangin on the wall in the garage...

Permalink Reply by Ronald Hobbs, Jr. on March 14, 2009 at 7:44am

Eric you name it and I've probably caught here is a small list of things I have caught maybe, not always landed though, weasel, otter, mink, harbor seal, sea lion, tire, the old boot, wiskey bottle, a model sail boat, lawn furniture, snails, beer cans, oh almost forgot fresh water clams that crimp down on your hook. I am sure there are a few more things I can't think about right now!

Permalink Reply by trucknmusic on March 14, 2009 at 7:48am

I have seen some tiny fish including minnows hooked through the mouth on big baits such as cranks - my favorite is a pic I have of a baby bass hooked on a baby bass crank that is a big as him. Now if that is not weird enough for you, in a lake I fished back in Texas some fishermen have found/caught bodies. And of course, I have caught too much stuff off the bottom of the lake - like whole lawn chairs out in the middle.

Permalink Reply by Tag Watson on March 14, 2009 at 9:18am

Fun topic, Eric....
I was fishing Lake St. Clair when I was a youngster and I was on a pretty good pattern during early summer. Some quality bass were using the shallowest section of the boat docks. There is a lot of exposed beach around the shoreline of the lake so I was throwing a spinnerbait onto the shore and reeling it into the water for the quietest possible presentation. Once the spinnerbait entered the water, the bass were eating the spinnerbait within the first several feet of the retrieve. On one elevated boat dock I threw my spinnerbait up onto the beach, started to reel it towards the water, and out from under the boat dock a cat pounces on my spinnerbait before I have time to react. The cat bites it and gets the hook in its mouth. I didn't want to pull too hard and bury the barb, so I just kept steady tension hoping it would throw the hook. Luckily, after a lot of shaking and jumping the spinnerbait popped free. That was a relief.

My partner and I have caught the occasional frog fishing topwater frogs fishing in heavy vegetation. I've caught my share of seagulls on topwater lures. I've had ospreys and bald eagles dive bomb my swimbaits on numerous occasions. So far I have been lucky enough to pull the swimbait away and avoid hooking one of those. I hooked a rod and reel combo once which is probably the most interesting object that I can think of.

Permalink Reply by Shawn O'Connell on March 14, 2009 at 11:52am

I've hooked into a lot of weird things myself but the most fortunate was when I caught a bag full of quarters off a dock at Ft. Walton Beach. It was a weird day I also caught some kind of dogfish on my slip sinker.

Permalink Reply by Chad Simon on March 14, 2009 at 3:37pm

I've also caught a cat, that broke me off. I was pissed, because I hate cats. I've also caught women's underwear, a condom, crawfish, seaguls, goose, a red bush at silver lake that had about 20 lures/ hooks on it, and I'm sure many others I can't think of...

Permalink Reply by David Parnicky on March 14, 2009 at 5:47pm

Tag Watson said:

My partner and I have caught the occasional frog fishing topwater frogs fishing in heavy vegetation. I've caught my share of seagulls on topwater lures. I've had ospreys and bald eagles dive bomb my swimbaits on numerous occasions. So far I have been lucky enough to pull the swimbait away and avoid hooking one of those. I hooked a rod and reel combo once which is probably the most interesting object that I can think of.

Are you talking about that bald eagle at Strawberry Point on Whatcom Tag? I have almost given up trying to throw topwaters there!;) Pretty scary watching that thing swoop down as you frantically reel your lure in as fast as you possibly can!

I too have caught bullfrogs on topwater frogs, accidental turtles on jerkbaits, many old lures, and once had a dog jump in and chase a fluke all the way to my boat and then swim continuously around my boat until I got its owner to come outside and call it back home

Permalink Reply by T Dot on March 14, 2009 at 5:49pm

the infamous cat cat story

US:
- 'cat cat?'

TAD:
- 'meow cat!'

Tag Watson said:

Fun topic, Eric....
I was fishing Lake St. Clair when I was a youngster and I was on a pretty good pattern during early summer. Some quality bass were using the shallowest section of the boat docks. There is a lot of exposed beach around the shoreline of the lake so I was throwing a spinnerbait onto the shore and reeling it into the water for the quietest possible presentation. Once the spinnerbait entered the water, the bass were eating the spinnerbait within the first several feet of the retrieve. On one elevated boat dock I threw my spinnerbait up onto the beach, started to reel it towards the water, and out from under the boat dock a cat pounces on my spinnerbait before I have time to react. The cat bites it and gets the hook in its mouth. I didn't want to pull too hard and bury the barb, so I just kept steady tension hoping it would throw the hook. Luckily, after a lot of shaking and jumping the spinnerbait popped free. That was a relief.

Permalink Reply by T Dot on March 14, 2009 at 5:54pm

mang

tell me you have a sweet hat, scarf, or some other piece of clothing for the memories. mink it totally ballah status [for the conservationists faux mink will also work].

Ronald Hobbs, Jr. said:

... I've probably caught here is a small list of things I have caught maybe, not always landed though, weasel, otter, mink, harbor seal, sea lion...

Permalink Reply by troy kelly on March 14, 2009 at 6:08pm

not so much myself, but everytime i take my buddy out he catches some strange stuff. while out at samm he caught a tire in 50ft of water and it was landed on 8lb test. he also caught an E.T. doll out on tapps it weighed like 10lbs just a big ol stuffed E.T. I never laughed so hard in my life. I was fishing a crankbait at potholes a few years ago on the rip rap and it was windy so i had my hood on and wasnt really payin attention and let out a cast that smacked a seagul out of midair. shook him loose but I was mad i hooked him because i just bought that lucky craft and thought i was gonna lose it. other than that not much wierd stuff to speak of.

troy

Permalink Reply by Tag Watson on March 14, 2009 at 7:33pm

Hey David,

I haven't encountered the bald eagle on Strawberry Point. Lake Samish is where I have the most problems with bald eagles and topwater swimbaits/wake baits. Good luck at Big Lake or Clear Lake tomorrow.

Permalink Reply by Jordan Doucet on March 14, 2009 at 7:53pm

Fishing Lake Sammamish two years ago I was working a drop shot real slow in about 25' in the spring. I felt a bite that I thought was a perch, set the hook and no dice... I thought. I reeled in to check my bait and a sculpin about 5" long had latched onto my gulp minnow.

The very next weekend on Washington I was fishing a rock flat in about 20' of water with a kalins grub loaded with XXX crawfish smelly jelly. I felt my rod load up as if I had a stick or weeds. I reeled in and turns out a crawdad had latched on to my grub tail and didn't let go. I brought it all the way to the top and swung it in the boat, it was pissed. He spent the rest of the day in my livewell so I could look at him closer when I was done fishing. Almost a exact match to a green pumpkin grub, with fire orange claws. Very cool.

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