[Kribman]

I caught king clam on a musky killer a long time back, and i thought I could get it off by slamming it on the water, and I never saw the lure or the clam again.

[Spike-A-Pike]

One of the first times I took my son fishing in Wisconsin, we panfishing for yellow perch with minnows. About 10 or 15 minutes into the day, the bobber went down and hard left. Junior set the hook and started to reel it in and in the depths below, I can see a nice 11 or 12 incher on his line. As he is getting ready lift it out of the water, the fish started flopping around into a semi-figure 8. All of the sudden, from under the boat, a nice heavy musky nailed the perch so hard that he almost got Sonny's rod and reel in addition to the fish. He didn't really say anything, just the look on his face with his mouth hanging open pretty much said it all.

A great day and a great memory...

[philB]

I fish rivers and once spent 15 minutes bringing in what I thought was going to be my personal best but it turned out to be a plastic bag full of water. Boy that bag put up a mighty fight.

philB

[BCBaits]

One fishing story I heard was one of the guys in my club caught a bass, and noticed that there were some sticks in his mouth. He went to remove the sticks so the fish would live in the live well. The sticks turned out to be bird legs. He pulled a full red shouldered black bird out of the basses mouth.

[bizologist]

Those "poor man spoons" catch a lot of fish. I get them at Wal Mart - 6 teaspoons for a buck, cut the handle off, drill 1/8 holes at each end. Then using split rings add a dressed small treble and a small red clear bingo token at the line tie. It is one of my favorites for casting in mid depth water off the shore.

[HookUp]

Hiking in the high sierras, we use to suppliment our diet with trout allot.
Once we'd catch a trout, we'd break its neck, then gut it. Anything that looked worm like from the guts we'd fish with with great sucess.

[spnrbatr]

funny someone should mention carp. I caught a carp on a tiny torpedo once. It weighed about 8 lbs. Thought I would never get that thing reeled in. The only carp bite I have ever had. I think.

[mjmmusser]

A few years ago I was fishing a small but deep lake for an area bass tourney. Well I decided to wade since the smallies were up in the shallows. I walked around the hot spots that I knew of then returned to the boat launch to head the opposite direction. Well I noticed a nice smallie hanging out at the end of the launch. I wade out in the water a little ways and it disappeared. I thought I had spooked it. I decided to turn around an head back up to the shore to make my way down it when all of a sudden I felt a hard whack on my foot. That dang smallmouth took my big toe and the two next to it and shredded the skin off from them. The doctor didn't believe me when I went in to get the five stitches on my big toe just to pull the skin back to a normal position.

From then on I make sure I know where the fish are when I target them while wading.

[flabasspond]

Hello Everybody...OK, one quick story...all true....I was fishing a large tournament on Okeechobee about January around 1982-3 and had found some decent fish in a shallow backwater in practice. A severe cold front went through the night before the tournament and brought 20-30 mile an hour winds and woeful fishing. My poor partner I had drawn never had a hit, while I pounded the water all day with a spinnerbait for a SMALL limit (5) of 12" fish...and I mean I had to measure every single fish! No culling. When I went to bag my fish for weigh-in my livewell surface was COVERED with feathers! I think all of my fish together weighed something like 5lbs 2oz and I remember I finished TWO ounces out of the money. After loading, I was cleaning the boat and getting ready for the long drive home when I saw something in the corner of the livewell...it was a featherless coot corpse that was more than fist size and had to weigh 5 or 6 ounces! I wish I had seen the feet when I caught the fish! Think about it...thats like a 150 pound man sitting down and eating over 100 lbs of steak (or coot LOL)!!....Dave

[prochallenger]

This is a strange one,me an a cousin of mine were bass fishing in the wisconsin cranberry bogs and he gets a nice bass on ,I watch him bring it in,its a 4 pound fish,the funnything is it had another hook in its mouth and his hook was through the eye of the other hook that was hooked in the fishes mouth,what are the odds.