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spidey07

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We all have plenty, so post them up! These are mainly from with my fishing buddies so you need to understand we know each others fishing pretty well:

1) I always retie my lure after catching a fish, friends make a little fun of me for this, but oh well. Buddy caught a decent 20 inch striped bass and reeled him in no problem with some fight. We were on the fish and in his next few casts hooks up a nice one, 10 pounds at least. He fights it for 2-3 minutes and then his line went limp. Turns to me and says "dammit spidey! Why didn't you make me retie after the first one!!!" I got it all on video, hilarious. They all retie after that one or at least inspect the knot and give it a tug.

2) Running lure over big rocks and feel a quick bite then set the hook. But it looks like I'm snagged and feels the same as well. Buddies are making fun of me for getting caught up but I say "I'm not hung, that's a fish". About 5 minutes of pulling and buddies saying "you're hung" I yank the fish that took my lure out of his rock hole and land a 7 pound bass. To this day, they never say "you're hung up" to me.
 
I took some friends fishing around the Mobile Delta, got lost, had to troll what seemed like forever, "stole" some gas from a house boat (I put 10 bucks under the gas can), and finally made it back in the dark.

My grandfather sunk his boat, TWICE. And he was in the Coast Guard back in the day.
 
one I can remember is me and 2 buddies were in a 14' jon boat we rented from the rec center on base and we took it down to lake thurmond on the sc/ga border for some night time catfishing. we pull up to this one spot right at a point in the lake. We stay there probably for 45 minutes or so and then decide to take off to get on closer to the dam. we start the little 15 or so horsepower motor and get going. We go alittle distance and then it seemed like we got caught up in some current and we were getting manhandled trying to keep the boat going in the direction we were wanting to go. I yell back to give it more juice and we just start going in circles. about five minutes worth of that, it dawns on one of us, no one pulled up the anchor. needless to say the anchor did not make it back to the base rec center, nor did they charge us for it.
 
Most of my funny fishing stories involve an unwatched rod with a tight drag suddenly taking off into an ocean/lake with someone jumping in after it.

I remember back in high school, a buddy and me were fishing for tarpon out of a lake (yes, we have 50lb+ beasts in some lakes here in FL). His rod was resting up against the fence when it just flew over it. He pounced in with shoes/wallet etc. and just grabbed the rod with his hand.

Was out on the boat once and hooked into what I assume was either a huge shark or sting ray. Fucking thing led us in one straight line for about a 1/2 mile before finally snapping the line. All I remember was being a sweaty mess as we pulled up beside a party fishing boat and them all yelling to me asking what I was fighting... and my only reaction was to scream obscenities like a crazy homeless man as I was bent over the front of the boat. Good times.
 
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one I can remember is me and 2 buddies were in a 14' jon boat we rented from the rec center on base and we took it down to lake thurmond on the sc/ga border for some night time catfishing. we pull up to this one spot right at a point in the lake. We stay there probably for 45 minutes or so and then decide to take off to get on closer to the dam. we start the little 15 or so horsepower motor and get going. We go alittle distance and then it seemed like we got caught up in some current and we were getting manhandled trying to keep the boat going in the direction we were wanting to go. I yell back to give it more juice and we just start going in circles. about five minutes worth of that, it dawns on one of us, no one pulled up the anchor. needless to say the anchor did not make it back to the base rec center, nor did they charge us for it.
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Lol. Been there. Done that
 
When I was little kid, I cast my line straight up by accident. It got stuck in a tree branch and the lure landed right at my feet. I started reeling it in, the lure went up, and caught me right in the lip. Yep, I caught myself.
 
i went fishing with a few buddies. one guy (slight alchoholic) got so fucking drunk. Well he got a bite and his pole started to get dragged to the water. he went to get it and fell off the ledge (we were on a 2ft high ledge. the water was down a lot that year) and into the water (maybe 2 ft) and started to splash and yell t hat he was drowning. So another friend dragged him out.

and he still got the fish in!
 
My dad went to cast a spinner and somehow the treble hook caught him in the ass check and he had to yank it out
 
I went to cast one day on the boat and on the backswing managed to catch the treble hook in my dad's upper lip.
 
waggy said:
i went fishing with a few buddies. one guy (slight alchoholic) got so fucking drunk. Well he got a bite and his pole started to get dragged to the water. he went to get it and fell off the ledge (we were on a 2ft high ledge. the water was down a lot that year) and into the water (maybe 2 ft) and started to splash and yell t hat he was drowning. So another friend dragged him out.

and he still got the fish in!
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Nice.

I use baitcast reels so I can't really cast sitting down, need to stand up. So picture a john boat, me standing up and somebody in the boat radically changing sides (not on purpose)...
 
Double-hooked a live mullet and threw it out trying to entice a large blue or mackeral. A pod of dolphins was getting closer and closer to the area where the mullet was sitting until the reel just started screaming from a dolphin eating the fish. Finally the line broke. Stupid flipper.

Sister caught a nice sized redfish that we put on ice. 40 minutes later, as we're motoring back to the marina, my dad takes out the fillet knife to take care of the fish. Red decides it isn't quite dead and goes beserk and my dad ends up cutting his thumb to the bone.

Motoring away from the marina and look back into the wake and see something jumping out of the water. Pull out a cast net and chuck it in and it comes back 1/4 way filled with shrimp. Turns out they were in for mating or spawning. Spent the next 4 hours just idling around casting nets and ended up filling ever single hold with shrimp...probably 10-15# worth.
 
We were just drifting around in a weedy back bay with almost zero breeze and almost drifted right into a shallow shoal about 2 feet from the surface. Flat as a pancake on top. I tossed the anchor off the opposite side of the boat just to hold us from bumping against it. Told my wife I was going to walk around the top of that shoal and cast around the edges. I sat on the back side of the boat and leaned over with my foot, to touch the bottom. That was one hell of an optical illusion. Both of us were certain it was 2 feet deep or less. It was about 6 or 7 feet deep. Completely clothed, carrying a fishing pole, I accidentally went swimming.


As a kid, I was fishing in the river and was trying to catch something in a hole under a tree that was leaning over the river. I got a snag. If I was snagged in rocks, I knew that changing my position would help get it out. I climbed up onto the tree and onto a large limb directly above my hook. I pulled and pulled.. SNAP SPLASH The limb broke.
 
The husband of my wife's sister has always been an obnoxious douchebag. He's easily one of the most opinionated people I've ever met, yet revels in his lack of drive, success, and education. The lazy, idiot in-law that is always broke and asking for money, but once gets some finds tattoos and ferrets more pressing than gas money or groceries? That's the guy!
Someone at a family gathering mentioned to him that I've been studying martial arts for some time (had something to do with their conversation) so after a few more drinks this jealous dick decides he's going to ambush me from behind and expose "ching chong kung foolishness" as the joke that it is.

He tries to tackle me, reflex takes over and I just kind of shove him off thinking he's had too much to drink and is just joking. He whirls around looking pissed and comes at me quite determined to wrap my legs in a hug and pick me up. So I did what you do when some asshole tries to pick you up, and he found it necessary to lay on his stomach with his face in the dirt. Much pissing and moaning ensues, he ends up leaving with a bottle and bitching about me and others not respecting him.
The following day (at my wife's behest) I try to smooth it over by asking him out for a fishing trip with my little brother. This guy, despite not being an angler in any sense, proceeds to criticize my brother and I over how we cast, where we cast, what lures and baits we prefer, etc etc. It was clear he was still upset from the previous night and kept making quips like 'damn your lucky I was just playing' and then moved onto 'maybe I can show you to fish better than you can wrestle'
At this point he had just been sipping beer and sulking, not actually fishing with us. Then he picks up one of my standby rods (which had a floating Rapala minnow on it at the time) and proceeds to add a lead weight at the top of the leader. We just kinda watched him fumble about, my brother doing a poor job at trying not to laugh.
He literally said "Let me show you how this is done", paid out about 4 ft of line, flipped his bail, and cast as hard as he could.
The two trebles on that Rapala smacked into the back of his head and went as far in as they could possibly go. Kodak Moment x 1,000,000,000,000!!!

I ended up having to snip the hooks off the lure while in the boat, and my step-dad used some forceps and 1st aid gear to remove the rest of the hooks from his head when we got back in. From that time on until he and my sister-in-law divorced, we never heard another obnoxious idiotic thing from him.

To this day, "Let me show you how it's done" is a phrase denoting absolute fail in my family. Great trip, was better than landing a blue marlin. 🙂
 
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I have cabin in MN that we go to every year and fish from sun up to sun down. There is a remote lake that almost no one fished but maybe a few people at a time. Our boat is docked on the lake was only tied to a tree and you have to hike back like 50 yards through the woods and swap to get to it.

Well one day we deiced to go out and fish because the bad storm we had early in the day was over. So my grandfather his brother and I hiked back to our boat and it was gone. We were like WTF so we start to look out on the lake and we see it across the lake. We waited like 5 mins and the boat started heading back to us.

Once our boat got back to us 2 dudes and a girl maybe in there early 20's were trying to tell us that the girl got stuck in the storm and was stranded on one of the islands. All she had was a canoe. They started to say they were sorry for taking our boat and my great uncle start saying they were in big trouble and kept on saying it. My grandfather was laughing and I was like 14 at the time and really thinking maybe they are in trouble. The three of them I could tell were getting all nervous and were moving as fast as they could to get out of there.

Once we were out in the boat my great uncle said they sure look scared. My grandfather was still laughing and I realized he was joking around with them.

When we were done fishing we hiked out back to out truck and there was 6 pack of beer for us. Of course I being too young did not get any of that.
 
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kage69 said:
The husband of my wife's sister has always been an obnoxious douchebag. He's easily one of the most opinionated people I've ever met, yet revels in his lack of drive, success, and education. The lazy, idiot in-law that is always broke and asking for money, but once gets some finds tattoos and ferrets more pressing than gas money or groceries? That's the guy!
Someone at a family gathering mentioned to him that I've been studying martial arts for some time (had something to do with their conversation) so after a few more drinks this jealous dick decides he's going to ambush me from behind and expose "ching chong kung foolishness" as the joke that it is.

He tries to tackle me, reflex takes over and I just kind of shove him off thinking he's had too much to drink and is just joking. He whirls around looking pissed and comes at me quite determined to wrap my legs in a hug and pick me up. So I did what you do when some asshole tries to pick you up, and he found it necessary to lay on his stomach with his face in the dirt. Much pissing and moaning ensues, he ends up leaving with a bottle and bitching about me and others not respecting him.
The following day (at my wife's behest) I try to smooth it over by asking him out for a fishing trip with my little brother. This guy, despite not being an angler in any sense, proceeds to criticize my brother and I over how we cast, where we cast, what lures and baits we prefer, etc etc. It was clear he was still upset from the previous night and kept making quips like 'damn your lucky I was just playing' and then moved onto 'maybe I can show you to fish better than you can wrestle'
At this point he had just been sipping beer and sulking, not actually fishing with us. Then he picks up one of my standby rods (which had a floating Rapala minnow on it at the time) and proceeds to add a lead weight at the top of the leader. We just kinda watched him fumble about, my brother doing a poor job at trying not to laugh.
He literally said "Let me show you how this is done", paid out about 4 ft of line, flipped his bail, and cast as hard as he could.
The two trebles on that Rapala smacked into the back of his head and went as far in as they could possibly go. Kodak Moment x 1,000,000,000,000!!!

I ended up having to snip the hooks off the lure while in the boat, and my step-dad used some forceps and 1st aid gear to remove the rest of the hooks from his head when we got back in. From that time on until he and my sister-in-law divorced, we never heard another obnoxious idiotic thing from him.

To this day, "Let me show you how it's done" is a phrase denoting absolute fail in my family. Great trip, was better than landing a blue marlin. 🙂
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LOL'ed...HARD.
 
I live on the lake and we had a tree fall down last year, some big freaking thing. Ive linked pictures of it before, took out the neighbors dock and boat hoist. Anyways this summer I was just walking around before work one day and sat on the dock and happened to notice a huge tree log underneath. I figured it was nothing so I just walked on, but when I was heading back inside I saw the tree log moving fishlike. I look closer and the log was actually a 6ft long muskie. Had to be roughly 10-12inch in diameter and over 80lbs. I ran inside to get net in the hopes of catching it because there is a reward for catching muskie here as they are invasive and a damaging species here. Well I somehow managed to get the net around the things head, but there was no way in hell I could have picked the thing up but that didnt stop me from trying. Damn thing pulled me right into the lake and took my crappy aluminum walmart net with it.
 
Not my story but my father's... my father was bottom fishing along the shores of Lake Erie with my mom. My father gets somewhat distracted and returns his attention to back to his line just in time to see it being drug into the lake.

Fast forward 45 minutes later and my father gets another big bite on his line. This time he lands the fish, a large catfish, complete with a second hook and line attached to the fish. After de-hooking the fish he gently pulls on the first line and retrieves his first pole that he lost.
 
lykaon78 said:
Not my story but my father's... my father was bottom fishing along the shores of Lake Erie with my mom. My father gets somewhat distracted and returns his attention to back to his line just in time to see it being drug into the lake.

Fast forward 45 minutes later and my father gets another big bite on his line. This time he lands the fish, a large catfish, complete with a second hook and line attached to the fish. After de-hooking the fish he gently pulls on the first line and retrieves his first pole that he lost.
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Wow, talk about luck.

I hooked a decent bass on a rattling crankbait, really loud rattle. Well my line broke reeling him in. So now the bass made a few jumps out of the water, shaking his head violently with that loud rattle as if to tease me. He got the lure lose and the lure hit the boat. We were rolling - Bass said "and take your crappy lure with you!"
 
spidey07 said:
Wow, talk about luck.

I hooked a decent bass on a rattling crankbait, really loud rattle. Well my line broke reeling him in. So now the bass made a few jumps out of the water, shaking his head violently with that loud rattle as if to tease me. He got the lure lose and the lure hit the boat. We were rolling - Bass said "and take your crappy lure with you!"
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This summer I was fishing with my family...catching nothing but 4 inch bluegills. We are fishing for panfish to fry up, but not catching anything worth eating. Finally I hook one that I know is large enough to eat, but the line breaks at the bobber.

Fast forward to 15 minutes later, and my brother brings in a fish. He says "Hey look I caught the one that you had. Sure enough, my line is draped off the side dangling a good 3 feet.

Then the really surprising part... Not only had he hooked my fish, but as it sat there dangling my brothers hook wasn't even in the fishes mouth. My hook was caught on his hook (imagine two "J's" interlocked with each other) and about 6 inches of line between there and the fish where my line was somehow wrapped up on the fish's lip.

Id imagine that between when the fish bit and when he landed it that it freed up and got caught on my hook. Anyway, I have the picture to show it...but haven't uploaded here before.
 
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