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Since we’re sharing open water stories I have one.Trolling for Kokanee with a couple buddies and we have a fish bite. Fought him up to the boat where he made one last run and my buddy had his drag too tight. Snapped him off. We make a loop, head back through the same location and another fish hits. My other buddy grabs the rod. He’s not sure if he has it or not and when everything gets reeled in, there’s no fish on the end of the line, but on the hook is all the gear we just lost. I just grabbed it, looked at everybody, and we all started laughing.
Caught a dead striper
best find would be some ones tip up that they had skipped over while picking up. it was frozen in pretty good and no name on it so i played finders keepers lol
Last year I was fishing and I was jigging hard off the bottom. I was in about 25' of water with a jigging rap. I felt something and reeled up a pair of scissors. Then I realized those scissors where mine that I accidentally left on my leg with, out putting them away, and they slid off me into the hole. Whats the odds I would snag into them lol.
Last year I was fishing and I was jigging hard off the bottom. I was in about 25' of water with a jigging rap. I felt something and reeled up a pair of scissors. Then I realized those scissors where mine that I accidentally left on my leg with, out putting them away, and they slid off me into the hole. Whats the odds I would snag into them lol.last year while setting up in 35ft of water i dropped my glasses down the hole, i was quite miserable due tothe fact i could not see my vex or tie on new lure very well . After calling the wife and figuring the couple hundred bucks fornew ones into the budget , a couple hours had past and i tied on a sonar to call in the eyes well on the very first drop, when the lure hit bottom i felt someting on ,reeled in slowly only to realize i caught my glasses,,,,, WAS MY BEST CATCH OF THE YEAR LOL
caught an unopened can of mystery beer and drank it
While night fishing for crappie on Lake Erie. My friend hooked something that was no crappie. In the excitement I knocked my brand new Coleman lantern into the water. We had to use friends lantern to finish that trip.Plus whatever was hooked by friend broke the line.Three years later while ice fishing the same area for walleyes. I hooked on to something . It had a little weight to it. But certainly no fight as when a fish is hooked. As I gently lifted thru the 10 inch hole. Lo and behold there was my lantern. Believe or not it was still LIT.If some of you will amend your stories. I promise to turn the Coleman off
I guess that type of thing happens more than we would think. We were fishing Lake Ontario and had a decent Brown on got him to the boat a couple of times ended up getting caught in the downrigger line and snapped us off. A few hours later, and a couple of miles away we hook a fish bring it to the boat the fish has fishing line wrapped in the Lure that's hanging out of his mouth. We pull the fish on board and realize that there's something on the other end of the line that was hanging from the lure. We pull it in and it's another brown trout. We throw it in the boat and realize that has all of our gear hanging out of its mouth and it was the fish that we broke off hours earlier. Insane!