Saw a thread on another forum and got a kick out of it. I have a few from over the years. My brother has done a few silly things when we were younger. He caught a very nice crappie using a rapala husky jerk, the lure was wedged vertically in the crappies mouth, both treble hooks hanging free. He also decided to run a buzz bait past a snapper one time and the snapper snatched it right off the surface, he fought it for a while until the line broke. For the rest of the time we'd see a snapping turtle raise its head out of the water with my brothers buzz bait still hooked in its mouth. Funniest thing I've seen was my brother again being a dummy. We were fishing at a lake in Bella Vista and my brother cast his zara spook close to a blue heron. When the spook hit the water it startled the heron which decided to fly off. Well on take off the heron got its leg caught on the line wrapping the spook around its leg. The heron was flying off running with my brothers drag. He managed to quickly cut the line and watch the heron fly off with about 100 yards of line in tow. We packed up our stuff and left in a hurry.
I made a bad cast once and my plastic worm went over a limb and was hanging just above the water. I let some slack out to swing it back over the limb and a 3-4lb bass exploded onto it and got hooked. I tried to pull the bass over the limb resulting in a broke line. I also had to walk back to the house one day with a pop-r hooked into the seat of my shorts.
A couple years ago I took my wife to the little red for her first try at trout fishing. Drove the hour drive and when we got to the river the water was moving fast. I told her since we got up early and made the drive we might as well give it a shot. I get mine and her poles rigged up with several sinkers and power bait and throw out into the water. My wife's line gets caught in the current and is carried down and back up against the bank. After a few minutes she says she thinks she's getting a bite. I laughed and explained to here that what she was feeling was the bait bouncing in the current. After a few more minutes she says she thinks she's getting a bite. I once again tell her that it's most likely the current. The third time she says she has a bite I gave in and said real it in and see. Sure enough as she starts realling in I see her line running off into the current, there was a 12" trout on the end. She ended up out fishing me that day 3-1. All 3 of hers were caught right up against the bank.
Sort of a fishing story. I was about 10years old me and my dad and some friends were running yo yo's on Kelly lake . Two guys were camped by us they got super drunk and one of them keep talking about how hungry he was so the other guy told him to get a fish they caught out the ice chest and cook , well guy gets fish and puts it in skillet , and other starts hollering at him telling him he has to have oil to cook the fish! So guy grabs some motor oil and puts in skillet cooks the fish and then eats it ! Not long after I can remember the guy puking his guts up prob a combination of the fish and alcohol, well shortly after the guys crank up and leave , and barley make it down the road and run out of gas , so they ask if we have any gas all we had was two stroke they used it anyway and then put Coleman fuel out there lantern in there also . I remember hearing the truck back firing as it was going down the road . This is a true story !!!
Last summer I was on Ouachita with a buddy from work. I tied the Zara spook and whipped my rod back to muster up the longest cast in histery and when I slung the rod forward as hard as I could my line felt heavey and next thing I know my spinning rod goes flying past me and into the water. My heart instantly sunk into my stomach, my buddy is laughing so hard he couldn't talk. Some how in the 20 feet of water my buddy managed to hook my spinning rod off the bottom and reel it back in.
While in the Marines, me and a few guys in my platoon would go catfishing. One buddy decided to leave his chicken liver on the front porch for a month and then give the "stink bait" a try. We go out one evening, get set up and after lots of gagging and teared up eyes we got the stink bait on his hook. We all cast out and start drinking. We drank and would occasionally check out lines and reel in the slack. After we were all feeling good I looked over and my buddy with the stink bait had unknowingly reeled his slack all the way to about 10 foot from the bank. I start poking fun at him about how his bait isn't even out in the water. He reels his line in the last 10 feet and there was an old decaying catfish head on the end, hooked right in the corner of the lips. We fell out laughing! All we could figure out was that old chicken liver was so ripe that the catfish decayed as soon as it bit the hook.
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