Fishing Stories

[CaptainT16]

Captain

I know how he feels, I have had fishing days like that!!

Yeah, I know what you mean. Unforunately, I have had my fair of experiences like that as well. Sometimes seems like I always have to deal with something while fishing.

[fox_76]

i've got one for ya,.. happened to me last night. I was fishing for some cats up around the dam in stockton had my big trble hooked loaded up with liver and cast it in, perfect cast, anytime i keep the liver on the hook when casting is a perfect cast!

set my pole in the cross beams of my chair so that i wouldn't loose it, and went up to the cooler to grab a cold beverage and a hot dog to stick on the fire. about half way i heard the sound of the chair fall, running back to my spot i grabbed the pole and set the hook! SNAP!!! broke the pole right above the reel. now I'm wonedering what the heck to do. i have no idea if i have the fish, how big it is, could it really be big enough to have broken the pole?

any way i quickly decided to try to land it with my remaining handle of the fishing pole and reel. got it landed and to my surpise it was only about a 4 pound channel. but one heck of a fight with no rod there to help ya, i should have just did what my niece did with her first fish ever, a 5 inch long sunfish, and just took off running backwards up the bank, instead of trying to reel the thing in.

[John Berry]

Here is my favorite fishing story. I wrote it up several years ago.

BIG_UGLY.doc

[Freefall]

The "Walkering" fish story made me think of one of the weirdest fishing times I’ve experienced. I was only about 8 years old and on a float trip with my Grandfather and a guide near Broken Bow, OK. We were passing through a really narrow stream in the boat with trees hanging down so I had my rod laying across my lap and was ducking under some of the branches. I didn’t even realize that I had about 6” of line hanging from my rod tip so my crawdad crankbait was drifting just underwater beside the boat. Before I knew what was happening my rod was getting yanked off my lap and into the water. I didn’t want to loose my only rod and reel so I grabbed it and without even having to reel it in I pulled the biggest largemouth bass my young eyes had ever seen (it was probably only about 8” or 10” ) into the boat.