A thrilling story about fishing

[fishfinderexperts]

Why not we share our fishing thrilling stories here? This will be great to share our experience. Anyone have experience of night fishing. I thought it will be unique or by chance fishing experience.

[BronzebackWarrior]

i go night fishing often at asmall lake near me when its hot and sunny al day. and their is a thrilling story to go with it i belive i encountered a mountain lion on the walk their< now i live in missouri but have expericened night encounters with large deer raccon bobacat fox . but never did any of those feel of this one. i am walking up the road to get their and my tackle box is against my hip and im just walking up their as usual its about half a mile walk. when alonng a fence line that seperates two peoples large feilds i saw a large figure gracefully and like no animal ive ever seen get up from a crounch and quickly and silenly turn the corner of the fence i was instantly like wtf waas that im equipped with a small flash light very small lol i get on the edge of the road and proper angle on wheir it went start shinng my light towards the opening in the gap and i saw 2 yellowish greenish eyes that and i sat their in a staredown gently iluuminating the whole figure which i cudnt make out except i got the feeling it was sitting like in a cat like posture i stared in amazement for a min evenn stomping and makin noises to try and flea whatever it was at this point i wasnt sure what it was and the storys not over i shook it off and said im freaking myself out and make the way to the lake. i tried to fish for like 10 mins but had uneasy and paranoid thoughts its 2am i decide to go back i get al call from my cousin who i had called much earliar and thats likegodsent cuz i can communicate my fear and he says that thats no joke u shud get a rock of something to throw in case it was something dangerous. takin his advie and still on the phone and with 2 rods in my hand i started down not a min into the walk downhill i saw it before it saw me as i was up hill and in tree cover as it was along the grassy side of a the road and out of reaction i threw the rock at it causing noise from my tackle and rods it looked up not noticing the rock i threw just my noise and it took of with such power across the road and into the woods thats when i was sure it was a mountain lion i listened to it trudge into the woods for 2 seconds then sprinted the rest ofthe way yelling ahhhh ahhhh still on the phone with my cousin an i should put this earliar in the story but months proviously i had heard an attack at the lakes water front from acroos is sounded like a deer that was drinking being ambushed then dragged outa the water let me know what u think theirs houses around but its an area with 60 square miles of woods 30 mins from missouririver

[DaddyO]

OK. I'll play....

I, usually, get to take a couple of trips per year to fish TaneyComo. A few years ago, Leonard, another forum member, introduced me to the methods and flies used to fish at night with success. I have been hooked on night fishing, since then. I prefer to fish with friends, but if none are available, I don't mind fishing alone. However, one night I was fishing, between outlet #1 and #2 and not having a lot of success. There was a little bit of a crowd, early on, and a few newbies that kept turning on their lights. So, I decided to move down river, away from the crowds. So, I went back to the Pavilion and walked down to outlet #3. As I was walking downstream, I ran into a couple of guys coming out with their headlamps on and they were telling me that the fishing wasn't very good. (I wonder why? Hmmm) So, I walked all the way down the gravel bar past the big Root Ball. (It probably isn't there anymore as this was a couple of years ago) I had a #8 Purple UV and Black Hibernator tied on and I finally got where I wanted to fish. This was as far down from outlet #3 as I could walk.

There was a shallow Riffle section that spilled into the rest of the river, which was over my head. I started casting to the bottom section of the riffle and letting it swing out into the deeper water. Low and behold, I started picking up fish. I am an addict and that tug was my drug. I, happily, fed my addiction for the next 30 minutes, or so, before I heard a noise, across the river from me.

Now, this was about 2:30am and a light fog had started setting in. The noise that I heard was the growl of an animal and it sounded feline. Then I heard the crunching sound of something walking in the leaves across the river. Getting a little nervous, I shouted, "Hey!". The noise stopped, for a few seconds, and then picked up again. I could tell, by the sound, that whatever this was, it was directly across the river from me. So, I turned on my headlamp and, instantly, the light bounced off the fog around me and I couldn't see anything. I took my headlamp off and held it out facing the bank across the river and I saw 4 or 5 sets of Yellow eyes staring back at me.

I could not tell what they were. I turned the light off and, thinking I should head back to the truck, started reeling in my line. Then I heard more crunching noise and a splash coming from down river and another splash coming from up river. I, quickly, turned my light back on and shined it across the river. There were 2 sets of eyes missing from the group! I panned the light down river and saw a set of eyes coming across the river. I panned the light up river and saw the other set of eyes coming across the river. I was being surrounded and because of the fog, I still couldn't tell what it was.

I backed out of the river, constantly panning my light back and forth to keep track of where they were. They followed me all the way to the stairs and stopped as I started going up the stairs out of the river. To this day, I still do not know what they were. But I, definitely, felt like my place on the food chain had slipped a notch down, in the pecking order.

[jtram]

I have one, not as good as the previous two, and not at night. I left the house, creek was 356 cfs and dropping, I arrive at said creek, looks higher than that (too high to fish). Get home, check gauge its at 420 cfs and going straight up No fishing. bummer

[Otis Roostertail]

Got called out to fisherman that had been fishing at night in brackish water. They did not put their parking brake on and their truck rolled into the water and sank. I got called out to retrieve the truck by the tow truck company. Upon arriving, the watch commander told me that I was not getting in the water because of them....He pointed across the water to six pairs of eyes. There were six alligators 6-8 ft in size. I told the watch commander that I was there as a "commercial diver" with my own gear and was not there as a member of the Sheriff's Dive Team, nor was I using my dive team gear. In I went and after an hour of being under water in zero visibility muck, I collected my $150 and went home. Got chewed out Monday by my boss for my weekend swim the the gators....I can't believe that I have lived to the age I am now....

Otis

[Amery]

Jeez guys, I'm about to go night fishing on the little red.

[jtram]

BOO!!!!!

[fishinwrench]

A friend and I was fishing a 15 acre MDC lake in Montgomery co. from a little 8' plastic Bass Tracker. We hadn't done much good and were back at the truck contemplating whether to call it a day or just chill until later in the evening and try again, when all of a sudden something the size of a small car fell out of the sky and landed in the lake making an enormous splash. The water was turned to a froth where it splashed down and 2' wakes lapped the bank for what seemed like forever as we stood there repeatedly asking each other what the hell just happened?

We decided that neither of us was comfortable going back out on the lake so we loaded up and left. On the way through Martinsburg we stopped at a gas station and used the pay phone to call MDC but couldn't come up with the number so I called the county sheriff's office and told them what had happened but they seemed very unimpressed/uninterested.

Meteor? Space debris? I have no other ideas, but if they ever drain Marshall Diggs lake there is something pretty big laying on the bottom of it.

[tho1mas]

Wrench - it is a bit early to be drinking.

[fishinwrench]

Yeah well, if anyone with imaging equipment wants to look for it, its right about here...