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This thread is great! Ive thought of some more.
Last summer my dad hooked a loon with a gotcha while fishing for spanish macks in FL. I was drunk enough to try and use a landing glove to grab his beak and get him undercontrol. Long story short, loons are ALOT bigger when they are up close and MEAN. Im glad I didnt leave that battle missing some fingers or with life long scars! Luckily after awhile the lure pulled and bird was fine.
I have a secret summer saugar hole up a creek in well into OldhamCo, not weird I guess but I was surprised to find it! :D
Ive caught bullfrogs after throwing platics up on a bank and drank it in the water. Them frogs will hit and eat anything!
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That's how I get my frogs now, to heck with staying up all night swatting at skeeters. They fight pretty good to. I can catch bigguns with a rod and reel and some texas rigged soft plastics.
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[QUOTE=riverrat12;346790]Barge ropes fight like big flatheads...That's all I got to say about that...lol[/QUOTE]
Lol i second that,i was in front of the dam a few months ago and had a hold of what i thought was a monster,i would reel in for 20 or 30 feet and it would stop and go back out.After about 10 minutes and being dog tired i finally figured out it wasnt a fish but an anchor line or barge rope,I never did see it though but by the feel of it i figured it out.With that much dam going and it giving me some and then taking it back,i thought i had a beast.I was whooped and dissapointed.
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Other than the bicycle that fisheater spoke of, the oddest catch I have ever had, has to be my WIFE. LOL
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A totally black, and I do mean BLACK, 3 lb LM bass out of KY River last year.
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[quote=Bonefish;346808]A totally black, and I do mean BLACK, 3 lb LM bass out of KY River last year.[/quote]
Thats a mellanistic bass! Its a genetic condition. I would pay well over $1,000 to add that fish to my collection! If you ever catch another keep it!
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I've caught big flatheads while in cat tournies that regurgitated giant river rats as well as a host of most all other fish, walleye, saugar, white bass etc.
To this day I'm puzzled over a fish I caught at Markland a couple years back while fishing for jacks - it looked like a slim striper but it had rows of teeth like a shark?? It wasn't a goldeye; I'm familar with them. I wish I would have kept it instead of cutting it up for bait b/c I truely think it was some rare prehistoric fish...
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5 lbs GOLDFISH not koi on a black spinnerbait. I live on a 15 acre lake and it must have been someone's pet. The world record is 9 lbs (I think). I wish I had a picture.
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Ya didn't have to get personal now lowrider...LoL. Just kidding. It is amazing the things that are regurgitated out of these big cats while in transit. I've had some leave 3 and 4# buffalo in my tank that you know by the stinch they have been there for a while. And fishhound I here you on that gar.. it seems the only fish that will hang around a gar is a flat, I think they feed underneath the gar taking advantage of the maimed [spell]or disoriented fish that get away. And John, after a 30 minute fight I mounted my barge rope in front of my house for all to see...for I was just as proud and worn out by any fish landing that thing...lol ..Chuck
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One time when I was at band camp.... ahh never mind...
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1) I was fishing at a small farm pond one fall and hooked into a fish that battled for a while and when I finally pulled up on the bank, it was a fish I had never seen before. I was sold that it was a Japanese Snakehead for years until I joined this forum and found out that it must have been a large bowfin. How it got into this small farm pond is beyond me?
2) Caught a 7.5lb, 27" brown trout out of a little creek called trammel creek in Allen county. That was a shocker!!!
3) Caught a 40+lb snapper on a 71/2" culprit worm. That was fun! Needless to say, I let him keep the worm!
4) Caught a gigantic fresh water oyster at a local lake, my hook was stuck right inbetween it's two shells, weird?
5) Caught myself straight through my ear on a windy day, fly fishing on the Green River Wyoming with a large Cicada fly. That hurt.
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My oldest son caught a 2 foot long 2X4 out of Taylorsville Lake...We just knew he had hooked a new state record the way it was fighting going side to side and taking out the drag.......He was excited for sure with the battle......
