Strange things that happen on the lake

[jeremys]

Me and a buddy were fishing around J'town one evening right before dark throwing crankbaits, I let a cast rip and backlashed all to hell, after getting it picked out i started reeling it in and noticed something didn't feel just right, when I got it back to the boat I had hooked a bat mid-flight, wasn't real fun digging the hooks out of it either!

[Mash Davis]

I fishing at Guist a few years ago, just screwing around fishing for blues with a bobber. I got careless and threw my line into a tree and end up snapping the line. The bobber with bait dropped into the water and laid there for a bit.

I got my pole rigged back up when I noticed my original bobber was moving because a blue had grabbed it and got hooked. I threw my newly baited hook back out beside my bobber, and lo and behold, the blue grabbed it. I ended up catching the fish, as well as getting my bobber back.

[fishinfreak]

I was fishing Harrods creek when I was a kid and had a bird snatch my buzzbait out of air

[publican57]

I hooked into a two foot gator when fishing on Lake Okeechobee. I got him to the boat and saw he was hooked in the back. I was able to get him freed up with getting him any closer. No way I wanted to land him.

[publican57]

A guy told me that while fishing on a pond in our neighborhood he was making a long cast as some geese took off. The line went over the goose and apparently got caught and he spooled the guy. Funny story. Makes me careful around geese.

[RoadToad]

Mrs. Toad and I were puttering around on Lake Jericho on one of their rented jon-boats with our trolling motor, and everywhere we went on the lake, little baitfish would jump all around us. Turn off the motor and they'd stop.

[kyriver]

Caught a coon at Wood Creek

Caught a seagull at St Clair

Been hit by a bat 3 times while running at night

Smallmouth jumped into canoe on Elkhorn

Snake dropped into canoe (from tree) on Big South Fork

hooked a fish during tourny, but lost it and my chigger chunk. 10 minutes later partner boated fish and it spit up my chigger chunk

threw myself out of boat with insanely powerful trolling motor. Life jacket inflated and couldn't get back into the boat. Life jacket was so tight, I couldn't get out of life jacket. Wish i had that one on video

Tree fell on boat in wind storm (Kentucky River) and put hole in deck and broke two rods

[publican57]

Caught a coon at Wood Creek

threw myself out of boat with insanely powerful trolling motor. Life jacket inflated and couldn't get back into the boat. Life jacket was so tight, I couldn't get out of life jacket. Wish i had that one on video

Tree fell on boat in wind storm (Kentucky River) and put hole in deck and broke two rods

Remind me to not go fishing with you. It sounds like your trips are a bit too eventful.

[BASSKING]

June of 1991 ,

we were fishing on Herrington and it had started to storm pretty bad, no lightning just hard rain and wind. we were basically just letting the wind psh us up in a cove ( im not fimilar enough to give exact locations ) we stopped once the wind had blown the bow of the boat up on what we had thoght was a fallen tree close to the back of the cove and after a few seconds this tree , log or what ever it was vanished down in the water very quick. all my buddy said to me was " hold on , were getting the $&%@ out of here now ". never had anything like that happen before and have only been back to Herrington two times since.

[Nolin Addict]

Was fishing Taylorsville Lake and hooked into something huge in 20' of water. During the retrieve my partner and i noticed a big fluffy white tail. Yep we hung a deer that had drowned crossing the lake.