Itchin' fer fishn'! Fishing Stories

howiesatwork said:
I lost one in the lake at Santee-Cooper. I had baited a hook with a nightcrawler, cast it out, set it on the seat for my wife to pick up, then next thing I see is the rod hitting the water about 15 feet from the boat.
A while later, I drag up the line with the anchor, dragging the rod back into the boat with it. Whatever got hold of it snapped the line off around a stump.
Lost two Zippos and a pair of glasses at that lake. Don't keep stuff in my shirt pockets any more.
A few years back, we were salmon fishing out of Santa Cruz.
Lots of sea lions are around trying and sometimes stealing salmon off your line.
We see all the sea lions making a bee-line for the coast.
One jumps up on the platform at the back of the boat, then tries to climb in the boat.
We're thinking WTF?, while trying to get this furbag off the boat, when we notice a couple of killer whales nearby.
We got the boat going, and shook the furbag off the platform. the killer whales found the furbag... lunch! :eek:
Nature at work. ;)
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RFLMAO :D :D :D :D That would make for a great Americas Funniest Home Videos, too bad they wouldn't play it!
 
I wish we'd had a camera out there.
It was gruesome. The furbag got tossed up in the air, and the water went red for a while...
I like fishing, but don't get to do much any more.
I've got a bunch of rods. 40 or 50 customs. Another 50 blanks to make more.
Every kind of rod there is: Steelhead, salmon mooching, worm rods, jigging, baitcasting, spinning from 4 ft ultralight to 12 ft saltwater, 11.5 ft standard surfcasting I can chuck out about 150 yds, live bait, heavy Tru-Lines, boat rods, , sturgeon rod, tuna rods, bamboo casting and flyrods, 3 through 11 wt flyrods, pack rods, and more.......and rods I'll never use...11 tackleboxes...
Maybe I should sell some of them off and buy more knives...
 
Sell some of that stuff to me so you can buy my knives, and the money comes back to me :D. Man, I just buy the high end junk at WM and the little bait shops that line the Bay.
 
Maybe...
I caught a 25 lb catfish with a baseball bat once...
In Texas, in the late 60's they were lowering the water level at Lake LBJ (then it was Granite Shoals Lake), so they could work on the turbines in the dam.
The water level went down more than 50 feet, and there were coves in the lake where the water was trapped in shallow pools - some with a lot of fish in them.
We were informed by Fish and Game, before they started emptying the lake, that any method of taking trapped fish was legal, so we were using landing nets for most of the catching.
There was one large catfish thrashing about in about a foot of water, but it was too large for a landing net.
Got the bat out of the truck and stunned it...
I've never told a fish story. Reality is sometimes better than a story.
 
Wow, this sounds neat! I've just been looking at pics of huge catfish, carp, alligator gar and sturgeon, I need a rod in one hand and a beer in the other!
 
2 of us in a canoe. I was in the bow, my buddy in the stern seat had his other 2 fishin rods standing up in the little space behind the seat. He made a cast and hooked one of the stored rods. It went overboard and sank. He looked at the other one and realized it was his FIL's rig that went overboard.
Had one of those Daiwa computer reels on it too!

A couple of summers later, another canoe, same scenerio different guy. He was quick enough to grab the tip of the rod just as it went under, but he almost dumped me out of the canoe!

I watched my prized spinning rod jump out of the rod holder on my Uncle's 30 footer. It walked down the gunwale and into the drink.
It waved good bye as it sank :(

But my alltime favorite was on a striper boat out of Fire Island. The fare had a rental pole. The rule was no casting.
He casts...and the rod goes in the water.
The captain gives him another rental. Along with a no casting, $50 if you lose this one speach...
The guy casts and the 2nd rod goes in the water.
He didn't get another and boy was he steamed.
This was all in the first 15 minutes of the trip.
:rolleyes:
 
silenthunterstudios said:
A friend told me about this sport, noodling, and I found some neat articles on it. I've been looking at the local marinas, tide charts, bait shops websites, man, I think I've got the fever.

http://www.cabelas.com/information/...r-Catfish-The-Ultimate-Thrill-in-Fishing.html
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You have to be a special kind of crazy to want to stick your hand into an underwater hole and wait for something to bite it. And the places they do this type of stuff... I think what about the snapping turtles, water moccasins, leaches and stuff? :eek:
 
They got a whole movie and association for catfish grapping. It's gotta be the thrill of a lifetime, stickin your hand in the mouth of a 5o lbs flathead and fighting it up to land. Those things can grind your fingers into catfood.
 
One of the fishing shows in the 90's, either Dance or Houston, had a noodling episode.
One of the 'good ol boys' that were teaching the host broke his wrist on tape while wrestling a big cat!
:eek:
 
A pic is worth a thousand words - Just back from a fishing trip north of Perth, a place called Steep Point - Landed this 19 Kg ( 42 Lb ) Yellowfin Tuna on a 20 Lb Stand up rig in a 16 foot tinnie in a 3 meter ( 10 foot ) swell.
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I was hunting Mule Deer high up in the Trinity Mts. in N. California. Camped on a beautiful stream which emptied into Clair Engle Lake. Had guns and knives..but didn't even think about fish tackle....that happens to me alot when I'm hunting Deer. Saw these huge beautiful Salmon in the creek...lots of Brown Bear tracks all about...( which gave me the idea ) desperate times call for desperate measures. Didn't hunt through the mid-day..just coveted those Salmon. Well...got right into the stream and herded them up to some shallows and then swatted at them like a Bear. It took some repeat efforts, but finally succeded in harvesting a couple 8-10 pounders.
 
Stockman said:
A pic is worth a thousand words - Just back from a fishing trip north of Perth, a place called Steep Point - Landed this 19 Kg ( 42 Lb ) Yellowfin Tuna on a 20 Lb Stand up rig in a 16 foot tinnie in a 3 meter ( 10 foot ) swell.
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Beautiful area man!
 
Stockman, is that a NAFC shirt ya got on? I am a life member, I think it is a good club.
I am going out today for the first time this year. I will let you know how I do tomorrow.
 
G'day Bob, the shirt is one of my company shirts with our old logo - Stockman Paper Merchants. I take old clothes on these trips and throw them in the bin at the end of the trip as they end up too full of fish blood and guts to bring home. This trip was a beauty, landing many species, the highlight was finding a school of DolphinFish, all in the 7 - 8 kgs ( 18 lbs ) mark and baitcasting for them using a 12 lb spinning setup. Kept 2 for the camp and released another 5 for someone to catch another day.
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Good luck for today - look forward to hearing how you went.
 
Ebbtide, what you call Bluefish look alot like what we call Tailor here in Aus.
Do they have razor sharp teath, are good eating fresh but go mushy once frozen? BTW a nice pair, the bigger looks in the 15 - 20 lbs mark.
 
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