birdsnest
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What's the most interesting non-fish catch you have made?
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I was fishing in the upper San Juan at Lake Powell. While Fishing a floating debris island my wife said she saw a ammo box on the surface bobbing in the wood chips. I confidently told her that's not possible there for its not a ammo box. Ok she was right I retrieved the box with my fishing pole got it the back of the boat and my sister in law said maybe its was full of gold. Hmmm i was wrong about the floating ammo box. Upon opening the box we found the contents to have personnel effects for a lady named Wendy. We made contact with her when we got home and she was delighted to here where we found it. She stated that she had capsized her canoe 30 miles up stream 3 years prior. We now call that spot Wendy Point.
So this is not me but my wife. A couple of years ago we were fishing in Alaska for Sockeye and I was up stream from her. I fell in and was heading head first down stream. I was struggling getting up with one hand on my pole and sliping on the rocks. Then I hear her say "I GOT YOU" I stop struggling and rised my hand. She got me and lucky for me she did not throw me back in. So not sure if I was "Interesting" but that was my story. That was the only catch she had for the trip but for me it was the most important. She reminds me about that all the time.
During the late 60's, I joined a light tackle surf fishing club. We kept line class records for all the coastal fish. The rules were, you had to fish the natural shoreline using 2-12 lb test on an open-faced spinning reel. Anyway, once a year we had a 2 lb, test only Trout tournament at Big Bear Lake. From Fri until Sunday morning we all stayed in 3 cabins on the lake at Fisher Point. Sat. around noon most of the guys were fishing almost straight out from our cabins in a small area that had natural springs percolating out of the bottom in about 20 foot of water, big trout seemed to hang out in the area. It seemed to be the spot once the sun was high and the guys would anchor and bait fish, while eating lunch. One of the guys had his rod sitting on the floor of the boat, leaning on the rail while eating a sandwich. He lets out a yell, and we look over in time to see his rod flipped over the side into the lake! This wasn't your run of the mill light tackle outfit. It was a custom Featherweight blank ($70), that he had custom wrapped himself. The reel on it was a Diawa 1000 limited edition made by the Seiko Watch company ( $90). We all tried to snag for it with different heavy lures, to no avail? Everyone felt for him but, it didn't stop the ribbing and comments to rub it in and continually reminding him, "How much did that cost". The next morning at dawn we all get on the water and head our separate ways trying to find the biggest trout for the final last hours of the contest. By mid mourning we all seemed to be anchored over the springs, and soaking bait. Man it was slow, and almost no fish were caught, not even a bite! My fishing buddies rod twitches, then stops. a minute later it does it again. So he picks it up gives it a jerk and reels in. First his rod bent, then goes slack, then tightens as his hook comes to the surface stuck in a small splitshot with the line going in the water, and a 2 lb trout thrashing around the surface. We net the trout and hand line in the line going in the water and came up with the outfit lost the day before!
F/W Fishwhistle
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Who got credit for the catch?
Was fishing piute farms back in the 80's with my dad.We awoke to stripers chasing shad at the end of the cove. We quickly got up and started casting, after about ten fish later i reeled in a spinning rod and reel with a partially eaten cat fish on it.
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Gem Morris
Keeper of San Juan Secrets
I tried to get a new car for my wife but no one would trade.
F/W Fishwhistle
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I like that it’s barbless.
John P Funk
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I hooked a big catfish at Roosevelt in the early 90's and broke off. You can go ahead and keep my hook.
thebigcanoe
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Was the rod an UglyStik?
Actually was a fenwick hmg rod with a Mitchell 300 spinning reel . Caught a 10lb rainbow on Lee's ferry stretch below the dam month later on it .
Sawz
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I have reeled in a couple full fishing poles/ reels before, one with a rotting fish still hooked but this one takes the top for me
Went To Alaska last August fishing reds on the Kenai. As usual it was the normal line of guys fishing about ten feet apart. Way up the line somebody was using a fly rod, of course when he hooked a nice red in the river it stripped all his line off. A few minutes later I had one on I reeled it in only to find I had hooked his fly line, I brought it in by hand and my brother netted the Salmon.
Here is the strange part, I had hooked a 3 way swivel ( picture attached) right through a small eye, Not sure what the chances were of that happening. Anyway I gave the guy back his line ( kept the salmon). he was a happy camper to get his $80 line back
Went To Alaska last August fishing reds on the Kenai. As usual it was the normal line of guys fishing about ten feet apart. Way up the line somebody was using a fly rod, of course when he hooked a nice red in the river it stripped all his line off. A few minutes later I had one on I reeled it in only to find I had hooked his fly line, I brought it in by hand and my brother netted the Salmon.
Here is the strange part, I had hooked a 3 way swivel ( picture attached) right through a small eye, Not sure what the chances were of that happening. Anyway I gave the guy back his line ( kept the salmon). he was a happy camper to get his $80 line back
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BSBOULEVARD
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I have caught several bats fly fishing at White Horse Lake...
gznokes
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I snagged a snapping turtle and it was the fight of a lifetime. When that thing came up on the shore it was mad and glaring and hissy! That was a scary release.
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