RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
strbass,
Jun 04th 2008, #1
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
Urban,
Jun 04th 2008, #2
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
GGR,
Jun 04th 2008, #3
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
PHISHnutS,
Jun 05th 2008, #4
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
Sacto John,
Jun 05th 2008, #5
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
Nico,
Jun 05th 2008, #6
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
bassindon69,
Jun 05th 2008, #7
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
bass kid,
Jun 05th 2008, #8
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
Mattlures,
Jun 05th 2008, #9
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
dockboy,
Jun 05th 2008, #10
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
multispecies,
Jun 06th 2008, #11
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
SWMB8R,
Jun 06th 2008, #12
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
curado,
Jun 07th 2008, #13
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
Darius,
Jun 07th 2008, #14
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
MountainBass,
Jun 08th 2008, #15
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
Bigreenjobass,
Jun 08th 2008, #16
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
MountainBass,
Jun 08th 2008, #17
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
MountainBass,
Jun 08th 2008, #18
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
Bigreenjobass,
Jun 08th 2008, #19
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
Bigreenjobass,
Jun 08th 2008, #20
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
Matt Peters,
Jun 10th 2008, #21
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
deepsessions,
Jun 13th 2008, #22
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
magmaster,
Jun 17th 2008, #23
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
strbass,
Jun 18th 2008, #24
RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got,
Mike F,
Jun 19th 2008, #25
| |
|
Nico | Thu Jun-05-08 04:05 PM |
Member since Nov 03rd 2001
1914 posts
| |
|
#10477, "RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got"
In response to Reply # 0
|
Probably the dumbest big bite I got happend 6-7 years ago. I was fishing out of the back of a friends boat and as we were cruising down the shoreline we went right over a big fish that immediately kicked off into deep water. It was late May at the time, so it may have been on a bed, though we didn't see one.
We kept on moving down the bank, but I picked up a brush hog and made a long cast behind the boat where I thought the fish was, hand-pulling line off my reel as my bait sunk and the boat was moving away.
Soon as I tightened up my line the fish was on... 13.7lbs.
It's much easier to think of big bites I deserved to get, but didn't deserve to land. Like the time I broke my rod in half setting the hook on a 10lber with 100 feet of line out. Or the time I hooked a 10lber in the back of the throat. My stinger rig broke, the bait flew out of the fish's mouth, and the 2nd treble hook snagged it on the outside of its head. Or even just a couple months ago when I had a 10lber swim through a hole in my landing net while fighting it on spinning gear.
Don't even get me started on the birds. I've never caught two bass on one cast with a swimbait, but I have snared a double-header of canadian geese, for a while anyway :)
|
|
|
|
        |
dockboy | Thu Jun-05-08 11:57 PM |
Member since Jun 09th 2005
205 posts
| |
|
#10482, "RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got"
In response to Reply # 9
Thu Jun-05-08 11:58 PM by dockboy
|
Not exactly a big bite.. but a couple stupid bites! Was fishing with a boater in a small club tourney at the local lake last year, It was windy, and we were hitting an area in open water I know well. I threw a Beaver out, let it sink, and was fishing when my partner hooks up. I net the fish, and somehow in the process manage to scatter my gear acoss the rear deck. My rod was on the passenger seat with the Beaver out, andI'm sitting there scrambling to get all my #### back together. Pick up the rod after 5 minutes, start to reel in for another cast, and fish on! Had one recently where the fish ate a dropshot while I was helping my dad untangle his rig. I'm sitting there and just finished put everything back in order when my rod goes sideways down the gunnel. Ended up being a solid 3lber. Don't get me started on birds. Seems every trip out I almost hook or nail a bird on the water with a cast. My worst ever was when I was fishing a Vixen last year and ended having a great blue heron take in in the leg. He didn't even hit the lure! I made a cast across this long point and as the line settling on the water, this bird just comes out of the trees right across the line. The bird takes line like crazy and I'm holding onto the rod with one hand try to find my pliers (which I had left on the bottom of the boat in an Einstein moment..) I watched the friggin Vixen fly out of the water into the bird's leg right as I run out of line and it snaps off the knot. Long story short(er)... my friends who was on the lake that day had to join me while we netted and proceeded to do removal surgery on a really pissed off heron. Bass + Fisherman= BAASS ADDICTT!!!
|
|
|
|
          |
multispecies | Fri Jun-06-08 02:09 PM |
Member since Feb 22nd 2003
19 posts
| |
|
#10485, "RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got"
In response to Reply # 10
|
I was fishing clear lake on a windy, rainy spring day. I was trying to cast a shallow running bomber minnow (on a real light crankin stick & 10 lb. test) to a tule/boulder transition. The wind blew my lure WAY off course in about 30' of water. Well I am reelin back in as fast as I can to recast and my rod doubles over. I am thinking how in the heck did I snag here when my rod starts surging. A few minutes we have a 10-6 in the boat. My buddy had said he always stuck a nice fish off this deep point and he was right. I really didnt deserve that one though. Dylan Dylan
|
|
|
|
            | |
|
curado | Sat Jun-07-08 09:03 AM |
Charter member
posts
| |
|
#10487, "RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got"
In response to Reply # 0
Sat Jun-07-08 09:04 AM by curado
|
the dumbest big bite i ever got.....it was night time and we were fishing a dock. i was casting along the pylons with a crankbait. we had not even got a bite after hours of fishing. i was tired and super bored. when i get bored while fishing i start to goof around. so i cast out along the pylons, as long a cast as i could make and decided it was a good idea to reel in the crank as fast as i possibly can. wouldn't you know it, a fish slams my crank, nothing short of 11 pounds! then, i do it again and land a 6 pounder! my brother and his friend were astonished and i was super excited.:D
|
|
|
|
  |
Darius | Sat Jun-07-08 11:21 AM |
Member since Apr 15th 2005
165 posts
| |
|
#10488, "RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got"
In response to Reply # 13
|
I guess mine was just this April, I was tying my used boat I purchased from Mossdale, I was with a friend (newbee) its his first ever fishing trip, we couldn't even get a bite, anyway, as usual he has birdnest from trying my casting reel throwing my BBZ SS, I looked at the mess start pulling line from the reel, dropping it on the water, the next thing I yelled (frustration got me) at him saying don't pull the line!!! he said, dude I'm not even touching it, I looked the line trying to figure out, whats going on pull and splash guess that sums it all, no reel I was using my bare hand pulling the line, manage to land it (5.6), screaming yeah but we all know not a deserving catch, after I reeled it in, my friend thought we are taking the fish home, as soon as I kissed and weigh it, drop it back in the water, my friend goes WHATTTT THE XXXX we been fishing for hours and you let go our catch, thought I share he never stop up until we get home telling his GF the story, LOL :+ The LightTackleMeister
|
|
|
|
      |
Matt Peters | Tue Jun-10-08 01:33 PM |
Charter member
2036 posts
| |
|
#10498, "RE: Dumbest big bite you ever got"
In response to Reply # 20
|
Cool thread.
This Spring, I was working very hard to get a big fish. The weather was cold and I wasn't exactly killing them. I was working all weekend for 1-2 bites, and had no big fish bites whatsoever. In the afternoon on a Sunday, an hour or two before I planned to take off, I throw out and across a big long point with submerged wood. First, I hang up my ROF 12 on a tree, oops number 1. Second, I pick up a ROF 5 and ss my Hudd is in flight, I can see the tail foul on the belly traps...So as soon as my bait hits the water, I rip--rip---rip the bait to unfoul the tail from the trap hooks----boom--fish comes out of the water to inhale the bait. Vicious strike, 10-2 pound fish.
I feel like I didn't deserve the fish because I fouled an ROF 12 the cast before and my cast with the ROF 5 was a fouled cast. Two strikes and still got the fish.
|
|
|
|
          | |
            | |
              | |
|
|
© Copyright Robert Belloni 1997-2012. All Rights Reserved.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed without express written consent.
|