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| When I was guiding on Mille lacs, I snagged an All Star rod and Calcutta 400 that Hamernick lost the week before out of a rod holder while trolling in 3 footers. Henepin Island....... |
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Location: Eagan, MN | I was re-tying my Pounder in the late fall using a headlamp. It was nighttime, cold, and windy. My partner is on the bow of the boat, casting his Pounder while I worked in the back of the boat. *SNAP* "What was that??" My partner had just thrown his favorite Pounder off and it took flight into the inky blackness of the night. My head was down, so I had no idea where it went. I finished re-tying and went to the bow to take over the boat control while my partner began his re-tying process. I threw my Pounder, pumped it three times, and thought I snagged a cisco. Nope. You guessed it. I caught my buddy's Pounder and lowered it to him off the end of my rod. I said, "This is destiny. You are meant to catch something huge on that bait." Later in the week, he caught his PB fish of 55" on that very bait. What are the odds?? BrianF. |
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Location: God's Country......USA..... Western Wisconsin | Caught the power cable that runs out to the island on Butternut lake at Park Falls. Snagged a cable that was holding a diving raft in place, my bait slid up the cable for about 20 feet thought I had a giant there for a while the line was just ripping through the water. Big ol tire that I could lift and then would pull back down had fun for awhile. Assorted items of clothing, a couple rods n reels lots of line and baits. |
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Location: Elk River, MN | Weren't fishing at the time, but we were headed to a spot for Walleye opener and caught a power cable that must have worked its way shallow in a channel in our prop. Saw a big flash in the water and completely stopped the boat. We managed to push it out of the prop with an oar. Half of the lake lost power for the morning until the power company could get out there. |
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| It took about a zillion hours on the water for you guys to catch all that #*#* above. Nice. |
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Location: Winfield,IN | Caught a 20 ga. Sawed off shotgun inthe Illinois river trolling for walleye. This brought new meaning to "the deadliest catch" it was still loaded too with one empty in the chamber. Other than it being a little rusted it wasn't down there long. |
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| Hopefully, that shotgun was used on a dead-beat thug, and not the other way. |
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Location: Winfield,IN | Who knows what it was used for turned it over to the sherif he took my name and contact info that was two years ago and I have never heard anything about it. |
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| Alumacraft11988 - 10/13/2014 7:17 AM
Who knows what it was used for turned it over to the sherif he took my name and contact info that was two years ago and I have never heard anything about it.
You won't. No Ballistics on a shotgun, especially a sawed off one...
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| I had two interesting snags last year on Pineview Reservoir in Utah. On the first one I was trolling a crankbait close to shore when the rod hammered over. I grabbed the rod and got big head shakes right away. I was sure that it was my 50"er! Close to the boat it came up and revealed itself to be a 6 ft long beach towel! I had snagged it on one end and the "head shakes" were the far end of the towel whipping around in the water.
The second incident actually involved a fish. I was trolling a custom perch pattern Tuff Shad, and letting it dig into the bottom. The lure got slammed, but my braid broke at the leader. I assumed that I had hung a stump or rock. Two weeks later, and just to the west, two friends were trolling a Tuff Shad and hooked up a nice fish. After a few head shakes it came off, and a custom perch pattern Tuff Shad with a crappie impaled on it floated to the surface. Yup, it was the same lure that I thought that I had hung on a stump! Earlier this year I ran into the guy who had the lure, and he gave it back to me. The following week i was trolling the same lure, and it got hammered hard! I had forgotten to loosen the drag up after casting earlier in the morning, and the rod, reel, brand new Folbe rod holder went overboard. I tried to snag it with the other line that was out, but no love. As it turned out, the mount that held the rod holder to my boat rail sheared. I lost everything, including the Tuff Shad that had been lost, saved, and then lost again! Now I'm waiting for one of my buds to snag the rod! Fred K |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | I used t guide the Milwaukee River for trout/salmon. I think I got everything from medical waste to underwear to old Schlitz bottles (still sealed) to a Sturgeon. |
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| Where's Norm? Best beaver story ever.... |
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Location: Winfield,IN | Also caught a seagull on a top water while fishing smallies on Lake Michigan. Let's just say it was like flying a kite for a few minutes. |
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| A pelican, which was surprisingly docile during the unhooking process, and a comerant, which was surprisingly NOT.
Had a buddy who hooked a loon. The story he told was that the entire time they were unhooking it it continued to paddle for it's life like it was trying to swim away while simultaneously emptying itself of everything it had eaten it's entire life, and even stuff it hadn't even eaten yet. The end result was that both anglers, the inside of the boat, and everything within 5 feet of them was covered in loon poop. |
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| A sawed off shotgun and a cat. |
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Location: Ontario | Fish, dead birds, anchors, red solo cup, lures, rod and reel, canoe, and a tree or 2 |
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| A sea turtle while tarpon fishing and a 39" muskie that just broke my fishing partners line. |
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Location: Ludington, MI | Shopping cart, seagull, and yes, a boot. There was not a fish in the boot. |
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| twice while fishing the miss iriver with jigs in Minneapolis Ive hooked condoms,,once right on the tip,,this was in the 70's,,,so it was the FIRST tube jig |
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Location: Maryland | Got a rod while fishing for cats at a dam. Thought I had a big ol cat on but ended up being an ugly stick. Still using the rod to this day. Caught many of fish with it. |
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