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Location: Northern Illinois | I caught a 5 1/2 lb walleye on a green Suick in 3 ft of water in heavy weeds. A friend caught a large crappie on a bucktail, and it wasn't a small bucktail either.
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Location: Verona, WI | I can't tell you how many rock bass I have caught musky fishing on bucktails when they are spawning. Aggressive little things. I've caught my biggest walleye, largemouth, and smallmouth while musky fishing as well. I also snagged a 68" sturgeon trolling once. That was a lot of fun. Thought I had the WR.
Shane
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Location: ohio | Caught a snapping turtle on a bucktail, snagged him in the foot, Thought I had a nice one till i got him up top,
He ended up being Deep fried....
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Location: searchin for the first legal. | i havent caught anything unusaul that i can think of, but my dad caught a catfish on a spinnerbait and my mom caught a dogfish. |
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Location: Lebanon,Mo | caught catfish on spinnerbaits
caught crappie on 6 inch jerkbaits
had follows from large gar with a suick
follows also from large shad with bucktail....that makes you wonder>>>> |
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Location: Plover, WI | I once caught a 75' Oak Tree on a bucktail. Bit me off though...
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Last fall, I managed to hook a sucker that was obviously a wild sucker from the lake I was fishing on the actual sucker rig I was using. Had my sucker that I bought hooked and then I had this other sucker that some how hooked itself perfectly through the mouth like it was trying to share the hook with the bought sucker. Quite an ordeal, don't have a clue how it happened. |
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Location: oswego, il | Here is a fine trophy catch on a cranky nitro, an ernie and a dunwright dancer:
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| Threw a bucktail toward a swirl I caught out of the corner of my eye, and like Tiger above, snagged a BIG snapping turtle in the rear leg. At first I thought I hooked a monster muskie, man he was tough to get to the boat. |
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| How bout a Loon and a 32" walleye. |
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Location: Valparaiso , Indiana | I once caught a 55 inch gar on a glide bait! I thought I had a big musky until it started jumping out of the water like a Tarpon.
My brother once snagged a 8 foot Sturgeon! This thing dragged our boat around for 45 minutes before we even seen it! If you look at the pics below that's a mag bulldawg and a 20 in. sucker hanging off the side of it's head! That will give you a pretty good idea of just how big this fish was!
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Location: Michigan | Caught this chinook while casting a bucktail on the French River Delta a few years ago.
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| chinook on lake st clair. lots of channel cats also. |
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Location: FORT ATKINSON | I cought a rock bass on a creeper at night. I have also cought catfish on rattle baits. |
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Location: Iowa | very large shad on a grandma, my largest largemouth on a buck tail and an 11 pound catfish on a DDD, the catfish had me going untill I saw what it was, sure was good in the frying pan though.
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Location: Girdwood, Alaska | caught a gar on a weagle once... caught a chinook on a glider in the Fox River (De Pere) from shore, caught some big shad on a top H2O there also. |
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| Caught a Tadpole on a bucktail, well actually snaged it. Good release though. |
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| Put me down for a rock bass too! What is the deal with that. Also, picked up a nice jumbo perch. Both on large bucktails. |
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Location: Iowa | A a 4 foot bull snake once one 10" believer...my biggest walleye on a jake...and one of my biggest largemouths on a ghostail...and a 25 lb anchor trolling a big bait...
Big Perc
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| I had a 10 lb Bowfin, or Dogfish, whichever you prefer, nail a bucktail on Minnetonka. Let it go and later found out it was close to the state record.
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Location: Elkhart, IN | I've caught both shad and perch on musky lures. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | a beaver and a pelican |
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | Throwin a Squirrely Burt over a weedbed once and set the hook and hauled in 2 largemouth bass on the same lure at the same time. Both bass were about 4 pounds each! Pretty cool! |
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Location: Cohasset, MN | Dogfish on a big Eagle Tail and perch on a Bulldawg. |
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Location: Elkhart, IN | jmuskieking - 3/16/2007 9:35 PM
I once caught a 55 inch gar on a glide bait! I thought I had a big musky until it started jumping out of the water like a Tarpon.
My brother once snagged a 8 foot Sturgeon! This thing dragged our boat around for 45 minutes before we even seen it! If you look at the pics below that's a mag bulldawg and a 20 in. sucker hanging off the side of it's head! That will give you a pretty good idea of just how big this fish was!
Hey Jeff, how many baits did you throw at that sturgeon? LOL |
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| How about a 32" walleye on a jackpot 12 noon in 2 feet of water.........High sun
Rock bass on a Creeper at night
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Location: oswego, il | I should have added this one too to my earlier post, on a zam:
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Location: Stones throw away...finally!! | Several crayfish on LOTW with bucktails over shallow rocks, and yes they actually had a hold of it. Fiesty little guys. |
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Location: Hayward WI | Got a buffalo on a baby bulldawg, didn't snag it, the fish had the lure in it's mouth.
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Location: Hayward, WI | Caught a 34" catfish trolling a jointed shallow Raider. Really crushed it too. Not much else too crazy. Caught about a 7 inch largemouth on a 9 inch Suick.
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Location: Northern Illinois | I remember this one from many moons ago. We were standing on the pier waiting for the rest of the guys, when my buddy wanted to show me the action on his new homemade bait. It was sort of a grey Suick type jerkbait. He cast it out from the pier, jerked it once, when a huge osprey came swooping down from a pine tree and picked it up and tried to fly away with it. Luckily it let it go when it felt the tension from the line. I wouldn't want any part of trying to extricate hooks out of that thing. |
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Location: WI | most unusual species...12 lb achor on Eagle River Chain. It wanted to stay deep and I had a hard time getting it in.
I kept her too.
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | Last summer on Leech Lake I was casting a white Sili Girl in some sparce cabbage when I felt dead weight on the end of my line. To my surprise it was a 33 inch eel pout that was hooked in the top of the head. |
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Location: milwaukee | I hooked a ~20-lb carp in the back with a spinnerbait. I'm bringing it up sideways with a mass of weeds on it. Hadn't caught a muskie before that, so I'm thinking I have my first. And also thinking, 'geez these things don't fight *that* hard'.
Also a 31" walleye on a Lil' Ernie.
Boat partner caught a 4" largemouth on a Top Raider. |
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| Had an osprey take a dive after a client's 10" crappie colored Jake as it lay on the surface during a backlash remedial moment...I saw the bird start to dive but jerked the line hand over hand to take it away...didn't want to deal with removing the hooks from such a beautiful and ferocious bird if it was ticked off...
Al Nutty
Kinkaid Lake Guide Service
Been Nutty all my life...the insanity is a recent affliction!! |
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Location: Plover, WI | Why just yesterday, I was with Slamr trolling the big pond when he screamed "There's a fish!" After a good fight, he pulled in a 7' landing net. What a beautiful specimen!!!
Of course, we weren't muskie fishing, but I had to share that.
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Location: On my favorite lake! | I caught a 25 in sucker in Kentucky. After I threw the thing back the guy that was down the bank from me said it was probably close to a record. |
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | Also had a Bowfin hit a brown Harasser.
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| 3 years ago I caught this 30 inch dogfish. It hit a chartreuse clown Viper. Pretty ugly fish.
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Location: WI | A friend of mine snagged a bald eagle casting. Had a devil of a time releasing it, but it did fly away. |
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| Homo sapien (aka the guy in the front of the boat)...................actually I can't take credit for this as it was my friend that did the actual hooking. Now the point in time when you realize you are a lesser man is when the person hooked gets out his pocket knife and tries to cut it out instead of heading in, in order to save some fishing time. Alas once hooks penetrate bone they apparently don't come out very easy......as the emergency room doctor even had a hard time.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | OWWWWWWWW! |
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Location: Northern Illinois | While fishing our home lake we were hitting the docks and my Uncle cast towards it. He istantly had a hit and set the hook. I jumped down and got the net ready and then it was just tight. He said, "Nevermind...I'm caught!" Then all of a sudden it started fighting. He yelled, "I do have one! Get the net!" I got back up there and the same thing happened. We went over towards where he was caught and he had a Northern around 29-30 inches hit his bait. Problem was that the Northern was already on a stringer! I couldn't believe it! Goes to show that a Northern will hit in any situation! |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Bowfin on a topraider! |
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| Snapping Turtles (3), Crayfish, 50"/50# Sturgeon, Huge bass & Walleye, Gar, Great Blue Heron (jackpot), a Booby (Australian bird), Frigate Bird, almost a loon & some seagulls, a few ski boats and a ski tow line, a waverunner, Gizzard shad, white bass, perch, 32# carp, and of course myself! |
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | I've caught water snakes, many large walleyes, rock bass, lake trout and this really big snapping turtle.
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Location: Madison, WI | Can't believe that guy has a smile on his face!!!! That looks painful! |
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| In no particular order -
A rock, the hook lodged in a little crack in the rock. The rock was successfully released.
A fishing rod- Kept - Grannie
A rug - Believer
A old school steel beer can - Grannie
A tennis ball - trolling 25' on a ernie
I hooked a bunch of Perch Snagged some, and had one eat a bucktail.
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Location: The desert | I landed a rock when I was about 5. My dad and I were fishing pelican and I had my little zebco rod with the push button reel. Set the hook on the rock and somehow got it off the bottom of the lake. As kids will do I was moving my rod around side to side trying to fight the 'fish' which caused the rock to swing back and fort, which felt like a giant fish running. Even my dad was excited as he had the net all ready, once I finally gained enough line he saw it was a rock, but netted it for me anyways. We released the rock back at the dock.
Also my buddy and I rented a boat from smokey's on Pewaukee to do some fishing. I was trolling a big jake and landed a Berkley Lightning rod. On the very next pass I landed a bucktail. This passed year I got out with Ben Keung and we landed a ski tow rope.
I have also caught a bunch of crayfish, snails, clams, bass etc. |
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| I had a 14 inch Smallmouth bass attack my quickset 14 inch sucker rig and it somehow got caught on one of the trebles. I didn't know it until I seen my sucker line going crazy so I reeled it up and the smallie attached right along side of it!
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Location: Minneapolis | Two perch simultaneously on a fuzzy duzzit. Both were impaled in their mid sections. I was definitely jigging near the bait fish that day! |
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Location: ladysmith, wi | 1. A CAR TIRE 2. A LIFE VEST THAT GAVE ME ONE HECK OF A FIGHT WHEN IT HIT THE CURRENT. 3. LOON 4. A OWL NIGHT FISHING FOR BASS. AND MY BOAT PARTNER ALSO HOOKED A BIG SNAPPER |
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