They weren't supposed to hit that

[Cudz]

1. I was out fishing with a friend today and we were drop shotting tiny tubes and micro senkos for perch. All of a sudden my friend hooks into a big (relative to the perch we were catching) pike. He hooked it perfectly in the side of the mouth. Hard to catch pike on a drop shot setup when the hook is attached directly to the 8 pound line. He was using a tiny pearl 2" (yes 2") senko. The pike was about 9 pounds and we even managed to land it. I have a pic as well but it is on my friend's phone.

 

 

2. The other day I caught a 10" crappie on pearl 10cm x-rap. (not so unbelievable)

 

3. I have a tackle box full of $10-$30 lures and I threw out a popper that I bought at dolarama for a buck. After only 2 casts I caught a 16.5" 2 pounde smalie. Too funny.

[danbouck]

Gave a buddy a cheap (very cheap) 2" plastic lure from Scotland and he pulled in a 4 pound smallie.

[purekgw]

i was using a huge musky lure just for laughs and caught a 1lb small mouth the back treble hook was in its mouth the lure could have eaten the bass.....

[Sinker]

I caught a 9" crappie on a musky spinner bait last week....I dont' know what it was thinking? Also been getting lots of eyes on musky baits this season so far......they'll eat anything it seems.

 

Sinker

[ccmtcanada]

I was jigging for walleye with a white/pink twister tail and a 10 pound pike slammed it. Amazing I brought it in considering the 6 pound mono without a leader.

[Cudz]

One more for you. About 20 years ago we were downrigging for lakers on simcoe and I was reading fish at about 25 ft over 90ft of water. Because the LCR 2000 was such a basic finder I assumed the suspended fish were just clutter or false readings. I threw out a deeper diving big rapala fat rap and caught a 7 pound whitefish.

[Musky or Specks]

Heres some of mine

 

 

Labour Day Salmon while musky fishing a buchertail

 

 

Smallmouth on same buckertail same day

 

 

And my ultimate a nice steelhead on a rouser which is a 8" glide bait for musky

 

 

[Rombo]

I was fishing for pike with a 8" jointed rapala and caught a 3" rock bass

[Hillrat]

Had a honkin big Perch latch onto a rattlin rap once while fishing for pike, but I guess that wasn't too strange. By far the weirdest is not once but twice nhow I have seen my roomie hook into a big Muskie while we were fishing for Bass.

First time was on a 6" Senko. Got it in the corner of the mouth then ran under a log or something under water. He fought the thing for a good long while, the whole time rubbing his line back and forth across said log. Just when he was about to give up the fish came ouy and after a few mins he landed it. Think it measured out to 41".

The Second was while casting tubes for smallies in a river. Again, corner of the mouth, and the fish was landed.

Lucky sot...

[danc]

I've witnessed both Lake Trout and Pike in the thirty lb. range caught with 1 1/2 inch jigs intended for Brook Trout. In fact my good fishing Bud caught a mid 40's Pike last weekend under the same circumstances. It happens too often up here. The fewer Pike that I catch, the better.

[pokerdemon4]

Heres one from this year on a musky stalker.

Edited June 27, 2008 by pokerdemon4

[charlied]

i had a rock bass hit a rapala J13 will fishing for pike.

[Cudz]

Perch are a bit nuts. My friend actually uses Rapala HJ12s for perch. They love it.

 

I have also caught small rockbass on big spinnerbaits.

 

This winter, a student of mine, caught a 50" musky on tiny rapala ice fishing jig. Corner of mouth caught and landed.

[tibbs]

I put a plain hook in the water on the dock and i was about to put a plastic on then a small bass hit it and i got it!

[Rombo]

I put a plain hook in the water on the dock and i was about to put a plastic on then a small bass hit it and i got it!

 

 

I've done that many times off the dock

[Greencoachdog]

I caught nothing on something!

[Cudz]

I caught nothing on something!

That has happened too often.

 

lol

[kemper]

20 lb carp on a Xrap

 

22" Walleye while floating roe for trout in late february

 

watched three pike landed on roe in early march

[gone_fishin]

40+ pound carp on a perch coloured floating rapala... hooked in the mouth. very strange! landed on 6lb test mono as well...

[jace]

9-10# coho on a bead and skin herring rig. I would estimate the hook traces to be around 6# line tops.

[Reef Runner]

Catfish on a roe bag on the Credit River last fall.

 

Many suicidal perch attacking my musky spinnerbaits.

[rickster]

 

caught this one on a bare jig

 

 

 

honest

[Oktravis]

I was chucking spoons off the pier for salmons in the fall .I watched a 20 lb carp chase down my 2\5 blue little cleo and just smash it. It chased it for a good 6 ft before inhaling it

I landed it in shock.

[timmeh]

This past winter I caught 2 pike while bottom bouncing worms for trout, which I thought was quite unusual. The really strange part was that I landed both of them even though I had a 4lb fluro leader on.

[BillM]

Had a 4lb OOS smallmouth smash a TopRaider while fishing the French river during the muskie opener.