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4 yrs ago on Charleston fishing the Laker opener I caught Lucannus's favorite water fowl. (THE LOON)
We trolled past a pair of loons and as we passed they dove as usual and didn't think anything of it untill something showed up on the fish finder heading straight for the cannon ball, 2 seconds later the rigger popped and bird on (didn't relize it at 1st) man what a fight. Line came up to the surface like a bass. The loon popped up, made some very strange noises, danced around for a few seconds and then dove again to resurface as safe distance away with out the line. Thankfully it never got hooked, I suspect it got the line around a leg which loosend and dropped off when he surfaced.
I'd hate to have tried to unhook that crazed beast.
Up'em
That sure must have been an awfull experience.
I remeber last year after one exspecially deadly weekend on simcoe ( 5 deaths!) It was a little freaky fishing on Simcoe wondering if the next 'snag' might be something else.
Youngest son walked right off a dock in Marina near Niagara River , dropped his rod as well , managed to fish it out after a coupleof minutes of trying .. oh yeah he made it out as well.
Last year I was fishing at the public dock in Treadwell and I had a bite and I set the hook and I could se I had a nice smallmouth bass on my line but I had hard time to bring it to the net till I se thats I get hooked on a rod reel combo in the same time. I net the fish and after grab the rod and reel combo and it happen to be a Abu Cardinal with a Berkley rod. The reel was intact and the rod to I still got it and work just as good as a new reel and I realy like it.
g unis wrote:gulls are good bighters to. especially if there the big ones
Pelicans can get you good if you're not careful too!
I had read a book of fishing stories like that, a guy in the Bahamas caught a dolphin on a rapala magnum. After he reeled it in, they took a picture of the 'phin then cut the hook and hoped it rusted out. They were afraid removing the hook would hurt the animal too much.
I have a couple we were me and my buddy adam were down fishing rainbows at Port hope when i was drifting a float and roe and snagged an egg sinker right in the hole don't know what the chances were , also that day he was drifting his float slams down set's the hook and up comes a swimming muskrat we were laughing so hard because everyone time i tried to grab the line to take it out it would groul at me and try and jump back in the water. then it would start trying to run at you he was a vicious lil fella. It ended up we pulled it out with some huge pliers he grinned and jumped back in the water , while i thought it was a grin for him probably a look of releif.
Several years ago during a club tournament, my partner and I were vertical jigging Hopkins spoons for SM. Dave began reeling in smething that just didn't feel right. It wasn't heavy but moved from side to side like a fish. When he reele it in it turned out to be a freshwater clam. It wasn't snagged, but had closed its shell on one arm of the treble. It was very much alive and didn't want to release the hook. It was returned intact.
