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re: Have y'all ever gotten a surprise while fishing?
Posted on 11/26/25 at 5:11 am to 98eagle
Posted on 11/26/25 at 5:11 am to 98eagle
The Great Red Fish Apocalypse. Fishing one morning on the ship channel heading to Big Lake. Come to a point where the lake opened up, locals call it 9-mile pass, and all kinds of birds are hanging on the point and flying around it. We ease up to it with live skrimp and for maybe two hours we hauled in around 30 or more 25" and longer red fish. Three of us on the boat, and we were scrambling around getting the net for each while we were also hooked up fighting our own red fish. You could only keep one apiece. Fricking tanker rolls through, bite was over. Good times.
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Posted on 11/26/25 at 7:41 am to VernonPLSUfan
Depending on the year you could have kept 5 at 25”.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 8:09 am to finchmeister08
I was fishing my ponds a couple years ago. They’re in the wide open so it’s hard for anything to sneak up on you. Well, a doe managed to do it because I felt something behind me and turned around and there’s a doe standing about 2 feet from me looking at me.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 8:22 am to finchmeister08
We have had Pelicans try to dive on a trolling spread. I'm glad one didn't get hooked.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 9:43 am to finchmeister08
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Have y'all ever gotten a surprise while fishing?
Best fight I've ever had was against a stingray.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 10:06 am to finchmeister08
One time when I was sitting on the side of a hill deer hunting I heard, and kind of felt, something right behind me. I jumped up and swung around and saw an armadillo had dug out of the ground about two feet from where I was sitting.
It made me so mad that I shot him with the slug my dad had given me. That was the only time I ever shot a slug. It made a big hole all the way thru that poor varmint. When I went back to the same spot a few weeks later all that was left was his shell.
I laughed out loud when I first saw what it was, because of how much it scared me. He was halfway out of the hole and he was shaking his head from side to side, squinting at me trying to figure out what I was. Imagine digging yourself out of the dark only to see a giant with a 12 gauge aimed at you.
It made me so mad that I shot him with the slug my dad had given me. That was the only time I ever shot a slug. It made a big hole all the way thru that poor varmint. When I went back to the same spot a few weeks later all that was left was his shell.
I laughed out loud when I first saw what it was, because of how much it scared me. He was halfway out of the hole and he was shaking his head from side to side, squinting at me trying to figure out what I was. Imagine digging yourself out of the dark only to see a giant with a 12 gauge aimed at you.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 11:04 am to finchmeister08
A gazillion years ago...
Got a trip with this commercial fisherman friend of the family for my 15th birthday. We're using live shrimp at the ammo dump near Dog River and I'm pulling in trout as fast as you can. No one else they're all getting small Croakers.
So fast that we switched over to poles and not rods, it was too slow to crank. I was slapping them shrimp on the water and pulling them in as if Columbus (or nets or Vietnamese) had ever arrived. And then it happened, I yanked so fast this trout flew up out of the water without setting the hook. Landed in the boat at our friends feet. At which point they lifted overhead me and threatened to toss us both back in...seemed real. Undoubted I tossed the same shrimp back in and got another. It pretty much ended the day as Arthur took to shaking his head and increased his drinking.
Never had another day like it... so I've always considered it quite the gift.
Got a trip with this commercial fisherman friend of the family for my 15th birthday. We're using live shrimp at the ammo dump near Dog River and I'm pulling in trout as fast as you can. No one else they're all getting small Croakers.
So fast that we switched over to poles and not rods, it was too slow to crank. I was slapping them shrimp on the water and pulling them in as if Columbus (or nets or Vietnamese) had ever arrived. And then it happened, I yanked so fast this trout flew up out of the water without setting the hook. Landed in the boat at our friends feet. At which point they lifted overhead me and threatened to toss us both back in...seemed real. Undoubted I tossed the same shrimp back in and got another. It pretty much ended the day as Arthur took to shaking his head and increased his drinking.
Never had another day like it... so I've always considered it quite the gift.
This post was edited on 11/26/25 at 11:10 am
Posted on 11/26/25 at 11:51 am to finchmeister08
Had a whale shark roll-up beside the boat while casting plugs for tuna, that was pretty amazing.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 12:04 pm to 98eagle
I had a Brown Pelican attack my top water lure and I hooked the pelican. It was not fun getting that resolved.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 12:11 pm to TIGERSby10
Was fishing in Longboat Key on the beach few years ago. Was on the second bar in waste deep water. Just minding my own business. Had been catching spanish using greenbacks that were running at the time.
I look to my right and see this huge mass headed right at me that's only 20 feet away at the time. It gets closer and closer and I start to freak out a little bit. It's 5 ft to my right and still coming right at me. At this point I'm terrified it's a shark or something. It turns as passes 2 feet in front of me and as it's head is right by me I realize it's a manatee.
I look to my right and see this huge mass headed right at me that's only 20 feet away at the time. It gets closer and closer and I start to freak out a little bit. It's 5 ft to my right and still coming right at me. At this point I'm terrified it's a shark or something. It turns as passes 2 feet in front of me and as it's head is right by me I realize it's a manatee.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 12:15 pm to deeprig9
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Once in the surf on Perdido Key on a little whiting
#metoo
Posted on 11/26/25 at 12:26 pm to Trevaylin
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while trout fishing, I leaned over the side of the boat to wash the slime off and a porpose grabbed my hand
did you drop a turd in your pants that day
anything coming out of the water and grabbing my hand suddenly is a nope.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 6:08 pm to finchmeister08
Was fishing on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin with a guide. Our targets were smallmouth. We fished with live worms on a small hooked drop shot rig. But many times we caught big assed bluegill. In fact the guide says he has a good business taking families out to catch these big bluegill. He was watching on LiveScope and saw a bluegill hit my worm. And then BAM, my rod went down hard. And the guide said he saw a muskie take the bluegill. And for about fifteen minutes we fought it on light line, And we ended up with about a 25 pound muskie. Apparently the muskie just took and swallowed the bluegill. I don't know why it didn't cut through the braid.
That's all I got other than the time we had a bobcat jump put about 25 feet in front of us. It managed to walk out over the water on reeds and hydrilla. It was going after nutria. We were at Lake Fork.
That's all I got other than the time we had a bobcat jump put about 25 feet in front of us. It managed to walk out over the water on reeds and hydrilla. It was going after nutria. We were at Lake Fork.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 7:11 pm to finchmeister08
I was pissing off the back of the boat on a charter trip and the captain called me in to the coast guard to report a grown man holding a little boy's penis.
Posted on 11/26/25 at 7:36 pm to glassman
Keep the stringer away from you. I’ve seen plenty of sharks out there when I see him. I just slapped the raw tip towards their head and they don’t like that. Most haul arse. Only lost a couple
Posted on 11/26/25 at 7:43 pm to finchmeister08
A long time ago I was doing the dirty with the girlfriend in the spillway and some cheesedick decided to come hang out with us. After about 10 minutes of him perving on us he decided to rollout so I could get on with round 3
Posted on 11/26/25 at 10:22 pm to finchmeister08
Nearly dying from a lightning strike. That was an eye opener for me..
Posted on 11/26/25 at 10:40 pm to awestruck
I’m not the smartest guy in the world but this is a sentence I’ve never seen before. Could also be the white cans
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At which point they lifted overhead me
Posted on 11/26/25 at 10:56 pm to finchmeister08
Someone from my parish growing up found a 5’-6’ tall wooden statue of St. Joseph (I think) in the diversion canal on a fishing trip and another parishioner cleaned and restored it and it still sits in the church now 30 years later
Posted on 11/26/25 at 11:11 pm to finchmeister08
Back in the ‘80s, me and a couple of friends would go out to the Gosier Island Hotel rig and spend the night fishing. On one trip, in the middle of the night the fish stopped biting, the bite completely died. We put out a drift line with about a 10 inch croaker we had caught earlier. And we all kind of sat back relaxing/ dozing. All of a sudden that drift line bent over and started stripping drag. Somebody grabbed it and the fight was on. Out on the edge of where the rig light extended into the darkness we thought we saw a silver flash. Retrieved more line and we saw the silver flash again, it was a tarpon jumping. We got it to the side of the boat, it was about four feet long. We released it.
It was the first and only time any of us ever caught a tarpon.
It was the first and only time any of us ever caught a tarpon.
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