re: Spinoff: have you ever caught a fish with hook/bait in its mouth?

I was scouting for duck season about two years ago, in a kayak. I had brought my fishing gear as an afterthought, but no ice chest. I started tearing into some schooling bass pretty good, and putting them on a stringer. I limited out pretty quick, and then started culling out the smaller ones. After swapping one out, I forgot to tie my stringer back onto the kayak, and just dropped the line overboard. After losing my shite for a minute, I got out a deep diving crankbait and started throwing. On my fourth cast I looped the bill under the stringer and pulled the stringer and all 10 bass back in. Didn't cull any fish after that.

Had a drum pop my line once. A good while later, I reel in and hooked a string. Pulled it in and it was my popped line with the drum still on.

Once caught 2 catfish on the same hook. Hooked one, and got hung on log. While I was trying to unhook it, the hook pulled through the fishes lip, so he was on my line, stringer style. Another catfish bit the hook. Strangest thing I ever saw. Fish weren't very big.

I was snorkeling in Key Largo years ago and swam up on a big arse barracuda with a stainless steel circle hook hanging out of his mouth. It scared the shite out of me! He was sitting there with his mouth half open showing all his teeth. I've never back peddled so fast in my life.