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Post by Greenedog on Oct 21, 2009 21:19:23 GMT -5
This is a reply I made to a thread on the indainainfo.net site, but I thought it'd be a good way to start a fishing story thread on here.  Here's my story, now let's hear yours! My best trip of the year so far would have to be my oldest son, Chase, and mines Lake Michigan salmon trip out of Michigan City. After a 4 1/2 hour drive, we arrived in town on the afternoon of Sunday, July 19th. I gave our guide, Captain Kevin Smith, a call to let him know we were in town and to make plans for the following morning and he says "Are you ready to fish?" "Right now?" I ask. "Yep." I knew right then that this was gonna be a good trip. Capt Kevin had a buddy in town with his young son and they wanted to do some perchin', so Chase and I were invited along. We met Capt Kevin at a local pub and after some refreshments we headed to Washington Park Marina. The lake was a little rough that evening with the recreational boaters coming in from the weekend, but we managed to catch a mess of perch for Capt Kevin's buddy. These were the first perch Chase and me had ever caught.  Next morning we were back at the marina at 5:00 am. Capt Kevin introduced us to his good buddy, Kyle Banks, who would be his first mate for the trip. What a difference a night made; the lake was smooth as glass. It was a short ride out to deep water and within minutes Chase had his first salmon, a small king. The fish just kept getting bigger as the morning went on, and ended with my big king. We were done by 11:00 with 11 fish to clean. Chase and me tried to help with the cleaning, but the way Capt Kevin and Kyle were slicing through those filets, we decided to just be the packagers. After a quick lunch, Chase and me visited the Portage Bass Pro, we also wanted to visit Cabelas, but were just to tired to make the short drive over.  The next day was Chase's 15th birthday and surely one he won't forget. We were back at the marina at 5:00 am and on the lake shortly there after. Where the first day was mostly kings and steelhead, day 2 was the coho's turn to play. And man were they fiesty! Chase was somewhat of a "rod hog", but it was his birthday and he was determined to best my king from the day before. He was reeling in coho as fast as he could and it looked like it would be an early limit, but one of us made the mistake of saying this out loud and the fishing gods were listening. The action stopped as quick as it had started. By that time though we had 10 fish in the boat and you couldn't call it anything but a great day. The big fish of day 2 was Chase's lake trout. Both my king and Chase's trout were caught on what Kyle called a "bottom bouncer." It was a sinker about the size of a tennis ball with a winged bobber lure. This rig was tough to reel up off the bottom with nothing on it, you can imagine what it was like with a 15-20lb fish attached! After cleaning day 2's catch, it was time to head back south. We were wore out and Chase slept most of the way home. I made a DVD out of the videos from the trip and sent Capt Kevin and Kyle copies. Capt Kevin called just the other night and we're already making plans for next spring!   |
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Post by B-rad on Oct 23, 2009 9:33:58 GMT -5
I was fishing a 3 in, mimic minnow, bluegill pattern swimbait and i had been catching small bass and huge bluegill. my pole an ulra-lite 5 ft panfish pole. on one cast i thought i had got a snag on a rock or something. then it went air born. when i yellled "big one" no one believed me until it jumped. it was avout a 1-2 minute fight (i wasn't takin any chances) and i landed the 7.5 lb BEAST. theres a pic in the "my 7.5 lb hawg of a largemouth" thread under "bass"
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Post by alabamaoutdoors on Nov 1, 2009 18:02:30 GMT -5
I have two. I was fishing in my uncles friends pond witha light action rod. At this pond, he feeds the fish, so they are monsters. we had been fishing all evening, and my brother and uncle were just slingin em left and right. we were packing up to leave, and I left my bobber about 3 foot from the shore. All of a sudden, my rod started running away. It fell into the water, and I reached in and got it. A big 15 pound cat was on the other end. since my line wasnt far out, I just got him with my hands.
The next day, I was fishing at my uncles pond. I had the same light action rod, and I casted a chicken liver out about 30 yards. After 5 minutes, I got a BIG tug. I picked my rod up and started fighting. I got him about 10 ft from shore, and he broke off. so I retied my hook, put on another liver, and went after him again. I hooked up immediately, and he fought harder this time. I got him right to shore where I could see him, and my line snapped. So now I was really mad, and I tied on another hook, and liver. 10 minutes, a bite. I fought him around two minutes and finnaly got him on shore.
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Post by Brian on Nov 6, 2009 22:19:42 GMT -5
with cats that size, i recommend getting a stronger rod. especially with fish that are fed and are all bigger. it is more of a challenge with light tackle so thats probably more fun when you hook them so easily.
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Post by brutom on Nov 14, 2009 10:22:05 GMT -5
Went to Cagles Mill dam one day right after work, and fished there from about 6PM on through until it got dark. Must've caught over a limit's worth of nice-sized Crappies, all on RoadRunner jigs cast out into water around 10' deep, counted-down to within a couple feet of the bottom, then reeled-in slow and steady. Didn't catch one that couldn't have been kept...mostly around 9" or 10" with a couple pushing a foot or so in length. But all were released this time. Had to be about my most productive Crappie outing in a long time! The BIG surprise came when I foul-hooked a large Carp, right in the tip of the tail...I'm guessing it had to go15lbs. any way...on my Crappie rod with 4 pound test line! Had to have taken me at least half an hour to finally wear it out enough to bring it in. Despite the foul-hook, I'm still kinda proud I caught it! My second biggest Carp ever ( out of maybe hundreds? ) when I wasn't even trying to catch one! Fishing can really surprise you sometimes, you know! The venue:  A nice Crappie of many similar fish:  The bait of choice today:  This guy and I were both wore-out...but I was a lot happier!  |
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Post by Brian on Nov 14, 2009 19:35:52 GMT -5
nice story. I have had good success on panfish with a similar jig to the one you were using. nice carp too.
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Post by fowlinmike94 on Aug 12, 2010 18:20:55 GMT -5
A couple summers ago me my dad, uncle, cousin and some of his friends went to lake erie for some walleye. On the first day of us fishing me and my dad were on the front of the boat where there is only a foot high chrome fence to lean forward on to keep balance against the waves. My dad set down his rod to put on a new jig. This rod is very special to my dad because it was given to him on a company fishing trip in canada its a St. Croix rod that has his name on it with a Shimano Symetre reel. All of a sudden a big wave hit the boat the rod fell out through one of the spaces in the chrome fence. All you could see was the rod sinking away. My dad was extremely mad and couldnt believe what had just happened. probably 20 seconds after this happening i felt a tug on my rod and wouldnt you know i had hooked my dads rod and brought it back on the boat to him!
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Post by Brian on Aug 12, 2010 22:50:28 GMT -5
thats a cool story. what are the odds of that?
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Post by z7bowhunter on Jun 12, 2012 22:45:01 GMT -5
I have had alot of good times on the water, but probably one of my best memories was a couple years back, when i was fly fishin for bluegill in my grandmas pond. I was using a 4 wt fly rod w a small ,white, foam spider.I caught a couple nice hand-sized gills, and then on my next cast, a big bass came up and sucked the spider right off the surface and i set the hook, and the bass was tearing line off my fly reel (I only had a 4lb leader), i fought him for awhile and finally landed him. He weighed 5 1/2 lbs 22" long and FAT. It was definitely my biggest fish on my fly rod. |
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Post by Monty on Jun 19, 2012 6:45:55 GMT -5
Cool! Sounds like a fun fight.
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Post by sam on Jul 13, 2013 12:29:09 GMT -5
Myself and a fishing buddy named "Ron" decided to head out. It was about 6:00 am before we got to the boat ramp. Nobody else was in sight ! It as still dark.
We started out on a cold brisk November day. A small later of skim ice had formed on the lake edges overnight, and in some places it was over 1/2 inch thick. There was no problem launching our bass boat, and we headed out for open water.
We decided to try some bass fishing, so I tied on a plastic worm, and Ron tried a small jig with crawdad like trailer on it. We had fished for around 45 minutes when we came up on a likely looking cove. Only problem was it was at least an inch thick ice. Didn't look to good for this spot !
As Ron turned on the trolling motor I thought I'd cast up onto the ice, and let it fall as it came across the ice shelf. That's when it happened !! As soon as my plastic worm hit the ice, a very big fish broke up through the ice and inhaled my bait !
Wow, I knew instantly that this was a big fish ! My drag started screaming' as the fish made his initial run, and the drag was smoking as I set the hook ! That fish must of felt it, and it took off like a rocket ship on wheels.
That fish was pulling us all around the lake ! After about three hours of this I decided to set the hook again, and dig then barbs in a little deeper. OUCH ! I know the fish felt that ! The fish took off so fast that it set the bottom of the boat on fire. Here we are out in the middle of the lake and the boats burning !
It was just lucky for us that the fish jumped over that sandbar because it drug us across it, and put the fire out !
I couldn't pull this fish up, and as it pulled us around in circles for another hour myself and Ron were getting tired.
I gave my fishing rod to Ron, my arms were shaky and tired. We still hadn't seen the fish and Ron had made only made a dozen or so cast before we hooked it.
He thought he was going to muscle the fish up and set the hook again !
That must of really made the fish mad ! Again the fish took off like a rocket !
We both sat there in the boat, our mouths just dropped open in amazement at the power of this fish !!
Then it happened, the fish pulled us around so fast that we were passing jet skiers, and so fast it set the boat back on fire !! It's a really bad feeling knowing your in a wooden boat, and your on fire !
Then it got even worse, at first we thought it was the US Navy firing a torpedo at us. The fishing line went slack and all we could see was this fish attacking us. Was like a torpedo aimed right for our boat, only it was the fish ramming our boat head on !
CRACK, I could feel and hear it. Then a little bit of water started coming into the boat. I'm looking at Ron, and he's looking at me like "what the heck".
The fish circled the boat two or three times and then lined up for another attack. We watched as the torpedo was coming in to ram us again and them "BOOM" as the fish hit the boat another time. Water started gushing in so I grabbed an old coffee can we had in the boat and started bailing it out !
About that time the fish started jumping up out of the water like it was laughing at us. For the first time we got a good look at the fish. Holy Cow, it was the biggest darn carp I've ever seen ! Must of gone over 200 pounds and big around as a 55 gallon barrel !
Then the fish took off again and Ron's holding onto the rod for dear life ! I plugged up some of the cracks in the boat that the fish had done, and then the carp just pulled us around the lake for a few more hours.
I told Ron to just cut the line, but he was thinking about a new state record carp.
As we got towards the north end of the lake the carp started speeding up, and then it happened ! That fish took us half way up the waterfall and :SNAP". The sound of the line snapping still rings in my ears ! Darn, I should of been using Stren !
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Post by topwaterbass on Aug 16, 2013 20:02:29 GMT -5
2 weekends ago I went over to a spot on the Tippi fishing for something with stripes. This one area I go to has alot of floating piers and a very good fishing reputation. So I get there and I notice there was a youngman probably around 9 or 10 years old there fishing. He yells out to me "Hey Mister You Got Any Hooks?" I said sure do! I went back to the car and got a small box of long shank panfish hooks and handed them to him. I told him to keep them I had plenty so he did he tied one on and got back to fishing. I go to the next pier and fished for awhile (never did catch anything btw) but he was hamering the gills. Finally after several minutes he yells out "Many thanks mister for the hooks!" I said it was my pleasure. Then he went on to tell me about how all he wanted to do was fish, I smiled and listned some more he told me he was going to be on tv and win that Bassmaster clasic someday. I laughed to myself this kid was just like me, I thought to myself I sure do miss those days. While all this was still going on he was still hammering the gills, LOL! he was having a good ole time and I was enjoying listning to him. Well it finally got to be long enough I was tired of that spot on the river, So I asked the young man what are you using for bait? He says "Bread I run out of beemouths 2 hours ago" Just shook my head and I give him my box of 100 that I wasnt using anyway. Then I told him as i left when you get older you remember this, what your doing now and when some kid asks you to try drugs or something else that you shouldnt do always know that you can grab your pole and just go fishing and tell whoever your busy doing something meaningful for your self and you didnt have time. He said if you come back here you will probably see me here. I said hope so and take care. LOl not often do I see a kid that reminds me of myself but he sure did! Read more: www.ggspinnerbaits.proboards.com/thread/517/hey-got-any-hooks#ixzz2cBScuuwC |
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Just another night at work for me and Monty will be back here again bright and early. 
