Funny things that fish eat!!

[Frank Rizo]

The flasher is made from a kids toy. The toy is avalible at the Dollar Tree store it is a bounce ball with a light that is triggered by impacting but the vibration of the water will also activate the red and blue flashing lcd inside. Cut the rubber ball apart to get the plastic light out. The nice feature is the light activated at random. It is a new idea of ours we have used it only a few times. Also you have to drill a hole to slide you line through and when you do this apply silicon to the hole and a light coat to the outside and leave dry before use. I like to find random thing in life and make them into fishing lures. It is truely amazing what fish will eat!!!!!! One of the funniest is the spoons we cut the handle off of and made what we call "poor man spoons" If anyone has other stories of funny things that fish eat please indulge!

[willie525]

huh

[Cartrpill]

I was out bluegill fishing with a worm and bobber. About to call it quits, reeling it in, my worm was dragging across the bottom and I caught myself a clam. To get my hook back I had to crack it open. As it turns out clam guts work great for bluegills.

I find it so funny when I am pulling a crankbait in and a minnow half the size of the lure bites.

I know carp suck anything in (spit on the water surface), but never had a pole around to see if I could catch one.

[SwampBaits]

I was out bluegill fishing with a worm and bobber. About to call it quits, reeling it in, my worm was dragging across the bottom and I caught myself a clam. To get my hook back I had to crack it open. As it turns out clam guts work great for bluegills.

I find it so funny when I am pulling a crankbait in and a minnow half the size of the lure bites.

I know carp suck anything in (spit on the water surface), but never had a pole around to see if I could catch one.

I bet not a lot of people have caught clams on a bobber setup before!!

[smirkplug]

A LONG LONG TIME AGO, WHEN PLASTIC WORMS WERE MADE ONLY BY A COMPANY CALLED 'CREME' WE USE TO USE A 2' LEADER AND A A WEIGHT CALLED A 'BASS CASTING WEIGHT' NOW CALLED AN 'EGG SINKER' WITH A SWIVEL. I LIKE TO WATCH MY WORM IN SHALLOW WATER AND MANY TIMES WATCHED 1-5 POUND LARGEMOUTH SLAMMING THE WEIGHT ALL THE WAY TO MY FEET. IVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING GET HIT AS MUCH. IF YOU JERKED THE WEIGHT AWAY FROM THE BASS TO DROP THE WORM IN FRONT OR TO THE SIDE OF IT THE BASS ALWAYS SWAM AWAY DISINTERESTED. I USED TO JOKE THAT THE BEST PLASTIC WORM GOT BIT ABOUT HALF AS MUCH AS THE WEIGHT:eek:

[skeeterfisher]

When I was about 12 or so...too many years ago to mention...back when bass fishermen kept and ate what they caught...my dad and I were fishing a lake in Texas...I caught a 12" large mouth....when we got home and cleaned it...it had swallowed a round rock the size of a golf ball..guess some kid was throwing rocks in the lake and the fish ate it....I guess he would have died if we hadn't eaten it...just not as soon...

[lilcraw]

This one is hard to believe and I wouldn't believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes, about 10 years ago we were hungry for fish and went to catch some dinner, have a few lakes around we do keep our catch for eatin, we fished for about 5 hours and only had 2 bass around 2 pounds each in the live well came home and started to unload the boat and put the bass into a 5 gallon bucket of water, then my son wanted to go check out another lake to see if they were biting any better, so we did for another 6 hours and didn't catch a thing worth taking to the house, after supper that evening my son went out got the bucket of bass and brought them in to clean them, it was a fall day and the bass were in cold water and were both still alive, I fillet them and as always opened there bellies to learn what they had been eating, not surprised for this area both had bellies full of crawfish, I scaped everything to the side and went on to finish filleting, all of a sudden my son said DAD ! ! !......Look at the crawfish, I kept cleaning and said yaaaa, he then in a louder tone said DAD ! ! LOOK AT THE CRAWFISH and said YA I know and looked and could not believe my eyes one of the crawfish about 2 inches long was crawling out of the pile of guts and stomach contains, I thought about it and I KNEW that bass had been in the bucket of fresh water for at least a min. of 8 hours so the crawfish was in his stomach for all that time and still ALIVE ?????? Hard to believe but it happened...........

NOW...... if I ate something that crawled around in my stomach for 8 hours after I had eaten it I sure in the world would NEVER eat it again......... Talk about indigestion

[Whitedog]

I guess this qualifies. While fishing a tournament, I caught chunky bass of about three pounds. When I went to remove the hook a snaky looking tail jumped out of his mouth. Naturally, I dropped the fish and had a mild heart attack. I finally got the nerve to ease his mouth open again and realized it didn't look like a snake so I pulled a little. A full grown rat started coming out of his stomach. Being a tournament fisherman, I showed it to my partner and gently pushed it back in. Get weight any way that's legal!!

[clemmy]

Up in Minnesota my former brother in law was bitten in the calf by a northern pike while waterskiing!

served him right as it turned out....

Clemmy

[smirkplug]

Last year tuna fishing at Gerranimo Is. in Baha Ca. (where those huge white sharks are all over the place ) we had a chicken dinner one night and threw the bones overboard. The next morning when 1 guy dropped his sardine bait in the water a large calico bass ate it and when he brought it on board it spit out a drumstick bone from the night befores dinner. On the same trip another guy caught and kept a black sea bass about 80 lbs. that when cleaned had a large cormorant skeletin inside it! Sorry about my spelling im too tired to check.

[Kribman]

I caught king clam on a musky killer a long time back, and i thought I could get it off by slamming it on the water, and I never saw the lure or the clam again.

[Spike-A-Pike]

One of the first times I took my son fishing in Wisconsin, we panfishing for yellow perch with minnows. About 10 or 15 minutes into the day, the bobber went down and hard left. Junior set the hook and started to reel it in and in the depths below, I can see a nice 11 or 12 incher on his line. As he is getting ready lift it out of the water, the fish started flopping around into a semi-figure 8. All of the sudden, from under the boat, a nice heavy musky nailed the perch so hard that he almost got Sonny's rod and reel in addition to the fish. He didn't really say anything, just the look on his face with his mouth hanging open pretty much said it all.

A great day and a great memory...

[philB]

I fish rivers and once spent 15 minutes bringing in what I thought was going to be my personal best but it turned out to be a plastic bag full of water. Boy that bag put up a mighty fight.

philB

[BCBaits]

One fishing story I heard was one of the guys in my club caught a bass, and noticed that there were some sticks in his mouth. He went to remove the sticks so the fish would live in the live well. The sticks turned out to be bird legs. He pulled a full red shouldered black bird out of the basses mouth.

[bizologist]

Those "poor man spoons" catch a lot of fish. I get them at Wal Mart - 6 teaspoons for a buck, cut the handle off, drill 1/8 holes at each end. Then using split rings add a dressed small treble and a small red clear bingo token at the line tie. It is one of my favorites for casting in mid depth water off the shore.

[HookUp]

Hiking in the high sierras, we use to suppliment our diet with trout allot.

Once we'd catch a trout, we'd break its neck, then gut it. Anything that looked worm like from the guts we'd fish with with great sucess.

[spnrbatr]

funny someone should mention carp. I caught a carp on a tiny torpedo once. It weighed about 8 lbs. Thought I would never get that thing reeled in. The only carp bite I have ever had. I think.

[mjmmusser]

A few years ago I was fishing a small but deep lake for an area bass tourney. Well I decided to wade since the smallies were up in the shallows. I walked around the hot spots that I knew of then returned to the boat launch to head the opposite direction. Well I noticed a nice smallie hanging out at the end of the launch. I wade out in the water a little ways and it disappeared. I thought I had spooked it. I decided to turn around an head back up to the shore to make my way down it when all of a sudden I felt a hard whack on my foot. That dang smallmouth took my big toe and the two next to it and shredded the skin off from them. The doctor didn't believe me when I went in to get the five stitches on my big toe just to pull the skin back to a normal position.

From then on I make sure I know where the fish are when I target them while wading.

[flabasspond]

Hello Everybody...OK, one quick story...all true....I was fishing a large tournament on Okeechobee about January around 1982-3 and had found some decent fish in a shallow backwater in practice. A severe cold front went through the night before the tournament and brought 20-30 mile an hour winds and woeful fishing. My poor partner I had drawn never had a hit, while I pounded the water all day with a spinnerbait for a SMALL limit (5) of 12" fish...and I mean I had to measure every single fish! No culling. When I went to bag my fish for weigh-in my livewell surface was COVERED with feathers! I think all of my fish together weighed something like 5lbs 2oz and I remember I finished TWO ounces out of the money. After loading, I was cleaning the boat and getting ready for the long drive home when I saw something in the corner of the livewell...it was a featherless coot corpse that was more than fist size and had to weigh 5 or 6 ounces! I wish I had seen the feet when I caught the fish! Think about it...thats like a 150 pound man sitting down and eating over 100 lbs of steak (or coot LOL)!!....Dave

[Bogbaits]

This is a strange one,me an a cousin of mine were bass fishing in the wisconsin cranberry bogs and he gets a nice bass on ,I watch him bring it in,its a 4 pound fish,the funnything is it had another hook in its mouth and his hook was through the eye of the other hook that was hooked in the fishes mouth,what are the odds.

[Kribman]

I'd say about 10000 to 1

I saw a small duck get pulled under on a small lake with pike in it. i was standing on a dock and couldn't see any fish, but the thing didn't come back up

[magicstick]

I worked on a sportboat here in so cal for years and more than a few times things have been thrown over the side only to come back over the rail in a fishes mouth, usually sand bass. The funnyest thing i saw was a sand bass that hit the deck and spit out a plum pit some other guy was eating earlier. Ive seen plenty of chicken bones in fish but one time i cut a yellowtail and found a whole deep fried chicken breast!

[Brian_Va]

I used to fish the cove of a small lake I lived near. I could see a very large bass, maybe 10 or 12 lbs going back and forth across the mouth of this cove. Once in while a bird would land by the shallow pea gravel bank for a bath. Old Mr bass was waiting nearly every time, and sometimes rushed up like a killer whale beaching himself momentarily trying get the birds.

An fishing buddy of mine caught a brown trout here in Virginia at Quanitco Marine base, he cut open the stomach and it was packed with cigarette butts.

[JSC]

Was on Lake Wimico part of the Appilachicola System and was working my way down the shore line that had a good supply of Cypress Knees. Well I saw a Bass "Flip" an Acorn onto one of the kness .. Naturaly I backed off and watched what was going on. Here comes a Squirrell and jumps on the Acorn .. well partner let me tell you he had no sooner landed on that knee than a Big Bass nailed him. Gosh I don't belive what I am seeing when here comes another bass and he flips an acorn on the same cypress knee .... Need I say more and if you belive this you will belive anything =:^)

Just had to tell that story

JSC

[Kribman]

you had me