09-17-2016, 10:25 AM
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Fishing Fool
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Rivergate area
Posts: 1,314
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Travis C.
A frog slammed my popper one day fly fishing for bluegill.
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I heard a dinner bell!!!!! I used to fish a pond that was loaded with them. I'd take a trick worm and pull it across the moss in front of them and load the cooler up with them!!
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09-17-2016, 10:26 AM
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Fishing Fool
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Rivergate area
Posts: 1,314
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lforet2002
Being from Louisiana, it wasn't uncommon to snag a gator now and then. Only difference was when we snagged a gator he usually ended up in the cooler with the rest of the days catch and a 22 to the back of the head.
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See...I'm not messing with no gator. He would end up with some new jewelry in his mouth cause....naw!!
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09-17-2016, 02:07 PM
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Junior Member
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Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 62
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I caught 2 hellbenders on a trotline a couple years ago on the Cumberland, and an eel a few weeks later on a limbline on the Duck.
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09-17-2016, 02:41 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Madison, TN
Age: 43
Posts: 317
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If I hang a gator, he gets to keep his new piercing. I don't care if it is a $15 whopper plopper.
That is a big frog. We use to go frog gigging, and rarely seen them that big..
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09-17-2016, 09:17 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Nashville TN
Posts: 203
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dakota
When I first started dating my wife 1999 we went to priest at vivrett Creek area where there is that walk with rocks all the way around it. I was throwing a small curly tail grub. It appeared to be a family of snakes at the base of the rocks one actually launched at it hooked himself I bit off the line turned around and my wife was..well pretty much in the car. Good news is she later made me buy a boat. Lol
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Now that's funny! Great way to make it easy to buy a boat!
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10-14-2016, 08:32 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Hendersonville
Age: 53
Posts: 285
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Ive caught many a bird in my day mostly gulls or pelicans fishing the piers on saltwater. I've caught lobster, octopus, squid, eels and crabs bottom fishing too in saltwater. The weirdest thing I ever caught was a giant starfish I hooked him in the underside so the only thing I can think of was he was walking over my bait when I set the hook. The weirdest thing I've ever seen "caught" was Salty snagged an mostly intact deer carcass once in a deep cove on my boat. After the initial holy crap is that a person we figured out what it was.
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10-14-2016, 09:37 PM
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Fishing Fool
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Rivergate area
Posts: 1,314
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fishaholic
Ive caught many a bird in my day mostly gulls or pelicans fishing the piers on saltwater. I've caught lobster, octopus, squid, eels and crabs bottom fishing too in saltwater. The weirdest thing I ever caught was a giant starfish I hooked him in the underside so the only thing I can think of was he was walking over my bait when I set the hook. The weirdest thing I've ever seen "caught" was Salty snagged an mostly intact deer carcass once in a deep cove on my boat. After the initial holy crap is that a person we figured out what it was.
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Glad it wasn't a person. That'd be a new episode of csi  ld hickory!!! 😂😂😂
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10-17-2016, 03:49 PM
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Junior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Cross Plains, Tn
Posts: 18
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Rod and reels, and even a crank bait I had lost the previous day on the same spot. (I even caught a limit of keeper Bass on OH this year, go figure)
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10-21-2016, 11:36 AM
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Member
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: old hickory
Age: 55
Posts: 109
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Last year on the OH I hooked the biggest muscle i had ever seen dragging a jig in fast water
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10-21-2016, 12:35 PM
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Fishing Fool
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Rivergate area
Posts: 1,314
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I've had them close down on all kinds of lures. Biggest one I've caught was about 5 inches around
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10-22-2016, 02:25 AM
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hogdawg
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: mt juliet
Posts: 125
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Buddy and I were fishing OHL one day with jerk baits. He was trying to get used to using a baitcast and got a backlash. He was trailing the bait behind the boat when all of a sudden he felt a tug on the line and when he jerked an owl fell out of the sky into the water. It had swooped down and picked it up while it was trailing behind the boat.
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10-23-2016, 01:09 AM
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Fishing Fool
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Rivergate area
Posts: 1,314
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hogdawg
Buddy and I were fishing OHL one day with jerk baits. He was trying to get used to using a baitcast and got a backlash. He was trailing the bait behind the boat when all of a sudden he felt a tug on the line and when he jerked an owl fell out of the sky into the water. It had swooped down and picked it up while it was trailing behind the boat.
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That's a first! The bird I caught had been stalking our baits all morning. As I was working the popper, current pulled it to a floating tree pile and he was sitting there. He dove on it, I jerked trying to get it away from him and it was too late! It's weird wrestling a bird out of the sky and trying to keep from hurting him and getting the lure out of his beak. But I couldn't help but laugh!!
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10-23-2016, 05:31 AM
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hogdawg
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: mt juliet
Posts: 125
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My brother was fishing a spinnerbait one time and threw it toward one of those birds and it took off right about the time the bait got there and it wrapped right around its wing. It was funny watching him having to snatch it out of the sky several times to get it to the boat. When we got it up to the side, he was snapping his beak and it sounded like a pair of scissors.
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