Near Perfect Cast ?

[Rick Burnette]

Made a near perfect cast to cover Sat A.M. Spinner bait was within 2 " of target. Problem was, wasp thought it was a good spot also. Set a new world record pulling up T/M and getting underway. Would have been a good time for twin 300 hp's. Wife told me I should have been throwing plastic, now we have to stay 100 yards from the bank. Friend caught 5 fish weighed 14 +, one was 5.2. Not bad stringer for all that muddy water from up nawth. Best to All from So Alabama.

 

[Sam Elkins]

Yall be gettin' a lot more of that chocolate water real soon!!! Good fishin'!!!!

 

[Andrew Zuber]

Rick-



I had a similar event a couple years ago at Kentucky Lake.

It involved my fishing partner for the day who, by the way, was DEATHLY afraid of snakes. He got his rattle trap hung up in a deadfall and ran the trolling motor in to retrieve it...Meanwhile, I'm checking out this considerably large dead tree and notice a very large, colorful snake (don't know what kind---just BIG) all coiled up on a limb about 6 feet from my partners lure...needless to say, he immediately broke the line and retreated toot-sweet!



az

 

[Rob LaMoy]

Hung my jig n pig up very shallow one time. I could see it so I puttered over to pull it out. As I reached below the surface to grab it, I noticed a movement, a BIG one. I had hung up on the shell of about a 50LB snapping turtle that had decided to hunker down until he knew what had him. As I reached in, he opened up and let me know he was there! I jumped back with my heart in my throat, and mindlessly jammed the tip of my rod into his face, which he made light work of, taking off the top 6-8 inches. So now, I only swim in the ultra clear water where I can see everything! LOL Between that and Champy, I stay in the shallow end!

 

[Ed G]

Ok......believe it or not.....I was fishing Lake Fork in Texas and I saw a gator on the bank. I honestly thought the thing wasn't real, since I've fished there many times and never even seen a gator. I threw over near him to try and spook him to see if he moved. You guessed it....I accidently threw over him....and when I pulled it over him i hooked him. He thrashed one time, and my 30lb test was blowin in the wind. And....we were OUTTA THERE!

Ed

 

[Rob LaMoy]

My father-in-law went to his brothers in the everglades and he says they have to hit them with oars to keep them away from the boat. I would opt for a .357!

 

[TrepMan]

I remember working for Norfolk Southern Railroad (in the IT department mind you) and every year the executives got to take their managers down to the company fishing camp on the ST. Johns River in Palatka, FL. Second trip down there I spy what LOOKS like a gator and ask the guide. He say's YUP wanna play with him?? Well my response was something like "no on your life!" but he convinced myself and my partner for the day that it's FUN. So he pulls out to medium action spinning rods rigged with streamers (fly style) with no hooks (have no idea what pound test) and proceeds to show us how to Hook a gator. He hooked a nice small one (maybe 50 lbs), he had to outboard running at the time so I felt OK and cut the line when TOOTHY got too close! That's NOT my kind of fishing.

 

[JAMES MOORE]

I was fishing a river one day, bass where killing mmy jig and pig. I had this hit set the hook and the battle was on, I thought I'd hooked the biggest cat fish in the lake. It just wasn't coming up. I kept up the pressure, flippin pole thirty # test line. It finally started to come up, I got it near the surface and lordy be it was the biggest snappin turtle I'd ever seen. I tried to lift by the tail and coulden't. The turtle had the only good jig I had left and I wasn't about to give it to him. You ever tried to remove a jig from a hundred pound snappin tirtle with a pair of needle nose pliers. Somebody should have been there with a video, because that old snapper made me look like a fool. I won though, I got my jig back, though slightly bent and a lesson in how not to reach into a snappers mouth.