Most unexpected catch

[mark barrett]

A pic of Dave flounder fishing.

 

head and shoulders my most suprising was when filming a catfish programme for onlinefishing.tv and i caught on my dumbell presented 4oz roach livebait, a 37lb 15oz mirror carp, hooked fair and square n the bottom lip

[lutra]

head and shoulders my most suprising was when filming a catfish programme for onlinefishing.tv and i caught on my dumbell presented 4oz roach livebait, a 37lb 15oz mirror carp, hooked fair and square n the bottom lip

One of my most surprising was catching a 30lb+ catfish (it bottomed my 30lb scales out) on a rare for me carping day in sunny Lancashire.

Edited July 9, 2009 by Elton

[lubemonkey]

Happily catching 8oz carp using waggler, 3lb line and sweetcorn from a small stream fed pond, when I'm dragged all over the shop by what turned out to be a 6lb 8oz brown trout!

[Anderoo]

I suppose the most surprised I've been with an unexpected species was when I was stalking big (for me at the time) carp around a little Norfolk gravel pit about 20 years ago. I'd found a group of 3 cracking carp - all doubles, the biggest maybe 15lb - in a weedy, overgrown corner.

 

Hidden behind some nettles I flicked a couple of bits of bread flake out near them and watched as they sunk down and sucked them in. With my legs like jelly I gently swung out a small lump of freelined flake and watched as the biggest of the three turned and sunk down alongside it...the line quivered, then tightened and slowly began to draw away.

 

I steeled myself and struck hard. At the same time three big carp shot out of the weedy hole and disappeared, and I was left kneeling there, shaking with adrenaline, with a 4oz roach hanging on the end of my size 6 hook

[pikergonecarpin]

My most surprising has to have been while pike fishing a big Scottish loch about 8 years ago. I was using whole joey mackeral as bait (probably 10 inches in size) and i'd caught a few small jacks. The i got the most un-pike-like take, it was savage. After a very strange high speed fight, i landed a browny of 5lb 2 oz. The best wild trout i've ever caught, just a shame it was on a pike rod.

 

 

Paul.

[old_gh]

Strange you should mention ruffe tiddlertamer.... in the early 60's I used to night-fish for chub on the severn at Tewksbury. I'd ledger a huge cube of canadian cheddar, and suddenly there would be a heavy rattle on the rodtip, and I'd strike into it expecting a chub - only to find out it was a ruffe. They became a real nuisance and 50% of the bites were ruffe... they were very common then, but not so common now.

[blockend]

One of my stranger catches was a large perch caught between some bream on a sweetcorn quiver. Also heard of a guy who took a big lamprey on a lure (a Jake IIRC) trolled at speed, properly hooked in the mouth.

One of the smallest fish was a 1" roach fry skewered on a size 2 treble off the back of a boat. Oops!

[Anderoo]

Blockend just reminded me of a very unexpected catch! It wasn't me this time, but a friend I was fishing with. We were legering deadbaits for pike in the middle of winter at the river Wissey in Norfolk. We hadn't had a touch in the spot we were in, so decided to move. When he brought in his bait - half a herring - on one of the hooks of one of the trebles was a tench of about 8oz, hooked fair and square in the top lip

 

I've never seen a tench caught from there at all, which makes it even more unlikely!

[BoldBear]

A friend of mine told me of a weird catch he had once on an eirie misty morning: He had a long slow run and when he struck he hit into a large fish which fought fairly hard however he eventally put the net under a dead carp which had been hooked squarely in the corner of its mouth and had obviously been dead for a while judging by its eyes or lack of them. somehow the hook must have been tranferred to the dead Carp during the fight; either that or I will start believing in ghosts .

Edited June 30, 2009 by BoldBear

[mike1234]

A friend of mine told me of a weird catch he had once on an eirie misty morning: He had a long slow run and when he struck he hit into a large fish which fought fairly hard however he eventally put the net under a dead carp which had been hooked squarely in the corner of its mouth and had obviously been dead for a while judging by its eyes or lack of them. somehow the hook must have been tranferred to the dead Carp during the fight; either that or I will start believing in ghosts .

 

i have heard of them ghost carp