We are all, as a coworker says, just a little "touched in the head" but what is or are the funniest/oddest things you've seen others do when they are fishing?

My personal favorite is a friend who has 2 tackle boxes stuffed to the "gills" with various baits but almost always fishes with a rooster tail. Oh, he's a collector all right.

Ice fishing.

Launching a boat, some people just won't learn from mistakes.

 

People using a spinning reel with a 2 piece baitcasting rod with the top half backwards casting 2 oz weights only going 10 feet.

Real Ice Fishing.

 

A-Jay

 

 

 

It wasn't really a habit because this person hadn't fished before but a buddy that went fishing with me rigged his pole up with a Rapala Husky Jerk and then put a little piece of worm on a couple of the hooks and and casted right next to shore and just waited. I could not stop laughing. When i told him you don't have to bait the hooks and that you usually should keep retrieving the lure he was shocked.

^Can't do it without the beer

my dad refusing to lean all the way over of my Ranger to spit his tobacco. He just sits back and aims for the water. Then I get little chew dribbles on my back deck. I have to clean it regularly. But, its my pops, one day I will miss that chew spit on my Ranger.

I always get a good laugh watching people use spinning reels "backwards" Just like in the picture

Ice fishing.

I call it insanity, but I guess its a matter of semantics.

To be fair, last week I was looking out across a lake and pondering the few die-hard guys that I could see fishing in negative temps when I spotted someone on a different part of the ice taking advantage of the nasty gusting wind... with ice skates and a kite.

 

One of the other odd things I see regularly is a couple buddies who look old enough to know better. They will stand for hours on end at one of the most unproductive spots along the river and throw noisy top-water baits until they're arms must be ready to fall off and I've never seen them catch a thing.  I admire their persistence -- maybe they caught a lunker or two there before, who knows -- but my understanding and experience with surface baits is that the fish tell you pretty quickly if they aren't interested, if they're even there.  I just want to go over and hand them a worm or something.

It wasn't really a habit because this person hadn't fished before but a buddy that went fishing with me rigged his pole up with a Rapala Husky Jerk and then put a little piece of worm on a couple of the hooks and and casted right next to shore and just waited. I could not stop laughing. When i told him you don't have to bait the hooks and that you usually should keep retrieving the lure he was shocked.

That's a good one. I laughed out loud. My wife said that's stupid Caylub. Lol. She is clueless also.

Kissing fish before releasing them.

Guilty!

I always get a good laugh watching people use spinning reels "backwards" Just like in the picture

I was going to say the same thing.  This must be an Illinois thing...lol.

My cousin cannot throw a lure more than twice without changing it! It didn't use to be that bad until he discovered speed clips, also he fishes everything the same exact way. A slow,constant retrieve.. Everything, spoon and all LOL.

I cannot catch fish wearing a red shirt, for whatever reason, there's been MANY a times I've wondered where the bite went... Only to look down and see I've got a red shirt on, so I peel that thing off and start catching fish I get some looks though, something about shirtless guy in bib overalls lmao

I had a dear friend I fished with for over twenty years.  Tom would whistle songs if I was catching more fish then him.  If he was ahead in the count, there would be no whistling.   The further ahead I got, the loader it would get.  My wife would ask me when I got home, was there any whistling today.  If I said yes, it was a good day.    I dont think he ever realized he did that!

Ice fishing.

 

I resemble that remark.

I was known to do laps around the console of my buddies center console pathfinder in tampa bay until one of the drift baits hooked up on slow days lol

Kissing fish before releasing them.

 

It's only perverted if you use your tongue.

where im from the overalls are called an 'ArkansasTuxedo'

Strawberry Pop-Tarts before a tournament.  Any other flavor and I don't seem to do as well.  LOL

Saying "last cast for today" when I'm about to head in.

I find guys who musky fish pretty peculiar. They can fish all day and if they just SEE a fish they think it was a good day!

I find guys who musky fish pretty peculiar. They can fish all day and if they just SEE a fish they think it was a good day!

I hear you, ill be talking to them at the ramp and they'll say something like "had a decent day, brought a few up but never hooked any." I have no response for them.

I fished a club tourney with someone I had never fished with before. When we would get to a new spot before he would make a cast he would look up to the sky and yell "caw cacaw caw" rather loudly and with a slight lisp. He said he was calling in the bass. It didn't work. He did this at every spot. Other fisherman looked over in wonder.