Some very unusual caught fish here! I hope all of them made it back to the water same. #Basslivesmatter

Not as impressive as everyone else's, but I once noodled a 12 lb Atlantic Salmon by grabbing onto its tail and hanging on for dear life.  Granted it was in a 20 foot by 5 foot hatchery tub.  The water was probably 4 feet though, and everyone else was taking them out with big dip nets 

I caught a decent little bass a couple summers ago on a 10XD that I would think was swimming away from it and got hooked. The hook went all the way through it right above the tail. I was reeling one way and it was facing the other.

I have foul hooked many fish. The largest was a 13 lb Squaw fish on a jig while working structure of a long submerged bridge for spots on Shasta Lake. The hook snagged him in the lower jaw. The most surprising was a small mouth hooked on top of the head with a Shaky head 7" worm. 60 years ago (yea, I am an old guy) I snagged a 10 lb carp in the East Walker river between Bridgeport and Nevada border using  a night crawler. I guess the wildest was a 9 lb Steelhead snagged in the dorsal fin  fly fishing with a # 14 Copper John. Took forever to land that one.

 

I release everything I catch in fresh water.

That's amazing guys i saw this video that was in Alabama. This dude took a shiner in his hand and got out on a dock and would take that shiner and run it across the water. It only took a few times until this, I think 16 or 15 pound bass comes up and hammers the shiner and he grabs the fish. It was awesome!!