So there I was putting in work with my spro rat, and I get a suicidal one pounder that comes off after the second jump.  Well that's a start. Two hours later still frothing the water and I cast to the shore and from nowhere this chocolate lab gas my rat in his mouth.  I have two labs so immediately I freak and tell the owner what is happening.  Almost as a reflex I hit the spool release and he jumped the bank and dropped the lure.  Heart attack later I continue  fishing thinking it was done.  The next cast he almost had it again.  I decide I am done with all this but now the dog is following me down the lake.  I have to tease him with the lure back to the owner and hand them my rod so they can get ahold of him.  Way more skipped beats than I was into and I made good pace across the lake and out of view.  ALMOST as exciting as my eagle catch but that's a story for another day.

I can see that. Them rats always did look like dog toys lol. Good thing you were paying attention and didn't set the hook on just feel without looking 

You haven't lived until you throw a top water, any top water, and have a 5ft gator come up and grab it!

 

Then if he misses it, turns and chases it half way back to the boat as you reel like crazy to keep it in front of him!

Then he just sit's there 6 ft away staring you down waiting for you to cast again! 

 

 

Mike

This is why I rarely take my lab fishing anymore.  She always wants to play with the lures, and the fish.  And she's jumped ship to chase a squirrel before.  My worst fear is that she will catch a treble hook when I'm trying to unhook a fish.

2 hours ago, Mike L said:

You haven't lived until you throw a top water, any top water, and have a 5ft gator come up and grab it!

 

Then if he misses it, turns and chases it half way back to the boat as you reel like crazy to keep it in front of him!

Then he just sit's there 6 ft away staring you down waiting for you to cast again! 

 

 

Mike

I know that problem all too well.  Yesterday my son and I were frog fishing and I had warned him about little gators chasing.  He makes a pretty good cast and a little gator goes after it.   He casts again and as the gator starts after the frog I cast my frog about 10 feet behind him.  The gator stops and looks at my frog.  My son starts his retrieve again and the gator looks back at his frog.  He stopped his retrieve and I started mine.  The little gator's head was on a swivel and he didn't know which one to chase.  It was pretty funny to watch.

2 weeks ago I came home from fishing one night and had a Whopper Plopper on the bait keeper. Put my rod down to close and lock the door behind me and my chocolate lab, greeting me at the door, decided to take a sniff at the bait and hooked herself in the nose. Before I realized what had happened she was running around the kitchen with the rod until the baitkeeper broke. She had 2 hooks of a treble into her nose and the other treble was starting to catch her bottom jaw and while trying to unhook her she shook her head and thankfully the hooks popped out. Could have been way worse but definitely will not be bringing her fishing or have any hooks tied on when I come home.

Lol.  Glad it ended well.  Once had a random dog come up and eat one of my spawn sacs I'd just taken off of a hook when I wasn't looking.  Owners came up and said did he just eat a spawn sac.  I was like yep and we both just chuckled.  Maybe it was because I'd soaked it in sugar.  Weird stuff.

I would have to have someone hold my lab or he would swim after me out into the lake . I couldnt go fast enough with a trolling motor only to make him give up.And he would not turn back. More than once I would turn around to make sure he would make it back . Once, after 2-3 trys Id had enough and just kept going and he came way out in the lake after me and finally turned back.

He was not the sharpest dog in the shed anyway.I had to constantly watch any baits to make sure he wouldnt bite em.

My buddy hooked my old dog once, who in turned hooked me while trying to hold him still and calm him down. Being attached to 70 pounds of panicked canine by a fishing hook is not a good time.