and to add a couple more....caught a couple of brown trout on some shallow jerk baits...and a white sucker on a lil 1/8oz rapala (segmented jerkbait)...hit it as soon as it touched the water.

Mid 20's northern pike on a shakey head worm today

I just narrowly missed catching one of these on a 1 ounce Daredevle this weekend.  I didn't see the bird at all on my cast.  At first as I saw it start to follow I thought I was looking at a personal best bass.  Then something looked wrong so I ripped the lure away at the last moment thinking it was a snapping turtle.  I've had birds take a look at a spook as they fly overhead, but never had a bird chase a lure underwater.

Had an owl come out of a tree and hit water less than 6'' behind buzzbait, was really glad he missed.

a swim suit tied to to beach umbrella with a chatter bait =) thought i had the worlds biggest trout on the end on the line *sigh*

Nearly got a coon and a rubber frog I threw on the bank.

Also got a large red ear on a 3/4oz spinner bait.

catfish on a lucky craft LV

and an old sock on an lucky craft LV

both today

and an old sock on an lucky craft LV

awww...the elusive "old sock" fish...you should feel privileged

tee shirt on a bandit 100

Sea gull on a Gotcha plug.

Fishing rod/reel combo on a jighead.  ;D

My weirdest catch was in a pond fishing a 10'ish crankbait. I was burning it in, and all of a sudden my line went taught and my pole almost bent in two. I'm thinkin' "This must be a dadgum' big fish.". So I finally reel it in, and it turns our to be a old newspaper...  ;D ;D ;D

Crappie- Crappie SwimBait

Numerous Catfish-Spinnerbaits and Chatterbaits

Snapping Turtle-Tube

Duckling-Rooster Tail

Sunfish-Creature Bait

half a pack of hotdogs on a crankbait

Had an owl come out of a tree and hit water less than 6'' behind buzzbait, was really glad he missed.

A little over a week ago I was fishing at a pond back in the woods. I threw in a Manns topwater frog and looked away for second to close my tackle box. I had not locked the reel yet and the line started going out like crazy. I looked out to the pond and my line was not there, instead it was going up. A hawk had taken my frog and was flying away with it. It dropped the frog into a pine tree on the other side of the pond. Due to the weedless design of the frogs, I got the bait back. I am glad that the bird did not get stung by the hook.

half a pack of hotdogs on a crankbait

What happened to the other half of the hot dogs :-?

A lot of people use hot dogs for catfish bait. May have been remains of the bait they discarded.

5 inch sunny on a 3/4 oz jitterbug bit one hook and caught his tail on the back one needless to say i caught a 8 lbs cat fish that day too

Odd one for me would be about an 8lb carp that slammed a Hula Popper years ago.

I got a garr on a DT10 and a little 14" northern on a husky jerk, though the northern had *2* jerkbaits in his lip, both fire tiger color.  One of them had gone through his mouth entirely and he was unable to open it.  Was lucky I was even able to land him as I didn't have a hook on him, he must have went for my jerk bait and I got hung up on a treble and a gill.  Glad I caught him and was able to remove the lures or he wouldn't have survived very long.

How about a 42Lb Flathead on a Mann's Stone Jig..That's My Boy!

10 + pound cat fish on a black and blue jig suspended in about 10 feet down in 35 feet of water