I just wanted to start a topic, Im sure everyone has experienced this out on the water.  Passing a spot that you would never thing of a bass being there, just for the hell of it taking a shot and wham there she is..... Lets here some stories...  For me over the past year or so I have been really working on my skipping.  A buddy and I were fishing some private water we fish often and we are fishing the shore line.  We come up on a spot that a low lieing tree about a few inches off the water.  The trees span over the water is probably 4'x4', surrounded by weeds except for under the tree.  So seeing the cast as a challenge with the few inches of clearance, I take a shot at it.  Perfect skip, get it all the way up to the bank.  Start working the jig down then wham, my line shoots under the weeds and I horse a 3lber out.  Release the fish and admireing his little, I tell my buddy to take a shot at it... wham another 3ler.  For *** and giggles I take another shot, and pull another fish out in the 1.5lb range.  He goes back in for another around the same size.  Just though it was kind of amazing, and makes you think about how many other spots that you have left untouched.

Ok, back when i was about 13 i was at my friends property which has a bass pond about a half mile from the house.  So one day we were fishing fast plastic magic worms on this 20'x35' pond.  Small right, next thing i know BAMM!!! this fish was heavy and lazy, in fact it wouldent come to the surfuace, I thought it could have been a bass caught in some weeds, but as this fish floated to the surface with my drag whining, i saw it.  It was a 20lb catfish!!!  I pulled it up on the steep embankment i was fishing on as my friend tried to get the stringer through its gills.  Next thing i know it flops one foot in the air and rolls down into the water.  So i go running down to it, thinking as though it was stunned to the point where it wouldent swim off right away, but the second it saw me at the waters edge, it darted of into the muddy water!!!!!!!! :'(

Some of my best producing spots are areas I drove right over or past for years!  I know exactly where you're coming from.

I caught a catfish in a mud puddle that was left over from a swolen creek one spring as a kid.  Caught him with my hands though, I wasn't fishing in a mud puddle.