Has This Happened To You?

This was a couple months ago. Was anchored down in a little lagoon in 4 FOW and casting senkos for bass. Meanwhile, I left my trolling rod behind me with the jerk bait just dangling in the water. Then out of nowhere I hear some commotion behind and my stationary rod starts moving. Turn around and reel in right away and I see that this nice looking largie managed to hook himself. He did all the work for me. I took a picture of the rod afterwards as an example.

This also happened 3 years ago when I left a small little crank bait dangling in the water. Only the very end of it too. A sunfish came up and smashed it.

This is the same reason I don't let my toes dangle in the water - don't want to be bitten by a pike or snapping turtle

Dozer said:

This is the same reason I don't let my toes dangle in the water - don't want to be bitten by a pike or snapping turtle

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lol. especially for women with toe rings. or men with smelly feet.

This happened to me before, Had a dbl tailed yellow jig on my rod, I sat it behind me in the canoe grabbed my other rod and started casting. A few minutes later there was commotion behind me as I turned to look I seen my rod tip bent over. grabbed the rod and landed a nice pike.

The second bait dangling in the water might be considered ,by the MNR folks, as fishing with two rods.

Something similar but a bit more of a tragic end happened to me this summer. We were on Dalrymple and found a spot where the perch were super greedy. My line got a bit tangled on the reel so I released it and the crankbait fell into the water. As I was untangling it I realized something had grabbed it right away. It was a perch but somehow it got a hook in the head. When I took it out and put him back in the water he was a floater. Tried to revive it but I think the hook got it in the brain. I felt really bad about it and took a mopey break from fishing as I watched it drift away when out of nowhere a seagull swooped down and gulped it. I felt a bit better after that and kept fishing. Circle of life I guess...?

One time back when I was new to steelheading I was standing over a log jam on an eastern ditch and left a jig hanging in the current in between a bunch of logs. It turned out there were a bunch of large steelhead underneath it and one of them nailed the jig and went for a long run somewhere underneath the log jam only to break off. I really had no chance of landing this fish, but it was still pretty awesome at the time :mrgreen:

agrees with

staffman

if the hooks are in the water the MNR MAY charge you with fishing with 2 lines

I have had this happen ice fishing a few years ago. On the lake I was fishing you can fish two rods. I usually have bait on one rod and I jig with another in a different hole. I was doing the same and left my jigging rod on the rod holder and left the jig in the water. I went to jig the other hole for a while. About a half hour later I see my stationary rod dive into the hole only to be saved by the rod holder. I set the hook on a nice 24" arctic char. I don't know why it would hit the stationary jig when I was jigging one about four feet away. Weird but still cool.

Was also ice fishing ,, was by my self drilled my first hole thought I would set up a tip up ,hooked on a minnow dropped it in the hole , started drilling my next hole as I was done I turned around and my tip up was GONE, did not hear a thing, still missing in action lol

Liger said:

agrees with
staffman

if the hooks are in the water the MNR MAY charge you with fishing with 2 lines

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Man you guys get off on pointing this stuff out!!