Surprise Fish

[Buzzkill]

What was the bait/lure or setup you were using when you caught a fish very different from what you were targeting? Something that completely surprised you.

 

[Shmogley]

caught a smallmouth the other day while drifitng bead.. was pretty neat!
could tell by the way it fought it wasnt a trout but i was sure surprised to see green when it came up

 

[Dewy]

Nice Shmogley, I too caught a smallie on a pink bead up north. What a suprise!

 

[instapump416]

I wanna try bass lures on salmon in the rivers.

You think salmon will smash top water lures that make a commotion?

 

[Knuguy]

I have had bows strike a Big O, a common bass type crankbait.

 

[Knuguy]

Biggest surprise was a few days ago out with a friend downriging for bows but caught a bass!!

 

[AKnook]

This story happened this last April in Kotzebue Alaska. We were targeting Sheefish with large 8" Dr. spoons. These fish are called the tarpon of the north since they look similar to tarpon with their head shape and large elongating mouthes. We were ice fishing brackish water where the mothes of two rivers meet the oacean just jigging these large spoons. We have caught many sheefish already and by near mid day I had caught something that fought completely different than all the other fish I had hooked into. It went on many screeming runs and massive head shakes. When I finally turned the fish into the ice hole I realized I had hooked into a northern pike in the salt water.

 

[IR4Jflyfishing]

60' of water, jigging for lake trout and here comes Mr. Rockbass...

 

[Dozer]

60' of water, jigging for lake trout and here comes Mr. Rockbass...

Kaminiskeg Lake special :lol:

Jigging for trout and had a chaser - out pops Mr. Walleye. Recently got a top water walter. Buddy got into some top water pike and I decided to give 'er a try. Aggressive strike thinking I've got a pike and sure enough a decent walleye.

 

[OCDComputing]

Using corn for Carp and a Smallie smashed the corn just after it hit the water and almost pulled me in (I was totally off balance on a steep bank...I was leaning out to try and get extra distance).

 

[salmotrutta]

Way upstream on an east trib, in an area where I predominantly catch nice resident browns, and steelhead in Spring. Typical conditions for evening brown trout fishing, just after dark, tossing a worm under an undercut bank/log, was certain it was another brownie, nope, catfish.

Once fishing a marina/boat dock area for pike with spoons, got into a few steelhead (it was November).

Fishing the same marina with spoons, thought I had caught a fish, then saw it was a tree, reeled it in, turned out it was a section of a tree with a catfish stuck to it, the catfish had eaten a roe bag that someone had lost to the tree. I got the roe bag/hook out of the catfish and freed it.

Once I scoped out a pool in the middle of July, thought I found the mother of all resident trout holes as I stared at some humongous trout, turned out they were trapped steelhead, stuck in a giant pool and no where to escape.

A guy caught a laker in the slaughter pool on the Willy, I have also seen pike there in the fall.

 

[classic drifter]

I was carp fishing and suddenly a largemouth bass hit my corn on the retreive, hahhaahhaaaaaa!!!!!!

 

[cptpronin]

Bluegill on a 4" spook. Say wha?

 

[Rain-Bow]

Creek chub on steelhead plug

 

[Ridx]

Caught a smallie on a roebag a few weeks ago on the Nott

 

[IR4Jflyfishing]

Actually, Ive got another one... red eyed shad, perch and a blue gill... same crank. I wish this was a joke

 

[Paul1913]

That double is pretty cool.. A bit of wtf

 

[Shmogley]

Creek chub on steelhead plug

creek chub on everything lol little bastards

 

[grayer]

Fishing a small creek for resi browns, 4' 6" UL rod, throwing a #0 Mepps. Toss it to familiar pool which usually holds some nice 8-12" browns, littel bit of a surprise came when about a 2lb pike gave me a hell of a ride.

 

[Kasim Baluch]

Muskie while bass fishing = life complete

and a tiny little bluegill on a rapala bomber (while trolling on a kayak) white/red lol