One off fishing occurences, tell me your tales.

[gumb01]

Hello all, I was fishing the Baffle 2 weeks ago with a good mate and a very puzzling and very unusual event took place, that i thought deserved a little more attention. We were bait fishing with yabbys and strip baits, and after 15 mins of no action decided to have a bite to eat. My line was still in the water and while making a sandwich, my rod doubled over in a second and then returned to the straight position almost instantly. I quickly grabbed for my rod, and at the same second, my mates rod went off also. We both had a hook up, during the fights we were very aware of how close that our lines were togethor, trying to avoid a tangle the whole time. Before long we could see that the lines were in the same direction and we had agreed that we had a tangle. After a few seconds of winding 1 fish emerged, a 62cm flathead, so one of us didnt catch a fish, right? Wrong, after netting the fish we realised that the fish had both of our hooks in its mouth, True story. Ive been fishing for the best part of 30 years and this is a first for me, let me know of your classic one off fishing stories, and lets keep em honest hey, cheers

[sharkymark2]

Lucky guys. I had 2 lines to 1 catfish eel .

[fivefishes]

Gumbo,

Same deal. Me and a mate were close offshore Cairns and having a ball, 1 x 7kg Cobia, 2 or 3 big Trevally and some "submarines" aptly named cause they just keep going. My mate hooks up to a nice fish and 5 seconds later i'm on. No real surprise a couple of trevally moving through, this'll be fun. Low and behold 5 min later lines are close together and under the boat is a nice big gold spot Trev bout 8kg. Yeah 1 gold spot trev not 2. When we landed it bingo 2 hooks both in it's mouth. You hear about it occasionally but it's pretty cool when it happens to you.

Matt

[jerson]

Beach fishing with my father at Stumers Creek, both with hook ups, when we landed it we had a shovel nose shark, fathers hook in its mouth, my hook through his swivel.
Fished beside a guy at boiling pot, he landed a bream, it had a hook in its mouth, this guys hook was through the eye of the hook in its mouth.
Honest.

[disorderly]

Similar story for me as well.
I was fishing out of a mates boat a few years back and as well as handlining for trout he had a floating pilly on a rod and I also threw out a floater just on a big handline.
The handline started spinning rather quickly and then his rod bent over a couple of seconds later and we realised that we were onto some good fish.
After getting in each others way a bit we finally saw a spanish mackeral surface 15-20 metres out and it became apparent that we were fighting the same fish.
We put him on the scales and he went 18kg.

[Noelm]

sort of same thing, but I was once spinning for small Tuna schooling in vast numbers, I had a cast and got an almost instant hit, it seemed like a good fish as it fought much harder than the others we had caught, when I got it/them to the Boat, neither had been hooked, but both had been "tied" by the tail, the fish (both of them) must have been zipping about and hit the line or something, and "tied" a half hitch around their tails, would have been better if the lure being dragged around had have caught one as well huh!

[bdowdy]

my story doesnt have double catches but a mate was eel fishing and threw his chunk of meat out( had afew beers) and next thing the line gets abig tug, big splash, good fight, pulls up a FOX yep thats right he had thrown his line over to the other bank and the fox had taken the bait and was pulled threw the creek, WASNT VERY HAPPY....LOL..LOL cheers bdowdy ..brett

[Noelm]

hehehe bdowdy, that's about as funny as it gets I reckon!!

[Little grey men]

Funny stuff Bdowdy, especially after a few beers. You'd think you were seeing things. Chuck it back in and see if you can catch a dingo

[BGG]

I've posted this before but I reckon it's worth a rerun-

Many, many moons ago, the boss & I were fishing Yellow Patch for Flatties. We were fishing in water only inches deep, using light surf rods, 8lb mono to a small swivel to a 30lb mono trace and finally a freshly caught small mullet on a 4/0. We were doing pretty well when the boss hooked a really solid fish. In the excitement she got busted off but was back in the action soon after. We'd caught more than enough and decided to have a last cast. Sure enough, she hooked up again. After a very patient fight, I went down to the waters edge to grab the trace and drag a 6 pounder up the beach.
Here's the weird bit. There were 2 complete traces, both my work. Her hook was through the eye of the swivel of the first trace she had lost.
Yes, I bought several lottery tickets but I still work for a living.

[eagle1]

few years back i hooked a scuba diver of a beach in sydney,thought i had the fish of me dreams, i was fighting him for about ten minutes not knowing what i had hooked, i dragged him in to shallow water and he appeared, thought he was giving me a wave so i kept the fight goin, then he stuck one of his flippers in the air on one leg and i pulled him straight over, then i worked out what i was fightin, he wasnt happy i can tell ya, he cut the line and gave me the fingers and went back under, the misses and kids were laughing and i told them again how good a fisher person is i, i can catch anything
cheers

[Little grey men]

pretty good on the chew those scuba divers, if you can get them on ice quick enough. The old ones can be a bit tough tho.

[eagle1]

he wasnt very happy about a little bream hook in his flipper, he would'v been pissed of if i gaffed him

[JEWIENEWIE]

Was fishing lake Toolirook in victoria when it had water in it off the jetty. The little kid next to me tells his dad that the rod leaning against the rail was gettin bites. I did not see anything so thought he was talking it up. A few seconds later the whole rod goes over the edge. The dad had three rods out at the time. He picked up the one which was closest to the one that went over and reeled it in to see if he could jag it. He spent the next hour casting and retrieving it in the hope he could jag it and get it bak with no luck. He was pretty pissed off by this stage so he started to pack up to leave, he walked over the the third rod which was obout 10 metres away and started to real it in when he felt a bit of weight on the end. His eyes lit up when on the end of the third rod was the rod that went over and then he nearly shit himself when he wound in the rod that went over to find that there was a beatiful trout on the end!
Jewie

[Dirtysanchez]

Years ago I took a mate out who was dead keen on trolling HBs in a river in NSW.. he was also dead keen on Beam and cola cans.. Anyway, I was keen to head in for a feed, he said OK, but do you mind if I troll on the way in ? OK I says.. Half way in, ZZZZZZ.. I'm on he cries.. so I hit neutral and wait, while he pumps and winds..
I notice the boat is slowly going backwards.. but say nothing.. eventually he's on top of the beast and it isn't giving much.
I wrapped the leader onto the back bollard much to his horror and hit reverse, and up comes a huge sand anchor, a bit big for my boat, but pretty damn handy to have in those faster currents
All in all, a sweet deal for me.. He was grumbling about how stretched his line was and how he would have to respool
LoL all the way to the ramp