One in a Million!

[TautLines]

This is a really late post, but its less about the report and more about what happened. We were fishing Assateague island surf on 5/12/12. The entire day we had only caught rays so we were pretty bummed but around 400 pm during slack tide I was reeling in a bait when I felt a weight. He wasn't fighting to hard so i thought it was a ray so I handed off the rod to my friend who's not very experienced but I thought he would enjoy it. But for S's and Giggles I opened up the bail so it could take more line out. When he got the fish close to the surf it started fighting and I saw a silver flash... Striper! we fought the fish and landed it. But here is the kicker we never hooked the fish, he was already hooked with a rig that had already broken off and the weight was on the inside of the swivel. My hook happened to snag onto the fish finder on the rig. We got lucky and had a good eatin dinner out of it. But the point of my post is has something like this ever happened to yall? I'm just wondering because if you fish long enough your bound to see some strang things.

I threw in a black drum from the next day too.

[Gotta Gaff 'Em]

Ive done it with lost rods but never another hooked rig

[Screaming Drag]

Two years ago at the fourth island area, while spade fishing, I felt weight while reeling in also. I had hooked an in line sinker right through the eye which on the opposite end had a 3 ft. leader and a 38" rockfish on it. Fish landed!!!! Crazy but it can and does happen.............

[b8 boy]

We were offshore and had a wahoo cut my one planer line right off. Shortly after the other planer went off. Brought it in to find there was a fish on the planer but the other planer was wrapped into the line with another wahoo as well. Didn't loose my planer and got 2 wahoo to boot!!!. What are the odds??? Martin

[Kevin Smith]

Congrats on the catch! And yes it does happen!

I've had rods pulled out of the rod holder by big stripers when trolling and gotten them back with the fish while trolling the same area during the next pass or two. Picked up some nice tackle too!

Kevin
Weekend Mistress

[schafedog 2]

I had almost the same thing happen when I was 10 yrs old. We were surf fishing in Hatteras and I hooked a top and bottom rig that was hooked into the wing of a big ray. I attracted quite a crowd as I was dragged up and down the beach until I could get the ray beached.

[cnaff]

Oregon Inlet:Terminal Groin,about 12 years back,or more. R.Deel catches umbrella rig with his surf rig/eel hook,brings in 26 pound striper which was previously hooked and broken off by a boat angler.I saw the whole thing.

[baysider]

Nice fish man. Great stories too. A friend and myself used to fish the chick for catfish a lot. He lost a rod out of the holder one night. A month later he caught his rod near the same spot. The line of course had been broken off but he did get his rod back. He's stationed on the west coast now and caught some halibut recently on the same rod.

[newyakker]

This happened many years ago when I was about twelve. I was bass fishing with a rubber worm with the hook exposed when I get a hookup. I knew this was bigger than anything I had caught before because it actually took drag. When I was getting it closer I see my worm but dont see any fish. Then after reeling my worm is tight in mid air and I realized I snagged a line. I handline the fish in and its a bass aobut 18". There was about 20ft of line and the amazing part is this bass had swallowed a rubber worm and passed it through its body. The worm was hanging about 4" from its butt.The line from its mouth had come back and wrapped many times around the line between the butt and the worm. This made a big loop the bass was hauling around. I cut everything off and pulled the line from its stomach. The fish was healthy but had a v shaped gash in its side like a turtle bit it. I released it. A couple years later I hooked a good bass and when I landed it I see the same v scar. This fish was about 22". I released it again. That was about 50 years ago and though I have caught tens of thousands of bass this is one of the few I remember so vividly.

[home cookin']

sometimes it's better to be lucky than good!