Trout with hooks already in them ?

[pianoman9701]

People that fish for stocked trout are not usually the best at tying knots or playing fish. And yes caught a few skinny holdovers with hooks and a couple feet of leader hanging out their bung hole.

I fish structure, sunken trees. Sometimes, the fish get wrapped around a limb and break off. It's not difficult with 3 lb leaders.

[h2ofowlr]

I have caught several trout at release sites with multiple hooks in them.  I think some get broke off as they try to horse some of the larger trout in with light line and I think some just don't know how to tie proper knots. 

[pianoman9701]

 

[gaddy]

Guess I can understand them breaking off by horsing in these monsters. They were all 7 to 9 inchers.

[DOUBLELUNG]

I have a friend who fishes out of Buzzard's bay in Falmouth Mass for bluefish and stripers.  He kept an old spincast with a crappie jig on it for catching bait, he'd jig around piles and rocks and get small mackerel, scup, capelin, sand eels etc.  One day the jig got grabbed the rod goes over - gone.  However the next day he saw the reel floating and managed to grab the butt, and finessed in a small bluefish that still had the jig buried in the corner of its jaw.

[gaddy]

Some crazy stories popping up. 

[pianoman9701]

I have a friend who fishes out of Buzzard's bay in Falmouth Mass for bluefish and stripers.  He kept an old spincast with a crappie jig on it for catching bait, he'd jig around piles and rocks and get small mackerel, scup, capelin, sand eels etc.  One day the jig got grabbed the rod goes over - gone.  However the next day he saw the reel floating and managed to grab the butt, and finessed in a small bluefish that still had the jig buried in the corner of its jaw.

I miss hitting the bluefish runs. That was a kick in the butt.

[Miles]

I have a friend who fishes out of Buzzard's bay in Falmouth Mass for bluefish and stripers.  He kept an old spincast with a crappie jig on it for catching bait, he'd jig around piles and rocks and get small mackerel, scup, capelin, sand eels etc.  One day the jig got grabbed the rod goes over - gone.  However the next day he saw the reel floating and managed to grab the butt, and finessed in a small bluefish that still had the jig buried in the corner of its jaw.

I miss hitting the bluefish runs. That was a kick in the butt.

I used to go out of Hampton a couple times a year.  Always a good time, although I've seen some crazy wave heights by the Isles of Shoals.

[pianoman9701]

We'd go down to the cape, I think around the 2nd week of July when they started schooling in close. You could literally catch them with a piece of tin foil on a hook. A friend had a Whaler and we'd just sit on the schools as they moved down the shore. Awesome fishing and tired boys by the end of the day.

[Duckgtr]

Couple years ago we caught 3 steelhead in 2 days by the leaders that were hanging out of its mouth. One of them was one I brought off 10 minutes before. My hook caught my line and slid the bead up to the swivel and got stuck in my hook.

[Night goat]

not trout but...

when crabbing up in the Bering sea a few years back we pulled our cod pots, and keep in mind that we were +400 miles northwest of the Pribilofs, we had a codfish with like a 3/0 sport hook in its mouth. either that fish swam a good distance, or slme crazy sob just went that far out

[birddogdad]

not trout but...

when crabbing up in the Bering sea a few years back we pulled our cod pots, and keep in mind that we were +400 miles northwest of the Pribilofs, we had a codfish with like a 3/0 sport hook in its mouth. either that fish swam a good distance, or slme crazy sob just went that far out

or salmon, have wondered what a warden would do if you had a fish that someone else had foul hooked/released.. cant tell you the number of times I have had a warden look over fish and wonder.. guess I should ask them once they are done with the "fish check" on some poor guy...

[Night goat]

not trout but...

when crabbing up in the Bering sea a few years back we pulled our cod pots, and keep in mind that we were +400 miles northwest of the Pribilofs, we had a codfish with like a 3/0 sport hook in its mouth. either that fish swam a good distance, or slme crazy sob just went that far out

or salmon, have wondered what a warden would do if you had a fish that someone else had foul hooked/released.. cant tell you the number of times I have had a warden look over fish and wonder.. guess I should ask them once they are done with the "fish check" on some poor guy...

try fishing the Samish....

[BigGoonTuna]

Caught a king up a small lower Columbia tributary with a double hook mooching rig down its throat, must've broken him off at buoy 10.

[gaddy]

I caught another today. First I've been out in a while. The trout had passed the small hook all the way through and it was dangling 2' from the vent. The swivel was wedged in it's jaw.
I didn't actually get a bite. My pole bent over, I picked it up and felt the pull, not a fight. When I got the fish in, it was heading in the wrong direction, tail first. The hook trailing from the vent had snagged the loop of my leader just at the swivel. I Snipped of the hook and pulled the line through the fish.
This has got to be the all time weirdest catch of my life, and I have been fishing for more than half a century.