Tell a good fishing story or two

[clawhammerdan]

When I was a kid, I was fishing in a channel of Conneaut Lake (Western Pa). I was using a bobber and a nightcrawler, and I remember seeing my bobber start slipping toward open water. It stopped for a second, and I took up some of the slack, and when it started moving again, I set the hook. Caught a nice largemouth just a scootch over 5 lbs. It's still the largest largemouth I ever caught. I didn't have a net, so I swung the fish up out of the water onto a piling I'd been sitting on. As soon as that fish was over the grass, my line broke, but I still got him! We didn't have any place to cook him (we were staying in the Hotel Conneaut) and I was inclined to throw him back but some adult asked me for him. I was too intimidated or apathetic, so I let him have it. (He probably told his friends he caught it!).

[clawhammerdan]

I'd been up to Rice Lake in Canada with my buddies and brothers in laws and all week everyone was catching walleyes except me. I caught a ton of bass and I was using the same things they were using. They were each catching 8-10 walleyes every day. I really wanted to catch a walleye. The last day we were there, we all went out early, and started fishing, but before our lines got very wet, a huge thunderstorm blew through. We were in aluminum boats so we all thought we better get the heck out of here, so we headed back to our cabin. Well I started hitting the Molsons pretty good and had a pretty good buzzbait on, and before you knew it, the sky cleared, and everyone was running back out to fish again. I threw my line out and sure enough I caught a 4lb.12 oz, 24.75 in walleye! 8)

[clawhammerdan]

Two summers ago my wife and I went to New York and went fishing in Lake Cayuga (the middle finger, of course, in the Finger Lakes). We used downriggers and were trolling at around 75 feet deep and we caught 6 lake trout and 1 rainbow that day. All were good size. (Rainbow ws smallest 22 inches) but my wife caught a 28 inch 8lb. Lake trout. We were headed to Canada next day, and thought we might have problems trying to go back and forth with fish, and the problems of keeping them chilled, so we released them for the rest of you guys to catch!

[FarmGirl4Jesus]

Well, in my story I didn't actually "catch" a fish, but...

One morning when I was camping out, I walked down to the lake, not expecting to see much activity.
But, if ever there was I day I wish I had my pole with me, that was it.
The fish were jumping out of the water into the air, then back into the water, it was rather neat to watch.
One of them jumped onto the floating dock, it was ~15" crappie.
Thought about eating him, but didn't. :)