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afwrestler1986:

--- Quote from: hunterdeneugene on Aug 25, 2014, 07:20 AM ---I hooked and landed a king salmon last year in the Salmon River and after a decent fight I brought it in and it was hooked on the brass ring right in front of the jaw on the stringer it was hooked to!  I released the salmon to DIE UP RIVER but I kept the stringer. 


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Fixed it for ya.  ;D


I was out with my friend and he got a decent pike. Soon as he set the hook, the line snapped above his bobber. About 5 minutes later we see his bobber chugging along through the channel headed for deep water. Without hesitation, i casted out with a crankbait in a last ditch effort to at the very least save the bobber. somehow, the hooks managed to snag everything that could be hooked on the setup. Soon as I snagged it, the pike went ballistic. It took off like a barracuda, got air, and jumped right into the side of the boat. Knocked itself clean out. Not a big pike after actually getting hands on it, 29", but I had never sen a fish instant KO itself before.

deerefishyfishy:
I know it's an old topic on an open water forum, but I have to share the time a buddy and I were ice fishing on the Susquehanna River years ago and each hooked what we initially thought to be a pair of big fish within a few seconds of each other. After a minute or two of fighting we realized that when one of us was reeling in line, the other one was losing some on drag. Figuring that we had somehow gotten hooked to each other from the current, even though we were 30 ft apart, he opened his bail and I proceeded to reel in a 23 inch walleye with both of our lures hooked in his lip. He still claims that I stole his fish! ;D

RuttNutt:
Wow! Lots of great stories..................................many of them similar.

One Spring day I was floating in our (trout) stocked lake in my belly boat. I was using a rapala and hooked a nice rainbow. As I was realing it in, it started to surface about 20' out from me. I was stunned and very confused when the rapala broke the surface but there was still tension on my line!  :o  Then I realize that I had hooked a "snarl" of somebody's line on my treble hook. It had a single baithook in it's mouth and several split shot in the tangle of line.

Apparently this is more common than I thought!  ::)

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