acmaul13
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Strange catches
Was out on the creek today using a #7 shallow fat rap,caught 2 fish in an hour or so.#1-a beautiful 18" smallie,#2-an 8" chub!!!!For me thats a first I've never caught a chub an a rap before.The dang rap was almost half the size of the frigging chub,I've had smallies that size or smaller do that before but a chub!?!?
So what's some of the weird catches some of you have had?
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/22 15:59:05
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Me and my buddies went out to canonsburg down at the spillway, he caught a bass that wasnt even three inches long. We weren't really sure how it fit the treble hook in it mouth. Ive also caught smallmouth on corn, not really sure why they went after it.
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/22 16:02:48
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was fishing elk creek in late may throwing x-raps catching smallmouths and caught a 3in shiner on it and it was hooked in the lip on the inside explain that one. and 3 people witnessed how it was hooked.
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/22 16:12:20
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the bass had every one of the hooks in its mouth, my friend took forever trying to get it out because it was to big to remove
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/22 16:19:48
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1974, Deer Creek, 1st cast ov season 21" Albino with pink eyes & while draggin" it down stream a cute little blonde chick caught my eye. It was a purdy gooder summer after that  crappy Oh yeah, she had blue eyes  
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/22 16:21:13
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ORIGINAL: kill3ducks1deer
Ive also caught smallmouth on corn, not really sure why they went after it.
Heard tale of a guy catching an 'eye on corn too... the more i think about it, the more I think it must have hit a small bait fish that was eating the corn & got the hook too.?? weird indeed. Maybe the weirdest I got was the first bowfin I ever caught.... Got it out of french creek when i was a teen & my gf (now wife) got one on while I was fighting mine.... that's right, double bowfin action! At 2am no less. About the time we were pulling them both onto the bank, a flying squirrel took off out af a tree right beside us. T'was a night of firsts. 
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/22 16:28:55
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I caught a 14" chrome hubcap at Wilhelm last Saturday. Was crankin' under the 79N bridge. It smacked a Strike King Series 3, bleeding shad. Was released unharmed.
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acmaul13
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/22 16:29:32
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Dang dude I'd almost forgot the corn walleye,we was talkin about that at wilhelm right?
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/22 16:31:38
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yep.
I'll drop him a line & see if we can't get...
'the rest of the story'.
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/22 18:55:01
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i took the ex out for some of her first carp action, she got snagged up as usual. she hands me the pole and with one little tug i got everything back with a wallet on the hook. 56 dollars and an altoona library card--no licens or address. needless to say i dried out the money and its long gone, and the ex was safetly released the next week!!!
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/22 19:10:47
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the ex was safetly released the next week!!!
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/22 20:00:04
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Wife caught a 27 inch chain pickerel at Dumans Dam in Cambria County 2 years ago on March 31st on green powerbait. Had 2 lines in the water and landed her 3rd trout on 1 and while reeling the powerbait in to quit, the pickerel grabed the bait. It must have been spinning while she was reelin in.Got her picture in the Pa Fish and Boating mag with that catch. By far the largest pickerel I had ever seen...WF
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/22 21:22:17
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well holy crap, i talked to you on that little pier at dumans this year. you showed us a handfull of pictures of nice brownies and other fish. plus we bullsheeted about the pickerel too!!
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/22 23:31:37
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I caught a rainbow trout on a 1/0 circle hook and chunk of chicken liver, at midnight a few years ago. That was pretty wierd.
"A Homewood man led police on an hourlong car chase that ended with a crash injuring three officers. "The car was driving itself," Wright said. "The car has a GPS. It's a Lincoln Navigator. They drive themselves. I wasn't running nowhere."
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/23 09:12:38
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I caught a 4 or 5" largemouth on a live cricket and while reeling it in a 12 or 14" largemouth rushed him, pushing the hook and cricket out the small fishes gill opening, hooking the larger fish. 2 for 1 and it was in front of 3 or 4 of my friends.
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/23 11:15:19
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I caught a seagull in Canada on a spinner !
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/23 11:30:15
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Way back, on my 16th birthday, I caught a 18" walleye on a salmon egg & salmon egg hook in the Shenango River.
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/23 12:16:06
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Gotta love it when the little guys bite off more than they can chew!! I think I can... I think I can... I think I can....  
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/23 14:43:24
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Caught a used condom once in the Clarion River while perch fishin' 
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/23 17:25:29
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I almost forgot. I caught a large brown pelican off a pier in florida. I caught a little fish and used it as bait. The stupid bird dove into the water and ate my bait. I reeled it all the way to the dock untill it finally got off. I don't know what I was going to do if I got it all the way in. haha
"A Homewood man led police on an hourlong car chase that ended with a crash injuring three officers. "The car was driving itself," Wright said. "The car has a GPS. It's a Lincoln Navigator. They drive themselves. I wasn't running nowhere."
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/23 17:39:58
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i had that happen at spring creek with a duck, bait used crab. that little b*stard popped off the bank and dove in quicker than i could reel. took flight and snap--2 witnesses the only words out of there mouth, holy ?
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/23 17:43:14
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I cough a hair lipf trout once at Gofrey Run
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/23 20:49:25
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i was night fishing about 2 weeks ago and i caught a bat. the darn thing flew into my fishing line and got all tangled up.
a friend of mine caught a trout last year on fishing line, the fish wasnt hooked or even close to the hook, it somehow just got the line wrapped around itself.
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/23 21:05:12
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I can remember way back when I was a kid fishing with my family at ole lake Joann. was playing around in the creek between the lakes and caught a big bull frog with a foot missing. Took it home and kept it alive for a few months.
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/24 11:19:32
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Heres some funny ones i got a rainbow lawn chair off the north pier on a crawler rig and falcon baitcaster and daiwa reel of the wall at walnut on a cleo.. unfortunately both days there were the catch of the day...
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/24 20:07:01
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Was fishing at dunlap few years back and caught some fishing line with my crankbait pulled the line up and there was a rainbow trout at the other end!
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/25 00:21:36
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Caught a mallard duck on a night crawler at Lake Arthur once. Guess I should have used more weight to get it down faster.
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/25 12:14:53
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Seagull on a 9" musky hunter jerkbait and crabs from a really hot ...... never mind the second was too traumatic to discuss, still....
Better too far back, than too far forward.
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acmaul13
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/25 12:42:20
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I think I understand your crab catch,once upon a time I caught this red snapper that well.... 
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RE: Strange catches
2010/07/25 23:16:09
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This one from Saturday . I have no idea how it swam or even was able to catch up to the spoon   It's head faces almost straight up !
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