unusual ways of catching fish

[canoeboy]

Anyone have any weird/unusual stories of catching a fish.............
Funny you should mention it. One day while jetty fishing for bream at Lemmon Tree Passage NSW, i had one unlucky bream who managed to lasso itself up in my line, no hook penetration at all. Did the same with a lobster once off Port Kembla.

Dave

I’ve got a great story. I was pre-fishing for the Walpole round with Mitch Yellin in the tub. We were right upstream and Mitch hooked a bream on an Ecogear Pad Tue. The bream put up a fight and was coming to the boat, he had mates with him, about 3 or 4 who were following him.

As the bream came right near the boat he slowed down and we were about to net him when one of the other bream came from behind him, grabbed the Pad Tue out of his mouth, hooked itself and took off in the other direction right in front of us. Mitch landed the bream, two bream on one cast hehehehehehehhehe

[mike_mad_fisho]

hey
on talkback radio last night they had a reporter saying that they have fottage of sadamm fishing with grenades.
MB

[Grant]

I wonder what colour grenades he uses? gold, pumkinseed would probly be the goods My mate caught a 40cm+ mullet that jumped into his boat while baitfishing the collie a few years back

[bparker]

While fishing with a mate of mine, he foul-hooked a Bream and dragged it to the boat. On closer inspection, the poor blighter had been pinned fair square through the "rear orifice"...didn't even touch the sides!!

Unlucky bloke was released teary eyed but unharmed and with his pride severly dented.

[MATTY]

there was a photo in the west a few months ago with cleggie and 2 mates kneeling behind a qld groper that came from rotto that had swallowed a small anchor or grapple,huge fish,looked like a keg with fins.

[mike_mad_fisho]

gday
when i was young i thought the anchor was for athing big sharks when my dad used to have his hanes hunter lol.
MB

[pw-bream]

I caught an oyster on Sunday morning.

I was fishing (with bait) in the Barwon River estuary and was using a fillet of Salmon on a 4/0 beak hook (Elephant Fish and Mulloway were the intended target).
At one point I wound in to check my bait and found a large oyster (about 4 inches across) and a chunk of rock it was attached to on the end of my line, the oyster had got the hook and bait inside it and closed on them.

I used the oyster as bait on a smaller hook on another outfit and caught a small Salmon, thus completing the circle :-)

I caught a Muarry Cod in Wagga Wagga that spat out an orange golf ball when I landed it.....

[corey]

Caught a size cray every cast in Dongara in December.
Let all go, unsure of legality issues regarding area and licence etc.

I recall reading about a 20lb barra caught in NT some years back it was slightly deformed and had no eyes, makes you wonder how it last so long in the wild, Also makes you wonder about the importance of lure colours, it was caught on a 6 inch nilsmaster.

Cheers Warren

[winfield]

my younger brother caught a pink snapper in a crab net inside the old Geraldton Fishermans Harbour once. pretty good size too!

[Ravin]

My mate was Marlin fishing with me one day & he got a 100 kilo Striped Marlin that was hooked in the bum. The fish sat behind the lures for a minute or so then went missing for a while then it came screaming in from the starboard to grab a purple Apollo we were trolling on the port side & as it crossed the short starboard line it got foul hooked & still grabbed the lure it was after & for a minute we had it hooked in the entry & exit holes Spat the mouth lure out then we spent ages reversing after it so we wouldn't drag it & drown it. The fish lived & Hound Dog the angler was then named "The Greek"

[corey]

Did anyone ever creativly modify blowies before throwing them back?
Whilst snorkling in freo once i saw a school of blowies (nasty sight) and no kidding two thirds of them were either missing eyes tails other fins and in some cases parts of there head, all just swimming alond with the pack.
Quite a sight.
Corey

[torvic]

My friend caught a seahorse in a crab drop net in claremont jetty?

Wasnt the first one from the swan too....

What a weirdo