Just the other day, I was up fishing RMNP...I'll be darned, but I hooked myself a credit card! Can you believe that? What are the chances? Needless to say, I didn't release it back into the water....I'll let you know how this one turns out when I get back from Vegas.
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Great story, BTW.

Well, Old bmx and big jumps near river don't lead to good ideas, lost a 150 dollar phone and my wallet because I was too stupid to take them out before jumping. But really, no.

one morning, while fishing the 'Horn, I managed to catch a beautiful curlew on my backcast...in mid-air...snapped a few grip-and-grins and released it unharmed, albeit somewhat shaken...what are credit cards???

Just this summer I've ruined two phones fishing. One got soaked when the canoe flipped. Only three days after the aformentioned incedent I was fishing Lake Mitchell early one morning after a late night run to Taco Bell. Needless to say i had to get to shore quick, and hopped in without a second thought of the phone in my pocket. So now I'm down to a GO! phone from WalMart with my original SIM card in it.

BTW, The first phone was a $250 phone complete with the Windows mobile system.

Nothing so good as the above. A couple of years ago using ultralight tackle and a tiny crankbait I caught a small, but legal sized bass and released it. Made the comment to my buddy that this one had run into some rocks and with my light tackle I was barely able to keep him from wrapping up in it. If I caught a bigger one I'd be in trouble. A considerably larger fish took my next cast. After my initial "Uh-oh" all effort on the fish's part seemed to stop. I thought he had thrown the hook on a log which I was dragging through the water. Apparently in it's initial thrashing the bass managed to throw it's tail so close to his mouth that the second set of trebles, maybe 3/4" apart caught the base of his tail. I was dragging a 15" fish in the shape of a U through the water. After that I continued down past the spillway for the trout that were my intended target that day.

While fishing a lake in the cataraft, my buddy was changing out lures, he dropped the one in his hand and lunged for it, causing his tackle box in his lap to fall upside down into the lake. He was quick enough to grab the lure he lunged for, but lost 100's of dollars of tackle from the box to the depths of the lake.....

Couple years ago, me and my brother-in-law were bass fishing on a private lake with grasshopper lures. we were just trolling around the shoreline casting towards the bank, and every so often one of us would get hung up in a tree branch that hung over the water. A little tug is all it would take to get it out of the branch and into the water.

All of them, except for one in particular. I had cast close to the shore, but paid no attention to the tree whose limbs hung over the spot i had cast to. the lure managed to go over two or three branches and get caught up pretty good. My brother-in-law was laughing at me because i was hung up in a branch. I gave it a couple of good pulls, and it came flying out of the branches straight at his head. Fortunately, he looked down, and the lure caught on the brim of his cap.

It was really funny later, because i did nearly the same thing to myself.

Also, I have another funny story about the same friend mentioned earlier. We were fishing for bass in a golf course pond and he hooked a real nice one, reeled it all the way up to the bank only to have the fish come off before he could land it. He was so mad that he started beating his rod on the ground, then spun around and threw the rod... except he held onto the rod a little too long during his spin before he released it and threw it into the middle of the pond! He told me he was just going to leave it there so I told him I'd wade out and get it for $10. So, I got my $10 and he got his rod back!

On three occasions now I've seen a rod get dumped over the side of the boat. we would be sitting there peacefully then either my little brother or sister would go uh oh and we would hear a little plop in the water. My dad has managed to save on rod that has fallen victim to an underwater grave twice by letting a very large daredevil sink to the bottom in about the same spot the rod was dropped and then just drag it around on the bottom until you'd get a stronger tug then weeds.

I was getting my senior pictures taken before my last year of High school started, and I'd just picked up fly fishing. I thought It'd be cool to have photos of me casting, but I neglected to warn the photographer of the back cast. He was hooked in the leg of his shorts and quickly entangled. I put the pole away and we moved on to the next photo.

Once I was fishing in our pond from the canoe and my hook caught my net and threw it into the water it started sinking, so I jumped in after it. Only to find that I accidently flipped the boat and it was filling with water. I grabbed the net with one hand and through it in the boat. I managed to stop the boat from sinking, and re-boarded it half-ful of water. I didn't catch any fish that day.

I don't have a story, but I got back recently from the rockies.

Fly fishing this year from some dock for trout as I was casting when the line from my reel caught my sun glasses and though them about ten feet out in the water
It was to far and to deep to get them back