When I was around 10 years old fishing with my dad, I caught a baby bluegill and left it on the hook and was being a normal boy and being a bit, um...cruel...and I casted it back out while it was still on the hook and a nice largemouth got a hold of it...i got it up to the boat and it got off...but it was still really cool for a 10 year old to see!!

i have catch my biggest crappie by using a crankbait that i found that day

i Was fishing in a river around my home and i kept getting bites but he would never take it so i reeled it in and i had caught a catfish that had about 20 feet of line that was coming off the hook and it was tangled on my hook.

i got a couple of them... once my little cousin caught a nice bass on a straight hook no worm or anything. He had just got a new pole and reel and we were teaching him how to cast a spinning reel so we set it up with some sinkers and a hook we only had a few worms left so we were just casting with the empty hook and sure enough about his third cast out he caught a 15 inch bass. Another one i got was in canada i was fishing for walleye and i hook a real small one i reeled him up to the boat and as soon as he got up to the boat he spit out my jig and i thought good enough dont need to bother to unhook him so i just left the jig in the water as i got a new leech cause my old one was chewed up and barley hanging on but by the time i got a new a leech i felt a huge tug and sure enough there was a large northern on the end after a decent fight i reeled him in measured 38 inches!

i was trout fishing and couldnt catch a cold. i watched a moth hit the water an all hell broke lose,inhaled by a brown, i took a cigarette butt and took off the filter,fluffed both ends ,put on a hook and tossed it in ,wham i hooked a nice brown.remember fishing is a jerk at one end ,waiting for a jerk on the other end

I was fishing off of a small bridge going over a pond on my friend'd farm. I was talking to my friend and I wasn't paying attention to my lure, so I was kind of bobbing it up and down. All of the sudden a 3lb bass hit it and ran off with it. Luckily I was able to recover and get him onto shore.

This isn't real crazy but, I caught a catfish on a small rubber minnow. No scent or anything.

Threw a super spook on the back side of a floating log and while trying to free it with line snaps, a 5 lb bass came up and unhooked my lure and swimming free of the hang, alowing me to make an easy catch. another one was while wade fishing the Laguna Madre, a 26 in speckled trout swam up trying to throw a jig, I reached down and grabed it behind the head before it knew what was going on, oh the days.

the one time i was fishing and i got snagged pulled it loose, and then while reeling it the rest of the way in i got a bite, brought it in turns out i caught someones line then caught a fish with the lost lure, another time while fishing steelhead in the spring in erie, i left my fly in the water to get some weight to put on, pulled it up and i had a steelhead on, that same day my buddy and i were crossing the stream about 20 yards down and one swam into the net he had on the back of his vest

I was 7 years old and after a great day of fishing on a small pond I went back the next day with the same plastic minnow I used the day before and casted, and God as my witness, my first cast didn't even make it to the water before a bass swallowed it.

Here's mine. It was on video, so it's no "fish tale!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6c3W90FGKc

I got a yellow perch with 4 hooks in its mouth from 3 rods.

caught two cats on a single hook at the same time once. When I was about 5 I was just practicing castin in a little pond with no bait or lure. Just had a bare hook and a boober. I got it caught on a really big stick. That 'stick' ended up being a 5 lb large mouth. I caught it with my little 3 ft long x men reel hahaha. Then I was fishing for cats of a dock. I turned around and a fish pulled my rod in the water. We got in a john boat and got it and the fish.Caught a carp with a jitterbug and jig.

I've caught many fish on a bare hook. I have also had fish strike a fly behind me when a sloppy back cast hits the water.

Caught a nice 2lb largemouth out of a tree! Cast my senko and went a bit high. Made it over the pine branch and the water exploded. Fish was in the air til I got over to let him go!

When i was 11 or 12 i was playing with a popper really close to the shore and a small large mouth bass hit the lure and swung itself up on shore, it was real funny

I was casting for northern and i was reeling to slow and it tangled up around the reel. I was untangling it and a 42 inch nothern hit it and i grabbed the line and brought it up just by pulling the line it took 20 whole minutes.

i was fishing in a flooded creek with beetlespins lost my lures due 2 snags but landed plenty of brim muds bass and sum redfin so i cut a piece of my red shirt and tied it on a #6 aberdeen gold dragged it thru da creek and caught a 1lb redfin pike!

one of our friends sons caught a two pound bass and was letting it swim aoriund in the water and then a big ten pounder came a ate it

I was fly fishing with an Elk Hare Caddis on a stream known for trophy browns. A chub took my fly, and as I was stripping it in to let it go, a nice brown took it. Turned out the brown was only 17" but it was still kind of a crazy way to catch a trout. As you can imagine, I took a lot of flack for having caught him on bait, even though that was quite unintentional:)

one time my brother and i were wading in the creek and we found a three foot section of pipe, we picked it up and about an eight inch catfirsh flopped out.

another time, i was fishing in a tournament and i cast my line out, looked down at my reel and saw a mess. while trying to take care of the rat's nest, a three pound small mouth decided it was a perfect time to bite my rubber worm. she about pulled my pole of my lap into the water and i horsed her in by hand.

Saw a cutthroat trout slippin one day under a branch coming off a logjam. Watched him for awhile seeing his fins move. Thought he might be injured. I slowly snuck up from behind, reached down, and grabbed him above the tail, but the slimy devil got away!

I was guiding a guy one time in my driftboat, and the client hooked a small trout on a dry fly, set the hook so hard, I caught it right up side the head. Good thing it wasn't a STEELhead, that would have really hurt.

A crazy way?...Throwin a fly, and have it float on top of the water with the crazy thought that a fish lying down below would come up, and inhale my fly right before my very eyes! UUUUPS THERE'S ONE!!!

when I was about five I caught a 12lb yellow cat. We had just got back from trout fishing so I was pumped up and wanting to fish some more. I grabed my little trout rod which is about 4 ft long and went down to the pond to catch some blugill on a rooster tail next thing i know I have this big ol' catfish on my line.

I was fly fishing and my line got tangled so I fliped it back into a little creeck coming off the river that was about 2 ft wide and 1ft deep. I felt somthing pulling on my line while I was untangling it so i looked back and realized I had a nice trout on the line.

We were bobber fishing for walleyes and I hooked something. I reeled my line up until I could see my jig which had caught another line. Another 5 feet down was a smallmouth which had been pooping the line out. I felt sorry for the poor thing and released it after cutting as much line away as possible.

Last month I went to pull up anchor and cut some lines tangled on it. The last one I tried to cut pulled tight. Pulled in a 19 inch northern attatched to a single bare hook. As soon as it was in the net the hook popped right out. Few minutes later she was strong enough to swim back out on her own. That was the only bite of the day!

i went fishin one day and i seen a bass in the water so i casted around it and it wouldnt take the bait so i took the bait off and reeled up next to the bass and yanked up on the fishin pole real hard and i hooked it right in the side of the jaw.