Accidental hook ups

[Fishseeker]

early 70s before I had downriggers wife and I were trolling from the oil docks to pigeion creek wifes pole boucnces couple time she reels in to check bait,got a little to close to bottum,6.5inch,dungy, male keeper,only thing all day

[Todd]

A few more...

22# springer on the Kalama...hooked the swivel on the end of a leader stuck in the king's maw...for something that seems most unlikely, it happens a lot...wierd.

When I was a kid I used to fish off of Pier 57 in the winter...this was back in the late 70's and early 80's, when True Cod were the order of the day in the winter...they're almost all gone now  ...anyway...did the "run forward ten feet and heave ho" with a nine foot spinning rod with big surf reel on it...and promptly fell right on my ass on the ice, and the whole shebang went over the rail.  This was Dec. 26, and I just got the rod/reel for Christmas the day before.

Bummer.

Not five minutes later a guy about forty feet down the pier hooks up with a big ol' dogfish.  You guessed it...my hook, in the shark's mouth...and 250 yards of line handlined in later, here comes my rod and reel.  I was luvin' that dude at that point.

Cracker Bar on the Sky in the mid-80's...December.  Dude is fishing for steelhead with corkie and yarn...and a six foot bass rod with levelwind.  He kept getting backlashes, and eventually heaves the entire rod/reel into the river as far as he can throw it and stomps off...and a few casts later I hook and retrieve his rod...

...and there's a steelhead on the end of his line...it ate his corkie after he tossed the whole shebang in.

Score...got the rod, reel, and the fish...he was long gone by the time I got the whole mess in.

Hooked a beaver in the Sky...don't ask.  Just like the buffalo, it was LDR'd.

Snagged a seal in the Nooksack...also LDR'd, but I'll admit I gave it the ol' college try, chasing it all the way to the end of the bar before breaking it off.

Have yet to hook a human carcass...that's f'd up, Webo.  I'm glad that didn't happen on any of the times we've fished together!

Fish on...

Todd

[BigJim]

 I cant remember too much of fishing now I think about it. But I remember catching a crab .... he wouldnt let go of the bait. And a trout in Barstow, CA. on a hula popper. It almost feels like every hookup I have is accidental anyways. I have a great record for both steelheading and fishing the Sky and Stillys. 1 steelhead.... in 4 or 5 years. And two dollies on the sky, with some smolts... which really hurts to see, a sculpin and a nice hookup that snapped me. And on the stilly four chum hookups, a suckerfish, more smolts, and a hookup with some guys line who was fighting a fish across from me.

[queets guy]

fishin for summer steelhead on the hoh and i realed in and it was there.(it was a miracle)my first bait fish ever

[FishBoy]

I was fishing a slot on the Sol Duc last March. I had hooked a nice nate in the same spot a couple weeks earlier on my way home from the Hoh trip. The slot was against the bank on the other side of the river with some low hanging trees. I casted too far and hung my gear up in the trees, so I gave it a good yank to free it. My rig came flying back at me from across the river with a piece of tree branch hanging on my line above the float. My rig landed about three feet out in front of where I was standing in the river, so I started reeling like crazy to get the slack out of the line. By the time I got all the slack line under control, I had hooked a nice chrome native of about 12 pounds or so in the shallow water right in front of me. I landed the fish as if I knew exactly what I was doing.  Sometime during the fight the tree branch fell off my line.