You never know what can happen when you go fishing – as long as you are giving it a shot, strange things can happen.
A while back, I somehow convinced Kristine (she was my girlfriend at the time, but is now my now wife) to join me for some bass fishing one afternoon and we hit a local pond to see if there was anything biting. This particular pond had a lot of weeds around it, so wildlife also likes hanging around there.
I picked up some nightcrawler worms to ensure we caught a few fish, as bass love the worms and can be harder to catch with artificial lures. Of course, this meant I had to put the worm on Kristine’s hook, as she found it too gross.
Once I rigged her up, she cast the worm out and then started talking about the cute turtle she saw. Well, that turtle saw the cute worm she was fishing with as well. Her reaction was not quick enough, as she let the turtle eat the worm and hook… oops! She proceeded to catch the turtle, but I was able to unhook it fairly quickly and the turtle was unharmed! Oh, and we did manage to catch some bass as well… Here are a few pictures:
Of course, my greatest catch in this story is my wife ;)
I have, unfortunately, caught a few other of the incorrect species before. While ocean fishing with live anchovies, I once had a seagull swoop down and eat my anchovy (it was supposed to be going deep to the fish, but instead was swimming near the surface) so I had to reel in and unhook the bird, which of course was trying to fly away – it was quite a scene! (bird was OK!)
Have you accidentally caught something other than a fish before?
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Brian
I once caught a duck. No one wins when you catch a duck on your fishing line...
Wow! the turtle looks amazing. Have a nice experience sir @brian.rrr. I always like your fishing and really you have caught a beautiful fish. Thanks a lot for sharing your beautiful fishing monents with us.
You must do a lot of fishing. lol I've caught a lot of seaweed before. I might have caught more seaweed than fish. lol
Great story and great pics.
I can't say that I've caught a turtle before while fishing, but I have caught a few logs. Sometimes a tree, or even a friend. (Ok, I've never hooked a friend while fishing, but you know they wouldn't let me hear the end of it if I had.)
You should ask him about hooking a friend... his brother to be exact 😂
Ha ha ha, @brian.rrr care to elaborate? I think we'd all love to hear the story. :D
I'm curious to hear if he floundered. If you hooked him in the face, I hope he was a steelhead. Was he being a largemouth (b)ass? Do you yell, "I caught a tuna (tonna) fish?"
Ok, I'll stop. :P
Ha! Well, when I was younger, about 9 years old, I did hook my 7 year old brother in the head with a sideways cast 😱 our dad couldn’t get the hook out after 20 mins of trying to wiggle it out, so we had to go to the ER to have it removed. They gave the hook to him in a sealed jar and he has kept it ever since... now he can remind me of my errant cast for life! 😬
Ha ha ha, that's such a great story! Well, now it is. I'm sure it was decently traumatic at the time. Hopefully it didn't hurt him too much. I could imagine him wanting to hang onto it. That's perfect ammo any time he does something wrong. He can just come back with "yeah, well you hooked me in the side of the head!"
Oh, I'm so glad someone told me to ask. ;)
i know you doing alots of fish every friday.i am waiting your fishing story.its alltime excellent.i like your high quality skills.its appreciating me.really you catch very nice fish today and your wife coming to sharing catch to fish.your wife looks to very attractive and pretty. i hope that,you enjoy your good day with your beautifull and talented wife.obviously i think we are best parents in the world.because alltime doing proper take care and goid teaching give your children.have a nice day.just awesome fish you catch today.i like your story..thanks to sharing for your great post of fishing.all the best.take care yourself and best of luck of your great work.may god bless you.my blessing alltime with you and your family. my dear friend.. @brian.rrr
Ya I have caught snapping turtles by accident sometimes
Very happy to see both of you are enjoying catching fish, this is the first time i saw your wife who is so pretty and beautiful, really nice couple. Lovely fishing story, i liked more this sentence your greatest catch in this story your wife. All the photographs awesome, specially your last three photographs that really great. Best wishes both of you and thanks to share your catching story.
Hello how are you? you love your family very much and that is to be admired, you have a very beautiful family
This fishing story on Friday I like why you saved the turtle and you speak very well of your wife
I am very grateful for the support
Remembering is living! And more pleasant when the memories include the woman she loves. I imagine that the more you remember what your wife did, her gestures or her attitude than the turtle itself.
I have totally been there with the seagull thing. We used to fish off the rocks all the time when I was still living back home in Nova Scotia. The rocks were pretty high up in some spots and the gulls would swoop in and try to grab the fish as you pulled it up. Kida funny to have one on your line and trying to fly away. Once when we were fishing for cod we pulled up a Sculpin. What an ugly fish.
Good thing she was a keeper LOL!!! Well done and a fine catch!
It's true brother your inspiration in this post is your wife, it's good that you've taken her and experience something good and new, you would have made a better video to see things and laugh hahaha, greetings.
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What a truly good experience, where it has been very important to see everything that happened, enjoy this little story where I thought that the turtle could die hahahaha.
An interesting event, I got a lot of fun reading the story.
In fact, if such incidents occur in fishing, it is vulnerable.
Sir I had a question?
If you say that the name of the fishing fish you caught?
Because there is no such fish in our country.
Thanks Sir for sharing with us.
I love it.........
New experience bro...
Fishing is the passion of one person... Enjoy your time with fishing @brian.rrr
Omg! the turtle looks amazing. Have a nice experience D :) friend @brian.rrr " thank you for sharing with us " i love your post "
You are looking so beautifulD :) friend @brian.rrr I'm new joining steemit and new to your blog
never fished before , so I can't comment , but I am glad the seagull was ok !
Weldone Bro. You can catch a good fish. Afterwards, a big fishing experience will tell. Thank you.
That is a pretty awesome fishing story. I absolutely love the turtle photos. It is also very romantic how your greatest catch is your wife. I have never fished but maybe someday.
Greetings brother, I share a taste for the fish like you, the truth seems a very relaxing practice and I like the change of pace with which you have to act at the time when the fish stings the hook. And what a great experience you and your wife had when catching the beautiful turtle, hahaha, those experiences are not forgotten :)
Congratulations!.
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How nice that you enjoy fishing together... They look very cute together! Blessings!!
Reminds me of my south fl fishing!
although the hooked one is wrong address, but the moment is very rare. really a very interesting story. 100% upvote from the boyasyie community trail. greetings from us all. hopefully this will be a beautiful friendship. thanks for sharing sir
Definitely on a fishing day, you can capture anything; Lucky that turtle that you left her free.
Fishing is an interesting sport to practice, it is good that your wife enjoys the same passion. Thanks for a nice fishing story and used for Fridays.
I think of the three or four times that I've gone fishing (it might actually be five or six), I've caught maybe two fish, both very small, partially blind and maybe even on the dyslexic side. At any rate, the number of rocks, floating junk like shoes or cans, reeds or grass, and dead wood in the water far exceeds by a factor of at least ten the number of fish I've caught. I have lost many a sinker, hook, powerbait, worm and lure to all those wily snags.
I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact I haven't been fishing now for at least 12 years. Give or take. :)
When I was 11 years old. I really like fishing in swamps by using worms or grasshoppers as fishing lures and the experience of bait eaten by the turtles really surprised me.
Great :)
When I go hit the pier and do some jigging, every once in a while a seal will chase the fish i catch and eat the fish right off my jig...Just my luck...lol, but thats fishing ;)