Ever catch fish with gear in mouth?

[Slingah]

A few years ago I was all alone.... late October around Halloween in a favorite local spot. I caught a sick looking skinny striper about 36 inches...no fight left in the poor fish...just reeled it in. Attached was a bait rig and length of mono. I felt bad for that fish...it was obviously very hungry and took my plug as a last ditch effort of survival....I seriously thought after I let it go that it was the last striped bass leaving town.......that ended my season right then.

[WoodyCT]

Dumb things will sneak into the slick and eat ALL YOUR BAITS if you aren't paying attention!

[redlite]

I have landed fish for people with stuff in them....
A skate on race point that had a 2 oz hopkins stuck to its back.....
Tbag had a fish one night with an 8/0 J hook in its mouth and about a 3 ft length of slime covered mono hangin out its back door.....
A guy i used to fish with down Race Point had his wife land a 20# fish out there, attached to a 10ft ugly stick with a Penn 6500 and price tag.....
Dan has caught 2 fish in the past few weeks that we broke off on earlier with our broken off leaders still attached.......

[Diggin Jiggin]

I caught a canal fish wth a small bucktail in its mouth. I switched to that bucktail and caught on it for a while but ended up breaking it off in a different fish that same night.

[angler229]

Originally Posted by redlite

Dan has caught 2 fish in the past few weeks that we broke off on earlier with our broken off leaders still attached.......

I have got 4 in the last month with leaders in them pretty funny. I'm waiting for someone to break off a giant next to me so I catch it.

[Strider]

Caught a fish Friday night with a darter hooked in the corner of its mouth. I think it came from the hard side

[Backbeach Jake]

About once every other year. Here's a funny story:
About 10 years ago I was fishing CC Beach in Truro, my neighbor pulls up in the lot and waks down to shoot the breeze. I was soaking worms and get a hit. New to braid, I break up when I set the hook ( drag locked and really yanked the rod back). I asked him how big does he think THAT fish was... The next week he hands me the rig I lost and had made. And says 36 inches, Fred. He had hooked the rig that I had tied through the swivel and brought that fish in at the very same spot a week later. What are the odds?

[vanstaal]

Well I was fishing one time and the plug snapped off like they sometimes do,
so I retied and a few cast later I hooked the same plug threw the snap swivel and caught a fish coming in what a riot.
and i caught a blue fish with a plug in its head both hooks buried in his head all rusted.

[Fishoholic]

Originally Posted by redlite

I have landed fish for people with stuff in them....
A skate on race point that had a 2 oz hopkins stuck to its back.....
Tbag had a fish one night with an 8/0 J hook in its mouth and about a 3 ft length of slime covered mono hangin out its back door.....
A guy i used to fish with down Race Point had his wife land a 20# fish out there, attached to a 10ft ugly stick with a Penn 6500 and price tag.....
Dan has caught 2 fish in the past few weeks that we broke off on earlier with our broken off leaders still attached.......

I got one with line coming out it's back door too. Didn't see what was on the other end so I didn't want to pull and hurt the little guy.