Stolen Fishing Pole!!!

[SMITTY 58D]

Hey had the funniest thing happen on friday night while night fishing for Crappie. I threw out a minnow about a foot and a half under a float just for bass out the back of the boat. Well about 20 minutes later there was a sound that was like a baseball hitting my boat and when we turned around to see what it was........ My pole was doing a good Pete rose impersonation as it flew threw the air and slid right into the water. there was about a 30 foot trail of bubbles behind it and in the distance we could see the reeds and grass being pushed down as the pole went threw the water. we searched for about an hour for the pole but with no luck. so if anyone catches a good sized bass out of lake tholocco in Alabama and it has a Bass Pro Shop ultralight attatched to it let me know.

[Cincinnati]

Been there done that, but mine was a goose that wandered quietly
accross my line while swimming by... My Wally Marshall pole was ski'ing
accross the lake at break neck speed powered by an airborn goose.

I just kept on re-tying the jig onto my other pole, while all of the old men
around me on the bank just sort of ducked (sic!) and tried not to laugh.

And don't ask about the goose (two weeks later) that was nesting between
two little trees, and as I walked by launched a sneak attack groin high.

Later a dad shushed his kid as they walked by me... I heard the kid ask,
"Dad, why did that man scream like a girl?"

Needless to say, "I don't like geese!"

Gloves up!
Rick.

[TJ Adams]

Did you smell a stank? Bet it was sascwatch!:D

[bobberdown]

I once sold a rod & Reel to a cottonmouth at bottom dollar. He hit my crank bait and started into the boat, the weight of the rod and reel took him to the bottom of the lake. I went back later that day and could not find it again.

[backtocrappie]

Something like that happened to me on a pier in Naples Fl but I got my rod back, somebody else caught it 45 minutes later.

But the best one was having the rod stripped from my hand one a first cast of the day, I was using a 13" purple phenom.

[SMITTY 58D]

There is a two man Bass fishing tournament there this weekend that I'll probably fish and hopefully someone will catch it.

[Buffy]

Hey I've caught 2 rods & reels one still attached to a nice channel cat, In the James River, the other was beyond recognition except an old zebco with something like 50 lb test (rope!) in a pond. Now I don't feel quite so silly keeping hold of rods at all times.
Hold on tight enough and you migh go over board