Strangest Catch

[Swattie87]

troutbert wrote:
I once caught a trout that was YELLOW!!!

:-o

Haha...That hit the right spot for me.

After the 2011 floods I fished a small wild Brown stream that had a small co-op hatchery on it. The stream swamped the hatchery and most of the inmates escaped into the stream. It was mostly normal Bows and Brookies, but a fair number of Bananas were mixed in too. Caught a good number of them over the course of that Fall. They were mostly 6-7" at the time. It was odd to see them at that size as they're generally stocked as very large fish.

 

[MJE2083]

When I was a little kid my grandfather took me fishing on the VERY lower yough near McKeesport. There was some other people there fishing and a kids pole got pulled into the river by a big carp. About an hour later the kids dad was able to snag the rod off the bottom and reeled it with the carp still attached.

 

[DavidFin]

On the subject of large Snapping Turtles, I used to see them in a Berkshire lake with shells the size of trashcans. We'd throw them apples to snap at.

 

[evw659]

I caught a 26" walleye one time fishing for musky with an 8" swimbait. Not necessarily a strange catch for where I was, but surprising and exciting for sure.
Even more surprising was one time on the little j around this time of year 2 years ago. Muddy water (not that high though, like 300), and I was throwing a big articulated streamerin the vicinity of where 3 big springs come in. Rolled a big Brown around 18-19" (saw the brown in the clear water where a big spring comes in), and caught a couple, biggest around 17". I then hooked what felt like a huge brown directly below where 3 large springs come in in the main current of the river and it turned out to be a smallmouth that was 17"+. Definitely an odd catch for me in that river, has anybody else caught any big smallies out of the lj? Just curious, maybe there's more in there than I think...