Best non-Trout Fish Caught while Trout Fishing?

[redietz]

If we are talking non fish species. I did catch a bat once. Foul hooked it in the wing. As far as I know, the hook is still there

Only once?

I'm up to at least four or five.

 

[Oregon_OwlII]

Fallfish and smallie, both in the 15" range.

 

[Trails and trout]

20 inch small mouth

 

[rustbeltwilds]

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Conrail tubes on elk just upstream of rte 5 lol

 

[Tigereye]

SPOT BURNER. 😁😁😁😁

 

[Mike]

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Fish from western Pa?

 

[Mike]

My fishing partner and former colleague hooked a beaver while we were night fly fishing w/ big wets.. Fortunately, the beaver came free after a about 15 or so seconds. Hook must have just been tangled in the fur. Similarly, on another night wet fly fishing escapade, another friend and former colleague hooked a snapping turtle. Unfortunately, that one had to be brought to the edge of the creek for hook extraction. Another friend and former colleague got a cow on his backcast at Spruce Ck. That one tore free.

 

[sixfootfenwick]

Conrail tubes on elk just upstream of rte 5 lol

SPOT BURNER. 😁😁😁😁

If it isn't Bill's, it can't be burnt.

 

[wbranch]

I caught this just below the Ball Eddy ramp a few years back on a big Clouser.

 

[Nymph-wristed]

If you fish the surf and have not had to drape a rag over the chopping beak of a gull you've hooked , then you're doing it wrong 😉 Counts because their bellies were full of fish parts at the time....

Trout fishing, though? Fallfish, smalljaws, etc. I have caught the same big white sucker, or her kin, in the same spot within the spot (which often holds a big, lazy brown trout too) so many times that I have named her Karen.