strange catch

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has any body had a strange catch or got to excited over a bite i was fishing the groyne about 30 years ago and got a super bite i struck and it nearly pulled the rod out of my hands (fibertube les moncreffe) my pride and joy. i gained a few yards of line the clutch on my penn squider started to slip i started to pump it in i got it in to the side by now a big crowed had gathered peple were guessing what weight it could be my mate started to hand ball it up a length of cast iton downcomer broke the surface my hook was stuck in a sea urchin stuck to the pipe was my face red the downcomer was rolling about in the tide and it felt like a big fish fighting
 
i was in a match flattie bashing on the river wear, hooked a steel cap boot, felt a right nugget every one was watching as my light rod was nearly bent double:( thought it still had a leg conected to it the way it was kicking:D
 
strange catch

out wrecking on the sarah saw someone pull up a piece of the wreck about two foot square. Whole boat stopped fishing to watch as rod was doubled up
 
last year on the 7 stars jetty with our lass and son.we were fishing for coalies with the light gear so i was just dropping over the side.kept getting bites and was reeling something in really heavy when the light went light thought it must of been a big crab.baited back up dropped down same again something tugging on the line started reeling in really heavy again this time hook had a good hold i could feel it flapping about in the water had my rod bent double when it finally hit surface it was a bloody big lobster.went back the next week trying to catch another lobby hooked into something heavy told the son its another lobster by then i had a few people around kept reeling it in it was super heavy thought it must be a monster finally reached the surface everyone started laughing it was one of those adjustable ally rodstands must of fallen in and when the tube legs were filled with water it was a ton weight.:red:
 
rocketman said:
i was in a match flattie bashing on the river wear, hooked a steel cap boot, felt a right nugget every one was watching as my light rod was nearly bent double:( thought it still had a leg conected to it the way it was kicking:D
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I fished a NESA match at Claxheugh, caught one too. Remember a picture being on here circa 2002....
 
Me and Ken Robinson were fishing bellow the cannons at Eyemouth many years ago, directly bellow where they used to dump all the crab shells over the cliftop. Ken had walked away from his rod left on the rod stand, when the but of his rod lifted off the ground and was on it's way to the water. I shouted Kennnnnnnn...... he ran and picked his rod up, (fastest I've ever seen him move) and just hung on as his line zinging tight through the water, having to walk with it to avoid whatever he'd hooked into snapping his line.His rod now bent right over, lowered the rod and the line eventually snapped, which would have been 40lb BS in those days. Could only guess that a very large conger had picked up his crab bait and probably didn't even know it was hooked.
 
strange catch

i love watching makie bashers when they are snagged and the drag on there coffee grinder is slipping and shouting for a hand with a big fish
 
loadsa times iv "hooked sumik big here like" its thumpin away with a good weight am into gudden! get it near top see lots of white, think..... woah nice big cod belly, only to see A-S-D-A written on it, f*kin placka bag with a whitin underneath it.
 
A Disney cars 2 Kite, North Shields Fish quay...

Took 20 mins to land was full of water and got to weigh it, was 19lb only a small hole for water to get out and i managed to land it full of water :P :P
 
fished the heugh one night, pitch black and the sea was dead calm suddenly my rod tip sort of bent over then twanged back then the rod started to move side ways almost tipping my rod rest over, i struck, at first i thought i was on the bottom but it started to come towards me pulling it in with my rod bent double then winding in the slack,got a biggy on here i thought to myself by then there was a bit of a crowd round me giving me encouragement,anyway as i was pulling it in thinking about the write ups in the fishing press for the monster cod cought of the heugh by me out of the blackness a pallet materialised i had hooked a f###ing pallet, how god only knows,the crowd ****ed themselfs i even had to drag it round to the steps so i could get my hook out of the wood, total embarasment.
 
rossi46 said:
out wrecking on the sarah saw someone pull up a piece of the wreck about two foot square. Whole boat stopped fishing to watch as rod was doubled up
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Aye I was on the Sarah once and watched a lad pump for about 20mins with his fancy dan tube boat rod, eventually a length if pipe broke the surface to his dismay :D
 
Fished in whitehaven harbour one gale force night got a slackliner struck in it took off massive rattle and snapped line, everyone said conger just done that. next trip a still night i would lob one into the habour again just to see if nessy was about. little nock and line felt light struck it and reeled in, nothing there i thought then something came into my headlamps veiw. It was a bloated pink human hand. I dropped my rod and turned away in horror. To hear my freinds p--sing themselves laughing. I had pulled a pink marigold glove to the top which had filled with water. Still cant live it down 20yrs later.
 
me and brother and my dad went out in my boat from the boat club at the walkway ss about 10 year back . sea 2 ruff so stopped in the mouth off river my dad got a bite bent rod in two 20 min or so later he landed a dead body about 13 stone i **** my self what a day that was . in police station about 6 hours
 
fished the big beach at shields years ago got a cracking bite struck in and started cranking in expecting a nice flatty got it on top of the the surf 40 yards out, jesus its a skate me mate shouted, no it was a dining room seat pad coming in corner first.but it was defo size
 
scotty73 said:
me and brother and my dad went out in my boat from the boat club at the walkway ss about 10 year back . sea 2 ruff so stopped in the mouth off river my dad got a bite bent rod in two 20 min or so later he landed a dead body about 13 stone i **** my self what a day that was . in police station about 6 hours
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I fished the same venue about 15 year ago also caught a body (POOR GUY)had jumped from the sheils ferry also got 3 nice cod the same day,give them away could not face eating them after seeing the guys face
 

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