Well I did it again yesterday: caught the SAME trout in the SAME pool on the SAME day. But this time; it was a MONSTER, well maybe not a monster but a nice fish that I would have hoped was a bit smarter than that.
When I released him the first time; I measured him against my rod and he came up to the second set of nodes on the boo I was fishing. When I got home and put a tape measure to the nodes on the rod it measured 20"!!
In any case; between this fish’s first trip to hand and its second; I caught and released another fish slightly smaller at maybe 19" and a few others that were more the norm for this stream. While releasing another trout; I saw what appeared to be a big fish working the far bank. I switched files; made the right cast and…
…you guessed it; I caught the 20" fish again!
I knew it was the same fish because of markings I observed the first time I caught the fool.
This makes three times that I have positively caught the same trout on the same day. It sort of erodes my faith in the intellect of my favorite quarry.
I caught the same 32" striped bass twice in one day.
It was in a little creek no larger that a small trout stream, and I thought I found a real honey hole.
I can’t say I was disappointed when I figured out it was the same fish, catching a fish that size in a creek you could cast across is a thrill, but I was fairly sure afterward that it was king of the creek and there were no other large fish around there
A long time ago I was fishing a Goddard Caddis, on my favorite river. I actually wasn’t even fishing! I was getting ready to start casting, my fly a few ft. in front of me, a trout rose to the surface and took the fly. I’ve replayed that episode many times in my mind. Sometimes fish change the rules.
Doug
I was fishing a small stream in Virginia and had a bass take the fly. The leader broke, so I tied on a new fly of the same pattern and the bass took the 2d fly on the first cast and I was able to retrieve the broken off fly.
I had the exact same thing happen to me with a trout except I was fishing a two fly rig and I broke it off in a fish at the upper fly. 20 minutes later I hooked the SAME trout and he somehow slipped the fly he struck which then got SNAGGED on the broken off flies from the earlier two fly rig which was still hanging from his jaw.
Confused yet…? :shock:
When I brought him to hand the lower fly of my current two fly rig was snagged on the upper fly of the broken off rig and I ended up with one fish and 4 flies.
I actually told my buddies where I got him so they’re going to try and catch him too. We’re going to get one of those squawk boxes Bud and Sandy used to call Flipper, (remember that?). We hope to train him to eat only our flies while alerting us to poachers, polluters and bad guys while we zoom around in an air powered float tube.
We have affectionately named him: “Old $h!+head”
“They call him $h!+head, $h!+head, faster than lightning, No-one you see, is dumber than he, …”
We may not eat him but we may smarten him up a bit!
This is one of the more entertaining posts Ive read in a while. Can’t say I have ever had it happen to me, but these stories are hilarious.
I do have a little personal war going on with a certain smallmouth in my home water. He lives under a rock in a side shoot off a very large rapid (Class IV). The water here is very fast, anything presented has about 2 seconds of visibility to this fish, and he has no problem making a quick strike. This lane of fast moving water is about 10 feet off the bank, and JUST far enough that I cant reach it to make a dead drift presentation, and it is only approachable from behind so my fly moves towards me very quickly…so every time he makes a quick dash at my fly (clouser/muddler type) he releases before I can be in a position to set the hook. He has taken my fly 7 or 8 times on 4 different occassions (4 different times out to this hole trying to catch the bastard) and I can never get gim hooked.
So I guess that would make him the smarter of us two!
Well, “Flipper” must have a relative or two in my local waters.
While not a twice in the same day story; I took a buddy of mine to my favorite local wild trout stream yesterday. I gave him the best stretch and wished him luck. While he fished I “guided” him on the walkie-talkies we carry. As he got to one choice hole and exclaimed he had caught a big fish I said: “I bet it’s a 17” rainbow*"
(*a hatchery escapee)
The walkie talkie went silent until he came back and said, “exactly, how did you know?” I told him, “I caught it a few weeks ago”.
Here’s one that happened to me. I cast to a pool that was right beside some flowing water and was trying to land my small bugger near a stick that was standing up. I didn’t realize that there was some fishing line caught on the stick and my fly hung over the line and it was sitting there about 4 inches above the water. I stood there for a few seconds trying to decide on wading the stream or trying a roll cast to get the fly off the other line when a bass jumped out of the water and grabed my bugger. somehow the hook set and pulled off the other line and I was able to land the fish. afterward I stood there and thought to my self “why is there never anyone around to see things like this when they happen”
yes, in the local trout lake!
been fishing , see a school of fish busting the surface, cast to them about 70 ft out, catch a 3 pound rainbow from it, land it and see that it has a lump by the back of its tail, i release the fish.
5 minutes later with the same fly the school comes around to m again still busting the surface and i cast to them and catch the SAME rainbow!!! i knew it was the same because of the bolbous lump!!!
