Anyone catch without a rod?

top_angler · #1 08-15-2013, 06:23 PM

I grab at the fish once in a while or I use a net.

Wheelfisher · #2 08-15-2013, 06:31 PM

I had a whitefish throw the hook at the top of the hole, and I went in up to my elbow after him - does that count??

mooseknuckle · #3 08-15-2013, 06:48 PM

Personal best pike a couple ounces shy of 20. Got it up to the boat spit hook. Didn't even realize buddy screams from the front of the boat "hooks out". Other buddy very calmly reached in and tailed em. Was pretty cool.

BGSH · #4 08-15-2013, 07:13 PM

I caught a trout at Muir lake without a rod before by accident

pickrel pat · #5 08-15-2013, 07:19 PM

Caught hundreds and hundreds (no exxageration) of suckers by hand at the weir in Manning as kids. During their spring spawn the fish would congegrate at the base of the weir. Stick your hand in and grab em. Got a few pike and walleye that way too. Walleye hurt!!

Vacation · #6 08-15-2013, 07:38 PM

Caught a pike on dental floss and a spoon I found snagged in the rocks when I was 7.

slough shark · #7 08-15-2013, 07:56 PM

buddy caught a trout with his hands in a narrow channel with an undercut bank.

alltoys · #8 08-15-2013, 08:26 PM

Yep, dynamite! Works real good!

Lund rebel · #9 08-15-2013, 08:34 PM

While we were out at slave this year we toured a local museum got us thinking of how it was done before. We went out to the bush and got willow branches and skinned them and weaved the bark into line tied on a nail we got from a local cabin. Used it with great success catching walleye. What a blast never cut one by hand before had a little fish cornered before and he jumped away one me.

WayneChristie · #10 08-15-2013, 09:07 PM

Bobbitz

HunterDave · #11 08-15-2013, 09:37 PM

Noodling?

bsmitty27 · #12 08-15-2013, 09:44 PM

Pulled a salmon out of a beaver dam in Ontario.

Pincherguy · #13 08-15-2013, 10:10 PM

When we were younger we trapped a 2 or 3 lb. trout in a little channel. there were 3 of us and we had consumed a few beers. Well try to picture it 3 pizzed guys trying to catch a slippery fish. Just like trying to catch a greased pig, and I don't mean the 2 legged ones. They don't mind the slippery game, can you say baby oil party. LOL

CanuckShooter · #14 08-15-2013, 10:17 PM

One time we were trolling around some light tackle for trout, 3 guys in a 14 foot tinner....the fish were rising hard...and one landed right in the boat. WE all kind of looked at each other just to verify if what we saw was real...and then I tossed it overboard.

Kind of takes the fun out of fishing with them doing that.

fish gunner · #15 08-15-2013, 10:56 PM

The rocks in front of the kitimat hatchery out flow 20-50 lb spring just floping on the rocks trying to swim up the out flow pipe.

Speckle55 · #16 08-15-2013, 11:04 PM

no Rod for this guy.. just took a hour .. wow what a fight

David

Geezle · #17 08-15-2013, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by mooseknuckle

Personal best pike a couple ounces shy of 20. Got it up to the boat spit hook. Didn't even realize buddy screams from the front of the boat "hooks out". Other buddy very calmly reached in and tailed em. Was pretty cool.

Does that count as my first 'noodling' experinece?

Nova · #18 08-16-2013, 01:47 PM

One of my favourite methods of jigging for perch is just a piece hand held line with a small J hook and earth worm on the end. You feel every little nibble and setting the hook is very precise. It is actually something that goes way back to my childhood. We actually spent many afternoons seeing who could catch the most shiners waiting for perch. It's sure a challenge catching something that small.

Okotokian · #19 08-16-2013, 04:07 PM

Top Angler... Epic Angler... coincidence?

ORV · #20 08-16-2013, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Okotokian

Top Angler... Epic Angler... coincidence?

i think not. if they aren,t they should be brothers.lol

same kind of b.s. thread starts. lol

orv.

lifesaflyin · #21 08-16-2013, 05:18 PM

ive been known to catch pretty good on a spool of line and a spoon off the pier or side of the boat.

Redfrog · #22 08-16-2013, 05:25 PM

I have caught trout by hand several times in small creeks/streams. Usually on hunting trips with the horse. We stop for lunch. Buddy gets the fire going and I 'hunt' ther creek for trout under a cutbank. Slowly reach under and snatch out our lunch.

MtnGiant · #23 08-16-2013, 05:39 PM

When I was a kid there was a barrel in a creek that had 2 fair sized trout hanging out in it.
I turned the barrel upright and grabbed em bare handed.....then I took em hme and ate em.
Yummy!!!!

Oh ya....and spear fishing in Fiji

Junglefisher · #24 08-16-2013, 05:56 PM

Handlining, spearfishing, cast netting, dab netting, gill netting,...... Have done them all in the past. I don't recall ever catching by hand. A mate of mine had dolphins bring a large coral trout to the surface and start playing with it. He went over in his boat and picked it up out of the water.

Adwittoutdoors · #25 08-17-2013, 01:12 AM

Top Angler... Epic Angler... coincidence? Agreed x 2 I'm with you on that one.

Adwittoutdoors · #26 08-17-2013, 01:19 AM

A nice 10 lb pike got off when I was ice fishing. It stayed in the hole so I grab my metal spoon and the darn thing bit the spoon and I pulled it out. Couldn't believe how much force his jaws had. Fingers beware .... Lol. Sorry shouldn't be talking about ice fishing yet.

KegRiver · #27 08-17-2013, 10:13 AM

I never used a rod until I was in my teens.

I grew up using hand lines and fishing poles. Not rods, poles.

schmedlap · #28 08-17-2013, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by mooseknuckle

Personal best pike a couple ounces shy of 20. Got it up to the boat spit hook. Didn't even realize buddy screams from the front of the boat "hooks out". Other buddy very calmly reached in and tailed em. Was pretty cool.

Tobin. About a 15lb pike. Spit hook just as it was on top at the boat. Reflex action - reached out (no glove) and grabbed it by the jaw and pulled it in. Triumphant (?). Once it was extracted from my fingers and the immense flow of blood from several punctures was stenched .... Lost my mangled thumbnail in due course. Cured that reflex action. But did amuse my boatmates immensely (?).
Used to sometimes fish very small brooks in NS, as a kid, for brookies, with just a handline spool of line, hook, worm - thick brush, tiny pocket holes, worked better than a rod - many tasty meals of small brookies rolled in corn meal and fried in bacon fat.
And, handlining for "bottom fish" off a barge in Digby Gut - flounder. pollock, ocean perch. I would have preffered to use a rod, but the barge owner didn't do things that "fancy".

nôcikinosêwêw · #29 08-17-2013, 07:57 PM

Before I realised how weird it was to see a trout there, I was fishing (for trout, lol) in the North Saskatchewan near Smoky Lake (that's east of Edmonton), and here after I was fishing for a bit, I noticed a trout holding right under my feet! I thought it was dead since I had been moving around and it was just sitting there, so I grabbed it! It jumped out of my hand and got away! lol

I don't know what kind of trout it was, it was reddish orangish and speckled. Reminded me of some trout my brother and sister caught in New Found Land but I've never caught one other than on that one occasion!

Ken07AOVette · #30 08-26-2013, 11:39 PM

I finally got out fishing Saturday, caught almost every walleye without a rod. I just used a spool and hand bombed them ice fishing style in 23'. Best was 8 lbs and it was delicious!