Honeyhole All Outdoors Show saturday. The Bills guest missed one and lost his brushhog only to catch it later with his bait still in it's mouth. I am positive I keep catching the same DINK over and over everytime I go!

Did it last June. Same fish same spot 12 hours apart. Once at noon and agian that night at midnight thirty. Still had my hook in her throat from the first catch

Happened to me within minutes. Pitched a shakey head next to a dock on Lake Norman and felt a quick thump. Set the hook only to have the line snap. Quickly retied and pitched back into the same area. Felt the thump again, let the fish eat it good, set the hook and landed the fish with my previous worm in his mouth. Have done it before when fishing bed fish but was the first time it happened at random.

I caught the same fish on O.H. Ivie in the same day. Once in the morning at 6lb 3oz. The second time in the evening at 6lb 2oz.

Morning Time


Evening Catch

I caught the same 13-1/2" male off of a bed in a tournament on PK four times in a row. Couldn't put him in the livewell, because he was undersized. The female was the biggest I had ever seen. He would run back over and get on the nest before she would come back. That little sucker probably cost me a check. The last time I caught him I pitched him a pretty good ways. Had to leave em' there to go to weigh in.

Unfortunately I don't have the picture anymore, but I once caught two fish off one ratt'l trap at the same time. One on the front treb and one on the back treb. Both about 2 lbs.

But last Thursday I caught a little 9 incher with a 5/0 hook in his throat that I couldn't get out. I caught him under the same bridge on Saturday. Both times he hit my t-rig as soon as it hit the water. Don't they say fish have the shortest attention span or memory of any other animal?

Oh and one day I hooked my wife twice trying to set a hook on a fish. Does that count?

It happened to me today... I was fishing a pond on Ft Hood and had a small one slash my Rapala at the bank and get hooked. It was going crazy cause I only had about a foot of line from the rod tip and got off... only to sit there stunned. I made a short cast and brought the bait back by his face and Wham! This time I had to unhook the traditional way

Last year at this one pond I got a 8-15, took photos, threw back. Next week a friend said his friend caught, photographed and released a 9-4. Asked if he'd send pics to me as I had a feeling it was 'my fish'. Sure enough, same scale pattern.

No two bass have the same pattern, but ones with little variance are hard to notice. Notice Bass Hogs above, very distinct pattern, very noticible.

Mark, yours has the same patten too, not just the torn tail, which is of course more noticeable.

Also at the Ca. Delta, caught and released a 6-8 and the next week got her off the same stump, on the same spro frog- too cool. Six months later she missed my swimbait, but I saw she was still there.

If it wasn't for catch and release fishing would be less fun, that for sure, a lot of us would catch a lot less fish!

same

I used to fish the Bush Library pond at A&M several times a week. There's a little stunty bass in there (it's VERY pecular) that I probably caught 15 times last spring. There was at LEAST a handful of times that I showed the bass to other anglers and the pic on my cell of the fish the first day I caught him.

Amazingly he was all over that pond...

That pond really teaches you how little catch and release affects bass when handled properly.

By no means am I an expert, but I doubt you caught the same spawner for two weeks.

I caught the same bass 11 times in 20 months. She had a big blotch behind her eye that was a dead giveaway. 9 of the times, she was in the precise same spot and, surprisingly, took the same lure 4 of those 9 times (gold/black jointed Rapala minnow). Nice 5 lb fish.

Then, one day, someone from a far away land saw me catch a bass in that pond. By the end of the summer, every fish had been hauled out of it. Have not caught a fish there in years (pond at end of Bushmills road N. of Forest Ln, Dallas).

Why not? According to many other herein, it happens all of the time.

Archie, I saw the same thing happen on a nice pond here in Frisco. Used to be chalk full of big bass and as soon as people started to figure it out they came by the dozen until they completely wiped em' out. I used to go fish that little pond during the week day mornings around 5am then come back home and get ready for work. No better way to start your work day then catching a dozen bass in the 2-5 lb range.

I have never done it but I saw it done once in Canada. A guy fishing in the back of the pontoon boat did it with a northern pike. He caught the fish and left his crawdad crankbait floating in the water. When he dropped the fish in the water to let it go, the dang thing darted right back to his crankbait and latched on!