have you ever caught a fish you lost earlier?

[Scott McGehee]

This week's blog is about that happening on a redfish trip earlier this year. Check it out at http://mybasslife.com/?p=427.

[bassRN]

More times than I care to remember!

[DG]

Yep. Set the hook on a spotted bass once and broke off. Re-tied, cast right back in there and caught the fish with my hook and worm still in its mouth.

[sarmst100]

Yes, this past Friday.

[Jason Hale]

I have, but mostly this time of year when they are getting ready to make baby fishes.

I did actually catch the same fish twice last year in a tournament.
I caught it mid morning and threw it back since we already had a limit and it wouldn't cull anything. We came back to that spot later that afternoon and I caught it again. I know it was the same fish since it had a hook in it's throat that you could only see the eye of and a torn spot on it's jaw. I removed the worm from the hook in it's mouth the first time I caught it. It won't live long if it keeps biting like that.

[Flipping57]

I broke one off on the hookset with a jig. While I was getting another jig out of the box my partner caught the fish with my jig still in his mouth. I just tied it back on.

[mattmann7]

Yes, In a club tournament 2 years ago. I had my line get blown onto the edge of a dock when I was casting to it. The line was stuck on a sliver when the bait landed by the edge of the dock. I hooked a 3 lb fish and when I started realing the fish came up out of the water. When it was at the side of the dock dangling it shook free. I came back an hour later and caught the same fish. It ended up being the difference maker for a second place finish.

[southernoutcast]

I lost a fish on a carolina rig'd lizzard.. It was a 5lb 8oz fish, how do I know, my partner hooked the same fish about 15mins later, still had my hook, lizzard and leader in its mouth... to bad we weren't fishing as a team...

[fr8dog]

We were drowning minnows for crappie this past Sunday. Wife hooked a small bass. Hook was deep, so I just cut it off. Re-tied her hook, tossed another minnow into the same spot, and she caught the same fish less than 30 seconds after it hit the water.

[cougarcat22]

yep

[Bada$$Bullet]

Yes, a few times.

[Parnell]

Happen twice for me both on ky lake broke off on hookset retied and caught them on next cast got my baits back both times.

[Bada$$Bullet]

This past weekend we fished a 2 day tx and 2 of our stringer fish on the second day had someone else's lures in their mouths.

Crazy thing is, I caught a 16" fish on a trap and hooked it deep. It bled a little, but not all that bad, so I culled out a smaller fish with it. 10 minutes later, the fish was belly up....not good. It took 2 hrs to catch another keeper to replace it. We net the replacement fish and look in it's mouth, and there's someone's fluke and hook down deep in there. The fish starts to jump around as I put the cull tag in, then starts bleeding from the existing hook lodged in its gills. He barely made it to weigh in. We never caught another keeper the rest of the day.

[FirstGear]

Fished a federation tournament on Falcon in February of 1994. Had a guy pick me up from San Antonio where I was staying for a sales meeting. Was fishing from the back seat. I think braided line was just new then and being from Minnesota I did not have the need for it like they do down there with all the brush in the lake. It was like 34 degrees the morning of the 1st day. Not many happy people there with those temps. I was happy to be fishing in February!! I pitched to a bush and got a bite. It moved around in the brush for a few seconds and then my line broke. I sat down and re-riged. The boater kept moving along the bank. Got up and pitched back in and got bit. Boated the 5lb fish and got my worm and hook back!! Ended up in 1st place that day. Alot of people wondering how that happened. Did not have the same luck the 2nd day and ended up in 4th place. I remember a lady at weigh in on the 2nd day with a pair of 8lb'ers.
"Good Luck"

[luke1wcu]

I've caught fish on more than one occasion that had baits that they snapped off my line days or weeks earlier. Two come to mind....
One was a bass that snapped a popper off and I caught it again a day or two later and got my popper back. The other was a yellow trick worm that was snapped off that was still in the bass' mouth 2-3 weeks later. I'm positive it was mine because it was my style hook and my cajun red line hanging off the hook. Both times were at a pond that is rarely fished.

[bassboy1]

Never knowingly caught a fish I lost earlier. Pond fishing, I've caught fish I released earlier. You work all the way around the pond, and when you get where you started, you start catching the same fish again.

I did fish a tournament with a guy who caught one of his own (hand pour - one of a kind mold) shakeyhead jigs out of a brushpile he often fished. Thought that was kind of funny.

[Klinger N Ok]

Many bed fish, but others also. A couple years ago I stuck a fish on a jig behind a log and he proceeded to break me off. 15 min. later, 50 yards away I caught him on a swimbait with my jig stuck in the roof of his mouth.

[Big Bass Man]

Yep!! Me and a friend fishing a tourny and he broke off twice and I caught both of those fish a little later. He said that he at least got all of his stuff back.

[Rstrelec]

Same as a couple others have mentioned. Broke off a shakey head on the hookset while fishing from the back of the boat. Retied in time to pitch to the next dock (20 yds away) fish hit it on the fall, had my hook in his mouth from 5 minutes before.

[JoeTPR]

16 years old fishing a local tourney in IL. Broke one off. 1 hour later caught the same fish with my 3/0 gammie and 7" motoroil powerworm in its mouth. Removed both hooks and threw it back, it was only 11".