"Bycatch"

[Jig-fisher]

Up in the Uintah's I was casting a lure and reeled in a fish. When I got it in my line had caught a split shot sinker that was attached to a line coming out of the fishes mouth. I was fishing Holmes Creek for bass with a topwater lure and had something strike the lure next to the bank. Turned out to be a leopard frog. Just this week I got a fish to the ice hole and the line broke while the fish was in the hole. I did the arm dive to try and save it but missed. 5 seconds later my jaw-jacker went off. When I reeled in the fish it was the one I had just lost. The jig head had caught around the line and the fish had wrapped itself in the line. I ended up bring it all the way in. One a gross note, fishing a river in another country, brought the line in and had a condom wrapped around the line.

I know it isn't a byproduct catch, but I still laugh about Tube Dudes description of the skunk he hooked that pounced on his jig years ago. You might have to describe it again just for the entertainment value of that encounter.
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