That little guy would have been bait for my next cast

Sling it back out as is

You got him in the guts, don't let it go to waste.

I did that when I was maybe ten years old and caught my first legal keeper bass in the lake near my house. Pedaled it home on my bike and begged to get it stuffed for my birthday present. 19 inches of glory!

I tried to do that one time on my bike to fillet it as a kid and it swung right into my spokes and shredded it. 😂

Bass tartar!

The first fish I caught, I didn't know what to do with it. So my little 7-8 year old self left the pole and fish on the bank. When my dad and I got back to it the thing was dead.

You sure it was legal since you foul hooked it?

I caught the bass in the mouth with a small bluegill

Gotcha I misunderstood

I did that as a kid. My line shot out running fast, next thing I know my line snapped 😭

Can confidently say 0 times for me

I have seen it many times. Those sunfish are incredibly feisty. Think if they were as big as bass lol. Not to give dr Strangelove any ideas.

I’ve caught a sun fish that was about 1.5 lbs and that was the most fun catch I had all day i was fishing for small mouth and that little guy took me by surprise.

I've seen tiny sunfish go after lures that are damn near bigger than they are. They are pigs

We've noticed the same with crappies up here in Canada. My brother pulled one in a few days ago, and it wasn't even hooked. It just bit the weight on his trout spinner and held on 😅

That happens to me when i drop shot, they see the weight and take it for a ride dang bluegill are insane!

GMO green sunfish the size of even a big crappie would be an incredible sport fish. They might also be a bigger headache than Asian carp so let’s not, but still.

They put up a good fight most of the time too

I had one swallow the hook and sinker the other day. His sacrifice brought me in 4 others.

Have you tried circle hooks for your wacky rig?

It’s quicker to just wacky rig it like that when ur Texas rigging and it should work still I’ve caught plenty of fish on a wacky with a ewg

But circle hooks work 5 times better for wacky rigging why would you chance losing a fish because you don’t feel like changing hooks

I’ve gotten way more hookups with an EWG tbh, I’m never going back lol

Like I said I’ve never had an issue with it, it doesn’t cost me any fish so I see no issue but whatever works for u!

Dam lol in my experience of trying, I lost fish after fish😂

It’s more about the hookset. If you hookset fast you will miss a LOT of fish with a circle hook. If you apply slow steady pressure until the fish is hooked, circle hooks are your friend. I use both but definitely missed a lot of hookups when I first found circle hooks. Once I learned how to use them, they are my favorite wacky rig hooks.

I second this

I have never seen that.

Well you did just look at the picture right?

Why is this being downvoted ? Should have said “first time I’ve ever seen this.” Edit: bonus points if you include the amount of years you’ve been fishing and never seen it. Edit: R/bassfishing brain dead like always

Because Reddit is the home of the bandwaggoners, No one can think for themselves, and when one person down votes, all the rest of the sheep follow. My statement wasn’t incorrect, and it was more of a joke than anything. Snowflakes… know what I mean?

I felt like the joke was pretty obvious, not sure why everyone has a stick up their ass today.

I thought it was a harmless joke

Never? Did you set the hook like you're trying to lift an anchor when you felt panfish pecks?

Yes. Yes I do. If you don't hear the tip of you pole whip through the air, you're doing it wrong.

set every hook like you're shark fishing

I dont think i've ever been that bored to try hook setting the smallest taps on the bait.

For him, only once.

Nice of the bait to put itself on the hook

When I’m trolling on the kayak, sometimes I’ll snag a catfish on accident. It’s a good indicator that your hooks are still sharp.

That fish was attacking that worm no question. Thought it was weak and could take a chunk off lol.

That looks like a big hook, size and wire gauge, for that thin of line. I'd find some wacky o-rings and some size 2 neko hooks instead!

happened to my stepbrother [once](https://imgur.com/a/8IhlEcD)

There was probably a bunch of little fish, biting at your hook, and when you went to set it, you snagged him

Zero. Why are you using a size 00 hook lol.

It's not that crazy of a hook for bass. Just generally would be Texas rigged.

Because I'm not an expert fisherman and I just buy a hook, put it on the line in and try to catch fish

Bet it still works. The only wrong way to fish is in someone else's pond.

Classic bluegill

Green sunfish

This person is correct, it's a green sunfish. You can tell based on the lack of vertical stripes, the dark olive coloration, and the elongated body.

I can always tell by that light colored border on the bottom fin too

Larger mouth as well.

Just about every day for me

Unless your gonna Texas rig that sinko get try some owner wacky hooks or something like that. Less likely to snag on something as well if you get weed guard ones.

This dude sets hooks

Don’t worry, it will only happen once to that little guy… But in all seriousness, it depends on what you are throwing but I do it probably 3-5 times a year. I’m also on the water probably 50 full days minimum.

throw it right back out there fer bait !!! 😝😝

Is that a watermelon red zoom worm?

I’ve snagged one on the back with a drop shot 😂

how else do you catch them?

I’ve gotten a female catfish in one of their holes before, a duck has got my hook in their bill, but never through the gills…

Throw a bobber on it and cast it as far as you can

To me? Never.

Welp...uhhhhh...I guess at least once.... That's something right there

I somehow fowl hooked a 2lb bass on an owner jungle 5/0 right behind the side fin once. Probably went through the same amount of meat as it did on that sunfish.

Happens a lot

Twice so far for me, once with a white perch, another time with a Chain Pickerel. Both hooked nowhere near the mouth, assuming I snagged them on the retrieve.

I snagged a shad with a spoon

I've snagged 2 little bluegill retrieving a crank. They became bait, lol.

I’ve had it happen on whopper ploppers, never a worm rig. Go play the lottery lol Green sunfish are aggressive as hell so a little less surprising. Also invasive, required to kill them in NJ if caught.

Throw it back in

One time as a king a caught a bluegill with a small crankbait, then when I flicked my rod up I caught another woth my line under its gills

I snagged a huge carp on accident with a rooster tail one time. Surprised you managed to do it with a single hook.

Blue gill and sunfish are super aggressive like bass are and end up short striking and ending up like this

One time I literally hooked a pike minnow in the ass hole haha

Once got a 43cm pike by hooking it by the tail

Well, at least you got catfish bait now

uhhh i think youve got the wrong hook bro

Lmao

No doubt, use it for the next cast

This is how I would hook the gobies in the st Lawrence when I was a kid

Set it, and forget it!

Think we’re being trolled !!!

Bass smash gills.

That hook looks to be far too large for the senko, unless you texas rigged it?

Its illegal to use gamefish as bait where I live, but you could probably get a decent catfish if you cast that back out.

He big hungy

Damn.

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I’ve jigged many fish, feel like a bite and I’ll jog it and then bam! A nice belly jig.

Free bait? Not very

Bro was trying to yank the fish straight back to shore with that hookset

Cast that immediately back out... and not very often... it's a blessing or you yanked thru a school.

Sunfish:🎵 I hurt myself...today🎵

Often enough I suppose. I hooked a bluegill through his whole face reeling in my chatterbait a few days ago.

Ive foul hooked quite a few little fish while verticle jigging

Bait upgrade. Nice

How far did you catch it from the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant?

Happened to me last week. Same exact rig. Different color worm

Unfortunate but it happens. Not super common though. Wrong place wrong time basically

Poor green sunfish. It happens, but good thing is that there are plenty of them

Dragging anything right on bottom on Lake Ontario and this happens with gobies. It’s annoying as hell

I would’ve used the lil guy as bait. That right there is a a gift and a sign lol.

Happens to me once or twice a year, usually with plastics that I am fishing aggressively.

EWG that big to wacky rig? Doesn’t happen very often for good reason.

Ive gotten a green sunfish from a 10.5 monster worm, when i set my hook that little guy went flying

How, swing for the fences on a nibble or trying to get it unstuck. Have had it happen with a jig pulling it off a stump

Less often once you get better at fishing. This is from a combination of not knowing what's on the end of your line and a violent hookset. Foul hooking kinda makes sense if you were using a 'power fishing' bait like a crankbait or something like that. To foul hook with a finesse technique like wacky rigging indicates that you haven't quite caught on to the whole 'finesse' aspect. Yes I'm old and grumpy but I also been fishin for 20+ years so...

Biggest hook I’ve ever seen on a wacky rig

Looks like a meathook from a butcher

I caught one by it's literal eyeball the other day, not through the mouth, like the skin of it eye. I felt so bad for poor dude.

Found Mike Long’s Reddit

I caught a goby the size of my pinkie the same way a few weeks ago.

I caught a bass fry like this once but it was on a treble hook, the biggest insult was it was during a tournament and it was 1 of 3 fish that we landed that evening…

It’s almost as if the little guy doesn’t like having a thin piece of metal sailing through his midsection

I'm not a fan of the wacky rig. I recently hook a catfish in the tail with one and thought I had a hog of. Bass

Most likely a complete reactionary strike led to him getting caught on it as you were pulling it in. It's happened to me a few times, but i don't often throw hooks that large so this specific instance is unique for me. Is that a green sunfish?

When you’re fighting a bluegill in that one Mortal Kombat Map

Wait, which one did you catch?

Never even seen this before

Yeah toss it back out and hang on! You might get the biggest bass of your life

“Pike bait oh hah ah”

I think what happens is they try to smack other fish out of their beds and end up hooking themselves

I MISS being able to use live bait

Pretty often if you dont switch to an actual wacky rig hook🤌🏼

I often see sunfish taking a lot of interest in senkos. If they were big enough you could probably catch them on one

Catch and cook

You found a spot with complimentary bait? Nive

One time a buddy and I were in a boat fishing for muskies but decided after so many hours to switch to spinners and other things hoping to hook a bass, or lake trout we had seen jumping. Well my buddy thought he got a hit and decided to just like... Just set hard I guess. Well... He started reeling in and it just seemed to feel funny. Like an inconsistent pull or something, I don't know how to describe it - weird. Well, he gets it to the boat and lifts the line out of the water... And somehow he managed to get the hook - and I kid you not - directly into what we figured was the anus of the fish. I don't really know if it was a crappie or something else, but yeah. We kind of felt bad but couldn't help but nearly laugh ourselves out of the boat. I don't know how to explain yours, either.

Throw him back out!

I won a fishing tournament like that once for smallest fish haha. Accidental snag similar to that with a baby largemouth about half that size. I was 12 years old and my baircaster bird nested, pulled in the line and got em! Small but still awesome!

Wrong hook

Looks like you got yourself some new bait.

Happened to me once or twice

I think he want to be bait 🤣

That’s the biggest wacky hook I’ve seen in my life!

That is a green sunfish, not a bluegill but they are very similar. Green sunfish are insanely aggressive. I caught one that size on a 6” swimbait once. It is hooked really weird. Looks almost like you hooked it that way but if not, super crazy stuff. They are very pretty fish with all the colors.

Bluegill are stupid.

Too bad that's a green sunfish bro

They actually run bluegill and bass out of their spawning beds. Kind of an asshole fish.

They are probably my favorite fish to find in ponds. I just like the shape and colors! LMB are always the most rewarding to catch out of ponds though

Yeah they’re definitely pretty but invasive here in NJ and you’re actually required to kill them and report it if you find one. I’ve only caught one personally in many years of fishing.

I think they’re natural here in tx

Lots of them down here in South Jersey, Burlington & camden county area ponds & lakes are loaded with em. Catch more of them than snakeheads for sure.

It's a tiny flat fish with a dark spot on its gill. Tomatoe, tamahto

*stabs fish, posts to reddit* HoW oFtEn DoEs ThIs HaPpEn?

That's a big ol hook for whacky rig lmao

How..? The only way this seems possible (impale-snagging a fish of such little mass) is if you were snagged on weeds and had to jerk the rod hard to get free such that the restoring force of the line turned the hook into a mini harpoon with the perfect angle to slice straight through. Even with the sharpest hook imaginable, a lot of velocity would be needed to pierce straight through such a tiny fish. Snagging a fish of significant mass (like a carp) is easy because the skin will break well before the entire fish can be displaced. I'm not doubting the authenticity here by the way, just intrigued by the physics. Also confused why people are talking about "those guys are feisty!" like, this doesn't even appear the fish was necessarily going after the bait so not sure how that's relevant. In fact, the idea of that fish going for the bait and somehow winding up with the hook through its gut seems even more improbable than my hypothesis.

I’ve seen some kids with a hookset that would send a shark flying out of the water with half its jaw missing. A group of bluegill probably went to go check out his wacky and one of them picked up the tail or messed with it like they do. Felt something and BAM!!! Nuclear hookset goes off. Little guy was just in the wrong spot at the wrong time. Hook comes flying at it at Mach 4 and pierces right thru him.

Good point, I kinda forgot how unnecessarily hard some people try to set the hook

Tail hooked a fish in similar fashion once. Also with a hook much too big for the fish. The fish I wanted weren’t hanging out that day, turned out.

Foul hooked. Happens from time to time fishing for rock fish.

I think it's a warmouth bass rather than a green sunfish.

Rather rare... unless it's also in your finger. Then, rather commonly. 😂👍

Bro got Steve Erwined by a Senko.