Caught this fiddler on the Minnesota yesterday. When it came in I thought I had another line tangled around my stink tube. If you look closely, I actually hooked the old swivel that was hanging out of the fish’s mouth still attached to a swallowed hook. Must have been a one in a million shot on the hookset.
I cut off the swivel and let it go. seemed to be willing to eat, so it has spunk and maybe will grow up to be vice president some day!
Just for the “hank” of it, I think I would go a buy a lotto ticket. You surely have some luck left. 
Anybody can hook one in the mouth. It takes skill to hook a split ring 
I was fishing the Pecatonica in Darlington WI one day for cats with stink bait. My knot between the line and the yellow colored rubber worm leader came undone as I was landing a fish. About an hour later I caught a cat and it had a yellow rubber worm almost completely swallowed. That was one hungry fish.
Never say Never on the river!
Nice catch Doug!
Now I know what a fiddler is. 
Dfresh
If you fish often enough strange things do happen.
My freind Hans and I were fishing an area we knew held submerged brush. We landed 3 flathead one night but another got hung up in the brush and broke off.
3 nights later while fishing the same area I caught this flathead. The placement of the hooks led me to theorize that this fish tended to turn left after swallowing a baitfish. 
I have caught 3 rod and reels with fish on them during my career. I caught one flathead 45 minutes after my partner broke it off “adjusting his drag during the fight”.
I had one when fishing from shore on the Missiissippi in Minneapolis where one night I had a channel cat swim into a snag and broke it off. 3 days later, no fish, but same snag. This time I pulledit out and brought it in. Thought I just had line hooked over the end of mine, but there was also a dead fiddler channel cat on there. Got my other hook back.
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