Strange things caught while fishing

[Jeep Man]

Some weird things happen when your on the water. What is the strangest thing you've ever caught on a fishing line?
I once caught a bat while casting at dusk. What else has been pulled aboard?

 

[NW Redneck]

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I caught a seagull while casting a buzz bomb! Got dive-bombed by several of his buddies while trying to get him free!

Caught a rod/reel that must have been sitting on the bottom for many years judging by the ammount of encrustation & growth on it!

And of course there's the old classic car tire! Thought it was a monster hallibut until it got to the surface.

 

[kenmyfam]

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We caught the rod we lost the previous day.

 

[BaileysBoat]

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One summer my buddy and I were fishing with our 11 year olds at the weedbed in front of our cottage.

It was a very quiet evening at dusk.

While casting one of the boys accidently hooked a bat out mid air. The bat was still alive when we got it into the boat, and made such a fuss squeaking that a whole lot of bats started circling the boat.

Kind of spooky.

 

[gonefishie]

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A chunk of bone appeared to be part of the spine. I don't know if it was human or animal. I didn't want to think about it and quickly got rid of it by cutting my jig off.

 

[Thad]

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I caught a Snoopy pole that had a Bullhead on the hook. I have caught several trees, both in AND above the water. Caught my boat once. I still have no idea how I did that. And of course...who hasn't caught the net.

 

[BuzzStPoint]

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Caught a turtle once. As a kid.

Couple years later I was at a dock getting harassed by a few ducks. Didn't matter where you cast. They would fly out where you dumped your lure.
After a while of this, a kind warden told me I should leave. Said I didn't want to hook one of those. I was having fun catching rock bass.

 

[57whitehouse]

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I caught the lure I lost the day before. I was very sad when I lost it. I loved it and was greatful when I got it back.

 

[HopeSheFloats]

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Caught a pair of men's tighty whitey's, thought I had a real fighter on my hands lol...watched a friend of mine while perch fishing think he had the mother of them all...turned out to be a dink{small perch} on one hook of the perch rig and hooked to the other hook was a clay pigeon encrusted with zebra mussels

 

[Jmelford]

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My Grandson hooked a metal stringer that had a live good sized catfish on it.

 

[BWR1953]

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I caught a wire grill from a round Weber BBQ. That was weird.

 

[Splat]

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One of my camping buddies caught his pole that he lost the day hefore. He was fishing from the bank and walked away to check on the cooking food, evidently he got a bite and the fish pulled it in.

The next day by some stupid luck he snagged it on the other side of the pond!

Bill

 

[rbh]

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x8 on the fishen rod

 

[heyttown]

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I caught a pelican, bridge fishing down in Florida..I was really into the fish, and all the action reeling them up out of the water the 30' to the bridge got lots of birds attention, well as soon as the fish broke water I had to reel like hell to get the fish to me, was to slow one time,pelican swooped by picked up my fish mid air and tried to fly away..when he couldnt fly away he just held on to the fish for dear life, now imagine the site of a 15 yr old kid have a pole bent in half over the side of a bridge,I had a hold on the end of the pole fearing it would snap with the weight on it, finally after a few tugs and a few more attempts to fly away he let go and I got my fish..

Another time I was perch fishing with 2 poles, had one set across my lap as I was sitting on the stern of the boat, had a bite on both poles, ended up losing one pole out of my hand...I tried hooking it with my rod tip of the other pole as it sank into the abyss,but no luck..I ended up catching that rod that sank and the fish still attached to the spreader about 2 hrs after sank to the bottom...

And I wasnt part of this story but still odd to say the least, a buddy was fishing in lake erie, and hooked into something big, there was no fight to the bite,just alot of drag as he would slowly pull up the rod and reel the slack..(picture catching a drift sock,fully expanded,trying to reel that in)..Well the hook ended up coming out and they continued fishing, just avoiding the area they had the snag...The very next day, a body was discovered floating near where they were fishing, he swears up and down he hooked into the body and dislodged it from the bottom..Yack

 

[budjanz]

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My buddy and I were talking about the things we caught. He said he caught a large mouth bass that was 30 inches long, & weighed 25 pounds. I said, I did better than that. I was fishing at the old stone quarry one day, and I hooked on to something. I fought it for about an hour, & when I got it up it was an old latern. I scraped off the bottom, & there was a date, it was 1890. When I really looked, it was still lit. Well I told him, if he would cut down the size of that bass, I would blow out that latern. Have a nice day Bud

 

[tswiczko]

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Was standing in the river fishing a walleye run about 10 years ago and the guy next to me snagged his hook on the PFD of the woman on the other side of him. He apologized and removed the hook from her PFD and told her "Although you are a very lovely catch I'm throwin you back" the guy on the other side of her looks at the two (I figure he was her husband) and says "You caught her you keep her" and reached around and hooked her to the mans stringer

The poor guy next to me didn't know what to say he just stood there a moment looking at the woman as if he was considering mounting his new trophy and the woman turns to her husband and starts smacking the tar out of him.

Who would have thought you catch a wife

 

[Bob_VT]

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My buddy and I were talking about the things we caught. He said he caught a large mouth bass that was 30 inches long, & weighed 25 pounds. I said, I did better than that. I was fishing at the old stone quarry one day, and I hooked on to something. I fought it for about an hour, & when I got it up it was an old latern. I scraped off the bottom, & there was a date, it was 1890. When I really looked, it was still lit. Well I told him, if he would cut down the size of that bass, I would blow out that latern. Have a nice day Bud

Excellent

I was bass fishing in MO and casting a rubber worm into the Lilly pads and bang I caught something......... it was the biggest bull frog I have ever seen!

Using spider wire while fishing it tends to lift quite a bit up from the bottom

 

[Limited-Time]

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I've landed a few large snapping turtles. A rod and reel combo off a bridge. But the most memorable was a rock. It was about the size of my fist and smooth like a river stone. It had a small patch of some kind of growth attached to it. Pulled it out of lake Erie we were in 60 feet of water.

 

[dbkerley]

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My wife caught the trolling motor and had an absolute blast trying to land it. It was a Minn-Kota with remote co-pilot and needless to say I was sitting in the back of the boat having a great time with the remote.

I caught a remora and one of the guys stuck it to the back of one of the other guys who ran ridiculously until it fell off.

 

[angus63]

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It was dark with no moon. I was alone about 2 miles south of Long Island trolling spoons for that 50 lb striped bass I've been looking for on a beauty Sept eve. ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz, click, swing, game on. Heavy fish, take 50 yds, give back 75, rest, pump, crank, 15 minutes or so. Getting close, net by my side , looking for leader. Another 100 yd run just like you'd expect from a huge striper when he gets a glimpse of the hull. Now I'm convinced I will be on the cover of Sports Illustrated next week with this Goliath. Starting to shake from muscle strain and excitement. Probably another 10 minutes and I'm close. There's the barrel swivel and my six feet of 150# leader is under the boat. Grab the leader, set the rod down, no color yet, peer over the side, gently place the net in the water.........at that moment the leader goes slack, and thru the air and into the side of my head a thresher shark pup, maybe 75 lbs or so, leaps taking me by surprise. Scraped the flesh from my cheek, broke my glasses, and swam off tangled in my net and broke off the tip of my trolling rod. I cut the line from what was left of my rig and layed on the deck for about 20 minutes or so.

I picked up and went home a little shocked and very disappointed.

My wife wakes while I was slipping into bed. "How was your night?" she asked. I started telling her the story, she turned on the light, she looked at the damage to my face, and without missing a beat, said to me...."Sure, whatever, another bar fight with your buddies again!! No more of this so-called night fishing you do and go sleep in the basement!" She rolled over and turned the light out.

So I didn't catch a striper, didn't catch the thresher, but did catch a great women 22 years ago!!!!