Weirdest Things You Ever Caught (Non-Fish)?

[Megastink]

What objects, creatures, items have you landed unintentionally? Here's a short list of mine to get started:

-Coffee Maker

-High Heel shoe

-sock full of change (aka the "Irish Fist")

-shopping cart

-desk chair

Your turn! Have fun!

[Teal]

A dead otter, with two small snapping turtles attached.

[jm37817]

Snapping turtle. Biggest pain in the rear to deal with. I'm not the turtle man and there wasn't any live action.

[Bankbeater]

Plastic bag, turtle, rock, and mussels.  That is all I can think of right now.

[plumworm]

Last spring on KY. Lake, I caught 2 rods and reels in the same afternoon. They were both toast, but what are the odds?

[Darren.]

Hmm. Snapping turtles, mud turtles, bags, shoes, and so on.

 

Would love to catch some cash! But I suppose that Irish Fist was used for something other than a pot o' gold....

[MCS]

I got a fresh water muscle or clam?

Dragging and pausing a texas rig and felt a little tap, reeled in my line and found this.

 

 

My buddy got a soda can. but I didn't keep his pic he sent of that.

[BassKing17]

I have caught a Mussel as well. It ate my texas rigged lizard!

I have also caught snakes and a few ducks.

I also caught a bucket that had holes drilled in it, the lid was on it. When i opened it it had a hog skull inside.

[fl_bass]

So far a snapping turtle.

[slonezp]

You can do a search, this topic is brought up quite often.

For me a push broom

[Trailer]

A rod that was broke in half and someone's jug that failed to float. No fish on either one!

[Snakehead Whisperer]

The list is too long. Here are some highlights. 

-Caught my friends jig that he lost about 30 minutes earlier (and occasionally catch lures that I've lost myself.)

-My friend Edwin had a 20 minute battle with a contractor garbage bag that was full of water in heavy current (took out a lot of drag, thought he had a 50lb.+ blue cat.) 

-Lots of birds on topwater, including a peregrine falcon (strange because they are not usually piscivorous, safely released.)

[CountBassula]

Back when I fished in Poland as a kid... a bird, in mid air!!! We were casting heavy lures to the bottom and it caught a bird flying through air as I cast.

[Jaiden]

I caught a towel once. Thought I had a huge pike.

[Felix77]

Back when I fished in Poland as a kid... a bird, in mid air!!! We were casting heavy lures to the bottom and it caught a bird flying through air as I cast.

 

Same happened to me last year.  Each time I would cast out my finesse worm I had a bird or two chase it.  I never thought one would get that close to it.  One did and ended up tangled in my line.  I reeled it in, clipped off as much line as I could.  It went flying before I could finish so it had a small stream of braid flying behind him when he ran away.

[flyfisher]

I have caught a bat like the flying kind, snapping turtle, eels, snakes, a beaver and an old rusted spinning set up that had to be 20 years old.

[Southfork]

I've caught a few snakes, one bat, and the odd piece of trash from time to time.  By far the craziest thing I ever caught was a coon though.

[rangerboy]

an old tackle box, empty. and some trout trolling lures. once saw my grandpa land a 500 rod and real at the delta. he was happy that day.

[Long Mike]

I guess the oddest thing I ever caught was the clap - twice, but I was in my twenties and I was fishing a for different species.  Promiscuous? Absolutely!

[Bluebasser86]

I caught a large, flat rock on a crankbait that I thought was new state record smallmouth. I hooked it off a steep point and when I set the hook it lifted up and glided out into deeper, open water pulling drag like a big smallie. When I'd lift I'd gain some line and then it would shoot back down towards the bottom, just like a big smallmouth. I'm glad I was by myself and nobody saw me fighting this rock, never have I been so fooled by something that wasn't a fish. 

[GeorgiaBassBros]

i caught a pair of underwear in my buddies neighborhood lake. they were relatively new looking and as far as we know, we are the only people that ever even get close to the lake. very odd

[CoBass]

As far as living, non-fish catches I've caught 2 Canadian geese, a duck, a coot, a bullfrog, and a bullsnake. Non-living catches include beer cans, sunglasses, a boat anchor, a couple of rods and reels, a shirt, several plastic bags, and most recently the rubber seal that goes around a boat window. I'm sure I've forgotten a few but those are the ones I can remember off of the top of my head. 

[Tuckahoe Joe]

I haven't caught anything too unusual.  Caught the top half of a rod a couple months ago.  Tied it to the rod I was using and then used that to pull a roostertail out of a tree that was beyond my reach.  This thread reminds of a Family Guy episode where they go fishing and Peter says something like "All we caught was a tire, a boot, a tin can and this book of cliches."

[Crappiebasser]

I guess the oddest thing I ever caught was the clap - twice, but I was in my twenties and I was fishing a for different species.  Promiscuous? Absolutely!

That's one way to avoid having a roommate on the road trip.

Outside of catching snakes nothing really strange.

[Crookedneck]

I caught a dead dog last year.  Pulled it up from the bottom...talk about disgusting....I think it was a lab or a retriever.  It had been in the water a while.