Weirdest Things You Ever Caught (Non-Fish)?

[Broke bass fisherman]

Caught this earlier this year;

Caught this two years ago;

[Bass Junkie]

Hooked a pretty nice walleye once, stone dead, had been for a while. Hooked it right in the mouth with a sqaure bill crank fishing a river. Also landed and released a goose, and a West Cost Choppers hoodie with a Storm Hot 'N Tot snagged in it.

[Nashua Nev]

a 45 lb alligator snapping turtle, 2 shopping carts, several lines with lures attached, a mussell, a crab,a fishing pole,some kind of water snake on a floating frog, a 6 ft fresh water eel, a hockey goal.

[BigBassBarry]

Kitchen chair, but worst was bird swooped down and took my pop r. it was a mess.

[Tom Walker]

Asian noodle sauce packet...

[CPBassFishing]

A water snake that completely swallowed my deadsticked 5" senko, and another time I dredged up a nice pair of loafers with the laces tied together. Biggest thing I have ever snagged was a 50lb snapping turtle that is a good 100 years old and 5 feet around. I'm not even kidding. I measured it to be 61" from head to tail while my friend sat on it and held its head to the ground with a Y-shaped stick. That thing could have taken 3 fingers off in one bite very easily. Its head was as big as a ping-pong paddle.

[loodkop]

My wife twice. Think its fun unhooking a turtle or bird? Try a red head

[Clifton905]

Steel foot trap on the James River.  Luckily it was empty 

[lmbfisherman]

A snapping turtle....very crappy to unhook.  Felt bad!

 

As for Saltwater - Caught a purse, octopus and a sea cucumber.

[Bluebasser86]

I caught a really nice diving knife in the sheath with the leg strap still in very good shape on a crankbait. Took it home and dried it off and cleaned it up a little and now I use it whenever I'm running set lines for catfish. Thankfully I didn't catch the diver too.

[ebob2435]

Snapping Turtles, old beer-soda  cans , abandoned trot lines, deflated beach ball and a pup tent.

[SudburyBasser]

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. 

 

I once fought an epic battle with something I thought was real big -- a nice pike or something...and of course it was some old line with a jig on it that was caught around some rocks. The boys in the boat didn't let me live that one down the rest of the day.

 

Kept the jig head though.

[Southfork]

I've caught plenty of turtles....there seems to be an abundance around here.

 

[GaBankFisher]

My head - I posted a pic on another thread a few weeks ago.  That incident involved 1) my brother/son laughing their a$$es off for an entire weekend, 2) a stealth trip to the ER (couldn't let the wife find out), and 3) a couple staples in my head.  Of course everyone in the ER thought it was pretty funny too, especially when they found out that I did it.  It was on my second cast at 5 o'clock that morning...about 3 hours of sleep after my bro and I sat around the fire all night drinking beer and catching up on old times...I hadn't seen him in a couple years.  It was funny, but could have been worse and was a good lesson learned about form/concentration.

 

Besides that, sea turtles, stingrays, old ropes/nets, rocks/coral, a sock, a huge mantis shrimp (~10 inches), seagull (grabbed my lure), a few docks, and some nasty moray eels.  Oh, and I did catch a seahorse one time, but it was in a trap, not a rod/reel. 

[Bluebasser86]

I've caught plenty of turtles....there seems to be an abundance around here.

 

That sucks to get them on a crank. A jig or soft plastic I'll just cut the line but I'm not losing a crank to a turtle. Hooking one in the mouth like that just makes it that much more interesting.

[rb56]

i went once with a friend and though i hadn't been in ages it still made my then wife mad i went. when i got home i was asked the same but in a cold voice, "catch anything?" i simply replied "i hope not!" (not recommended) and that was how the fight started.

[Hyrule Bass]

That sucks to get them on a crank. A jig or soft plastic I'll just cut the line but I'm not losing a crank to a turtle. Hooking one in the mouth like that just makes it that much more interesting.

 

far as i care, the turtle can have the crank too, my fingers are worth more than a $6 crank bait, even a $20 one, turtle can have it.

 

 

i went once with a friend and though i hadn't been in ages it still made my then wife mad i went. when i got home i was asked the same but in a cold voice, "catch anything?" i simply replied "i hope not!" (not recommended) and that was how the fight started.

 

LOLOL

[keith71]

Dog Skull under a bridge, a cormorant,mallard,and watched my buddy hook a bumper on a moving vehicle while striper fishing the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel.

[jessallus]

I was the strangest thing some one caught on the Leon River. I was on my kayak minding my own buisness when I was hooked in the back of the neck by an old black man fishing from the bank. I almost pulled that old man in trying to get that hook out of me. I guess I should had made more noise lol.

[thehooligan]

Ive caught a soda can and a fishing rod. My friend caught a stingray on bass gear, we seriously thought it was a huge shark, lol. Took atleast 20 minutes to get it in on a 6ft medium rod with a small spinning reel. Ive never seen a fish pull that much drag besides the one muskie ive caught...

[naynayshimer]

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.

 

clam.JPG

 

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

the Texas rig catches everything, doesn't it!

[RyneB]

i caught a still fully intact adult magazine. It was made of a laminated type of paper. It was really funny, considering i was with my wife. It was quite "graphic."

[Trackick9707]

I grew up fishing pool 2 of the Mississippi and have caught all sorts of weird stuff. Pallets, toilet seats, clothes, tires, big turtles, condoms,shoes, odd bottles, a 24 inch sucker minnow,and all sorts of crazy stuff. Funniest thing was a dime bag of pot in a wrapper from a cigarette pack... all of the garbage from St. Paul would settle in that pool and i learned to appreciate braided line at a young age.

[Avalonjohn44]

List of weird stuff I caught:

 

Fishing rods, minnow trap, crab trap, seagull, snapping turtle, my sister's neck, my own scalp, a purse in a hospital pond (sad), walmart bag, a snag that turned out to be a suberged bmx bike, freshwater clam, and the weirdest:

 

Was going catfishing one night and meeting my friends down by the Potomac River. Off of 193, Difficult Run in VA hits the Potomac about a mile or so from the parking lot. There is a fire/rescue trail that goes the entire way. I had my rod rigged with a big treble hook reeled all the way up to the tip.  I came across a copperhead coiled in the middle of the trail.  I went to the left of him and he went left. I went to the right, and he went right... I tried to shoo him out of the way with my rod tip and the treble hook snagged him. I walked about a half mile with a crazy mad copperhead writhing around the end of my rod.  I got to the end of the trail, and instead of cutting my line and letting the p-ed off snake where we were fishing, I cast the bugger out into the water. He fought for a good while, then, thank God, he worked himself off. 

[Curved]

3 ft long snake and a porno magazine.