Strangest thing you've caught while fishing? Here's mine...

[BankBassing]

1 hour ago, Lucky Craft Man said:

I hooked a rope once that was tied around the neck of a dead foal. Talk about foul smelling.

Yikes.  You win.  That's nasty.

[sage]

I've caught all the standards turtles,snakes,rocks. The best one I've ever witnessed was in a evening bass tournament at low light a team running a shoreline beside us caught a raccoon. The guy tossed a spinnerbait towards shore and it hung up in some brush. While trying to yank it out the coon grabbed it and hooked it's paw. That was the funniest thing I've ever seen watching the coon get reeled in. The guy finally got him loose with a couple jerks of the rod by the boat. To tell the truth I was hoping he was dumb enough to swing him over the side and watch all heck break loose. Lol

[BankBassing]

2 hours ago, sage said:

I've caught all the standards turtles,snakes,rocks. The best one I've ever witnessed was in a evening bass tournament at low light a team running a shoreline beside us caught a raccoon. The guy tossed a spinnerbait towards shore and it hung up in some brush. While trying to yank it out the coon grabbed it and hooked it's paw. That was the funniest thing I've ever seen watching the coon get reeled in. The guy finally got him loose with a couple jerks of the rod by the boat. To tell the truth I was hoping he was dumb enough to swing him over the side and watch all heck break loose. Lol

The coon probably would have been the last one left in the boat. LOL

[adrenalizd]

The weirdest catch I probably had was when I was about 6 years old. I was fishing at a paylake with my parents and aunt and uncle. I was playing around and cast out a tiny jig. Being young and not the best at casting my casts had plenty of air time. There were lights and bugs flying everywhere. I guess that had drawn some bats in. Apparently a bat had honed in on my jig thinking it was a large insect and it plucked it from the air. The weight of the jig must have thrown it off because it tumbled into the water. I was freaking out and so was everyone around me, but the guy who owned the paylake came down in a pair of gloves picked up the bat, removed the hook and it flew away. He turned and walked back to the bait shop like it happened all of the time. 

[Ohio Archer]

Old thread but I had one today. 

[Leftymuk]

While fishing the Susquehanna for smallies I nailed a "stickerel"......hooked on to what I thought was a snag but then it started to move.....fought like a good size smallie moving back and forth under the water......got it to the surface and it was a piece or 2x4 with a small piece of plywood nailed to it......caught in the current I swore it was a fish....both my buddy and our guide Mike roared....true story

[scaleface]

38 minutes ago, Leftymuk said:

While fishing the Susquehanna for smallies I nailed a "stickerel"......hooked on to what I thought was a snag but then it started to move.....fought like a good size smallie moving back and forth under the water......got it to the surface and it was a piece or 2x4 with a small piece of plywood nailed to it......caught in the current I swore it was a fish....both my buddy and our guide Mike roared....true story

 

LOL .They can fool you . I have caught sticks in the middle perfectly balanced so they wiggle like a fish . 

[XpressJeff]

Stickers huh, that's great!

[Scarborough817]

i caught a tool box the other day 

[NHBull]

A fishing pole with a dead bass on it!  Given the increase of kayakers, I suspect it was one of theirs........additionally, I witnessed a kayakers loosing a pole while playing with a birdsnest....he did however use another pole to hook it......

[dirvin21]

caught an octopus inside a beer glass

[the reel ess]

This one has always been a head scratcher for me. I was catfishing in the rain. I tossed out a small section of hot dog weiner and stepped back under some shelter to wait. I saw my rod bend and went to set the hook. I could feel a short fight, then it changed to a little dead weight drag. I reeled up a dead catfish head, hooked in the mouth. I could understand if it was freshly killed, that a turtle had bitten it off, but it was dead a while. It was nasty with glazed over eyes. The only thing I can imagine was a turtle was munching on a dead cat and I dropped a nice fresh Oscar Meyer in his face. I told my parents because I was a kid and they declined to believe my story. I asked them why I would make up such a stupid lie.

 

My dad and I caught the same bass. Not consecutively, but at the same time. It bit my worm, swam right over and bit his and we both reeled it up. Only time I've caught less than one bass, but more than zero. I think we threw it back because it was such a rare occurrence. Back then we didn't throw much back. My dad had the idea that if you didn't eat it, you didn't really catch it. Old bucket brigadier. I miss him badly.

[bagofdonuts]

giardia. it was not fun.

[Jartbek]

I caught a snagged line somebody else had attached to a snapping turtle 2 weeks ago. 

[UPSmallie]

Seagull

Crayfish

Clams

Rock

3 Mudpuppy Salamanders Ice Fishing (All last winter)  Those things love a vibrating blade-bait!

[Darren.]

Probably a pigeon that flew right into my cast and into

a tree. Pigeon flew away unharmed...can't remember

what happened to the lure, whether I retrieved it or 

if it was too high in the tree to get back.

[GetBent]

Just a couple of days ago I hooked a 10-12lbs soft shell turtle. Shakey head senko- right in the mouth. At first I felt a good thump. Set the hook- I'm like oh man it's a good one, get the net please " 10 cranks in- "ah man I don't know it feels weird " get it up to the boat, rod flexed over good and it slowly surfaces......  it was at least 25" across. 

[WCWV]

My Son!!

Several years ago my son and I was crappie fishing, one of us got a bite and some ways we got hooked up together and we both was in a fight with, what we thought was a biggun! We both jerked each other around for a little bit until we figured out what was going on. We had a good laugh. 

[frosty]

25 minutes ago, GetBent said:

Just a couple of days ago I hooked a 10-12lbs soft shell turtle. Shakey head senko- right in the mouth. At first I felt a good thump. Set the hook- I'm like oh man it's a good one, get the net please " 10 cranks in- "ah man I don't know it feels weird " get it up to the boat, rod flexed over good and it slowly surfaces......  it was at least 25" across. 

My dad caught one about that size once, I remember that it was a heck of a fight! 

 

Strangest catch for me was a frog with a frog, a big 'ol ticked off snapping turtle, my middle finger  my buddy caught the back of my head once when we were teenagers, luckily for me the hook was going fast enough it just ripped through the skin instead of getting stuck in it. Luckily for him I can't swim or I would have drowned him!

[BrackishBassin]

You guys seen those sportbrella things parents bring to soccer matches for their kids? Caught one jigging off of a pier. Thought I had a HUGE fish. Needless to say, I was a little disappointed. 

On 8/27/2016 at 2:57 AM, hawgenvy said:

I have snagged many oysters over the years, a few of which I ate on the spot, and one of which had a small pearl. However, I believe what you are holding is a clam shell.

 

Definitely a clam. I come from the 'land of oysters' and if that's an oyster, it's the weirdest one I've ever seen. 

[jim49]

Maybe not so strange but always catching frogs around Lilly pads when  trying to catch bass.

[FreddoB]

When I was a kid fishing in the river I grew up near, a small 3" painted turtle bit onto my line and didn't let go. The little guy was hanging on about 8" above the hook. When I first saw it I thought it was a leaf until I reeled it all the way in to me!

[Djman72]

Caught a huffy racer as a kid (the bicycles). in a shallow lake near a park. Looked pretty new so I took it home and my dad fixed it up for me. Rode that thing for most of my childhood. Was a d**n good bike.

 

My thanks to the kid who was trying to impress his friends and lost control of his Huffy. I benefited greatly. 

[charliepff]

So, I managed to catch a large blue crab on a rattle trap while fishing the Rehobeth Bay in Delaware. My wife has caught a piece of plywood with metal roofing on it, a pair of pants, a clam shell, and multiple lures. Including an ultra light combo all set up on the Potomac. I caught a large surf fishing set up on the Shenandoah one day. We have found a whole host of stuff. We clean up on bobbers. If anyone wants some let me know. We usually recover 20 throughout the year. 

[frogflogger]

I had a client hook a semi truck passing over the alligator alley canal - She had a senko on - burned the drag up real quick.