Byang98120 Posted September 10, 2020 Posted September 10, 2020 A couple days ago, I was bank fishing at sunrise with a Whopper Plopper 110. Now, these ploppers are close $20. The location where I was fishing is a concrete walkway, so it's a bit high off the water. There is an island with a short 20-30' channel between the island and the concrete walkway. I was at one end of the channel and casted parallel to the island bank. I never seen anything fly through that channel. BUT FOR SOME REASON, 2 geese decided to fly through that channel, really low. One of them was too low and flew into my line. 1. I did not think the goose was low enough to hit the line 2. It was too early for me to think and react quickly. Tried to get my line loose, but the goose kept on trying to fly away, got messy so I cut my line...lost my Whopper Plopper ? What have you caught that is not a fish??? Want to hear some cool/interesting/sad fishing stories. 2 1 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted September 10, 2020 Global Moderator Posted September 10, 2020 I had an owl pick up a jitterbug while I was nightfishing. Had a griebe eat a jerkbait. I snagged a blue heron in the shoulder running the fronts of docks at night with a bladed jig. 1 Quote
ajschn06 Posted September 10, 2020 Posted September 10, 2020 Fishing a new lake once and I caught someone elses line that was stuck on the bottom. Annoyed, I quickly removed it not thinking and went about my business... A few casts later... I caught it again... this time I pulled the end of the line up and up came a fairly dirty, but relatively nice spinning outfit. Used that thing for close to a decade...still in the garage... 2 Quote
Super User scaleface Posted September 10, 2020 Super User Posted September 10, 2020 I was fishing a jigging spoon off the end of a boat ramp and caught a spinning combo , dip net and two wrist watches . Quote
Byang98120 Posted September 10, 2020 Author Posted September 10, 2020 15 minutes ago, ajschn06 said: Fishing a new lake once and I caught someone elses line that was stuck on the bottom. Annoyed, I quickly removed it not thinking and went about my business... A few casts later... I caught it again... this time I pulled the end of the line up and up came a fairly dirty, but relatively nice spinning outfit. Used that thing for close to a decade...still in the garage... Nice! Saw that happen once. A couple were fishing for catfish off a pier. The dude thought he caught a fish and reeled it in and it was a casting combo. Couldn't see what brand and model, but free gear. Quote
Talio Posted September 10, 2020 Posted September 10, 2020 Caught a dog once. Was fly fishing an urban creek and some lady let her dog loose in the water. I was euronymphing with a sighter and I think the dog saw that thinking it was a stick. He grabbed the sighter and the line pulled straight up hooking him in the lip with my nymph. Now the dog is freaking out. He's a dog in the water. I'm a man in the water. No way I'm gonna catch him, so thankfully I had the common sense to zip a **** load of line off my reel. He runs up to his owner, some lady who threw a ball in the water then sat down on the bank talking to her friend not paying attention to her dog, and the lady yanks the hook straight at her. You know...The way hooks are designed to hold on? I got to them finally and started petting the dog. When things settled a little, I just reached over and pulled the hook out. Craziest thing was that it was barbless. If I could keep fish on that thing as well as I hooked that dog, the US would have a gold medal already... 2 Quote
Captain Phil Posted September 10, 2020 Posted September 10, 2020 Numerous turtles, birds, alligators and eels. I caught my wife's hair once with a hula popper. Not one of my best days. 1 Quote
Byang98120 Posted September 10, 2020 Author Posted September 10, 2020 1 minute ago, Captain Phil said: Numerous turtles, birds, alligators and eels. I caught my wife's hair once with a hula popper. Not one of my best days. I don't know how you guys fish down there in the south with gators and snakes, but big bass though. Quote
OCdockskipper Posted September 10, 2020 Posted September 10, 2020 A bag of grapes. I kept the bag, released the grapes. 2 Quote
Byang98120 Posted September 10, 2020 Author Posted September 10, 2020 Just now, MT204 said: 2 bats this year Dang, how did that happen? 1 Quote
Big Hands Posted September 10, 2020 Posted September 10, 2020 I caught a pair of sweat socks jigging a slab in Lake Fork. First one, and then a while later, the other one. 2 Quote
Dminor9 Posted September 10, 2020 Posted September 10, 2020 Years ago (like 1970's), while trout fishing a mountain stream in western PA, caught a huge mud dog. Thought it was a nice trout until I got it out of the water. It was about the ugliest thing I had ever seen out of a stream at the time. I tried to grab it and get the hook out, that was a mistake. It slimed me and I ended up just cutting the line to let it go. Took weeks for the slime to wear off of my hand. One other time my brother and I were fishing a lake at night in northern Wisconsin (1980's) for catfish and my brother's line started zipping out, he grabbed his pole and started reeling in and found a bat had flew into his line and got tangled in it. Another cut the line scenario. That is how you catch a bat. Yikes! Quote
Super User scaleface Posted September 10, 2020 Super User Posted September 10, 2020 4 minutes ago, Dminor9 said: Years ago (like 1970's), while trout fishing a mountain stream in western PA, caught a huge mud dog. Thought it was a nice trout until I got it out of the water. It was about the ugliest thing I had ever seen out of a stream at the time. I tried to grab it and get the hook out, that was a mistake. It slimed me and I ended up just cutting the line to let it go. Took weeks for the slime to wear off of my hand. One other time my brother and I were fishing a lake at night in northern Wisconsin (1980's) for catfish and my brother's line started zipping out, he grabbed his pole and started reeling in and found a bat had flew into his line and got tangled in it. Another cut the line scenario. That is how you catch a bat. Yikes! One night bats kept bumping my line while I was cat-fishing . One of them must have bit it because I hooked a fish and the line broke just a couple feet from the rod . Quote
Super User BrianMDTX Posted September 10, 2020 Super User Posted September 10, 2020 8 or 10 turtles for sure. A mostly-rotted sneaker. And a pair of black lace panties. Too big for my taste! 1 Quote
Elkins45 Posted September 11, 2020 Posted September 11, 2020 Fishing below the powerhouse on Kentucky Lake I brought up a Daiwa baitcaster mounted on a rod stub missing the tip and the back end of the handle. Quote
Super User N Florida Mike Posted September 11, 2020 Super User Posted September 11, 2020 I set out a live shiner one night and went in the house for a little while. When I came back out something had taken my bait up into a bush on my property line.. I couldn’t get to it from the bank so I went over in the J.boat. When I parted the branches to get the bait, an owl was up in there staring at me. I wasnt sure if he was tangled in the line or ate the shiner but there he was. I cut the line and he went up higher in the bush. He was gone the next morning... Quote
Super User soflabasser Posted September 11, 2020 Super User Posted September 11, 2020 I have caught several species of reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and birds as bycatch while fishing. On 9/10/2020 at 4:35 PM, Byang98120 said: I don't know how you guys fish down there in the south with gators and snakes, but big bass though. Florida also has panthers, bears, crocodiles, coyotes, venomous snakes and fish, pythons, sharks, and poisonous plants. It is worth it when you live in a fisherman's paradise. Besides rod and reel fishing is easy compared to spearfishing in shark infested waters. 1 Quote
Hower08 Posted September 11, 2020 Posted September 11, 2020 Geese ducks a kingfisher and a rotten women's thong from a very "urban" lake. That same day we also caught a plastic bag with a bluegill in it and my buddy caught a 20 pound carp on a jerkbait Quote
Manly Studson Posted September 12, 2020 Posted September 12, 2020 I caught a black frog with a black frog. 1 2 Quote
Alex from GA Posted September 12, 2020 Posted September 12, 2020 Seagulls, pelicans, cormorants are the most common. Several rods and reels. I have an old boot, that I caught in the river, in the back of my truck that I'm going to mount. Quote
Super User Bankbeater Posted September 13, 2020 Super User Posted September 13, 2020 A couple of years ago I caught a spool of mono. The label was worn off of it so I'm not sure what kind it was. Last year I hooked an 8 lb mushroom anchor by the anchor line, and no it wasn't my anchor. Quote
schplurg Posted September 13, 2020 Posted September 13, 2020 On 9/10/2020 at 1:35 PM, MT204 said: 2 bats this year Had a bat fly into my fishing line a few nights ago, even got in on video. I saw it coming but didn't see it actually hit it, but I felt it. Caught my first night fish last week! I hooked a bullfrog on a frog last year. Quote
BayouSlide Posted September 13, 2020 Posted September 13, 2020 Rib cage of a (long deceased) deer. Quote
Super User gim Posted September 13, 2020 Super User Posted September 13, 2020 About 5 years ago my Father hooked me in the back of the head with a crank bait when he was making a cast. So yes, he hooked me, his son. An injection of lidocaine and 5 stitches later, the hooks were removed. And you thought taking a hook in the fingers or hand hurt. Quote
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