Strange/unusual things you've seen fishing

[crypt]

I saw a bird fall out of a tree, 40 feet................then watched it gather itself and fly away,I guess it forgot while it was in the tree that it could fly.......laughed for hours......still laugh about it.

[desmobob]

I think I've posted this in the past...

 

I had a young seagull swim out to my boat, hop up onto the stern and then walk up the gunwale, past me, and stood on the bow like he owned it.  My boat is a Tracker PRO170... I could have pushed him off the bow with my foot, he was so close.  I went back to the seat to get my camera and he didn't even flinch.  After ten minutes or so, he hopped down into the water and swam off.

 

 

[the reel ess]

44 minutes ago, desmobob said:

I think I've posted this in the past...

 

I had a young seagull swim out to my boat, hop up onto the stern and then walk up the gunwale, past me, and stood on the bow like he owned it.  My boat is a Tracker PRO170... I could have pushed him off the bow with my foot, he was so close.  I went back to the seat to get my camera and he didn't even flinch.  After ten minutes or so, he hopped down into the water and swam off.

 

 

It was waiting to be fed.

[Krux5506]

One of my strangest times out on the water was a few years back when I launched my boat at my family's cottage very early April almost immediately after the ice was out. It was a day of sorta time crunching hectic nonsense with getting the boat ready, batteries not actually charging, blah blah blah just one thing after another preventing my buddy and I from getting the boat in and actually fishing. 

 

Finally we get the boat launched, he drives my truck back to the cottage so I motor down to pick him up at our dock. As soon as he gets on, a neighbor who I don't know maybe 5 doors down is flagging us down from her dock. I almost wanted to pretend I didn't see her but I couldn't in good conscience just ignore her. I go down and see whats up knowing it was just something else to prevent us from starting our already very late day of fishing. She tells us her husband is across the bay on their canoe, trying to tow back their floating dock that blew away and wondered if we could help him. "uhh ok sure" so we motor out, find him trying to tow what looks like a 40ft long by 8 ft wide floating dock from the back of his canoe he is PADDLING, from the opposite side of the bay. It appeared to be a miserable failure. I offered to hook the dock to my boat and tow it back, with his canoe and him on the dock. He agrees, tries to get onto the dock and flips over in his canoe into the 36 degree water. I panic a bit but know he has a life jacket on. He acts as though nothing even happened and just rolls onto the dock like it's no big deal. I try to make it quick, thinking the guy is gonna get hypothermia. We get back to the dock, and in somewhat of a panic I tell his wife he fell in, she needs to get him inside ASAP. She immediately laughs at him, makes fun of him, and calls him an idiot. Then they both laugh. Nobody seems concerned except me and my buddy. She attempts to hand me a sizeable wad of cash as a "thank you" which appeared to be all 20's...I tell her I can't take her money but she convinces me to take $20 to go buy some beer, at which point I'd say was much needed.

[desmobob]

A squirrel swimming across the lake...

 

 

 

[Nelson Wormefeller]

 

[lynxcat]

A duck in the middle of a large pond get drowned by a turtle. Duck went crazy for two minutes trying to get loose and then silence. 

[Bankbeater]

On my fishing trip a couple of weeks ago the wind was blowing pretty good. There was a bobber coming toward me and I figured I'd grab it when it passed the boat. I'm watching the bobber and realize it's moving against the wind. The bobber got a couple of feet away from the boat and went under. I looked around for it for a while then went back to fishing.

[einscodek]

Caught a lunker once reeling it in from at least 30 yards away and after taking a few pictures, weighings, measures, prepared to release when I look into the water there was an equally-sized bass ~ 20" staring right up at me so close I could have reached down a few feet to grab it.  It kept looking at me seemingly interested in what I was doing with the other fish.  Released the fish slowly and it closed in on it, swam aside,  and the pair swam slowly away together.  I like to think they were paired mates.. changed the way I look at bass.

[Zippo Guy]

While we may not have the Chupacabra here in Northern California,  I have spotted the Poopacabra.  It has been seen providing black water removal from houseboats around the lake. 

[lo n slo]

never had a Canada Goose come anywhere near the boat before, ever. but this peculiar fellow has been visiting me quite regularly these last few weeks. yesterday i saved him some of my ham sandwich.

[MickD]

My son and I were fishing on a sunny day on a lake just inland from Lake MI and I noticed my line (mono at the time, probably about 8 pound test) entering the water vertically, not with the normal gentle slope.  I lifted the rod trying to figure out what was happening and immediately noticed an audible buzz.  As I lifted the rod higher, it got louder; when I dropped the rod it went away.

 

We quickly left the water and in a few minutes a severe electrical storm hit.  We had almost gotten struck by lightning on what we thought was a normal sunny day.

[Bass Rutten]

Lake Delevan Wisconsin circa 2010, Fishing with a buddy on the west side of the lake I spot something kinda snaking its way towards us across the surface about 40 yards out, I kind of keep my eye on it as I’m fishing, a minute or two later it’s about 5 yards from the boat where I can finally get a good look at it and realize it’s a northern pike swimming along with its head above the water which proceeded to dart off right next to the boat. The strangest thing about all this though is that we seen the same thing a couple days later, bizzaro!