Re: What have you caught on accident?

[bass109]

13 lb Largemouth bass. took about 6 months to catch. My own experience with Largemouth bass that big is most lures dont work on it. even soft plastic lures. but live golden shinners and worms might be the only baits to catch it with. I used spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, jigs, soft plastic worms,lizards,frogs, and jerkbait but the fish get very lazy and dont even care. There mouths are so big that they can spit out big bass hook with ease.

[The_Punisher]

Just came back from the local pond and I have you all beat.  You want to know what I just caught?  How about my brand new Motorola cellphone.  That's right, I sat it next to a cement bench in a zip-lock bag (after the little woman called to chat) and sure enough, my next cast caught the bag and flung it into the pond.  It landed about a foot out in the water (that's right, almost stayed dry) and while I ran to grab it within a matter of seconds, it still seems to be dead.  Looks like I'll have to drop another $50 on the deductible and get a new one.  I obviously should have gone fishing as God intended - with no contact to the outside world.

[Aravix]

I was doing a bit of fishing off the docks, and managed to catch about a 3-4 pound drum.

[AceHigh]

Let's see -

A 5 and 1/2 lb. white crappie on a crankbait (Yeah just under the world record and on the same lake),

Lots of 8-15 lb. drum on plastic worms during bass tounaments.

An alligator gar estimated at 250 lbs. on a plastic worm.

A 10' alligator on a crankbait in southern Arkansas where I didn't even know there was alligators.

Snagged a Manatee on the St Johns river.  Like hooking a whale.

Lots of bullfrogs on plastic worms.

Snakes, birds, turtles, a duck.  Every kind of salt water fish imaginable (in the salt marshes they mix it up with bass).  One nutria (a big one).

An then there was the 8 lb. channel cat that somehow managed to sink a large treble hook so far into my thumb that I had to push it out the other side of my thumb point first.   Believe me tyhere's noting like having a twisting beserk 8 lb. catfish on one end of a lure when the other end is sunk solidly into your thumb.

[atoms]

Turtles all the time when carp fishing!

Also, a spotted moray eel in FL. Yikes. Not fun getting off the line.

Channel Cat while fishing a TX rigged worm for bass.

Yellow Perch on a micro crank bait fishing for bluegill.

[bassaddict62]

My son caught a huge crappie on a big floating bass plug. I've caught big bluegills on floating bass plugs too. Last month I had something enormous take my plastic worm just after sunset in a lake that never produces huge bass. Because I keep my drag set light yet the line snapped near the worm, I suspect a big snapping turtle (which are in the lake). My buddy in Alaska caught a seagull on a floating Rapala.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Crabs.

[BASSMAN1301599783]

Oh Jeeze!!! Thats to much!!! LOL

[bassaddict62]

Two weeks ago I caught an Oscar. Yes, the same tropical fish Oscar that people raise in tanks. Obviously someone threw it in the lake rather than kill it or give it away. It fought like a son-of-a-gun too!

[ragnut]

one time i caught my dad in the head with a 4" rapala

then one time he caught himself in his own ear with a fly popper hahahaha :

[ragnut]

another time Chris and i were fishing of jetty park in florida, i cought a SEA SNAKE

I DROPPED MY SURF ROD AND PROCEEDED TO WALK ON WATER ....

moments later chris saw a manatee and try tohold onto its tail :

[Chris]

Remember Bubba at hole 13 at Tuskawilla?

[ragnut]

dang gator hahahahaha wed feed him those little ... um fish hahaha he loved us

[A-ManAboutFishing]

I once caught a 4lb.  Walley without a pole!

I had my 8ft.  dipnet down in this creek catching minnows for bait.  I was walkin in bout 1-2ft.  of water and I stepped on this fish.  I must have scared the crap out of him,  cause he shot up on shore and ran right into my tackel box.  I just yelled to my brother "Throw a net on that fish."  We were both pretty shocked,  it was surreal.

[BD]

Three things I would have never thought I would see while fishing...all have happened this year.

A catfish caught on a rooster tail

A catfish caught on a plastic worm t-rigged. for bass

A perch caught on a huge buzzbait (compared to his size)

The only thing left for me to see is a perch caught on a jig lol

[EZ_Spin]

True Story...

While fishing a Texas rigged worm at a tournament on Oconee last year I felt a hard "tap". When I set the hook it felt like it was heavy so I told my partner to get the net. I was shocked and embarrassed when I pulled in a live, fresh water clam.  About three casts later I felt a differen't "Tap and  tug". This time it actually started to swim off and felt really good. I yelled "Net, net!" and, you guessed it, another larger clam. My buddy was rolliing around laughing! To this day, every time I stick a fish with him in the boat I have to hear "It ain't another dang clam is it?"

[cedar1]

I was fishing Lake Erie for smallies and pulled in a St. Croix Legend with a Shamano Spirex reel. It looked like new. I wish that happened more often!

[Cade Laufenberg]

I caught a big snapper once on a really big floating plug. I think it is called a creek chub but i am not sure.. Thought it would be a huge northern...Brought it in with a ton of weeds around it and i heard it making noises...pulled the weeds off and about crapped myself...It was hilarious.

I caught a monster sheephead before too while trolling for walleyes...it was easy 12-15 pounds...Nasty fish though!

[Cricket_Fire]

Perch, which was then eaten by a pickerel. I took off the pickerel, and kept both fish ;D

I'd say snapping turtles, but we actually fish specifically for them haha. When we can't get a ride (niether me or fishing budy drive), we bike to a little pond nearby. It's chocced full of sunfish (similar to bluegill, don't know if it's the same fish :-/ ). So, we catch a sunfish, get it nice and bloody, keep it on our lines, and catch snappers with it. They're fun ;D

[Rattlinrogue]

I've also caught crappie on c-baits and plastic worms,catfish on spinnerbaits,pickeral on just about every lure known to man, grennel on plastic worms,gaspergou on spinnerbaits(that's a cajun name for 'em;weird looking fish),bream on c-baits and floating Rapalas,bass on bream popping bugs,etc.,etc.,etc.

[dabluz]

While fly fishing I caught a bat.  

Another time fly fishing I caught a wild duckling.  

While topwater fishing at night, I hooked a beaver.  He stole my lure.

I caught a big pike that coughed up a nice fresh 3 lb walleye when I got him on shore.

Quite a few river clams.

A huge, green eel while fishing for brook trout in a tiny lake very far away from any place where eels normally can be found.  I was using 4 lb mono.  I cut the line when the monster was close to the canoe.

[cedar1]

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flipped a black jig into a willow bush and pulled this baby out

[Shad_Master]

I once caught a rock on Table Rock -- it was about 2" square and had a hole in one side where water had eroded it at some point and I picked it up on a crank bait.

also, a buddy of mine once caught a musk rat -- sort of on an accident, but he kept swimming around where we were fishing and buddy threw his crank bait at him to try to scare him away and he got snagged in the foot.

Another guy, member of my Bass Club, caught a goose when he dove after his Senko and took off in the air with it, very funny to watch -- wish I had a video camera.

[RoLo]

I was casting a floating rapala for bass in a quiet bay in Lake Huron (Parry Sound, Ontario).

A passing seagull came out of nowhere and siezed my lure before I was able to rip it underwater.

He managed to hook himself so I no choice but to retreive Big Bird to the boat.

Unhooking that ungrateful condor was not a pretty sight for either of us.

[mudcatwilly]

Once while striper fishing the SF Bay, I caught a good sized crab.  Somehow, the hook passed under the crab and hooked the line around its body.  I basically lassooed it.