Re: What have you caught on accident?

[Montgomery]

All of the normal trash fish but in 2004 3 rod and reels from the same lake and all in different areas. And my biggest fear would be to hook a dead body

[flippinmaster]

I caught a bluegill on a 2inch goldfish several large bluegill on rat-l-trap. ;D

[MuchyMan]

I was fishing a little stream for the first time, looking for some trout but i caught two 14' smallmouth bass and several bluegills I have also caught crappie perch bass creek chubs suckers shiners and a snagging hook with about a 4' long sinker on it

[bassholebuster14]

i got a 50+pound pillow on a deep fat free shad

man did it fight hard :-?

[JiggaMan512]

In the words of Peter Griffin, " Man, fishing sucked today. All i caught was a tire, an old boot, and this book of cliches."

[Dan:]

i caught a jacket one time. That sucked not only because it was hard to land, but also because I knew someone was cold somewhere.

[virgina-bass-fisherman]

i cauhgt a osprey on a live blue fish and ive caught myself a couple of times

[nofishforme]

today i went to a new spot in my reservior where this man showed me to use a spinner bait at a medium retrieve...so i decided to switch to a spinner bait from a yum forked dinger, so i casted into the water not expecting to catch anything, i put my rod in the holder as i went to find the spinner bait and abut 5 seconds later i see my rod bedning like crazy. so i take the rod out and start fighting the fish which i thought was a MONSTER bass, but after 2 minutes or so it turned out to be a gigantic pike (for my standards) it was 24" long and 11.5" around which according to the weight calc. is 5.12lbs, so i guess my PB fish for now is a pike but hopefully i beat that # with a bass

[Crabcakes]

I've caught some weird things. A seagull and  a 5ft water snake among them. I also caught  two flounder in 25 feet of water ripping a gotcha plug just beneath the surface. I would liken it to catching a catfish in 25 feet of water on a floating rapala.

The all time winner is a very angry 500lbish sea lion who took a live mackerel i was fishing in Baja. He actually just came up and wallowed on the surface crying once he was hooked. We cut the line as quick as we could.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

line class record pike.  Was bass fishing.

[gtbehary]

Fishing for bass and hooked a bowfin. Hale (fellow forum member) and myself thought I had a big bass. Went down to grab it for me then saw what it was (or wasn't) and jumped back. Very funny!

[WhiteMike1018]

My moms head!  

[BassFishingMachine]

Hmm.. My weirdest catch has to be well... this fish is hard to explain. Have you ever seen that fish on the animal planet or discovery channel, it attaches to the belly of a shark and follows it around, kinda like a leech. Anyways I actually caught one of those things. I was fishing a gulp on a jighead off a jetti and the thing actually hit it. When I brought it up it was the weirdest fish ive ever seen. I literally could not tell what side the fishes head was right side up. What I mean is I could not tell what side of the fish the top of its head was on. It was one weird looking fish. It had a suction type thing on the one side of it, that kinda resembled a plug port or somethin. (Which made me think that the side with the suction thing was the right side of the fish. Anyway I never thought I'd catch that type of fish, but it just goes to show you, you never know what your going to catch when fishing in the ocean .

Here is a picture of it. 

[Troutfisher]

Wow, that's an odd fish!

The oddest things I've caught?  Lemme see....

I've caught a tin can off the bottom (ain't that cliched), and caught a 4 inch bluegill on a 5 inch senko.  I also caught a bottom rig when I was fishing out of the ocean that had snapped off earlier.

[scott000]

bass on a pan jig and bluegill on popper

yeah bluegills love popers

[Hula Popper]

I snagged a gizzard shad on a Rat-L-Trap once. And I caught a 4 pound bass on a crappie jig.

[BassKing813]

Ducks, pelicans, turtles, alligators, stingrays, bowfin, minnow, panfish.

[Ky_Lake_Dude]

I once caught a bikini top on a crankbait

[fourbizz]

Last weekend I hooked, fought, and broke off an ~80 pound fawn.

[Absolute_St.Croix]

Last week I took my pup Buck to the river with me cause he loves the water and I was fishin with a rattle~trap by some weeds for a smallie and WHAM I caught an 11.5" Pike! I laughed and carefully took it of the hook and let him go. That was weird cause I have trouble catchin them when I'm actually fishing for them! LOL

[Hale]

I caught a flu in a foregin country.....

[jbass]

While fishing bass alley on Clear Lake here in California, I was throwing a deep diving crankbait fishing the break, when my crankbait was hammered. It just stopped dead and then started to move off. I set the hook again and the fight was on. Once I got it to the boat, it was a round rock about 3 lbs. The fight was when it rolled down the break to the bottom.

[fourbizz]

I caught both of these earlier this year on swimbaits. The first one is a Sacramento Pike Minnow that went 7lbs5oz and the channel catfish was 4lbs15ozs.

[Alpster]

Caught a 1/2 pound crappie on a 1/2 oz buzz bait. He jumped over a log to hit it. Hooked right in the top of the mouth. I couldn't have placed that big ole hook in that little bitty mouth with my hands. It was hilarious.  

Ronnie

[Hightekrednek]

I caught a sculpin on a trout lure once, they sure are funny lookin'.  I caught a 3" 'gill on a 6" plastic worm.  My first crappie was also on "accident" while fishing for bass.