Unusual catches on artificials?

[Bernie Mac]

and to add a couple more....caught a couple of brown trout on some shallow jerk baits...and a white sucker on a lil 1/8oz rapala (segmented jerkbait)...hit it as soon as it touched the water.

[S I G M A]

Mid 20's northern pike on a shakey head worm today

[CRFisher]

I just narrowly missed catching one of these on a 1 ounce Daredevle this weekend.  I didn't see the bird at all on my cast.  At first as I saw it start to follow I thought I was looking at a personal best bass.  Then something looked wrong so I ripped the lure away at the last moment thinking it was a snapping turtle.  I've had birds take a look at a spook as they fly overhead, but never had a bird chase a lure underwater.

[fisher1973]

Had an owl come out of a tree and hit water less than 6'' behind buzzbait, was really glad he missed.

[NaturalAcoustics]

a swim suit tied to to beach umbrella with a chatter bait =) thought i had the worlds biggest trout on the end on the line *sigh*

[DawsonH]

Nearly got a coon and a rubber frog I threw on the bank.

Also got a large red ear on a 3/4oz spinner bait.

[S I G M A]

catfish on a lucky craft LV

and an old sock on an lucky craft LV

both today

[Bernie Mac]

and an old sock on an lucky craft LV

awww...the elusive "old sock" fish...you should feel privileged

[etommy28]

tee shirt on a bandit 100

[Mepps]

Sea gull on a Gotcha plug.

[CookieMonst3r]

Fishing rod/reel combo on a jighead.  ;D

[MattinOK]

My weirdest catch was in a pond fishing a 10'ish crankbait. I was burning it in, and all of a sudden my line went taught and my pole almost bent in two. I'm thinkin' "This must be a dadgum' big fish.". So I finally reel it in, and it turns our to be a old newspaper...  ;D ;D ;D

[ShouldBe0utdoors]

Crappie- Crappie SwimBait

Numerous Catfish-Spinnerbaits and Chatterbaits

Snapping Turtle-Tube

Duckling-Rooster Tail

Sunfish-Creature Bait

[KYntucky Warmouth]

half a pack of hotdogs on a crankbait

[J-B]

Had an owl come out of a tree and hit water less than 6'' behind buzzbait, was really glad he missed.

A little over a week ago I was fishing at a pond back in the woods. I threw in a Manns topwater frog and looked away for second to close my tackle box. I had not locked the reel yet and the line started going out like crazy. I looked out to the pond and my line was not there, instead it was going up. A hawk had taken my frog and was flying away with it. It dropped the frog into a pine tree on the other side of the pond. Due to the weedless design of the frogs, I got the bait back. I am glad that the bird did not get stung by the hook.

[Bernie Mac]

half a pack of hotdogs on a crankbait

What happened to the other half of the hot dogs :-?

[DawsonH]

A lot of people use hot dogs for catfish bait. May have been remains of the bait they discarded.

[SuperNewbie]

5 inch sunny on a 3/4 oz jitterbug bit one hook and caught his tail on the back one needless to say i caught a 8 lbs cat fish that day too

[Folshen]

Odd one for me would be about an 8lb carp that slammed a Hula Popper years ago.

[Koop]

I got a garr on a DT10 and a little 14" northern on a husky jerk, though the northern had *2* jerkbaits in his lip, both fire tiger color.  One of them had gone through his mouth entirely and he was unable to open it.  Was lucky I was even able to land him as I didn't have a hook on him, he must have went for my jerk bait and I got hung up on a treble and a gill.  Glad I caught him and was able to remove the lures or he wouldn't have survived very long.

[Minuteman]

How about a 42Lb Flathead on a Mann's Stone Jig..That's My Boy!

[etommy28]

10 + pound cat fish on a black and blue jig suspended in about 10 feet down in 35 feet of water