What's the strangest thing you've caught on the end of your line?

[GatorBK]

A dinosaur just under 11 feet using 200 lb test Tuff Line

[Matthys]

this nasty thing

that looks like a moray eel.Some people actually go after them.Yuk!

[paul.]

a couple of years ago i hooked a big beaver in the back leg on a 3/4 oz. rattletrap. what a fight! i briefly thought it was a monster fish until it surfaced, totally confused and p.o.'d about what was going on. to this day i chuckle when i think about it. it kept trying to look back at its leg like, "what the....!!!??? ;D thankfully it pulled loose and i got to keep my rattletrap. i was gonna cut my line anyway. either that, or i woulda ended up in some of jeff foxworthy's material.

[Tin]

Jimmy Hoffa  

[The_Natural]

First off...this wasn't necessarily a 'catch', but I caught a 2.5lb spot in a tournament in '05, and he spit up a Gene Larew craw in the livewell that had swollen up waaay beyond its normal size.  I don't think it was a hawg craw to begin with...the plastic was very gelatin like and you could tell it had absorbed a lot of water and was old.  I'm not sure how long the plastic was in the water or how long the bass tried to digest it.  Here is a pic.....

Here is a frog that pounded a lizard.....

I could have caught this snapping turtle several times...he was near the bank and chased my jig every time I retrieved it.  Look at the claws on this guy!  My cat doesn't have claws that big.   I wish the bass were as interested in my bait as he was...

[Fish Man]

my head on a lipless crank.....and while surf fishing almost caught a surfer  ;D

[Jake P]

I got snagged on a log and cut my line and lost one of my favorite rattle traps and a week or so later i came back to the same spot and hooked my old rattletrap and reeled them both in.

[The Rooster]

A duck. I was casting live nightcrawlers in a pond and got too close to a duck and he grabbed it. I hooked him in the tongue. I had to chase him down and hold his neck and head while cutting the hook to remove it. He was very mad when I let him go.

Then I reeled in 1/2 of a rod with a Daiwa spincast reel on it. It had an Eerie Derie lure on it. I thought it was strange to find a walleye lure on a rod in the bottom of a trout/bass lake. Maybe they do work for bass, who knows.

Other things include shoes, diapers, once a small rock hooked perfectly in a hole on top of it.

I once witnessed my brother catch a dead bass. It was hooked in the mouth so he thought it had taken his line. Turned out it had another line attached to it also and apparently had been hung up and died cause it could not move around to feed. He hooked it perfectly in the jaw, brought it in, lipped it and then was surprised to find it was already dead.  Wasn't a keeper though so he had to throw it back. ;D

[islandbass]

I caught a river sculpin fishing with a size 5 floating rapala minnow. That is not the weird part however.

I was pretty much at the end of the retrieve and stopped. The current pushed my lure to the shore such that the front half of the lure was on land and the other half in the water. Then, a small sculpin, no bigger than the rapala swam up, saw the lure, hopped up to it and lactched its mouth to the rear treble! I heard that they can be poisonous so I released it from the treble with great caution.

Ugly mugs. This isn't the one I caught that day, but I just wanted to show you how ugly they are.

[flyhatch]

this summer in fort morgan alabama I was fishing off a pier throwing a heavly weighted gulf shrimp when I felt some good resistance, turned out to be a sea turtle snagged in the foot.

I felt bad cause he wrapped me around a pileing and was stuck out of the water. but a boat came by and I got the owner to un hook it for me.

[Korea_Bassin]

caught a nightcrawler fishing for salmon in ship creek in alaska. on a spin n glow

How did you know what the nightcrawler was fishing for?   ;D

Strangest thing I caught was.....a seagull....Monterey, CA.

Now if you want to talk about strangest things seen floating in the water...I can honestly say I fished next to about a 12" TV - floating screen up right next to my boat.  Also, almost every body of water I fish on here in Korea has at least one (usually more) soccer ball floating on it somewhere.  

[Popeye]

From shore:  7 fish at one time! 2 small bass, 3 suckers (these are called shiners by some) and 2 catfish. I snagged a metal stringer that someone had lost with all the fish on it and still alive. I thought I had a monster until I saw what I was reeling in. Weird:o)

[619bassman]

i reeled in a glove by the middle finger once, all the others were folded down in a perfect "bird". i guess the fish were ticked i was slayin um that day.

[SimonSays]

I remember tossing a jig out into the middle of a small pond once...I was using green braided powerpro and out of no where a bunch of birds fly by...I guess this one couldn't see the line cause he flew right into it...his struggle then tangled him up into it ... i had to reel him in hold him down a slowly remove the line...that was really weird  

[KYbass1276]

i know u guys dont want to hear this one but the strangest thing i have ever pulled in was a womens under garment a thong to be precise out of the ohio river i cut my line not touching that lol

Funny you should mention the ohio river.   My wife's uncle caught two condoms on the same day on the ohio.   Needless to say he lost two baits

[FRfisherman]

I've caught a snake using just a regular plastic worm.   I also pulled in a big mass  consisting of sticks, fishing line,  sinkers, hooks,  half of a fish head and a live catfish!  

[skunked_again]

2 things

a casting net, which was a blessing due to the fact it was full of crank baits. i cut out the baits and took the rest to the boat ramp.

my father in the back while fishing out of a small boat. we (he mostly) were lucky it was a small hook and the barb went in and out when i was casting. seems to me he tied on the biggest crank bait he had after that.......

[Handy]

I caught a huge leather back turtle, my youngest son, his own head. My friends dad some large water fowl bird(don't remember wich kind) and my friend caught a drift sock loaded with lures.

Paul

[FishTank]

The weirdest fish was a paddle fish.  I thought I caught a shark in fresh water.  Just a weird fish.

I also hooked into a bag of used medical supplies labled BIO HAZARD.  It was filled with needles, blood bags, and OTHER STUFF that had blood on it.  

[Troutfisher]

My mom once caught a fishing pole that had a fish attached to it

Was it still alive?

I've caught bags, a boot, rocks, cans, and more.

[tritz18]

I caught the rod that my dad had droppedin the water minutes before in like 60 feet of water. that was lucky. have also witnessed my friend catch a seagull

[ga_hawghauler]

i was fishing a tourney one time when i cast up under this tree with a small rapala floating lure when i felt pressure on the line. when i got it reeled to the boat a snake about 2 and 1/2 foot long had came up and got caught on the lure.

[Fish Man]

I also hooked into a bag of used medical supplies labled BIO HAZARD. It was filled with needles, blood bags, and OTHER STUFF that had blood on it.

uhm were did this happen, reminfd me to never fish there lol  ;D

[FivePoundBluegill]

Got a turtle, duck, and a coot fishing for catfish...

[Del from philly]

snapper turtle on a inline spinner

seagull down in florida

baby pike-senko- never even saw one until this year, it was scary with them teeth

and all kinds of weird shirts, hats, bags, lures..etc

corny sarcastic answer- im gonna go with the lock ness monster