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

[SimonDM17]

I fish in the Charles River in MA fairly regularly...while it's been cleaned up in the past few years, some weird stuff comes out of it.  I know guys who have hooked into shopping carts, a couple bodies, rods/reels...

My catches include:

A purse (empty)

A 4ft iron rebar

A butternut squash

A pair of blue jeans

[Nitro 882]

Caught an owl on a plastic frog early one morning on the St. Johns river in Fla. Talk about a Chinese fire drill-------

[Bass XL]

This is kinda different but still crazy and hard to believe. I was fishing a creek for little smallies near my house. I was throwing a green pumpkin Yum Craw bug into a log jam near a bridge pillar when it got snagged and i lost it. The very next day i went back with my buddy and he reeled in a little smallie. When we went to take the hook out i looked down his mouth and there was my lure from yesterday. It wasn't hooked or any thing and it was all tore up from where he was chewing on it. I couldn't believe he would hold onto that for so long.

I have a similar story...

I was fishing with a big blk/blu spinnerbait, and on the cast, the line snapped about 5 inches above the lure (have no idea why)...The very next day, I was fishing in the same spot with a crankbait, and hooked the spinnerbait. I was pretty stoked because that was one of my fav. spinnerbaits.

[Stasher1]

I was bank fishing at a local lake and caught a plastic worm on a DT6. It was all swollen and discolored. I snapped a pic with my phone, but it didn't come out very well.

[Jim_H]

I was fishing in Indiana and hooked something that felt like a small log, reeled it up and it was a FULL stringer of bluegill that evidently got away from someone's boat, about 30 fish on it. Good way to start a day of bluegill fishing ;D

[Rayraff]

I didn't really catch it but one time I was up a boundary water and i caught a nice largemouth bass.  Since that was the only fish all night and we needed to eat I put him on a stringer and was tying him to the canoe we he went for a run.  Needless to say and swore for about 10 minutes until I saw a stringer floating in the slop....  We rowed over there and grabed it with the fish still on it.

[the captain]

i aint sure what it is just yet bein that i havent investigated for a while but i believe that it is an old coal stove in one of the better fishing hole around here so far i only lost a midnight special spinnerbait on it. which means i am going to find out what it is as soon as the waters warm enough to swim in.

[LCpointerKILLA]

a strong 3 pounder, but it had about 2 feet of braid coming out of its bum, must of had the lure still inside of her and could only pass the line.

[Daiwa]

My dad caught the handle of a shovel. My friend caught my broken line at a pond with a nice "pond" size bass on it.

[frogtog]

I tried to find the post I made a few months ago but couldn't so to the best of my knowledge here it is. I was practicing for a Stratos Tournament on the Tar river in eastern NC. I was by myself just drifting along fishing log jams, when I flipped my jig in one of them I noticed a round ball in the water and it didn't look right. It was like a peace of cloth was rolled up over a limb. So I went in for a closer look. I took my rod and kind of pushed on it and when I did a hand came up out of the water. That's when I made my move to the back of the boat and my pants were getting heavy. I started calling 911 and I think I went through every operator they had in eastern NC before one understood where I was. I finally met two deputies at the boat ramp and took them to where he was. We had to tape the site off with yellow tape, thats when I got a good view of the face or should I say what was left of it. No more potted meat for me. One of the deputies got sick and the other one wanted to put him in my boat. I let them know real quick that won't going to happen. By the time we got back to the ramp the news media and the SBI were there. They question me for a hour about this guy. After a few hours they got him out and identified him as Tyrone Cooper, He was in a fight on the bridge in Greenville NC about three months before and they said he jumped off the bridge to escape the guys ( I really bet he jumped ) He had been in the water about three months before I found him. Well I didn't win the tournament but I did catch the big fish 6lb where I found the body at and won a $1000.00 bucks. I knew this was going to happen to me one day because I'm always finding stuff in those log jams.

[Skitterz]

Thank's Frogtog been waiting to hear that story bet that makes you think twice before ya start poking stuff with the rod.

[Big-O]

Sea gull, nice fight too!

[SouthMiamiBassMan]

in Miami back in the 80's, about 3 miles off of Key Biscayne, my uncle caught a "Square Grouper" one night. He had hooked a fish and as he was reeling it in he felt the pull get even stronger and we thought maybe a shark had eaten it so he slowly kept reeling it in and then noticed it was more of a dead weight then anything. When he got it to the boat we saw that the fish was a snapper and it had wrapped itself around a bail that was floating just beneath the surface. I was a kid and I didn't understand what was going on or why everyone was so out by it. Then my uncle pulled it in the boat started the engine and we went home right away. It wasn't until I got much older that my dad told me it was a few pounds of Jamaica's finest and because of it my uncle was able to upgrade to a much bigger boat. Like I said it was Miami in the 80's.

[louisianabassin]

this isnt too weird but i caught a few spinnerbaits and a water snake on a jig and a clam

[-badhabit-]

A couple of weeks ago I was fishing with forum member "Timistall" and I caught a 1 1/2" long Striped Bass fingerling on a 6" Senko with a 5.0 hook and 17lb test line.

This fish was released alive

Here is how we came up with how it happened:

I got a hit from a decent size bass and when I set the hook it slipped and hooked the fingerling that the bass was feeding on in the side.

Other than that there is no explanation (typing while humming the theme to "The Outer Limits").

[MattStrykul]

in Miami back in the 80's, about 3 miles off of Key Biscayne, my uncle caught a "Square Grouper" one night. He had hooked a fish and as he was reeling it in he felt the pull get even stronger and we thought maybe a shark had eaten it so he slowly kept reeling it in and then noticed it was more of a dead weight then anything. When he got it to the boat we saw that the fish was a snapper and it had wrapped itself around a bail that was floating just beneath the surface. I was a kid and I didn't understand what was going on or why everyone was so out by it. Then my uncle pulled it in the boat started the engine and we went home right away. It wasn't until I got much older that my dad told me it was a few pounds of Jamaica's finest and because of it my uncle was able to upgrade to a much bigger boat. Like I said it was Miami in the 80's.

That is hilarious and might be one of the best stories I've ever heard. Haha ;D ;D ;D

[Hot Rod]

A big bullfrog on a spinnerbait  

[Big Al]

On my line- a seagull grabbed a red and white popper right out of the sky

Also didn't really catch it but one day my dad and I were in our canoe paddling back in to the landing and about a 24" snot rocket jumped in.  I was in the front and saw a wake comin head on and all of a sudden it flew in and made a decent thud on the aluminum.

btw: snot rocket=little northern pike