Weirdest Thing(s) Caught

[Sam]

While fishing the James River just east of Richmond with my friend, Charlie, the bite was slow until Charlie hooked a big one.

Only problem was that it was a snag. At least we thought it was a snag.

Charlie takes his lure retriever and puts it on his line and lets it sink to the crankbait.  

He then pulls on the green cord and the cord comes lose.

Now,he is mad, so he takes his rod and starts to shake it hard and cuss and jump up and down trying to get his beloved Salad Bar Bandit crankbait loose.

The snag comes loose and he brings a BOOT into the boat.  A GI boot.

I almost fell overboard laughing.

I then tell him to look inside the boot for his lure retriever and he does. Nope, not there.

I then tell him to go back down with his lure and try to find the missing boot so he will have a set of GI boots.  He did not see the humor in my suggestion.

You see so many cartoons of people catching a boot that to actually have it happen is very funny.

To this day I remind him of the story and I still laugh.

If only you could have seen the look on his face when he brought that boot into the boat.  ;D

For me, I have not caught anything interesting.  Not that I remember, anyway.

[Staff Sergeant--USMC]

Hummm, weirdest thing caught; lets see...... well there was this one time in Thialand....Oh, wait you are talking about fish!!!! ;D I'd say it was catching an eel on a pond on base in Camp Lejeune, NC. We ended up catching allot of them. I have no clue as to what they are really called, I just know that they are eels. I cut the line and throw them back in!

[wickyman]

I have also caught a condom actually. Caught it on a rapala, looked like a windsock when it was coming in.

At least the fish know how to use protection! lol

[xps94]

something in the intercoastal idk but it was like a toad mixed with a eel and it croaked with a bright white colored mouth. :-?.i was alone and afraid to touch it so jus cut the line next to the hhook..

[Lavrax]

i have beaten all of you ;D.. I've caught a baby doll which looked like a decaying dead body, It really freaked me out when it came out of the water and almost gave me a heart attack! Ill post a pic when i find it!

[IDbasser]

I'd say it was catching an eel on a pond on base in Camp Lejeune, NC.

I remember back when I was a young kid catfishing on the Red River on the border of Arkansas and Texas and hooking an eel.  My dad was reeling it in and it did a flying leap through the air, and I wasted no time running up the bank to get away from it as fast as I could. I did not want to be any where close when it got reeled in.  It came off in that leap.

[neBassin]

water moccasin

[ducksdoom12]

weirdest thing i caught was a loon

second place a bull frog

[nashkcn]

anyone ever catch a book of cliches?

 

[crazy4bass1]

i have beaten all of you ;D.. I've caught a baby doll which looked like a decaying dead body, It really freaked me out when it came out of the water and almost gave me a heart attack! Ill post a pic when i find it!

plz post

that sounds interesting

[islandbass]

This season, I caught my home made inline spinner hooked up a pair of boxers for the lake bottom.  Yuck!!!!!

Also this season, As I made the motion to end the retrieve (lifting lure out of the water to make a cast) a bat came out of nowhere are latched onto my lure as I pulled it out of the water and up toward me. His wing got caught on the jig hook but he broke free as I stared in wonder.

1/4 oz jig head and a wacky rigged 3" pink senko. :

[wilsonm1]

i caught i MONSTER crawfish, i was using night crawlers and grabbed my hook with a single claw. it didnt put up a fightl, but it was a cool expirience

i didnt catch it but i saw a snake follow one of my shallow crankbaits

also caught a huge log ;D ;D ;D

[Grey Wolf]

Today I caught an ultra lite spinning out fit . It hadn't been in the water very long.

[fisher of bass]

1st seagull, fishing for stripers off egg rock in nahant mass

2nd  an old rod and reel with a mepps #2 inline spinner still attached

3rd 30lb rock, jigging for cod thought i won the pool bringing that thing up from 300' down,  :'(

[Troutfisher]

I caught a six year old when fishing once.  But when I brought him in, he was just under the size limit, so I pitched him back.

8-)

[wilsonm1]

I caught a six year old when fishing once. But when I brought him in, he was just under the size limit, so I pitched him back.

speaking of catching little kids... i caught i my little sister (8) in the face, i felt so bad:'(. i didnt hurt her though.

[thetr20one]

the weirdest thing i have caught had to be a condom. i caught it with a crank bait and thought i had a good fish, and well everyone came over to me to see waht i got and i pulled up a condom full of water. i was really embarrassed. then i had to find a way to get it off, i wasnt touchen it

The Ohio river has some sewage runoff and I think I have caught a limit of condoms in a day. Sick, very sick just thinkin about it makes me ill. Fishing at the river I have caught the kitchen sink. Literally! Some weird things float down that river. Other than that, a goose, a bat, huge clumps of zebra mussels you name it and I have problably hooked it! Fishing at Lake St. Claire I was going across the Walpole Indian Reservation in about two feet or less of water, too shallow to come off plane and a Swan was flying at the boat, I tried to avoid it but it flew right into the side of the boat. It was dazed but my partner watched and it flew away.

[BackofHisSkeeter]

I caught a 3 Inch long Snail once while fishing for Cats, I felt a little nibble I thought, so I Set the hook on it and all. I cracked it open and used it for bait...

[hawghunter1744]

I was fishing a Rat-L-Trap and hooked into what i thought was going to be the bass of a lifetime. i pulled it out of the grass to find out it was actually a chain link fence

[T-rig]

Caught a nice can the other day! ;D