Palmetto Fisherman Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 I'm not sure I can do this story justice in writing but I will try. I was a teenager fishing a local Friday local tourney with my dad. Earlier that week a group of kids, several of whom were close friends of mine were swimming in a local hole and jumping off a nearby bridge. Well one guy who was on my football team and a friend since we were literally 3 jumped off the bridge and never surfaced again. they had searched the water for a few days and as yet had no luck finding thee young man. The immediate area was roped off to keep boaters and lurchers away when the search party ended at dark. My dad had canceled his normal fishing partner just to get me out of the house and try and have a lil fun. Here we are just after dusk maybe 200 yards away from the bridge on the second pier back in a small cove. Banging Texas rigged zooms off the bottom when I get a "bump" slightly rod tip move and another "bump" slam home the metal and start cranking... Immediately I feel dead weight, shot it was brush, no NO its moving its fighting this is a fish and a MONSTER. I'm cranking for all Im worth, this target is flopping back and forth fairly rythmically but slowly rising. Dad gets the net and prepares to land our money fish....just then as it breaks the water we both draw back as the large round bloated orange object starts to appear, I am instantly nauseous and nearly drop the rod.... a few more pulls and its surfaced again...I just knew I had caught the corpse of my friend...I know thi sounds morbid but it seemed like I had top pull it up whatever it was probably only 10 seconds after it first broke the water but they were agonizing hours in my mind as tears streaked down my face.... As I pulled it up and clear again, what i had caught was a medium sized orange bucket. not 5 gallon more like a mop bucket or something you would wash a car with, I was hooked into some cork type grip on the handle and I guess in retrospect as I pulled it up the bucket was flopping back and forth providing the fight. The color, shape and location and probably a bit of pent up emotion projected to make me think it was something else....but it was just an orange bucket. When we finally figured out what it was I literally was hysterical with laughter...not even sure why. So thats my odd catch [bTW the body was recovered a day or two later inside the roped off "search" area...just missed the first time] Quote
Jason Schwartz Posted December 30, 2008 Posted December 30, 2008 the strangest fish i caught was caught yesturday. it was about a 2lb gizzard shad that i caught on a senko. the funny thing was it was hooked in the mouth like it tried to eat the senko lol Quote
619bassman Posted December 31, 2008 Posted December 31, 2008 I've caught ducks, turtles, a seagull, and a bat on a topwater once. But the funniest by far was a glove that I caught by ( you guessed it) the middle finger, it was hilarious. my brother and I laughed for a good ten minutes. Quote
bigbssr Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 I caught a Buddist vase with Jewelery, money, and enuff rice for 2 meals 2 years ago in the ocean off of No. Cal, coast. I dono just fish. Quote
Bass XL Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 I caught a cat on at tow water frog. Scary, but all went well. Quote
Other. Posted January 2, 2009 Posted January 2, 2009 I have never caught anything abnormal really. I have snagged a dead and decaying largemouth bass before, that was really nasty. Quote
tiny Posted January 2, 2009 Posted January 2, 2009 I caught a rainbow trout with a panther martin coming out the other end (you know what I mean?) The lure was all rusted up and not pretty but it was there. A 10# catfish on brown jig A landlocked stealhead buck on a chrome/blue rattle trap in the Yorty Creek arm of Lake Sonoma A bullfrog on a plastic worm fished on some weedbed Quote
nacsa Posted January 2, 2009 Posted January 2, 2009 This shell was my stangest catch. The catches the head of the plastic fish Quote
uiubassmaster Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 Manta birostris U caught a sting ray!?!?!? You would be amazed at some of the junk u can pull up from the bottom of the mighty mississippi river..... I've caught a number of usual and unusual things over the years, broken rods mussles a scummy old flannel shirt (luckily there was no one inside it) random pieces of metal my best friend sent a hook through the front of my shin on his back-cast once (d**n x-rap) best thing i ever remember catch would have to be when i hooked a muskrat in the tail, luckily he freed himself boatside while thrashing in the water..... :-/ Quote
LCpointerKILLA Posted January 20, 2009 Posted January 20, 2009 roughly ten pound speckled trout Quote
christopherjake Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 I caught a girl who later became my girlfriend while fishing w/ some buddies. Unfortunately she released me after a couple of months. Oh well, there are more fish in the sea. Quote
swilly78 Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 A duck, he was not happy, and released himself about three feet from the shore. A few big mussels, and numerous snapping turtles. Also, the same stupid bullfrog twice in a row. you think after the first time he would have figured out that spro frog was not edible.... Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted January 21, 2009 Super User Posted January 21, 2009 Does things I've "caught" during my commercial lobstering years on pot warp count? If so, here's a list. Several anchors, some more than a hundred pounds. Winch cable from draggers. Some New Bedford draggers empty the cable from their spools by streaming it out in Buzzards Bay on the way home. The stuff is an inch thick and all a hauler can do to raise it to the surface in 50 - 90 feet of water. A main sail from a Hinkley Yacht, and a few days later, the sail bag for it. Sections of railings from wrecks. Boulders the size of fifty gallon drums when the line takes a hitch on them. Dragger nets. Gillnets Comforters, yes the bedcovers. Sea turtles Basking sharks A sunken runabout Wood ship timbers Thankfully, no human remains. Quote
jack1 Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 The weirdest thing I caught was a plastic shopping bag. My bro-in-law's buddy caught a dead Hispanic guy in a river. That would have freaked me out! Quote
rippin_lips Posted January 22, 2009 Posted January 22, 2009 Fishing Rhino: I heard this summer that a lobster man on the cape found not one but two dead bodies floating in cape cod bay, on two separate occasions. Thats just bad luck! As for me, nothing strange freshwater, but did hook a lobster while fishing. Quote
Bass_Fanatic Posted January 22, 2009 Posted January 22, 2009 Well, I've caught all the typical animals such as turtles, gators, ect. and clothing such as shirts, shorts, ect. Strangest tho would have to be the time my cousin and I caught 14 bull frogs on zoom centipedes. We took them home and ate frog legs for supper that nite. We actually hooked 16, but two of them broke our line after gators swam done the hooked frogs. Quote
Mobydick Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 Google Search reveals: I could go on....but i don't want to spoil your fun. I was just looking at that top photo a little closer, the one of the pike. The body of the smaller one is layed the wrong way...the head would have to be upside down. It could be a fake. If you pull out the gill on the larger one...you could place the smaller one inside the gill, then with the right camera angle, it would look real. If you look close and look at it long enough you will begin to think it's fake...I did. Ian Quote
Ineedanewscreenname20170204 Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 Caught a condom in the Ohio river when I was a kid. Didn't enjoy getting it off the hook... Quote
bass wrangler569 Posted January 23, 2009 Posted January 23, 2009 I was night fishing on a small lake in the poconos and hooked a beaver on a buzzbait. It wasn't happy. Quote
UrbanRedneck Posted January 24, 2009 Posted January 24, 2009 ... and a pair of bra and panties. Did you smell them? Quote
Super User fishinfiend Posted January 24, 2009 Super User Posted January 24, 2009 ku bassmaster caught a pair of panties and a bra and bassmaster caught a beaver. These guys must have been fishing together. I guess bassmaster got ol' girl out of her clothes first. ;D ;D ;D Quote
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