What is the most bizarre object you have reeled in while fishing? (not fish, but an object) Or what is the most bizarre thing that has happened on your fishing trip? For myself, last summer I was fishing for smallmouth using a rooster tail. Well, the darn thing got hooked up on the rocks so I pulled and pulled until the line snapped and I lost the lure. A couple of weeks later, I was fishing the same spot with the exact same lure as I lost before, when I hooked what I thought was a fish. Imagine my surprise as I reeled in my fish, there at the end of my lure, was the other lure I lost a few weeks prior! I caught my own lure! There is a giant underwater rock that I always cast to because it holds big fish. I must have casted perfectly and hooked my lost lure! Amazing!!! Please share your amazing stories for everyone to enjoy!

Well Capn that is Amazing !
I once Reeled in some Curly Leaf Pondweed !
CM

Your catch is not nearly as amazing CASMAN! Ha ha!

On one occasion, when I was a kid, we were fishing on my dad's boat and my little brother was distracted and looking away from his rod. I still remember looking over and seeing his pole bend and get pulled overboard very suddenly by an angry trout! Well, the rod was gone forever in this deep lake, right? Wrong! A few minutes later my sister hooked a trout and reeled it in and there was a line sticking out of his mouth going back into the water. Very curious indeed! So what could be at the end of this line? Well, we pulled and pulled until finally a rod and reel appeared from the depths. It was the pole my brother had lost earlier! I don't know what the mathematical odds are of catching your own fishing pole, but they have to be pretty low! Needless to say, it was an amazing day of fishing!

I lost a spinnerbait in a small farm pond one year when the line broke after hooking a fish. The next spring I was fishing the same pond and hooked up. To my suprise, most of my spinnerbait was still in the corner of the bass' mouth. The skirt was gone, as were the blades, but the rest of the bait was right where I had put it the year before. I brought it home, cleaned it up a bit and put a new skirt and a blade on it.

It's amazing what happens out on the water isn't it!?

I caught a tenis ball, once.

Posted By fisherfanatic on 07 May 2011 10:51 PM
I caught a tenis ball, once.

Ha ha ha how is that even possible?

I was fishing near an overpass with a carolina-rigged plastic worm, when all of the sudden, I though I had a bite.  I started to reel whatever was on the other end of my line in, but it wasn't fighting.  That's when I noticed that the "fish" was flourescent green.

I've got pictures of the tennis ball, if you don't believe me.

Posted By fisherfanatic on 08 May 2011 09:34 AM
I was fishing near an overpass with a carolina-rigged plastic worm, when all of the sudden, I though I had a bite.  I started to reel whatever was on the other end of my line in, but it wasn't fighting.  That's when I noticed that the "fish" was flourescent green.

I've got pictures of the tennis ball, if you don't believe me.

Ha ha I believe you!

Ha ha ha nice catch! She's a beauty! That's gonna make the cover of next month's magazine!

THE MOST BIZARRE THING I EVER COUGHT WAS A SEAGULL. MY FATHER AND I WERE FISHING A SMALL BEACH ACROSS THE STREET FROM BARNAGET LIGHT STATE PARK, AS I WAS CASTING, A SEAGULL GLIDED DOWN ON GRABED MY BAIT RIGHT OUT OF MID AIR. THAT DARN BIRD GIVE ME THE BEST FIGHT OF THE DAY. AFTER REELING IT IN AND AVOIDING THE BEAK, UNHOOKED THE GULL AND SENT IT ON IT'S WAS.

Likewise, birds are big on my list.  I was fishing in the tail races below a dam in Alabama for stripers.  In trying to get my bait farther and farther out into the river, I did not notice a huge pelican flying across in front of me.  He did not get my bait but my line wrapped around his wing and it took me forever to get him to the bank and another battle to get him loose from the tangled line.  Finally, I was able to release the bird with little harm other than the shock of being landed by this young kid.  When the fishing is slow "birds are the next best thing".  Good luck and good fishing, Uncle Tom.

After writing about the pelican, I remembered fishing with a close friend for bass but the bass fishing was poor to say the most.  Getting bored I noticed a small four or five foot alligator sunning in some lily pads.  I tied on a buzz bait and commenced to agrevate him.  I pulled it by his tail, by his mouth, right over the top of his back and when I least expected the water exploded and I had set the hook in that gator only to hear my friend say:  "Well now you got him what you going to do with him?"  To which I had no real answer!!!
As I got him closer and closer to the boat my friend said:  "Hope you don't plan on putting that thing in this boat!"  To which I replied:  "No I was hoping you would take the hook out of his mouth as I bring him around your end of the bost."  Forunately, the hook slipped out and all I could think of was:  "QUICK RELEASE!"  Uncle Tom

My critter catch count:

4 ducks

2 seagulls

1 Sparrow

2 Snapping Turtles

1 Painted Turtle


I nearly missed catching a swan once, but I'm sure that's soon to come.

I was fishing at the bridge over Honeoye Creek in the village where I live during the spring, trying to catch some walleye with an abu spinner when I snagged something in the main channel.  I finally got it move and when I got to shore. I found I had caught a full six-pack of Genesee Beer.  They were nice and cold, too.  One of the other locals said he thought I was fishing for walleye, not suckers!  Good luck.  Norm

That would be my own eye brow. Fishing with my brother in a Coleman Crawdad late one night on the Sudbury River out side of Concord MA

I haul off for a nice long cast with a big ol 4" jitterbug. on the backcast I hook his line right near the tip of his rod. I throw for distance...his rod loads real good when I throw out my cast...his bail is closed and all my juice loads up his rod to make that jitterbug do a 180 and smack me square in the forhead. It was quite a good little thwap too. I diddn't know I'd caught myself till the second big trebble was dangeling in front of my eye and i couldn't move the lure with my hands...Talk about feeling lucky!!!!!!!!!!!!

.He can't see too well so it was off to the hospital for removal...the Er nurses were very nice to me :-) .

a size 10 boot

Clams, and a 10 ft gator, the gator won.

the strangest thing ive ever caught would have to be a greater siren, its a giant salamander that looks like an eel with two front legs ive caught 4 of them. i would put up pics but i cant find out anyone know how i can post a pick on a quick reply

the strangest thing ive ever caught would be a greater siren its a giant salamander that looks like an eel with 2 front legs ive caught 4 of them. check out my profile photos for pics of them

Posted By sloppyjoe on 08 Aug 2011 09:14 PM
the strangest thing ive ever caught would be a greater siren its a giant salamander that looks like an eel with 2 front legs ive caught 4 of them. check out my profile photos for pics of them

Try opening a reply by clicking "Add Reply." Copy the image by right clicking and clicking "Copy Image" then in the reply box click "Paste." Sometimes this works, other times it doesn't. This site is weird.

Let's see some of the strange things I've caught have been: Logs, underwear, piece of a boat seat, a feedbag with a dead deer in it.

ive caught a beer bottle cap and a traffic cone

One time while catfishin' I reeled in an old bicycle!

I have HOOKED a alligator and got it close to the shore before i realized what it was and then i caught my line

No lie

It was only like 1Ft baby because i was using shrimp but still freaked me out because i was fishing by myself :\

I caught a pair of womans panties in 1973 fishing martin bay on big mac in nebraska cap

once while fishin

once while fishing at Nimbus dam on the american river in Sacramento I hooked a piece of polypropelyne rope that someone used as a stringer that had a 15 Lb.salmon on it .

once while fishing at Nimbus dam on the american river in Sacramento I hooked a piece of polypropelyne rope that someone used as a stringer that had a 15 Lb.salmon on it .

Posted By cyberfish on 12 Nov 2011 04:08 PM
once while fishing at Nimbus dam on the american river in Sacramento I hooked a piece of polypropelyne rope that someone used as a stringer that had a 15 Lb.salmon on it .

I'm assuming it was dead, right?

Also, I once caught a cold while fishing... Sorry, couldn't resist!

     good one!

Posted By Captain Quantum on 16 Nov 2011 03:53 AM
Also, I once caught a cold while fishing... Sorry, couldn't resist!

Me too, sniffle...sniffle...achoooooooo!

one time while fishing for sturgeon on the san mateo bridge in S.F. bay. I hooked a piece of rebar that weighed about ten Lbs. it was part of a ladder system on the side of one of the bridge pillars, it took about twenty minutes to get it up enough to get it in a drop net, turned out to the the biggest catch of the night

While fishing for Blackfish, my rig was snagged in the rocks, after working in out of the bottom i reeled in a homemade wreck anchor with about 20 ft of anchor rope attached. With in the tangled mess was about a dozen or so bank sinkers and old rusty hooks. It was a good catch considering the cost of sinkers can add up...

Once while fishing off a pier I snagged my line. I went back the next day and hooked a "fish". I pulled up my old rig with an 3 foot eel skin attached to it. That still boggles my mind to this day how an eel skin would get attached to my hook.

The head of a wild turkey. It turned out to be plastic and most likely the type used by taxidermists.

Some bodies old set of bed springs or what was left of them they looked liked they had been on the bottom for several years                 MCOPELAND1

Posted By wellsley on 14 Aug 2011 02:22 PM
Let's see some of the strange things I've caught have been: Logs, underwear, piece of a boat seat, a feedbag with a dead deer in it.

I'll add two large snapping turtles. I also caught a lure that my daughters boy friend lost a couple months earlier.

I once dropped my fishing rod of a pier and had to use another rod to snag it back. I've caught a bare jig head of the bottom the same day.