I was fishing with a carolina rig a while back and I pulled up some swimming goggles. Man did those things smell like sh**.  Also I've pulled up a t-shirt.

While I was stationed in Hawaii I fished almost every weekend and cought my fair share of wierd stuff. Ive caught green sea turtles by accident a few octopus and blowfish often you catch other lines and just get a bunch of old tackle and stuff though. The sea turtle unfortunatly was dead when i snaged it, it had been bitten by a tiger shark. the most odd though is my brother. I reared back to cast and next thing I heard was the screaming of what I thought was a little girl and ended up being my brother hooked in the arm just behind the bicep.

mine would have to be a rather gross thing...a sack of puppies in the small Touchet river. Ya, it was as unpleasant as it sounds.

OK this is a new one for me.  It's not my catch, but I was there.  I've fished a lot and hooked a lot of rocks, but I'd never been able to get one into the boat.  My mom has friends in Mass and they took us out onto a bay, we were fishing for flounder, and the fishing was going pretty good.  Then my mom hooked something, it didn't look right, but when she finally boated it we found a rock.  Yep, she hooked and boated a rock.  How many of you guys have ever landed a rock?  That was pretty funny.

Westwood KS 66205

an old-fashioned metal lawn chair and a beer can
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My dad once hooked a water snake , but forgot to turn off the trolling motor up front, and all that was left in the end was a cloud of blood and remains of the snake. :?
Tight lines.

I made a cast towards shore. The bank was at the bottom of a steep cliff. Started to reel in thought I was snagged, took the boat to the shore and found out I had hooked a dead deer. He must have fallen off the cliff.

I've caught 3 ducks in the last year or so. One in Aprill and two last month.

Some of you people that post are extremely corrupted.

now thats what u call a bad day of fishing lol

Here in Bowie Tx  at Amon Carter I have Caught Lawn chairs, Tires, an old cow skull, an old Boat, but the one that took the cake was a '65 Nash Rambler. We dove to it and pulled it back out with an old tow truck. That thing was a mess. The best though was a 15 pound swan that ate my hook in Arlington, Texas at a little park pond where I was learning to fly fish.
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Caught a piranha last summer on a Storm bait in Springfield, IL.  I was fishing in a private lake community I lived in. Contacted the DNR and reported it. Their reply was, "It's probably not a piranha, it's probably a cousin species like a pacu or something that was released". I informed the officer that I was a biology major in college and that I was more than certain that it was in fact a piranha and that I had it in my freezer. She said she would have a biologist call me, never happened. If there were any more in there they should not have survived the winter. Weird though.

Heard of stuff like this happening before, always thought it was an urban legend.

I was once fishing over some real nice stucture at Laurel Lakes (large pond) in Laurel MD. The Crappie started to hit hard and fast then WHAM!!!!! Dead stop and a hard pull (from me) and in came a shopping cart.  Yup that great stucture was a pile of cart from the grocery store and mall.

 

 

"it doesn't matter if the horse is blind....Just load the cart anyway!!!" John Madden NFL Hall Of Fame) Fred Jefferson,MD (NAFC LM) (NAHC TLM)

I used to take the neighborhood kids 'gill fishing at the local pond. There was an old shopping cart in the water until someone removed it last summer. I'm still looking for where the 'gills moved to. Tom
Fishin' fool in NE Illinois

well i didnt catch this but goin down the river at 75mph i lost my cap, then 1 month later, i found it washed up on the bank  a few times through the washing machine and it was fine. in fact i'm wearing it right now

8' Gator on a 1/2lb crappy.

The most unusual fish I ever caught was a armour plated catfish. They look prehistoric. They are not native to Florida waters though. They were put here to clean algae. They are weird and they make grunting sounds and their fin spines are mildly venomas. Don't have a picture of this fish,but I will take a picture,next time I catch one,and seend it in for everyone to see.

A few years back I was fishing at Nimbus dam on the American river in Sacramento for salmon and I hooked the end of a rope stringer with a 15 Lb. salmon on it whoever caught this fish was using yellow poly rope that was fairly new so it didn't hold a knot to well. this area has a pretty good current on one side of the river and I figure that his knot got worked loose and away went the fish stringer and all. darn the bad luck he lost it I found it and it tasted sooooo good !!!!!!

I caught a freshwater clam on the James River.

rock

condom

Lawnchair

But the one that will stay in my head is the one that gave me the best fight. I was trolling for Walleye on a local lake when I hooked what I thought was a big fish. It clearly was not a snag as I could move it, but whenever I started reeling it would make a run for the shoreline and the weeds. After I hard ten minute fight I got it to the boat and came up with a bright red nylon windsock shaped like a plane. When I would start reeling it in it would start flying, and the harder I pulled the more it pulled. I had somehow managed to snag it aprox.where the tie line was located on it's front, but just enough to the side that it would pull and fly towards the shoreline. If I stopped reeling it would glide back to the bottom.

I guess my affliction is outboards,  caught a 5 horse, hooked it while jigging for bluegills in the fall. I was 7 at the time, My dad who was with me grabbed it when I got it to the surface and we cleaned it up and rebuilt it and it is still running today, I also hooked a 225 yamaha. we were fishing a inlet from one lake to another, in a little row boat, I hooked something big, and it would jurk down, I would pull up about a foot, then it would jerk back down, after about 10 minutes of this my dad tossed over the underwater camera, the big outboard was laying on it side and I had hooked the gas line so I could lift the line until I pulled it taught and then it would fall back to the bottom,   it was in 20 fow.  there was no way we were getting that beast up,  talked to a DNR warden that day who we saw on the lake and by the end of the week, they had hauled it out with some marine dredging equipment they were using a few lakes over for bridge work, wonder what could have happened that someone could drop a $10000-15000 motor and just leave it there or at least have a go at it anyway.
My body may be at the computer, but my mind is "gone fishin".