Things caught ice fishing other than fish?

[Bottle Fish]

Went fishing with my friends one night and the next day I caught a leatherman one of them dropped down a hole and didn't even know he did it.

Also caught two ice rods on two different occasions. And no, neither one had a fish on the end.

Any other nice catches that weren't fish?

[riverrat56]

I fished my keys out of the bottom of Lake Washington a few years back...

[Glockwinger]

Well, I fished my Kershaw knife out of Mille lacs this year, and the hot dog tongs that fell off the counter in the wheel house on Waconia.

A few years back a guy I knew dropped his wedding band down the hole on Mille lacs. It took some time, a camera, some inginutiy, and a very cold arm...but he got it back. That one was amazing.

I have a buddy that had the ability to catch baseball sized rocks from the bottom of Mille Lacs and was able to bring them up the holes using a rattle spoon!

[Blainebob]

I caught a buzz quite a few times and a cold once.

Sorry,couldnt resist

[leech~~]

Caught a fishing pole and pulled up a few rocks on Mill Lacs, and pulled up a really nice big fishing Net on Edwards during the summer. Then a lot of other junk pulling Lindy rigs like plastic bags, tee shirts, rags, old line and lures.

[Eric Wettschreck]

My good friend Bob lost his rattle reel down the hole on URL a couple weeks ago.

The next morning he caught a walleye and it wraped the line around his lost rattle reel. It was a successful landing of both the fish and the reel.

[snoozebutton]

A few years back a guy I knew dropped his wedding band down the hole on Mille lacs. It took some time, a camera, some inginutiy, and a very cold arm...but he got it back. That one was amazing.

Wow, that is amazing!!!

Nothing nearly as exciting as that here. A few turtles, a couple of clams, and a lawn chair (that one put up a pretty good fight.)

[Rikstr]

Catching rocks? sounds like Charlie Brown fishing.

[wayne123]

I have a freind that can catch the rocks too. If fishing is slow and he has trid every hook in the box he will start catching rocks.

[fish-n-fool]

I caught a stringer that had a northern on it.. (it was mine-- it had let loose from our boat)

[crothmeier]

A foldgers coffe can, that thing bent the rod just a bit!

[eyebjim]

I cought a large drift sock by the harness so it was fully deployed while reeling in. Boy that was a fight. Got about 6 or 8 crankbaits that were stuck in it. They should have been using fireline.

[straydog]

I cought a drift sock also, I thought it was a dead body.

[dirtking]

We caught a walleye with a stringer hook through its lower lip. We took off the stringer hook and let it go. I told the old man the fish was probably mad at us cause we took its lip piercing - It WAS the coolest fish in the lake! But this was soft water so I guess it might not count – I caught a cement block with a rope attached in the winter.

[mrfish1991]

havnt caught many non-fish items during the winter...

but i have caught a decoy weight on a string and several crayfish while trolling for eyes up on ML.

I also accidently caught an octapus while fishing for redfish in south carolina

[longcaster]

the strangest thing I have ever caught was a baseball jigging for walleyes.

[nofishfisherman]

I caught a rubber glove once while fishing the Mississippi. It came in inflated with water and had the correct skin color to it, when I first saw it I nearly soiled myself becuase I swore it was a human hand I just reeled in.

[Jethro80]

I caught a rubber glove once while fishing the Mississippi. It came in inflated with water and had the correct skin color to it, when I first saw it I nearly soiled myself becuase I swore it was a human hand I just reeled in.

LOL, I suppose anything could come out of the Mississippi

[deadeye]

Oh man this is a good thread, all of the interesting stuff that I have caught in the river. I had a dead pig float by one day and snag my line without me knowing, one heck of a fight. I also caught a dead racoon too. Not really sure how that stuff ends up on the hook, I supose its being drug on the bottom and runs into the line. I have also caught cell phones, fishing poles, a couple shoes, I caught a pair of jeans once (i thought for sure I had a body when I saw the leg come up ). Crazy stuff turns up down there when its high water.

[leech~~]

Catching rocks? sounds like Charlie Brown fishing.

Rikstr, Ouch! I was doing some aggressive jigging with a Swed pimple over the rocks, and yes I do catch a few fish along with a rock once in a while!!

[Rick G]

I catch a lot of strange stuf in the miss but the oddest thing was the severed head of a spike buck. Got him on a jointed shad rap in the sd color if I remember right.

[Johnny_Da_Der]

I caught a rubber glove once while fishing the Mississippi. It came in inflated with water and had the correct skin color to it, when I first saw it I nearly soiled myself becuase I swore it was a human hand I just reeled in.

I caught a rubber something or another in the mississippi last year. It was also inflated with water, but I didn't mistake it for something it wasn't.

[walleyeking19]

a piece of carpet

[eyebjim]

Last saturday I caught earth. On a bobber. Now I ask how does earth pull a bobber down 2 feet? No give whatsoever on 6 lb line til snap.

[maros91]

I caught a baseball size rock on Mille Lacs while jigging for perch one year.