anyone else have this happen

[stealth3350]

fishing low past wknd and a rattle reel started ticking.for a second and that was it... pulled it up and to my surprise i had a crayfish..anyone else have this happen or catch something weird

[NCLaker]

Does a mud puppy count? Had one of those sick looking creatures setoff one of our tips on the St. Croix.

[IamZombie]

up on URL last year, guy that was fishing with us pulled up another pole.

Was reeling in, and noticed a second bobber in his hole. He thought he had snagged one of us, but our lines were accounted for.

He pulls it up and up pops a ice rod/reel combo.

Believe it or not, later he managed to pull up the rod slick that went on it too.

[leech~~]

A guy I was with on LOW pulled up, I kid you not a 10foot tree branch with many branches coming off of it! He some how hooked it right on the end and we got it up and through the hole. He throw it on the ice by the house and there were a ton of little crawfish climbing out of it. After we pulled it up the fishing in our house just died! Must have added some structure down there?

[reinhard1]

no, but the next time your at the grind on your laker spot by the point i kicked one of my favorite rods by accident down the hole. should have had a deep fryer along for them crawdads. good luck.

[Love2Cabin]

Last weekend my son says what is that floating in his hole. It was alive and it looked like a caterpillar. After a closer look it had a tail like a crayfish but really did not look anything else like a crayfish. It was about an inch long. Any ideas?

[LeeMB]

freshwater shrimp ?

[lakeshoremunster]

shrimp sounds about right

[Hardyboy]

shrimp, he should have thrown it on his hook

[Love2Cabin]

Funny you should say that, being 11 years first he had to play with it for awhile and then he put it on his hook and of course a sunfish bit it right away. It was too funny.

[Hardyboy]

Funny you should say that, being 11 years first he had to play with it for awhile and then he put it on his hook and of course a sunfish bit it right away. It was too funny.

that is awesome right there!

[MN BassFisher]

A guy I was with on LOW pulled up, I kid you not a 10foot tree branch with many branches coming off of it! .........After we pulled it up the fishing in our house just died! Must have added some structure down there?

I was gonna say I would have dropped that back down the hole, gotta love structure like that! I woulda marked it on the GPS too!

[stealth3350]

the crayfish thing you are describing sounds alot like a dragon fly nymph... they are pretty weird looking and a bout a inch.. used to catch them all the time as a kid.. and yes i have seen them in the winter.. they kind give u the heebie jeebies

[pureinsanity]

[stealth3350]

yup 100% dragon fly nymph!! those turn into those big azzzz dragon flies... i know i used to be way into insects in my younger days

[stealth3350]

if u think about it . it does looks like a dragon fly with out wings

[Love2Cabin]

No it was not one of these. It did not have the long legs and the underside of the body looked like a lobster. I wish I would have taken a picture of it. What ever it was gave me the jeebies as well.

[NoWiser]

I've pulled up lots of crayfish in the past ice fishing on Leech Lake. Usually while sight fishing for perch. You see one walk by, drop the jig to the bottom, and pull it up when it clamps on. I've also caught them in deep water bouncing jigs off the bottom. Tough little buggers, too. I had one clamp onto my hand and draw blood.

Sounds like L2C had a freshwater shrimp.

[bullhead master]

http://www.flyfishersrepublic.com/entomology/crustaceans/freshwater-shrimp/

did it look like this?

[Love2Cabin]

Yea it did kind of look like like that only smaller and it was black. What ever it was it was creepy.

[BronzeBrother]

Nothing beats the scuba diver on Waconia... LOL!

[Love2Cabin]

It looks like one of those caddis flies from that link you provided. I would post the picture but can't figure out how.