Most unusual catch?

[Animal]

I've dredged up lots of lost stuff, but the most notable was a fishing rod my daughter hooked at Rainy Lake around 1990. When she got it in the boat I started looking at it and found that it had a name on it 'Ernie Pe######## Cloquet, MN. It was a nice coustom made rod with a SAGE blank. When I got home, which isn't too far from Cloquet, just for the hell of it I tried to look up Ernie in the phone book. There were at least 200 Pe#######'s in the book, but only one Ernest. I called him up and asked if he had lost a rod in Rainy Lake, and if he did, I had it. There was a big pause and then Ernie told me that if Junior is behind this he was going to kick my butt. I told him that I was for real and described the rod. He then told me that he had taken the rod to Rainy in 1983. He remembered the year because that was his 50th birthday. He had the rod made at Jim's Bait in Duluth as a birthday present to himself. He said he paid about $150 for the rod. He told me that on the second day of the trip he left his line in the water while he attended to natures call when the line snagged and over the side of the boat it went. He said that he and his son spent a good two hours dragging for the rod with no luck. I told him that if he would like the rod I would be more that happy to meet him and reunite him with his rod. We met later that month and he got his rod back.

About a month went by when I got a card in the mail which was from Ernie. He included a nice note of thanks and a gift certificate for Bass Pro Shops.

[Kab Dreamin]

Back in the mid 70's I was fishing with my uncle on Lake Kabetogama by Cuculus Island. He put down his rod to pour a cup of coffee and he must have gotten a snag because over the side it went.

Later that night we were down in the lodge playing pool and having a drink when he started talking to another guest. This guy proceeds to tell my uncle about the fishing rod he caught out by Cuculus Island. My uncle said that he had lost one and described it to the guy. The guy left and came back with my uncle's rod. Apparently he had caught it hook to hook and pulled it out of the snag. I think he was a little dissappointed in having to give it up.

[Hydra Sport]

Fishing Pelican up by Orr this spring I brought in about a 6 pound northern and noticed that my rattle trap didn't have its bottom treble hook any more. What the heck why is the fish hangin off my line? Unbelievably the split ring had come off of the lure but reattached itself about 8 inches up the steel leader. The odds of this tiny little split ring doing me a big favor were unreal. We tried to figure out how this could have physically happened but we could not come up with a likely scenario. one of those Mother Natures tricks I guess.

[fishermn]

My brother in law caught about an 18 inch section of a deer's spine out on the St. Louis river a couple years ago... Now that was a creepy looking catch!

[Muskyfreak131]

Seven years ago on my last fishing trip with my G-pa on the big " V ". We were targeting the esox family. G-pa had a strike on a black and white daredeville. had a long battle but the fish won and snapped the line. We continue working the area for like 45 mins or so I get a strike fight the fish land it, Which turns o0ut to be a nice 36 inch pike along with a blavk and white daredeville in it mouth and 2 bluegills in its mouth. Talking about a feeding frenzy. G-pa never forgave me in his last months for supposely steal his fish. Rest soul

EJ

work is the wasted time between fishing

[farmislandeye]

this year me and bud were jigging and piging and within hours we caught 4 dogfish 8+ pounds each. And on a lake where there really rare!