Weirdest Catch

[fisherman-andy]

While practice casting with my new St. Croix rod during a camping trip I casted out a Yum bait plastic and line across the field only to stop and talk to my buddy. I started to reel in the line without looking and found a little chipmunk had grabbed hold of my lure in it's mouth? It wasn't hooked but had refused to let go and I reeled it in a third of the way before the critter stopped and ran away.

[so haaad]

I caught an old dipnet one time. I also got a bird - When I was a little kid I was sucker spearing from on top of a train bridge and accidentally speared a bird that flew underneath it.

[B@ssmaster]

A Great Horned Owl. Actually, my uncle, not me. Night fishing with a frog colored Jitterbug, owl swept down out of the trees and picked it up clean off of the surface.

[irishwalleye]

My dog (twice)

a loon

snapping turtle

my little brother (multiple times -- some on accident, some on purpose)

a cute little minnetonka coed (she made me keep her)

myself (just about every time in the boat)

a 9 foot log out to LOW in 40 feet of water... thought it was a world record -- fought for about 45 minutes

a crayfish out of 30 feet on (Contact Us Please) this spring on a leech

an anchor through the ice on a tip-up

a launch i was on caught a 20 foot piece of dock on the anchor -- they had to bring out a chain saw to get it off

[DonBo]

Fishing below the Pier dam in S.D. Were catching lots of junk tackle plus some good stuff, shad raps, etc. Hooked a bottom bouncer through the eye, a 5-6 lb catfish was on the other end still hooked and still fiesty.

[Tyler Holm]

Caught a golf ball on a jig/minnow once. Yep its possible!

[mtrue68]

I have caught snapping turtles, painted turles and bulfrogs on purpose. My wife caught about a 1 lb rock on a Shad-rap in the B-Dub.

[fishyguy]

Anchor (couple of times)

rods and reels

Shirt

transducer

clam

rock

baseball hat

shoe

checkbook (my own after falling down the ice hole)

[mille lacs muskie bum]

I once caught a basketball and an ice rod. both were rigging on the big pond.

[channelfats]

Not weird, but creepy and gross... pink Womens pantys big enough to wrap around my waist almost twice.

Pool 2... go figure.

[Weed Shark]

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Not me personally, but a guide I fished with caught a human skull once.

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What happened? Throw out a marker buoy? Did anybody identify the teeth or anything?

[Muddog]

Every time I fish on Madison Lake I catch something strange in the narrows. A spoonplug, landing net, a rigged bottom bouncer, 100' of lead core and the list goes on. I can't wait to see what I will catch next. It has been a long time since I've cought an old boot though.

[french_lake_kid]

Diper YUCK

[ScottyE83]

A painted turtle on a jig, and a bullfrog on a fly.

[tims]

A ziplock bag with a "man made" turd inside...

[Andrew Erickson]

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A ziplock bag with a "man made" turd inside...

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lmao

[caseymcq]

When I saw the subject of this thread I thought it was going to be about a new show on the Discovery Channel.

[freddie]

Fishing the Mississippi a few years back my brother in law pulled up a badly bloated body of an elderly man. Turned out the poor guy disappeared like a week or so earlier.

[JustinG]

A pair of sunglasses.

[rushing]

Over the years while flyfishing I have managed to snag three birds(different trips) out of the air while back casting.

[vister]

was fishing a lake one opener, trolling for northerns, when i thought i had a nice weed at the other end. so i reeled it in, and to our delight it was a jig stick with with a nice mitchell reel that still worked. It was kind of set up like my gramps ice fishing for northern set up. Heavy black steel leader with a plain hook. My dad and i brought it home, showed him and he asked why i had his ice fishing rod. apparently he had lost one down the hole snoozing

[The Grebe]

Here's one....It didn't happen to me, it happened to my brothers friend. He told me he laughed until he just about cried.

They were fishing the river and brothers friend wasn't paying any attention to his line and it evidently drifted close to a big Great Blue Heron and the stilt grabbed the bait.

As retold by my bro, the bird gave a mighty tug, almost relieving his friend of his fishing rod...the rod went into the water and the guy had to run in ankle deep to get it and then the fight was on, back and forth they went, first one gaining the advantage, then the other.

Bro said the Crane looked like a skinny guy in a gray suit, fightin for his life. The Crane fell down a couple of times, his skinny legs buckled, but he fought his way back up to his feet and continued the fight.

Finally the hook straightened out and the bird got loose, his bud tumbled backwards and rapped his head a good one on an old piece of dead wood and the Heron flew away.

[nytelyter]

once while fishing on vermillion. i caught a rock. it was a very small rock but the thing had a hole in it, and yup you guessed it. i caught it right thru the hole. pops and i had quite a laugh. ... paul

[dps]

I was fishing with Dennis Steele last spring when he caught a pair of boxer shorts that were infested with some aquatic bugs.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Ive been fishing with Dennis Steele... and that doesnt surprise me!