Weirdest Thing You've Reeled In 2024
OHIO reply :
There has probably been a thread about this before, but I don't remember one as long as I have been here.
What's the strangest thing you have reeled in excluding fish.
I have caught a spinning reel before and a couple socks, but that's about it.
What about you guys?
Hamby reply :
A pair of underwear with BEN written across the band.
VABassin'14 reply :
A boot with pink laces. Still have it in the basement.
wisconsin heat reply :
one time i caught a bass
Goose52 reply :
A 3 ft watersnake - it grabbed my grub and wouldn't let go. Pulled it all the way in to the bank and lifted it out of the water and it was still grabbing the grub. Banged it into the bank about 3 times before it would let go...
wvuwhat reply :
Lampshade. Caught it as a kid, about 18 years ago.
Bass XL reply :
Some crazy stuff in those lakes. I've nailed the most weird things on Lake of the Ozarks. I've caught a shoe (was made of a leather material), Zebco 33 combo, bottom part of a bikini that was all ripped up, and 2 pairs of sunglasses. Definitely a party lake.
bwillis reply :
I pulled out a lawnchair once, I got caught on something, waded in to get my lure unstuck, and ended up dragging the chair out. I also pulled a spool of line out of the water at a boat launch that i fish fairly frequently.
Senkoman12 reply :
though i didnt land it i hooked on to a beaver once bullhead fishing.
we got there and i said "lets get a rock and scare him off, no need for him to get tangled in line".
my buddy says "no he is ok, we wont have any trouble with him"
not 10mins later, BAM! a big splash, #%*@ i hooked the the beaver. he broke me off in like 15sec...only 6lbs line
Brute reply :
I caught about a 5' alligator on a spro frog once.
He put up a good fight for about 10 minutes.
When I got him to the boat he gave me that look like what are you going to do now.
I'll lip bass all day long but I am not sticking my thumb in a gators mouth.
I cut the line and off he went with my frog.
Brute
FL_Sharpshooter reply :
QuoteI caught about a 5' alligator on a spro frog once.He put up a good fight for about 10 minutes.
When I got him to the boat he gave me that look like what are you going to do now.
I'll lip bass all day long but I am not sticking my thumb in a gators mouth.
I cut the line and off he went with my frog.
Brute
Lol, It's seriously just a matter of time until this happens to me. I can only imagine your reaction when you saw a gator on your line, haha.
riverfisher reply :
Fishin the Striper run on the Hudson River below the Troy Dam I snagged a dead calf on a Shad Dart!! 
Grey Wolf reply :
I snagged someones ultra-lite outfit and it was in great shape , must not have been in the water very long.
Goose52 reply :
QuoteQuoteI caught about a 5' alligator on a spro frog once.He put up a good fight for about 10 minutes.
When I got him to the boat he gave me that look like what are you going to do now.
I'll lip bass all day long but I am not sticking my thumb in a gators mouth.
I cut the line and off he went with my frog.
Brute
Lol, It's seriously just a matter of time until this happens to me. I can only imagine your reaction when you saw a gator on your line, haha.
When I lived in SoFla, I hooked-up with a little 3ft gator and got him close to the bank before he started thrashing and broke free. I didn't officially "land" him though so he doesn't count.... ;D
roadwarrior reply :
Flat rocks. In the river they sometimes run
and dive, the fight can be awesome!
grimlin reply :
Clam on a spinnerbait. I felt the tug and weight,but it felt like i was reeling in a 1/2 pound rock....weirdest thing.
WanderLust reply :
Last year I snagged a large dead crow... It was weird and quite disgusting.
Jigfishn10 reply :
QuoteClam on a spinnerbait. I felt the tug and weight,but it felt like i was reeling in a 1/2 pound rock....weirdest thing.
That's funny, I did the same thing last summer... ;D
I got out of work early one day and decided to bank fish a res on the way home. I felt a bite on my jig and went to set the hook. Well, I missed the fish, the lure came flying out of the water just missing my head and hooked onto the passenger side mirror of a passing F150. I got spooled....
FL_Sharpshooter reply :
QuoteQuoteQuoteI caught about a 5' alligator on a spro frog once.He put up a good fight for about 10 minutes.
When I got him to the boat he gave me that look like what are you going to do now.
I'll lip bass all day long but I am not sticking my thumb in a gators mouth.
I cut the line and off he went with my frog.
Brute
Lol, It's seriously just a matter of time until this happens to me. I can only imagine your reaction when you saw a gator on your line, haha.
When I lived in SoFla, I hooked-up with a little 3ft gator and got him close to the bank before he started thrashing and broke free. I didn't officially "land" him though so he doesn't count.... ;D
Lol, thats pretty funny, using braided line I assume? I see little 3ft gators all the time in the canal I fish. As soon as they see the big idiot standing on the bank waving a stick around with line attached to it, they hiss and submerge until they go past me
CSimon2 reply :
I am sure this is pretty common, but I caught a snapping turtle swimming a curly tail grub. I thought I was snagged at the time. I was trying to break my line, but then it starting moving. When I got it closer it was the snapping turtle. He unhooked himself, thank goodness.
JigMe reply :
Hooked up somebody's Jacket, and there are some small minnows inside the pocket.
BassThumb reply :
A snapping turtle with a shell the size of a manhole cover. I was maybe 10 y/o and fishing sunnies, and I was scared ****less of that thing. It was hissing!
webertime reply :
QuoteLast year I snagged a large dead crow... It was weird and quite disgusting.
HAHAHA Lamooooooooooooooile?
Goose52 reply :
QuoteFlat rocks. In the river they sometimes runand dive, the fight can be awesome!
Yep - we got those in my part of Tennessee too! ;D
Revo_Carrot Stix reply :
White plastic lawn chair - flippin docks
Coffee can - I must have been 10yrs. old. Thought it was a monster fish as it would sink down after I pulled and cranked.
old Mitchell spincast combo - trashed
no name spinning reel combo - trashed
Walleye - throwing a spinnerbait 2ft off the bank at LOZ.
BASSclary reply :
I've also hooked into a clam or mussel on a crank.
Blue Streak reply :
Two ten speed bikes like brand new. I was fishing the river below the walking and biking trail and snagged onto one in about 3 feet of water, I was able to pull both of them out with my plug knocker. I laid them across the back of the boat and finished the days fishing. When I got home I gave them to my nephews and they used them for a couple of years.
.ghoti. reply :
Caught an old four buckle rubber boot from a local pond.
Caught an aluminum folding step ladder out of LOZ.
I landed that ladder on 10 pound test line. Not much of a fight though.
farmpond1 reply :
Jimmy Hoffa's body. Or was it D.B. Coopers? 
Seriously though, I hope to never discover a dead body while on one of my forays down to the river.
deaknh03 reply :
QuoteJimmy Hoffa's body. Or was it D.B. Coopers?Seriously though, I hope to never discover a dead body while on one of my forays down to the river.
D.B. Cooper is still alive, don't you keep up with the conspiracies?
WanderLust reply :
QuoteQuoteLast year I snagged a large dead crow... It was weird and quite disgusting.HAHAHA Lamooooooooooooooile?
LOL yes sir... was quite ripe.
ctf58 reply :
QuoteJimmy Hoffa's body. Or was it D.B. Coopers?Seriously though, I hope to never discover a dead body while on one of my forays down to the river.
Helped pull 3 bodies from the Ohio River. That was what we were fishing for though. :-/ Had to make a run to Wally world between #2 and #3 to get better treble hooks.
Last year I caught a Pabst Blue ribbon beer can that was a pull tab top on a rattle trap in Barkley Lake.
Nick reply :
Caught a few herons, ducks, and seagulls, but the weirdest catch was a longnose gar. That's not unusual, but the way it happened was one in a billion. Using a T-rigged worm, I set the hook on a decent strike. A big gar shot out of the water and tail walked across the bow not five feet from me. Wow. But how I caught it was truly weird. The gar had been first caught on a trotline but had broken free at the swivel of the dropper. Somehow my now exposed worm hook caught in the swivel eyelet perfectly for my weirdest catch.
Fat-G reply :
A dead cat. I kid you not.
marinetech reply :
my father , when I was a kid. He is my PB. 220lbs. Got him on a big ol jitterbug !
WanderLust reply :
QuoteA dead cat. I kid you not.
That would be rather distrubing...
OHIO reply :
Man, you guys got some interesting stuff.
DeanFishesNY reply :
Have had a bunch of weird stuff, but can remember pulling in a black t shirt, a boot and then later on, an orange roadwork cone at the same pond. It's on a college campus which may explain why LOL
CWB reply :
Plenty of big snappers and softshells, but the weirdest was when a gull grabbed my minnow that was swimming in circles on the surface. Decent fight but he didn't weigh much. He was pretty ticked though!
CAdeltaLipRipper reply :
One time we went in our canoe down the river and i caught a rock lol
OHIO reply :
QuoteOne time we went in our canoe down the river and i caught a rock lol
I don't get how that's funny...
CAdeltaLipRipper reply :
QuoteI small suitcase and when me and my grandpa opened it there was what looked like a 30's family picture, a old rusty watch, and a white tee.I've also hooked into a clam or mussel on a crank.
Ive caught a few of those in the delta on Red Eye Shads lol way smaller though.Like the size of a quarter
CAdeltaLipRipper reply :
QuoteFishin the Striper run on the Hudson River below the Troy Dam I snagged a dead calf on a Shad Dart!!
Ive seen two dead calves kayaking down the river..pretty disturbing lol praying to god i dont some how flip while over one of those
CAdeltaLipRipper reply :
QuoteQuoteOne time we went in our canoe down the river and i caught a rock lolI don't get how that's funny...
The title is whats the wierdest thing you've ever caught not what's the funniest thing you've ever caught
OHIO reply :
It's actually the weirdest thing you've ever reeled in.
CAdeltaLipRipper reply :
QuoteIt's actually the weirdest thing you've ever reeled in.
Ha okay 
Missouribassman95 reply :
One time I was fishing a pond, and I reeled in a big dead snapping turtle. It was disgusting! 
BASSclary reply :
One more thing I though was pretty cool was this year I snagged my football head jig on something. Whatever I thought, I just lost a lure.
Well about a month later I snagged something on the same football head (I bought another one because fish kill em') and so I finally get my snag free. And behold as soon as I pull my jig out of the water there's my old one on the hook Barely any rust on it either! Still had the trailer on it too, kinda dissolved though.
bigdog321 reply :
Hey delta ripper how did the dead cows get in the kayak?
banned-for-spamming-0923874 reply :
The wierdest thing I've ever caught was a long time ago when I was a kid fishing with marshmellow and eggs. I cast out and before it sank a duck ate the marchmellow. He took off flying and I had to rell in a duck in the air. Daffy put up a good fight in the air but the real battle started when I got it to the dock.
Them things can be really mean!!!!! lol Daffy didnt know I was trying to help him and he bit the shhhh out of me lol
flippin and pitchin reply :
The neighbor's cat. I was teaching a buddy to cast and had a jig tied on. Cats fight just like a summer run steelhead. They take drag and everything. It was carefully landed and the hook removed and some Sprite poured on the puncture to stop the bleeding and then released to fight another day.
Lund Explorer reply :
Always carry a pair of leather gloves in the boat.
Seagulls (AKA: Dump Chickens) have a sharp beak!
lynyrdsky1 reply :
Threw out a spinnerbait and reel back in another spinnerbait I had lost.
KYntucky Warmouth reply :
Not entirely weird things but interesting things. I had lost a few crank baits in the same spot over a period of a few months. I was using 12lb Sufix Deep Crank line and just breaking off for really no reason, switched to 10 lb CXX and pulled a tree branch with my cranks still on hung on some braid that was around the limbs. pulled the rest of the braid out of the water and pulled up an underspin reel. changed the hooks and spilt rings and still fish the cranks today
I've also caught what I call the redneck dropshot which was a gold aberdean hook with a crappie tube that had a nut tied below it
Fishmaster10 reply :
I would have to say the strangest things I've reeled in have been: rocks, old fishing rods, and canned food cans
webertime reply :
Out on the VT side of Champlain there is an old railroad fill that they have a bike path on now, except one spot where there is a break to allow boats into Mallett's Bay we were C-Rigging back and forth in that break (17-20 fow) slamming big Smallies and getting scared by the big Sheephead when WHAM ! I slam into something big. My buddy (not a very patient fisherman) says its a snag and to, "Cut it." "No way it's sort of moving?!!" The struggle lasted a few moments then we were able to see what it was... a sunken sapling about 8' tall with about 200 Zebra Mussels on it, more snagged baits and hooks than we could count AND an underwater electric cable that was still humming... SNIP!!!!
I landed that conglomeration on a Carrot Stick and 50lb braid with no ill effects (to many this is the shocking part).
bigfruits reply :
beaver. didnt land the sucker, though.
clayton86 reply :
i got a fire extinguisher last year but in the past iv snaged into bikes, rims, clams, birds, bull frogs, people. the worst was prolie last year not paying attention i went to cast and snagged my backpack i use when bank fishing omg it was the worst back lash i almost chucked the pole into the river i was so mad.
Bluebasser86 reply :
Several years ago I was night fishing with a big black jitterbug when a huge Great Horned Owl swooped down and picked up my bait off the surface. All I heard was a big splash so I set the hook and thought I'd hooked a monster . Didn't know what to do when I figured out what I'd hooked but thankfully the owl crash landed in some brush along the bank and when he took back off the hooks got stuck in a vine and he pulled free. Called it a night after that.
CAdeltaLipRipper reply :
QuoteHey delta ripper how did the dead cows get in the kayak?
Ha not reeled in like the topic name.I didn't even have a rod that day.it was just a calf who had drowned under water that got trapped by a limb.there was another one further down the river
cufishin reply :
Once when I was trolling for Salmon in the Puget Sound we had a hit on a downrigger rod and began fighting a Salmon, not too long into it it felt like I had lost him, no head tugging or running but I still had a lot of tension on the line. As I reeled some more I saw that I had snagged some yellow poly rope, it obviously had something tied to it that was heavy, we thought it was most likley a crab pot that had lost it's bouy. So I set down the rod and started pulling in the rope and soon feel some head tugging on the rope. I wound up had landing a @7lb Coho that someone else had broken off on the crab pot line and got a nice crab pot as well.
I did lose my original fish and about $15 worth of tackle though 
georgiaken reply :
Two things...once, I was using 50lb braid at the river for stripers and I reeled in the top of a washing machine...
And once, I didn't really reel it in, but I was drifting a jig downstream in current and hooked into something that hit lightly, but fought hard...and I mean hard.
After about 3 minutes of trying to work this thing, the line just goes slack...I think I broke off a huge striper...nope, the fisherman 75 yards downstream that I couldn't see decided to cut my line before he got hooked...his buddy walked upstream and returned my lure about 10 minutes later. Turns out I knew them and I couldn't see them because of a bend in the river and brush on the bank...
Our lines had gotten tangled ;D
We laughed about that one for a bit...
IntroC reply :
I have a styro foam cooler that I use to store my musky lures I hang the lures along the inside rim, I had this cooler on the table in the kitchen. One night my cat decided to jump in there for whatever reason. Talk about a tornado in the kitchen. I was in the living room watching TV at the time and dang near had a heart attack myself.
I guess I never reeled it in but my lures caught it.
1inStripes reply :
From a friends facebook page.... A really malnourished fish.
KU_Bassmaster. reply :
I thought these were kind of ironic in one day ...
Both "caught" on a DD22
First caught an old old Coors light can. Within the next 10 casts a caught a bra.
flippin and pitchin reply :
QuoteFrom a friends facebook page.... A really malnourished fish.
It's a GLoomis decal !
dolomieu reply :
Bucket Mouth
yaaj reply :
Reeled in a trolling motor!
hitchhiker reply :
I hooked a line and my lure slid to the dead trout that was attached to it. When I was pulling in the loose line I pulled up the ul spinning outfit that the dead trout had pulled away from someone. Berkeley Tactix rod and Daiwa Regal reel.
I caught a big bullfrog on a Spro Frog.
Bass_Fanatic reply :
My buddy and I used to cut Zoom Centapedes in half, put them on a 3/0 weigthless hook and go to a 100 acre lake we own. The lake was full of grass and full of huge bullfrogs. We would cast the centapede on top of the grass and twitch it and a bullfrog would come hopping over and eat it. Set the hook and the battle was on, these things would take drag and everything. Anyways, one day my cousin hooked one and he was jumping on top of the grass and all of a sudden a HUGE splash around the frog and his reel started stripping line. He fought that thing for what seemed like an hour. Ended up being about a 9 foot gator. 65lb Suffix braid is some BAD stuff!!
B-Dozer reply :
QuoteMy buddy and I used to cut Zoom Centapedes in half, put them on a 3/0 weigthless hook and go to a 100 acre lake we own. The lake was full of grass and full of huge bullfrogs. We would cast the centapede on top of the grass and twitch it and a bullfrog would come hopping over and eat it. Set the hook and the battle was on, these things would take drag and everything. Anyways, one day my cousin hooked one and he was jumping on top of the grass and all of a sudden a HUGE splash around the frog and his reel started stripping line. He fought that thing for what seemed like an hour. Ended up being about a 9 foot gator. 65lb Suffix braid is some BAD stuff!!
I'd say you win this thread. that's one big gator. Too bad you didn't video it, make a great commercial for Suffix. ;D
Jaheff reply :
True story from last week on another forum...
A local fisherman was bottom fishing in San Diego bay, snagged something and reeled it in. It was some sort of electronic device with a light on it (I saw pics, looked like a bomb to me).He posted the pics, and a Navy man(another fisherman) said it looks like something from the Marine Mammal's division of the Navy (dolphin training). The Navy man checked around and said he was causing an uproar in the MM division. Next day pics were off the post, and Navy went to the guy's house and picked it up.
Bass_Fanatic reply :
QuoteQuoteMy buddy and I used to cut Zoom Centapedes in half, put them on a 3/0 weigthless hook and go to a 100 acre lake we own. The lake was full of grass and full of huge bullfrogs. We would cast the centapede on top of the grass and twitch it and a bullfrog would come hopping over and eat it. Set the hook and the battle was on, these things would take drag and everything. Anyways, one day my cousin hooked one and he was jumping on top of the grass and all of a sudden a HUGE splash around the frog and his reel started stripping line. He fought that thing for what seemed like an hour. Ended up being about a 9 foot gator. 65lb Suffix braid is some BAD stuff!!I'd say you win this thread. that's one big gator. Too bad you didn't video it, make a great commercial for Suffix. ;D
Yup...I would have alot of good footage for a Suffix commercial. One time while fish Lake Fork I had a herron eat my chug bug and I didn't want to reel her in, so I let him take some drag and he flew into her nest in the top of a tree in the middle of Dale Creek. Apparently she was feeding her babies cuz when I finally jerked, the whole 20 ft. tree came down, along with the nest and I reeled in a baby herron. And that was with 12 lb Seige!!
Jigfishn10 reply :
QuoteQuoteQuoteMy buddy and I used to cut Zoom Centapedes in half, put them on a 3/0 weigthless hook and go to a 100 acre lake we own. The lake was full of grass and full of huge bullfrogs. We would cast the centapede on top of the grass and twitch it and a bullfrog would come hopping over and eat it. Set the hook and the battle was on, these things would take drag and everything. Anyways, one day my cousin hooked one and he was jumping on top of the grass and all of a sudden a HUGE splash around the frog and his reel started stripping line. He fought that thing for what seemed like an hour. Ended up being about a 9 foot gator. 65lb Suffix braid is some BAD stuff!!I'd say you win this thread. that's one big gator. Too bad you didn't video it, make a great commercial for Suffix. ;D
Yup...I would have alot of good footage for a Suffix commercial. One time while fish Lake Fork I had a herron eat my chug bug and I didn't want to reel her in, so I let him take some drag and he flew into her nest in the top of a tree in the middle of Dale Creek. Apparently she was feeding her babies cuz when I finally jerked, the whole 20 ft. tree came down, along with the nest and I reeled in a baby herron. And that was with 12 lb Seige!!
:-?
Sorry I couln't resist...
farmpond1 reply :
QuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteMy buddy and I used to cut Zoom Centapedes in half, put them on a 3/0 weigthless hook and go to a 100 acre lake we own. The lake was full of grass and full of huge bullfrogs. We would cast the centapede on top of the grass and twitch it and a bullfrog would come hopping over and eat it. Set the hook and the battle was on, these things would take drag and everything. Anyways, one day my cousin hooked one and he was jumping on top of the grass and all of a sudden a HUGE splash around the frog and his reel started stripping line. He fought that thing for what seemed like an hour. Ended up being about a 9 foot gator. 65lb Suffix braid is some BAD stuff!!I'd say you win this thread. that's one big gator. Too bad you didn't video it, make a great commercial for Suffix. ;D
Yup...I would have alot of good footage for a Suffix commercial. One time while fish Lake Fork I had a herron eat my chug bug and I didn't want to reel her in, so I let him take some drag and he flew into her nest in the top of a tree in the middle of Dale Creek. Apparently she was feeding her babies cuz when I finally jerked, the whole 20 ft. tree came down, along with the nest and I reeled in a baby herron. And that was with 12 lb Seige!!
:-?
Sorry I couln't resist...
Perhaps "he" was the chug bug and "she" was the heron. Or vice versa.
Bass_Fanatic reply :
QuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteMy buddy and I used to cut Zoom Centapedes in half, put them on a 3/0 weigthless hook and go to a 100 acre lake we own. The lake was full of grass and full of huge bullfrogs. We would cast the centapede on top of the grass and twitch it and a bullfrog would come hopping over and eat it. Set the hook and the battle was on, these things would take drag and everything. Anyways, one day my cousin hooked one and he was jumping on top of the grass and all of a sudden a HUGE splash around the frog and his reel started stripping line. He fought that thing for what seemed like an hour. Ended up being about a 9 foot gator. 65lb Suffix braid is some BAD stuff!!I'd say you win this thread. that's one big gator. Too bad you didn't video it, make a great commercial for Suffix. ;D
Yup...I would have alot of good footage for a Suffix commercial. One time while fish Lake Fork I had a herron eat my chug bug and I didn't want to reel her in, so I let him take some drag and he flew into her nest in the top of a tree in the middle of Dale Creek. Apparently she was feeding her babies cuz when I finally jerked, the whole 20 ft. tree came down, along with the nest and I reeled in a baby herron. And that was with 12 lb Seige!!
:-?
Sorry I couln't resist...
Perhaps "he" was the chug bug and "she" was the heron. Or vice versa.
Haha...sorry I wrote it with all male pronouns, then thought about it, realized it had to be a her, and went back and changed em. I guess I missed a couple. :-/
Jigfishn10 reply :
You know farmpond 1, you're right, I didn't think of it that way...ROFL
Bass_fanatic, I think you're covered, he did fly into her nest. ;D Not a bad thing...
OHIO reply :
QuoteQuoteMy buddy and I used to cut Zoom Centapedes in half, put them on a 3/0 weigthless hook and go to a 100 acre lake we own. The lake was full of grass and full of huge bullfrogs. We would cast the centapede on top of the grass and twitch it and a bullfrog would come hopping over and eat it. Set the hook and the battle was on, these things would take drag and everything. Anyways, one day my cousin hooked one and he was jumping on top of the grass and all of a sudden a HUGE splash around the frog and his reel started stripping line. He fought that thing for what seemed like an hour. Ended up being about a 9 foot gator. 65lb Suffix braid is some BAD stuff!!I'd say you win this thread. that's one big gator. Too bad you didn't video it, make a great commercial for Suffix. ;D
I second that.
B-Dozer reply :
QuoteQuoteQuoteMy buddy and I used to cut Zoom Centapedes in half, put them on a 3/0 weigthless hook and go to a 100 acre lake we own. The lake was full of grass and full of huge bullfrogs. We would cast the centapede on top of the grass and twitch it and a bullfrog would come hopping over and eat it. Set the hook and the battle was on, these things would take drag and everything. Anyways, one day my cousin hooked one and he was jumping on top of the grass and all of a sudden a HUGE splash around the frog and his reel started stripping line. He fought that thing for what seemed like an hour. Ended up being about a 9 foot gator. 65lb Suffix braid is some BAD stuff!!I'd say you win this thread. that's one big gator. Too bad you didn't video it, make a great commercial for Suffix. ;D
I second that.
Bet PETA would be all over that one
Nosoup4u reply :
QuoteQuoteFishin the Striper run on the Hudson River below the Troy Dam I snagged a dead calf on a Shad Dart!!Ive seen two dead calves kayaking down the river..pretty disturbing lol praying to god i dont some how flip while over one of those
How did they hold the paddles with their hooves?
farmpond1 reply :
QuoteQuoteQuoteFishin the Striper run on the Hudson River below the Troy Dam I snagged a dead calf on a Shad Dart!!Ive seen two dead calves kayaking down the river..pretty disturbing lol praying to god i dont some how flip while over one of those
How did they hold the paddles with their hooves?
Perhaps they could grip them by the husk. ;D
(Authors note: If you haven't seen Monty Python's holy grail, this won't make any sense whatsoever).
J Francho reply :
Maybe they're zombie cattle?
Nice_Bass reply :
QuoteMaybe they're zombie cattle?
So maybe it was not taco bells fault for using so little beef...
CAdeltaLipRipper reply :
QuoteQuoteQuoteFishin the Striper run on the Hudson River below the Troy Dam I snagged a dead calf on a Shad Dart!!Ive seen two dead calves kayaking down the river..pretty disturbing lol praying to god i dont some how flip while over one of those
How did they hold the paddles with their hooves?
Yep lol handled white water pretty well too
fishindrew reply :
when I was 13 or 14, I got my lure stuck on what appeared to be a log sticking out of the water. I waded in to get my lure back to find out that the log was the corner of a trash bag. I dragged it back onto shore and for some reason opened it. it was some kind of dog. nothing left of it but bone and fur. looked like a German Shepard.
CAdeltaLipRipper reply :
Quotewhen I was 13 or 14, I got my lure stuck on what appeared to be a log sticking out of the water. I waded in to get my lure back to find out that the log was the corner of a trash bag. I dragged it back onto shore and for some reason opened it. it was some kind of dog. nothing left of it but bone and fur. looked like a German Shepard.
Thats.... really really disturbing
kms399 reply :
a net, pair of sunglasses like elton john would wear in the boundry waters, caught the but section of a fenwick rod once.
Incheon Basser reply :
I caught a deck umbrella once, pulled it out from undera dock while skippin docks
paangler3117 reply :
ultralight ugly stick, reel was junk, but the rod cleaned up like new! (it's the wifes trout rod now!) caught a 9/16 craftsman wrench on a crankbait once. Hooked it through the box end! made repeated casts in case there was a whole tool box there but no luck!
Jim
SirSnookalot reply :
Yes it's a fish ( trumpet fish ) ! One of the strangest I have ever seen, in fact I have caught 2 of them.
JamesH reply :
^^^^ that thing up there^^^^^
Is awesome! Do they put up much of a fight?
SirSnookalot reply :
Quote^^^^ that thing up there^^^^^Is awesome! Do they put up much of a fight?
Not much of a fight
Brent1 reply :
Was fishing for catfish off a neighborhood dock at my friends place and pulled in the grill insert from a small Weber Grill.. Later hooked the lid of the grill but it fell off before I could grab it.
Luke at Gouldsboro reply :
I was fishing at dusk one day and on a cast, I hooked a brown bat that was flying over the lake feeding on insects. That was a fun fight, but it sucked getting him off a treble hook.
gotarheelz14 reply :
A golf flag...but then again I've only been fishing for a year. Hopefully I can catch something more interesting down the road.
No dead animals though :-/
Beastie Bass reply :
I have also landed the elusive brown bat! I noticed that when I made a cast, bats would swoop down closer and closer. My buddy was REALLY freaking out! When I started waving my rod in a figure 8 motion in the air,they got closer! They were attracted to the sound of my line whistling. I did this for a few minutes, enjoying watching my buddy squirm on the bottom of the boat. I finally quit and when I made a cast my lure only flew about 6 feet and BAM! I should have taped the whole thing because I was 30 at the time and my fishing partner was 48, but he was screaming like a 16 yr old girl! aaah goood times!
Ineedanewscreenname20170204 reply :
While charter boat fishing in San Diego I caught a California Sea Lion (cut the line naturally as it was like 800 pounds and not happy) and a big white bird that dove 20+ feet down to munch on the live fish I was using. Also reeled in a condom once - yuck...
Stasher1 reply :
I've caught various items of clothing, various lures, a few turtles, and a big ol' bullfrog while fly fishing, but the weirdest thing was a nasty swollen discarded plastic worm on a DT6. It wouldn't have been a big deal if it hadn't been flesh-colored...
FL_Sharpshooter reply :
Last week I reeled in a pillow case filled with about 20lbs of mud with a lipless crank. Talk about awkward...
scrutch reply :
While fishing in the river, I snagged the head of a dead 10 point buck. Got it to the boat and all that was left was the head and two front legs.
Took the antlers and mounted them on the front of my 1974 Cadillac.
(ok, so I embellished it a little on the last part. I don't really have a Caddy. It just popped into my head and I couldn't resist.)
BRONZEBACK67 reply :
Sea gull on a Rico. Thank God for braided line and neoprene gloves.A Christmas tree,soda can and a rattle-trap that was hung and broken off in the weeds.
CJ From Dinwiddie,VA reply :
i bass fish 95% of the time but i went out with a buddy of mine and my stepdad in the mobjack bay then ran to the bridge tunnel. we were catchin shark and flounder and tons of sea bass. well, i cast a hunk of meat back in the water after catchin a shark. this GIANT seagull. alot bigger than ive seen, grabs it and takes off. tryin to ****** meat out of its mouth ''cuz i saw hook wasnt in mouth'' it did a spin thing and was hooked through the bottom beak area. it finally got tired. my buddy took line i had on gloves. grabbed feet and stepdad held wings closed. got the hook out and let the bird go. no serious harm done i dont think. just a sore mought for a few days
noogai13 reply :
nothing much, just a seagull off the ocean isle beach pier in Ocean Isle, North carolina
Nick- reply :
Condems are quite common out of the Milwaukee Harbor. Disgusting!
lavbasser reply :
Caught this snapper on a Norman Thin N last Fall.
lavbasser reply :
Here is another one from a few years ago....
endless reply :
QuoteHere is another one from a few years ago....
Did you get your lure back? Luckily for me the two I caught one was on minnow and other on wacky. So no loss there.By the way great pic.
lavbasser reply :
No, I lost the Chatterbait. I had to cut the line.
Bluebasser86 reply :
QuoteHere is another one from a few years ago....
I had one eat a jerkbait a few years ago. Hit it on the pause just like a bass. I got my bait back and he ate his last jerkbait .
USMCAngler89 reply :
I was doing some fishing on the Nuese River and pulled in 25 ft garden hose with a spray nozzle still attached
GrizzerGreen reply :
A "I <3 NYC" t-shirt
The weirdest part was that I was fishing in Michigan...
It made great use after I tore it up for rags.
Midnight Splash reply :
2 Seagulls and a few Mallards. One Mallard this year broke off after a short fight in the air. He took my brand new $25 swim bait, which he is still sporting around 2 months later.
Fishing Rhino reply :
I'm taking a bit of license here, and going back to my lobstering days. We hauled up all manner of odd things, among them, about six anchors, one very large one, several basking sharks, railings from sunken vessels, countless sinkers, jigs, and assorted fishing rigs when lobstering in areas where the party boats fished. But the winner, which falls into the "What are the odds category?", was a mainsail from a 34 foor Hinkley sailboat.
Three days later, when hauling the same gear, in the same area, the sail bag for the sail came up, wrapped around the ground line.
BassThumb reply :
QuoteCondems are quite common out of the Milwaukee Harbor. Disgusting!
We have a winner!!
possumsniper2 reply :
Not me reeling it in. But my youngest daughter catching a stingray that weighed at least 25 pounds or more on an 8 lb. test line. Still trying to figure out how she managed to land that big ray with her being so little, and it fighting like crazy.
ripinthem reply :
I've caught some freshwater mussel. I guess they just close when the bait is dragged into them. Funny thing is you feel the line "tick" just like a bite as it closes on the line. Then you jerk and reel in a clam(mussel). They don't open, so you either have to bust open it and kill it, or cut the line.
fadetoblack21 reply :
My weirdest would be what was left of a rusted tricycle about 5 feet from the bank when I was fishing from the bank. Waded out and pulled it in because it was partially buried in the mud.
I was also the victim of my fishing buddies weirdest catch. . . ME. . .when he sunk his hook in the side of my neck while casting.
GuntersvilleSlayer reply :
A tree bass. :D. Ha no but probably a bathing suit was the wierdest for me.
tomustang reply :
A black wifebeater in the delaware, it fought in the current good. I don't think i'll ever top my wife's catch of a diaper though :-?
saint romain reply :
this may not constitute as a "weirdest catch" but most definately my top "weirdest sight"...rode my 4wheeler to a interstate pond by my house, about 2 miles away...i pull up where i usually park, look through the woods by the bank and see a guy in what looks like a diaper but i think it was just undies (just undies, no shirt socks pants anything), smoking a cig talking to someone fully clothed like nothing was "odd"...lets just say i was creeped out didnt fish that day
AndyPlaysDrums reply :
Caught a pair of somebody's boxers today.
hatrix reply :
Im not sure what the weirdest thing i ever caught was. I guess its between a bicycle a hub cap or a bird cage. I guess the best thing I ever caught was a tree branch with at least 20 lures on it when I was maybe around 12 or 13. It was like winning the fishing lottery and the rest of the day I remember trying to find more branches to snag on for more lures.
TerryR reply :
I reeled in a crawdad trout fishing with red worms along the bottom of a creek once. It just wouldn't let go of the worm.
pitchinthejig reply :
I was fishing in the spill way at Rodman Dam a two or three years ago fishing for Strippers when they come up there and slay the big shad. I stuck something that was BIG and powerful it felt like a 35-40# stripper and the current at the spill way is really fast and strong so I was in the fight about 25 minutes and this thing just didnt stop it make 40-50 yard runs with (Daiwa pluton and 50# braid) and ide slowly bring it back and then bam run again... after about 45-50 minutes I landed it and it was a 8X10 foot piece of window screen... You couldnt believe how it was fighting I mean it fought just like a large stripper pulling line off on big unstoppable runs and then at times diving... That current rolling pulling it down deeper and deeper and then it grabbing the running current when I would get it up some and then back to diving it was unreal how much it felt like a fish... when it would shake and turn in the current it felt like head shaking.. I had about 10 boats and every one on the dam watching me and cheering me on lol as they thought I had a huge stripper just like I did it was something I will never forget and a few of my bass tourney buddies was out there sticking some strippers during the run and they still to this day rib me anytime we have a tourney at rodman about it.
deaknh03 reply :
Before I got married I used to enjoy me some stripper fishing once in a while.
doug deike reply :
I landed a dead 28" steelhead with rigamortis when I was a kid
CRANKSTER reply :
On 11/27/2011 at 9:31 PM, deaknh03 said:Before I got married I used to enjoy me some stripper fishing once in a while.
Lmao 
slonezp reply :
On 3/23/2011 at 10:37 PM, saint romain said:this may not constitute as a "weirdest catch" but most definately my top "weirdest sight"...rode my 4wheeler to a interstate pond by my house, about 2 miles away...i pull up where i usually park, look through the woods by the bank and see a guy in what looks like a diaper but i think it was just undies (just undies, no shirt socks pants anything), smoking a cig talking to someone fully clothed like nothing was "odd"...lets just say i was creeped out didnt fish that day
I thought that's just a regular day in Loozy
Colton Neal reply :
I've landed a lunker trashbag, and also a clam.
dcorp reply :
On 11/27/2011 at 1:44 PM, Long-Range-Junkie said:I was fishing in the spill way at Rodman Dam a two or three years ago fishing for Strippers when they come up there and slay the big shad. I stuck something that was BIG and powerful it felt like a 35-40# stripper and the current at the spill way is really fast and strong so I was in the fight about 25 minutes and this thing just didnt stop it make 40-50 yard runs with (Daiwa pluton and 50# braid) and ide slowly bring it back and then bam run again... after about 45-50 minutes I landed it and it was a 8X10 foot piece of window screen... You couldnt believe how it was fighting I mean it fought just like a large stripper pulling line off on big unstoppable runs and then at times diving... That current rolling pulling it down deeper and deeper and then it grabbing the running current when I would get it up some and then back to diving it was unreal how much it felt like a fish... when it would shake and turn in the current it felt like head shaking.. I had about 10 boats and every one on the dam watching me and cheering me on lol as they thought I had a huge stripper just like I did it was something I will never forget and a few of my bass tourney buddies was out there sticking some strippers during the run and they still to this day rib me anytime we have a tourney at rodman about it.
Thats the funniest thing I have heard all day... maybe all week.
LuckyHandsINC. reply :
On 11/27/2011 at 9:31 PM, deaknh03 said:Before I got married I used to enjoy me some stripper fishing once in a while.
What was your go to bait. I always had luck with singles. And of course always catch and release.
Bass_Fanatic reply :
On 12/1/2011 at 1:19 AM, NYBASSIN36 said:What was your go to bait. I always had luck with singles. And of course always catch and release.
Just make sure they dont have something that you cant release...
LuckyHandsINC. reply :
On 12/1/2011 at 7:36 AM, Bass_Fanatic said:Just make sure they dont have something that you cant release...
I always protect all my gear with a stik-jacket. Is this enough bad puns or should we keep going.lol.
slonezp reply :
On 12/1/2011 at 9:00 AM, NYBASSIN36 said:I always protect all my gear with a stik-jacket. Is this enough bad puns or should we keep going.lol.
Crab fishing anyone?
doug deike reply :
Seagulls just can't say no to a Rapala.
Jim3h reply :
Once while fishing for carp, i caught a traffic cone thought i had a turtle!
SMITTY0045 reply :
I pulled in a couch cushion once. It looked like it was from patio furniture
aquaholic reply :
couple chairs and some clams. I knew a guy who was swimming in the river and found a waded up roll of carpet. You can guess what he found inside.
BuffaloBass716 reply :
A few snapping turtles, some rusty old lures, and a sealed plastic bag full of some liquid (did no open it).
J Francho reply :
I caught a car engine playing Bass Professor's Fishing Paradise last week. That thing fought harder than a snook, lol.
slonezp reply :
Yesterday my son caught a 4lb piece of cement on a rattletrap
deaknh03 reply :
On 7/22/2013 at 11:20 PM, slonezp said:Yesterday my son caught a 4lb piece of cement on a rattletrap
Those traps attract everything!
MitchTBF reply :
When I was a kid I reeled in what I thought was a fish skull and brought it home. Showed it to my fisherman Uncle a few months later and he pointed out that it was actually a section of an animal's vertebral column. Looked to be from a large dog or something.
bassmaster99 reply :
Didn't quite reel it in but a huge red tail hawk flew down and picked up my bronzeye a little while a go. Fought good for a few seconds.
CPBassFishing reply :
I caught a bucket with a dead snake in it today! I snagged it on my shaky head and it was full of mud. Dumped the mud out and a 3 foot snake fell out!
CPBassFishing reply :
body?On 7/22/2013 at 9:48 AM, aquaholic said:couple chairs and some clams. I knew a guy who was swimming in the river and found a waded up roll of carpet. You can guess what he found inside.
aquaholic reply :
On 7/23/2013 at 8:28 AM, CPBassFishing said:body?
yup
whiteghost reply :
Last year I snagged an old cell phone, any thing is possible.
BillinDurham reply :
A Hellbender on the Allegheny River. A Hellbender is the largest North American salamander and is one weird, mean looking creature. Lives underwater and will eat bait.
geo g reply :
I once caught a team Diawa rod and reel with a 5 lb bass still attached in 20ft of water. Looked like the combo was in the water for days. Fish was in good shape and released safe. It was like hitting the lottery.
fishguy613 reply :
My dad got a bass off a Big O last spring, the thing had a really old Senko in its mouth. No hook, nothing...
Who knows how long this bass was holding onto that plastic for! Hours? Months?
He didn't even drop it when trying to slam the crank lol
As for me, Ive only pulled up peoples rigs like lines with hooks attached and the odd musky lure
joeyfishes reply :
I went to my local pond last month after heavy rain and it was chocolate milk. Could not even see two inches. I was using a black trick worm wacky rigged. I felt a tap-tap and set the hook. The creature surfaced and it was a turtle. I am terrified of amphibious creatures so when I saw it, I just let it swim around hoping it would come off. It surfaced again and hissed at me. It eventually came off and when I brought my hook in, it was covered in white feathers. There are ducks in that pond so I don't know if he was eating a duck or what.
flyfisher reply :
My ex-wife
Preytorien reply :
On 1/26/2011 at 10:08 PM, Grey Wolf said:I snagged someones ultra-lite outfit and it was in great shape , must not have been in the water very long.
I had this happen to me this fall.
It was a smallish Shakespeare ultralight rod and spincast reel. Perfect for one of my little cousins or nieces when I take them out.
joeyfishes reply :
The turtle was weird but the weirdest thing I have ever caught were fish guts. The guts of a bass filled with bluegill. I had to somehow get the guts off without touching them and without hitting myself with them while flailing them around. I eventually had to set them on the ground and cut them off with my knife.
boostr reply :
On 12/4/2013 at 2:03 AM, flyfisher said:My ex-wife
Well not my ex but my current... weird things they are my friend.
plumworm reply :
Yellowstone River, Yellowstone Park, A pelican took a 3 lb. trout along with a $50 fly line. Mississippi River pool #10 a 4 lb. bullfrog ate a salad spoon and we ate him. Kentucky Lake: caught 2 rod/reel combo's in the same bay on the same afternoon on a shakeyhead. Both trashed. Lake Michigan: a 4 ft. piece of re-bar in 30 ft. of water felt like a huge salmon. Local lake: a 4 ft. snapping turtle scared the bejesus out of my 80 y.o. Dad. And once in awhile, I even catch a fish.
kickerfish1 reply :
While testing a few new jerkbaits I had recently bought, I "caught" a 100 series pointer. It was a surprise for sure!
MacP reply :
I fish tailwaters loads. People love fishing for trout on the Caney Fork. People will add weights to spoons to get them down into the generation waters. I once caught a MASS of silver spoons and lines that had formed at the generator. There were 9 spoons, lots of line, weights and one nameless jerkbait. I thought that was weird.
Mainebass1984 reply :
I have had the unfortunate luck of catching some pretty weird things. A rod and reel, a water snake, a sea gull (funny story), a shoe, a tire, a seal (talk about peeling out drag), and a 35 lb snapping turtle.
stratoliner92 reply :
Hung up my t -rig on some old fishing line went over and just before i cut it noticed a rod tip. Ended up being a KVD reel with berkley rod. Took it home spent 3hrs clean and lube. Been on the deck ever since
Nquince79 reply :
I was surf fishing for croaker when my rod bent in half I fought it all the way in thinking a shark took a croaker that swallowed the hook next thing I know I had a size 48 plaid skirt someone lost in the ocean. I also caught a used shotgun shell before
duckmaster55 reply :
One time i had a duck swim down and bite my dropshot before i could get it away from her.
I caught a Beaver before in the keuka outlet on a spinnerbait.
A snapper when i was little but he broke the line right on next to shore.
This year though while out my friend and i made a makeshift anchor. Because our trolling motor ran out of battery and we were moving to fast to do we had to find a way to slow ourselves down. When the both of us were pulling it up we saw that a pretty big ship anchor came up with it, but there was no way we could get it out. The thing had mostly rusted away over time but when it was whole it must have been huge.
CTGalloway21 reply :
Fishing a kayak tourney in Alabama, I caught about a 12 inch bass that had a 5 inch bass inside it's mouth. Inside the 5 inch bass, there was a 2 inch bream. I caught 3 fish by hooking one. crazy.
Caylub reply :
I reeled in a fresh water eel one day this summer. I had gotten hung up on an old limb line some had left behind and the eel was actually on it. It was freaky looking, coming out of the river and all. I picked it up and removed the hook. Although it seemed fairly harmless my buddies were scared to touch it. I got my line wrapped around a baby ducks neck a few weeks ago. I was trying to clear my line before the duck got to my line but it was too quick. It hit my line and starting flailing around, wrapping my line around its neck. I reel it in some, let it rest, reeled it in some, let it rest until the line finally came on around his neck and he was free about 15 ft. from shore. I didn't want to cut the line because it was on his neck and I didn't know if he could clear it on his own. It really wasn't that big of a deal but it was a wierd experience.
michang5 reply :
Shared this on another thread a few weeks back.
xxxblungblung reply :
A bird wing. Not the bird just his wing.
dropshot86.sp reply :
This happen about two years ago on Lake Murray in South Carolina. I caught what appeared to be a condom, and a set of pantyhose. I know what the use of the pantyhose was for, but the condom? Who knows, and probably don't want to know.
J Francho reply :
Might be time for "the talk" lol.
gr8outdoorz reply :
Flippin a jig at a local pond & hooked into what I thought was a tree. Since I had my big stick w/ 80 lb braid, I pulled and reeled to try and work it loose and out comes a golf cart rim! Don't know how it got there but I got it out.
Bankbeater reply :
Just the usual, mussel shells, rocks, and an occasional crawfish.
SirSnookalot reply :
Happened this morning at 5:30, casting in a rocky area thought I was snagged, tightened the drag and began to snap the bow to get my lure and a huge fin appeared. As more fin started to show the fin seemed to have short fingers, a sea turtle? Nope it was an adult manatee and they are pretty darn big. Stopping it would have been near impossible with a md spin rod and 15#, but the braid, 20# leader and loopknot held like a vise until the brute strength of this mammal pulled free of my xrap. The manatee was none the worse for wear, probably didn't even realize it was snagged, got my lure back and got a great 45 second rush.
Bluebasser86 reply :
I caught an old throw net this summer while fishing a crankbait along a rocky shoreline. Weird thing was it had 2 dead snakes in it (I'm assuming they got tangled in it while swimming under the surface and drown), along with 3 crankbaits, a couple spinnerbaits, and a ton of crappie jigs. It was snagged up pretty bad in the rocks but I was able to get it to the surface with my lure retriever and managed to get it to pop free after pulling on it pretty hard. The snakes smelled terrible but I cut the baits I wanted out then tossed the rest on the bank.
jbw252 reply :
Weird & creepy - I reeled in a used condom while surf fishing. Of course, it was on my "Hopkins Shorty". Ha!
AQUA VELVA reply :
While trolling for musky on Lake St.Clair one summer day many years ago , I reeled my line in for a quick check of what I thought might be weeds only to find what can only be described as a donut rock. It was about three inches accross and the lures trebble hook had snagged it right through the hole! What are the mathamatical chances of that I wonder? I still have the lure with the ''donut'' rock hanging from it.
Cryoglobin reply :
I reeled in a globe once. Some kids must have been ticked off about geography class.
Weirdest thing I ever saw reeled in.....a guy I was with pulled up a Glock 9mm, about half a clip and one in the chamber.
RoLo reply :
On 1/26/2011 at 11:03 PM, roadwarrior said:Flat rocks. In the river they sometimes run
and dive, the fight can be awesome!
Yeah I read about them.
They're sedimentary rocks comprised of metamorphic silt,
the scientific name is 'Micropterus dolomieu' 
Roger
Bass Slayer 72 reply :
Fishing with my son in Grand Haven MI, off the pier I thought I had a d**n turtle it was stuck on the bottom and taxing out my ugly stick Tiger Pole, when we got it up it was a bag with a volley ball painted like Wilson from the movie Cast Away (Tom Hanks) cut with a giant rock shoved inside.... someone's idea of funny, which it kind of was but also embarrassing because everyone thought I had a Salmon or something big on.
Jon G reply :
last month i caught a GIANT red ear slider on a spook, when he took it he jumped out of the water like a bass and i thought i had bass on until it stuck its head out the water
basshole8190 reply :
what is a red ear sliderOn 12/15/2013 at 3:38 PM, Jon G said:last month i caught a GIANT red ear slider on a spook, when he took it he jumped out of the water like a bass and i thought i had bass on until it stuck its head out the water
ericci99 reply :
It's a turtle
CAbassboy reply :
Ummm, snagged a condom box before. apropriate to share??? lol
BenB54 reply :
Frog on a frog.
Caylub reply :
I've never seen a frog that big in my life. That's cool.
A-Jay reply :
Now That's Weird.
A-Jay
RoLo reply :
On 12/16/2013 at 1:59 PM, A-Jay said:Now That's Weird.
A-Jay
That would be a Catfish right?
Or is that a horse of another color? 
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