Weirdest Things You Ever Caught (Non-Fish)? 2025
Megastink reply :
What objects, creatures, items have you landed unintentionally? Here's a short list of mine to get started:
-Coffee Maker
-High Heel shoe
-sock full of change (aka the "Irish Fist")
-shopping cart
-desk chair
Your turn! Have fun!
Teal reply :
A dead otter, with two small snapping turtles attached.
jm37817 reply :
Snapping turtle. Biggest pain in the rear to deal with. I'm not the turtle man and there wasn't any live action.
Bankbeater reply :
Plastic bag, turtle, rock, and mussels. That is all I can think of right now.
plumworm reply :
Last spring on KY. Lake, I caught 2 rods and reels in the same afternoon. They were both toast, but what are the odds?
Darren. reply :
Hmm. Snapping turtles, mud turtles, bags, shoes, and so on.
Would love to catch some cash! But I suppose that Irish Fist was used for something other than a pot o' gold....
MCS reply :
I got a fresh water muscle or clam?
Dragging and pausing a texas rig and felt a little tap, reeled in my line and found this.
My buddy got a soda can. but I didn't keep his pic he sent of that.
BassKing17 reply :
I have caught a Mussel as well. It ate my texas rigged lizard!
I have also caught snakes and a few ducks.
I also caught a bucket that had holes drilled in it, the lid was on it. When i opened it it had a hog skull inside.
fl_bass reply :
So far a snapping turtle.
slonezp reply :
You can do a search, this topic is brought up quite often.
For me a push broom
trailer reply :
A rod that was broke in half and someone's jug that failed to float. No fish on either one!
Snakehead Whisperer reply :
The list is too long. Here are some highlights.
-Caught my friends jig that he lost about 30 minutes earlier (and occasionally catch lures that I've lost myself.)
-My friend Edwin had a 20 minute battle with a contractor garbage bag that was full of water in heavy current (took out a lot of drag, thought he had a 50lb.+ blue cat.)
-Lots of birds on topwater, including a peregrine falcon (strange because they are not usually piscivorous, safely released.)
---=Martin=--- reply :
Back when I fished in Poland as a kid... a bird, in mid air!!! We were casting heavy lures to the bottom and it caught a bird flying through air as I cast.
Jaiden reply :
I caught a towel once. Thought I had a huge pike.
Felix77 reply :
On 2/9/2013 at 4:11 AM, mvorbrodt said:Back when I fished in Poland as a kid... a bird, in mid air!!! We were casting heavy lures to the bottom and it caught a bird flying through air as I cast.
Same happened to me last year. Each time I would cast out my finesse worm I had a bird or two chase it. I never thought one would get that close to it. One did and ended up tangled in my line. I reeled it in, clipped off as much line as I could. It went flying before I could finish so it had a small stream of braid flying behind him when he ran away.
flyfisher reply :
I have caught a bat like the flying kind, snapping turtle, eels, snakes, a beaver and an old rusted spinning set up that had to be 20 years old.
Southfork reply :
I've caught a few snakes, one bat, and the odd piece of trash from time to time. By far the craziest thing I ever caught was a coon though.
rangerboy reply :
an old tackle box, empty. and some trout trolling lures. once saw my grandpa land a 500 rod and real at the delta. he was happy that day.
Long Mike reply :
I guess the oddest thing I ever caught was the clap - twice, but I was in my twenties and I was fishing a for different species. Promiscuous? Absolutely!
Bluebasser86 reply :
I caught a large, flat rock on a crankbait that I thought was new state record smallmouth. I hooked it off a steep point and when I set the hook it lifted up and glided out into deeper, open water pulling drag like a big smallie. When I'd lift I'd gain some line and then it would shoot back down towards the bottom, just like a big smallmouth. I'm glad I was by myself and nobody saw me fighting this rock, never have I been so fooled by something that wasn't a fish.
GeorgiaBassBros reply :
i caught a pair of underwear in my buddies neighborhood lake. they were relatively new looking and as far as we know, we are the only people that ever even get close to the lake. very odd
CoBass reply :
As far as living, non-fish catches I've caught 2 Canadian geese, a duck, a coot, a bullfrog, and a bullsnake. Non-living catches include beer cans, sunglasses, a boat anchor, a couple of rods and reels, a shirt, several plastic bags, and most recently the rubber seal that goes around a boat window. I'm sure I've forgotten a few but those are the ones I can remember off of the top of my head.
Tuckahoe Joe reply :
I haven't caught anything too unusual. Caught the top half of a rod a couple months ago. Tied it to the rod I was using and then used that to pull a roostertail out of a tree that was beyond my reach. This thread reminds of a Family Guy episode where they go fishing and Peter says something like "All we caught was a tire, a boot, a tin can and this book of cliches."
Crappiebasser reply :
On 2/9/2013 at 12:57 PM, Long Mike said:I guess the oddest thing I ever caught was the clap - twice, but I was in my twenties and I was fishing a for different species. Promiscuous? Absolutely!
That's one way to avoid having a roommate on the road trip.
Outside of catching snakes nothing really strange.
Crookedneck reply :
I caught a dead dog last year. Pulled it up from the bottom...talk about disgusting....I think it was a lab or a retriever. It had been in the water a while.
Broke bass fisherman reply :
Caught this earlier this year;
Caught this two years ago;
Bass Junkie reply :
Hooked a pretty nice walleye once, stone dead, had been for a while. Hooked it right in the mouth with a sqaure bill crank fishing a river. Also landed and released a goose, and a West Cost Choppers hoodie with a Storm Hot 'N Tot snagged in it.
Nashua Nev reply :
a 45 lb alligator snapping turtle, 2 shopping carts, several lines with lures attached, a mussell, a crab,a fishing pole,some kind of water snake on a floating frog, a 6 ft fresh water eel, a hockey goal.
BigBassBarry reply :
Kitchen chair, but worst was bird swooped down and took my pop r. it was a mess.
Tom Walker reply :
Asian noodle sauce packet...
CPBassFishing reply :
A water snake that completely swallowed my deadsticked 5" senko, and another time I dredged up a nice pair of loafers with the laces tied together. Biggest thing I have ever snagged was a 50lb snapping turtle that is a good 100 years old and 5 feet around. I'm not even kidding. I measured it to be 61" from head to tail while my friend sat on it and held its head to the ground with a Y-shaped stick. That thing could have taken 3 fingers off in one bite very easily. Its head was as big as a ping-pong paddle.
loodkop reply :
My wife twice. Think its fun unhooking a turtle or bird? Try a red head
Clifton905 reply :
Steel foot trap on the James River. Luckily it was empty
lmbfisherman reply :
A snapping turtle....very crappy to unhook. Felt bad!
As for Saltwater - Caught a purse, octopus and a sea cucumber.
Bluebasser86 reply :
I caught a really nice diving knife in the sheath with the leg strap still in very good shape on a crankbait. Took it home and dried it off and cleaned it up a little and now I use it whenever I'm running set lines for catfish. Thankfully I didn't catch the diver too.
ebob2435 reply :
Snapping Turtles, old beer-soda cans , abandoned trot lines, deflated beach ball and a pup tent.
SudburyBasser reply :
On 2/9/2013 at 2:04 PM, Bluebasser86 said:I caught a large, flat rock on a crankbait that I thought was new state record smallmouth. I hooked it off a steep point and when I set the hook it lifted up and glided out into deeper, open water pulling drag like a big smallie. When I'd lift I'd gain some line and then it would shoot back down towards the bottom, just like a big smallmouth. I'm glad I was by myself and nobody saw me fighting this rock, never have I been so fooled by something that wasn't a fish.
I once fought an epic battle with something I thought was real big -- a nice pike or something...and of course it was some old line with a jig on it that was caught around some rocks. The boys in the boat didn't let me live that one down the rest of the day.
Kept the jig head though.
Southfork reply :
I've caught plenty of turtles....there seems to be an abundance around here.
GaBankFisher reply :
My head - I posted a pic on another thread a few weeks ago. That incident involved 1) my brother/son laughing their a$$es off for an entire weekend, 2) a stealth trip to the ER (couldn't let the wife find out), and 3) a couple staples in my head. Of course everyone in the ER thought it was pretty funny too, especially when they found out that I did it. It was on my second cast at 5 o'clock that morning...about 3 hours of sleep after my bro and I sat around the fire all night drinking beer and catching up on old times...I hadn't seen him in a couple years. It was funny, but could have been worse and was a good lesson learned about form/concentration.
Besides that, sea turtles, stingrays, old ropes/nets, rocks/coral, a sock, a huge mantis shrimp (~10 inches), seagull (grabbed my lure), a few docks, and some nasty moray eels. Oh, and I did catch a seahorse one time, but it was in a trap, not a rod/reel.
Bluebasser86 reply :
On 2/12/2013 at 11:29 AM, Southfork said:I've caught plenty of turtles....there seems to be an abundance around here.
That sucks to get them on a crank. A jig or soft plastic I'll just cut the line but I'm not losing a crank to a turtle. Hooking one in the mouth like that just makes it that much more interesting.
rb56 reply :
i went once with a friend and though i hadn't been in ages it still made my then wife mad i went. when i got home i was asked the same but in a cold voice, "catch anything?" i simply replied "i hope not!" (not recommended) 
and that was how the fight started.
Hyrule Bass reply :
On 2/12/2013 at 12:23 PM, Bluebasser86 said:That sucks to get them on a crank. A jig or soft plastic I'll just cut the line but I'm not losing a crank to a turtle. Hooking one in the mouth like that just makes it that much more interesting.
far as i care, the turtle can have the crank too, my fingers are worth more than a $6 crank bait, even a $20 one, turtle can have it.
On 2/12/2013 at 2:20 PM, rb56 said:i went once with a friend and though i hadn't been in ages it still made my then wife mad i went. when i got home i was asked the same but in a cold voice, "catch anything?" i simply replied "i hope not!" (not recommended)
LOLOL
keith71 reply :
Dog Skull under a bridge, a cormorant,mallard,and watched my buddy hook a bumper on a moving vehicle while striper fishing the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel.
jessallus reply :
I was the strangest thing some one caught on the Leon River. I was on my kayak minding my own buisness when I was hooked in the back of the neck by an old black man fishing from the bank. I almost pulled that old man in trying to get that hook out of me. I guess I should had made more noise lol.
thehooligan reply :
Ive caught a soda can and a fishing rod. My friend caught a stingray on bass gear, we seriously thought it was a huge shark, lol. Took atleast 20 minutes to get it in on a 6ft medium rod with a small spinning reel. Ive never seen a fish pull that much drag besides the one muskie ive caught...
naynayshimer reply :
On 2/9/2013 at 1:55 AM, MCS said:I got a fresh water muscle or clam?
Dragging and pausing a texas rig and felt a little tap, reeled in my line and found this.
My buddy got a soda can. but I didn't keep his pic he sent of that.
clam.JPGthe Texas rig catches everything, doesn't it!
RyneB reply :
i caught a still fully intact adult magazine. It was made of a laminated type of paper. It was really funny, considering i was with my wife. It was quite "graphic."
Trackick9707 reply :
I grew up fishing pool 2 of the Mississippi and have caught all sorts of weird stuff. Pallets, toilet seats, clothes, tires, big turtles, condoms,shoes, odd bottles, a 24 inch sucker minnow,and all sorts of crazy stuff. Funniest thing was a dime bag of pot in a wrapper from a cigarette pack... all of the garbage from St. Paul would settle in that pool and i learned to appreciate braided line at a young age.
Avalonjohn44 reply :
List of weird stuff I caught:
Fishing rods, minnow trap, crab trap, seagull, snapping turtle, my sister's neck, my own scalp, a purse in a hospital pond (sad), walmart bag, a snag that turned out to be a suberged bmx bike, freshwater clam, and the weirdest:
Was going catfishing one night and meeting my friends down by the Potomac River. Off of 193, Difficult Run in VA hits the Potomac about a mile or so from the parking lot. There is a fire/rescue trail that goes the entire way. I had my rod rigged with a big treble hook reeled all the way up to the tip. I came across a copperhead coiled in the middle of the trail. I went to the left of him and he went left. I went to the right, and he went right... I tried to shoo him out of the way with my rod tip and the treble hook snagged him. I walked about a half mile with a crazy mad copperhead writhing around the end of my rod. I got to the end of the trail, and instead of cutting my line and letting the p-ed off snake where we were fishing, I cast the bugger out into the water. He fought for a good while, then, thank God, he worked himself off.
Curved reply :
3 ft long snake and a porno magazine.
Connor R reply :
I have caught a few weird things as well.
*steering wheel
* a fish basket full of catfish skeletons
*a few rod and reels
* a pair of shoes tied together
DINK WHISPERER reply :
A freakin 8ft + gator! I was slow buzzing a rage toad along thick pad edges when the surace exploaded. I never saw it just the explosion so i set the hook like normal! It bent my 7' 11" broomstick like it was a crankbait rod. As much as i hate to admit this, gator NEVER crossed my mind! All i was thinking was new FL record bass! When it pulled drag on my locked down Revo STX i knew it wasn't a fish. When this thing surfaced about 10ft from the boat it was not a happy camper! I cut the 65lb braid and put the Minn Kota on high.....
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