Whats Your Most Interesting Find While Fishing ? 2024
lanzbass reply :
I have found a lot of lures and fishing knifes in my years fishing , but my best find was a like new reel !
JTMONEY606 reply :
i have found a few lures but not many i think people grab them fast anymore where everything is getting so exspensive, we have found pliers and a minnow trap this year so far. i would love find a quantum or abu reel with a st croix or g loomis rod. 
roadwarrior reply :
Yesterday I caught a monster that had broken me off Friday.
I was able to remove the hook and recover my Rage Tail Lizard!
Grizzn N Bassin reply :
stoolies and a lot 3-6 oz weights for river fishing...
---=Martin=--- reply :
German WW2 motorcycle with its lights still on!
Fisherman 1: "I caught this huge bass, it was 50" long and weighed 65 pounds!"
Fisherman 2: "Oh yea, I got snagged the other day, and I pull out an German WW2 motorcycle!"
Fisherman 1: "Oh yea?! Well the bass I caught was actually 60" and pushing 75 pounds!"
Fisherman 2: "No way! The motorcycle I pulled was still in working condition and it's lights were still on!"
Fisherman 1: "OK OK, I'll trim 15 pounds off my bass, but you have to turn the light off!"
Old Polish fishing joke 
GeorgiaBassBros reply :
Lots of crankbaits and texas rigs for good stuff, also a pair of nice plyers. I fish a lot of electric motor only lakes in my kayak where most people back fish so i pick up a lot of bobber, abandoned limb lines and pick as much line out of the tree as i can. Seems like every time i go out it has multiplied
mddrew88 reply :
Found a 30 lb snapping turtle hooked to my topwater once. That was fun to reel in, thought I had a lunker.
As far as gear, there's all kinds of lures stuck in the trees around this pond. Never found anything of real worth. As someone else said I'd like to find a decent Abu one day fingers crossed.
Voda reply :
I have lost 2 pairs of pliers, a pair of nice polarised sun glasses and a really nice LED head lamp. This Year!
slonezp reply :
On 8/13/2013 at 5:26 AM, Voda said:I have lost 2 pairs of pliers, a pair of nice polarised sun glasses and a really nice LED head lamp. This Year!
Cool avatar pic
Jolly Green reply :
Fish_Whisperer reply :
I found a pflueger president spinning reel on half a rod bout two months ago. the reel was zip tied to the reel seat with the seat loosened as far as it could go, and the rod was broke bout mid ways up. I came to the conclusion they bought the rig at a local pawn shop, got snagged and broke the rod trying to ****** it loose and just threw it in. The question still remains... How smart do you have to be to realize that you could've saved the reel by clipping the line and cutting the zip ties at home rather than throwing it all away?
jimmykm21 reply :
Night fishing my local lake pulled into a small cove where I can beach my boat just to stretch my legs and have a cig.
Looked in my boat and a dag had jumped in .
Tuckahoe Joe reply :
I've found various soft plastics that were still in useable condition. Also quite a few hard baits. Mostly Rapalas. Found an X-rap Shad, Shallow Shad Rap, and Countdown Minnow, a Hula Popper, and a frog that I think is made by Snag Proof. One time there was a Rat-L-Trap up in a tree that I couldn't reach so I reeled my worm hook up to the tip of my rod, used it to grab the lure and pull it tight and used my bait knife tied to a long stick with a stringer to cut the line holding it in the tree.
Sam reply :
Nothing like what you guys found.
I did save a beautiful Norman chartreuse crankbait from the bushes on a high tide.
Seems the tide must have been low when the guy threw the crank into the bush and he could not get to it.
I guess I don't look for stuff other than places to drop the line.
Bankbeater reply :
Over the years I have found pliers, knives, crankbaits, plastics, props off of electric motors, and terminal tackle.
Years ago when I was fishing with my Dad we found a very nice BC and rod when we got out to the lake. Tossed it into the back of the truck and started fishing from the shore. When we were leaving a car pulled up and this guy gets out and starts looking for something. My Dad asks him what he was looking for, and this guy says that one of his bosses' kids he brought out fishing the day before had left his rod and reel behind. My Dad asks him what kind of rig it was, and the guy named the same rig that we found. They guy thanked us and told us we probably saved his job.
Bluebasser86 reply :
I caught a very nice diving knife still in the holster with nice rubber straps on a squarebill once. Best I can tell is it must be from the fire department doing practice dives in the lake because swimming isn't allowed.
Tuckahoe Joe reply :
Forgot one. At the end of last summer when the shoreline weeds were still really high and thick I lost a Bandit 200 crankbait 5 feet from shore but just couldn't get at it. Early spring of this year I'm fishing the same spot but since it was still cold there weren't any weeds yet. After fishing for a while I end up looking down and I notice something embedded in the half frozen mud and it turned out to be my crankbait. Slapped some new hooks on it and it was good to go.
Stork reply :
Got snagged on a castnet once that was stuck on rocks and whatnot. Pulled it up as far as I could and it was full of lures. Got a chart./black kvd 2.5 and two more crankbaits. There were many more assorted lures attached to the net but it was winter and I couldn't reach into the water to work them out.
Fishing a church pond once, Iooked down at my feet, and in the slop was a like-new Lucky Craft Live Pointer80mr (suspending) in "Nikishi" color.
Also found a Booyah Pad Crasher once.
---=Martin=--- reply :
Few weeks ago I was walking along a canal behind a movie theater with LgMouthGambler, and I found a $20 bill 
it made up for getting skunked that day...
Catt reply :
Found a body on Vernon Lake, it had been under water for 3 days.
I was only 12, try getting that out of your head!
Clackinrap reply :
Odd first post but my friend lost his favorite KVD crankbait a few days ago, and yesterday I got snagged on a submerged log and after getting free, reeled back in to find my lure and his favorite attached at the end.
AK-Jax86 reply :
I have found some lures like the rest of us. But I found $60 in a bank envelope. It must have fell out someone's car of something because the bills were showing out the bank envelope
lanzbass reply :
On 8/13/2013 at 11:30 PM, Catt said:Found a body on Vernon Lake, it had been under water for 3 days.
I was only 12, try getting that out of your head!
Sorry to hear that Catt 
Life deals us a bad hand sometimes that's for sure ! But I'm glad it has not kept you from fishing God Bless you Buddy !
mddrew88 reply :
On 8/13/2013 at 11:40 PM, Clackinrap said:Odd first post but my friend lost his favorite KVD crankbait a few days ago, and yesterday I got snagged on a submerged log and after getting free, reeled back in to find my lure and his favorite attached at the end.
Finders keepers? Or did you give it back? 
Clackinrap reply :
On 8/14/2013 at 1:41 AM, mddrew88 said:Finders keepers? Or did you give it back?
Haha I gave it back to him. Ironically, I had just bought the same color KVD earlier in the day. Life's kinda funny like that
stkbassn reply :
I'm not sure how interesting this is but I pulled up on a point with huge laydown coming off the bank and noticed a lot of thrashing about. So I naturally threw a cast over and got nothing...the thrashing stopped. So as I moved around the point I noticed it again but ignored it. Then I heard it again right as I was getting ready to take off, and in the same exact place. So out of curiousity I went over for a closer look. I found a fairly decent striper (15-20 pounds or so) all tangled up in line and wrapped around the tree. I grabbed the fish by the mouth and cut it free. It took me a bit to get the fish revived but it finally came around and took off like a shot....that was pretty rewarding to say the least. I was glad to see it swim free! This was my first striper by the way! Not exactly how I'd planned to catch one! LOL...great fish!
Voda reply :
On 8/13/2013 at 7:20 AM, slonezp said:Cool avatar pic
Thanks! 4lb 11oz
NEjitterbugger reply :
Don't mean to be inappropriate but it is truly the strangest thing iv'e found while fishing, a sex toy... Last thing I was expecting to find on the side of the river!
mddrew88 reply :
On 8/14/2013 at 3:08 AM, NEjitterbugger said:Don't mean to be inappropriate but it is truly the strangest thing iv'e found while fishing, a sex toy... Last thing I was expecting to find on the side of the river!
That's hilarious. Maybe someone read about fishing with soft plastic worms and got confused. Was it Texas rigged? lol!
Montanaro reply :
A couple cheap rods.
Someone will find a 3/4 oz war eagle I left on top of a stump yesterday...
pbizzle reply :
I was fishing a worm when I thought I got hung up in some weeds. Once I reel in to take them off, it turns out to be an employee id card from JC Pennies.
ReggieT reply :
On 8/13/2013 at 11:30 PM, Catt said:Found a body on Vernon Lake, it had been under water for 3 days.
I was only 12, try getting that out of your head!
YIKES...seriously?? 
Wayne P. reply :
On 8/13/2013 at 11:30 PM, Catt said:Found a body on Vernon Lake, it had been under water for 3 days.
I was only 12, try getting that out of your head!
I found one also--a floater, but I was older.
ww2farmer reply :
I came around a point a couple summers ago and found two very attractive young gals sunbathing nude on a floating swimming platform. They were not the least bit shy either, one of them even sat up an waved as I floated by...............I had to put the boat on the trailer after that, I was done for the day.
Fish_Whisperer reply :
On 8/14/2013 at 6:14 AM, ww2farmer said:I came around a point a couple summers ago and found two very attractive young gals sunbathing nude on a floating swimming platform. They were not the least bit shy either, one of them even sat up an waved as I floated by...............I had to put the boat on the trailer after that, I was done for the day.
Surprised you didn't throw a hardbait at em...
pbizzle reply :
On 8/14/2013 at 6:50 AM, Fish_Whisperer said:Surprised you didn't throw a hardbait at em...
I'd throw my 7' dinger...
GeorgiaBassBros reply :
On 8/14/2013 at 9:24 AM, pbizzle said:I'd throw my 7' dinger...
7 foot? you might wanna get that checked out
EvanT123 reply :
I snagged someone's line the other day. Started pulling it in expecting to find a lure and found a nose hooked live minnow. Unhooked the guy so he could live another day.
jessejames556 reply :
A nice bass pro shops baitcasting rod bobbing up and down in the middle of the lake with the plastic still on the cork! I ended up breaking the tip in transit months later..easy come easy go
Brent Bartman reply :
Flats fishing in tampa bay i had something pull my ST Croix legend inshore rod and penn spinfisher reel out of the rod holder when no one was looking and about 3 hours later my dad caught string ray 4 foot wide with a circle hook it its mouth that look oddly familiar and at the end off 200 yds of braid was my 300 dollar combo i thought was a goner.
bigbill reply :
I hooked a 4' diameter snapping turtle once. It's head was bigger than mine. My son thought it was a log till it turned to look at us. It's a monster. Onetime the shoreline was full of yellow braid. The rumor is a guy hooked up with it and the turtle won. I'd like to see turtle man get this one.
tholmes reply :
I've hooked a couple of rod and reel combos. One was an Abu Garcia 5000C on a Lew's Speed Stick, the other was a cheap spinning rig. I cleaned up the 5000C and used it for many years. I also hooked a metal trash can lid once. It put up a pretty good fight!
Tom
---=Martin=--- reply :
On 8/14/2013 at 6:14 AM, ww2farmer said:I came around a point a couple summers ago and found two very attractive young gals sunbathing nude on a floating swimming platform. They were not the least bit shy either, one of them even sat up an waved as I floated by...............I had to put the boat on the trailer after that, I was done for the day.
pic or it didn't happen
prjavelin reply :
On 8/14/2013 at 6:14 AM, ww2farmer said:I came around a point a couple summers ago and found two very attractive young gals sunbathing nude on a floating swimming platform. They were not the least bit shy either, one of them even sat up an waved as I floated by...............I had to put the boat on the trailer after that, I was done for the day.
what the heck is wrong with you? we chase walmart girls every lake we go to and you had two out of the water and didnt went for it?
SudburyBasser reply :
Outside of people's fishing line, I've never pulled anything up. I feel gypped.
Someone will find a jointed lure hanging in a tree on Lake Nepawassi one day. They can bleeping have it because I never caught a bloody thing with it in three years.
*Hootie reply :
On 8/13/2013 at 10:51 AM, Fish_Whisperer said:I found a pflueger president spinning reel on half a rod bout two months ago. the reel was zip tied to the reel seat with the seat loosened as far as it could go, and the rod was broke bout mid ways up. I came to the conclusion they bought the rig at a local pawn shop, got snagged and broke the rod trying to ****** it loose and just threw it in. The question still remains... How smart do you have to be to realize that you could've saved the reel by clipping the line and cutting the zip ties at home rather than throwing it all away?
Mike Ike??.... Maybe...lol
Hootie
mattlong5589 reply :
One day my cousins line snapped while dealing in his buzzbait. We came backs week later and hooked into the buzzbait while senko fishing. The look on his face when I reaped his favorite buzzbait in
lanzbass reply :
On 8/26/2013 at 12:41 PM, mattlong5589 said:One day my cousins line snapped while dealing in his buzzbait. We came backs week later and hooked into the buzzbait while senko fishing. The look on his face when I reaped his favorite buzzbait in
That is amazing what happened ! Did you give your cousin the buzzbait back ? Their have been quite a few other stories that would indeed fall under this same category , of amazing!
mattlong5589 reply :
On 8/26/2013 at 8:04 PM, lanzbass said:That is amazing what happened ! Did you give your cousin the buzzbait back ? Their have been quite a few other stories that would indeed fall under this same category , of amazing!
Yea I returned the buzzbait to him
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