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| A tube top. It was covered with Zebra Mussels |
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Location: Elgin, IL | Did the same exact thing Jeff...in late November, by myself. Thought I had really hooked "The One". 
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| A huge Snapping Turtle by the right rear paw, I was by myself fishing the Allegheny River and the turtle was not very happy.. a safe release for all I got snapped at numerous times and they are fast ! A second while fishing a bass tournament on Lake Erie and drop shotting I was fortunate to snag another angler 's just lost rod and reel from the bottom and return it to him a much more expensive rod and reel, however not mine and I made a new friend for life and did a good deed in returning his rod and reel. |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | I also remember a fishing buddy catching a Coleman lantern (white gas and one that needs mantles to operate) with a bulldawg. Snagged it in the handle. One side looked brand new the other was all crusted. No it wasn't lit.
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| Too many crazy things to mention...couple memorable ones were a giant pair, I mean giant pair of women's underwear. Also saved a female suicidal bridge jumper...not sure if the two had any connection or not. |
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| Urban fisheries can yield up some crazy stuff at times... Umbrellas, folding lawn chairs, car tires, a semi tire that fought me like a sturgeon, carpet, trees with a dozen baits snagged on them, dead carp, dead perch carcasses, boulders, jackets, sweaters. Its a crazy world out there.
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| A buddy of mine snagged a coleman lantern that actually WAS still lit! |
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Location: Kronenwetter, WI | 1970s Polaroid camera |
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| My buddy pulled a carbon arrow in from a brush pile. |
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Location: Lake St.Clair | lifeisfun - 9/26/2014 4:03 AM
Well, my experience wasn't to pleasant, about 150lb, pink sweater...., I don't think I need to continue....
No way you have to be kidding? |
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Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan | A pair of prescription eyeglasses while jigging for whitefish. |
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| This year in July on the Chip, I "caught" a mesh drawstring "bag" full of what looked like chicken bones and rocks. I asked around, and my understanding is that this is some sort of "bait bag" that goes into a trap for crayfish?!?!? Maybe someone pulled up their trap and the bait bag fell out? I set the hook when it "hit", and had about 6-7 hook points from my depth raider buried in the mesh. My friends were cracking up as I was cursing & cutting the mesh with my knife to get my bait back...for about 20 mins. |
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Location: Ontario | ToothTamer - 9/27/2014 4:42 AM
lifeisfun - 9/26/2014 4:03 AM
Well, my experience wasn't to pleasant, about 150lb, pink sweater...., I don't think I need to continue....
No way you have to be kidding?
Unfortunately not kidding  |
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Location: Centeral Wisco | Snagged a whitetail deer leg and a walleye rod and reel |
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Location: Lake St.Clair | lifeisfun - 9/27/2014 11:40 AM
ToothTamer - 9/27/2014 4:42 AM
lifeisfun - 9/26/2014 4:03 AM
Well, my experience wasn't to pleasant, about 150lb, pink sweater...., I don't think I need to continue....
No way you have to be kidding?
Unfortunately not kidding : (
Thats unfortunate im sorry buddy. Hopefully you didnt have the kids or wife or whatever with you.
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Location: Ontario | No, it was just me, took 911 40 minutes to get there. |
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| Wow that is crazy. Did you ever get the back story for the missing person? |
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Location: Ontario | Yeah, paraplegic that killed her self. |
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| Wow. That's awful.
That's actually one of my worse fears fishing. I'm not sure why, but every time I snag something heavy I think "oh, crap. What it it's a body?!"
That would definitely ruin a day fishing. |
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| Thats terrible, and such a sad story.
Im with EA on this one of my worst fears. Especially when fishing Cook Co forest preserves. You literally never know what could be in them. |
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| Yea I agree also something I always fear, never know with all the crazy drug addicts around here. |
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| Didn't snag it but I saw somthing floating on the edge of some reeds on Bald eagle a few years back I could see what looked like blonde hair floating in the water with a hand sticking up . Couldn't muster up the courage to get close enough to actually see it. I was going to head back to the landing to call the police .As I was heading over the Dnr was headed out to investigate it .Turns out it was a big golden retriever that drowned. |
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| While fishing in a southern wi lake i snagged a purse with a bony, i.d. was of a woman in illinois. Turned out address was only maybe 15 miles from my house. I returned it to her she said she a 2 other women had purses stolen at a movie theater 4 years prior.. Maybe i go vertical jig same spot again and find 2 more purses! |
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Location: Middletown, Ohio | I jigged up a bedspring from a mattress covered in zebra mussels a couple months ago fishing a Bondy bait in the Detroit River. Thought I had a real sluggish fish on......was disappointed to say the least,but still had to laugh about it.
Mark
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Location: Sw Pennsylvania | Just in the past few years alone, a rug, multiple plastic bags, a fishing rod and reel and a 10' piece of corrugated pipe full of silt. |
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Location: Tomahawk, WI | Caught a patio umbrella once. Talk about a fight!!!! |
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Location: Richland Center, WI. | Snagged brush with lures attached, snagged a rope with anchor attached. Trolling I caught a ski tow rope with metal clip and dual foam handles.
My daughter wins the prize though. Casting top water one evening. Told my daughter not to set the hook at the sound of a splash but wait to feel the weight of the fish. I hear a splash then an "oh $h1t" I look back to see that my daughter had set the hook on a barred owl that had hit the creeper my daughter was fishing. Got exciting real fast! |
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| dogboy- pretty sure I've snagged that same shopping cart.. thats a good spot
I've caught a lot of strange stuff in the fox and bay too. Caught a log with about 20 walleye crankbaits on it, a bra which looked like at least a triple D, an anchor w/ rope caught trolling over 40 feet of open water on last day of the musky season last year..sure thought that was the one I was looking for!! and Last week I saw a guy catch a banana peel while casting. lol.
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Location: NE Wisconsin | I was Fuzzy jigging late one fall when T. Gelb row trolls by. He asked if I had caught anything. I held up an anchor with rope. I asked how about you? He held up an old sunken mooring float with rope. We both laughed and he said, you never know what you are going to catch when you fish deep. |
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| My brother snagged a woman's garter the other day out on Pewaukee |
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