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| My friends dad caught a beaver he's got a picture of it. I think the bucktail is still in its mouth in the picture. I'll try to get it and post it. |
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Location: Wishin I Was Fishin' | I think you were fishing at the Frontier..... |
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Location: Monee, Illinois | I caught an Owl on a Top Water Jitter Bug in Michigan once. No pictures sorry. Big Owl though....... |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | I got into a whopper about 2 seasons ago....felt like nothing but dead weight and I thought I foul hooked a musky because I saw the dark outline of something big in the water....we moved the boat closer because I was'nt gaining.....Lower unit |
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| I caught an egret last summer on Vermilion. I was coming around a point an startled the bird after my cast was airborne. The bird flew into the line and the lure wrapped around the poor thing's neck. I motored over and threw a coat over the bird's head to calm it down and carefully removed the hook. I was rather embarrassed as lakeside residents watched the event subside. But they clapped and cheered after the bird flew away. One for the birds. capt bigfish |
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| Follower, my mom said that she's taking your friend's dad to court and he's going to have to pay for the surgery she needed.
I've been hooked on my own accord, so I guess that I've caught a Beaver too.
I'm 6'2", 230#, that means that I probably have the State and possibly the world record.
Edited by Beaver 7/14/2004 11:51 AM
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Location: Wishin I Was Fishin' | That is a good thing to remeber....if you happen to catch a bird(eagle, loon, owl)....cover their head and you should be able to handle it well enough to unhook it....biggest thing to watch out for is NOT the beak, it's the talons. |
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| I was trolling a 10" jointed believer and snagged a 15 pound dead catfish with it's guts eaten out. Sweet.
Steve Hulbert |
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| A friend of mine caught a old metal bucket, He had it by the handel so it was flopping back and forth, like a head shake, He thought he had a monster. |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | I've caught a few bullheads on bucktails. One weighed almost two lbs. |
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| Rock bass on bucktails, walleye fishing in canada I caught a jighead attached to some line, pulled the line in to get it out of there, and I came with a rusty ol baitcaster and reel! |
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| Last week on LOW and I came up to do a F-8 and felt weight, so I set. The weight was about a 25# snapping turtle that must have surfaced as I was F-8. It was snagged in the front leg, then the back leg where it stayed. I grabbed the tail, hosted out of the water, removed my bait and my buddy would not take a picuture. - Gerard |
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| Harpooned a 1.5 inch minnow with a Legend Plow while trolling.
Snagged some line and pulled up a complete spinning outfit.
Had an Eagle swoop down and just miss my Topraider...What a hassle that would have been! 
Steve |
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Location: Cohasset, MN | Great Blue Heron flew in to my line as it was paying out and wrapped around its foot. Bird had a less than graceful water landing. The hooks never touched the bird and it was free quickly. |
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| Over many years of fishing, I've caught everything from gulls 2 ducks 2 pelicans...a boot, mussel shells, shrubs/trees, a lid for a 50 gal. drum...a few yrs. ago while fishing for trouts in the river below the hooch here, I snagged the loop on a snelled hook w/ a spinner; reeled in a dead trout that had been gut hooked, broken off and apparently died and was wedged in the rocks. Gotta be stuff I've forgotten about...most recent oddity, caught a bed sheet in the surf after Isabel this past fall... |
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Location: oswego, il | My dad has a giant snapping turtle and a seagull to his credit. I have a big softshell turtle to mine. |
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| Trolling I've caught a fish finder, a genuine fake rolex watch and a mattress ( my brother caught the box spring). Don't forget to vote! Mayor McCheese |
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Location: ashtabula ohio | this could be the greatest m.f. post ever...! i love all the replies...lol. i got a glenn miller 45 years ago fishin off a rip rap for walleye. it sure came in like a fish, swingin side to side...thought i had a bluegill anyway.. i wanna see this beaver shot bad....! well dont we all...
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Location: Suspended | I may have put this up before but here's my strangest...
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Location: Elgin, IL | Actually caught a muskie on the Fox Chain a while back. Now that was strange. |
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Location: Kawarthas, Ontario | Hmmm... I've dredged up an interesting collection of items over the years: a lawn chair, a running shoe, a 20 pound snapping turtle, a seagull, a set of rain pants, a nice muskie casting outfit topped with an ABU-Garcia 6501 reel... but the most memorable was a 75 pound houseboat anchor. (Landing it was a real challenge!!!) At the end of the day (literally) I sold it, and used the proceeds to purchase 3 new muskie lures.
Regards,
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Location: Eagan, MN | I caught a big heron or egret (something of that ilk) on a jackpot. It didn't get tangled in my line like some other posts here. The bird actually grabbed it in it's mouth. Also caught a dogfish on a figure eight once. |
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Location: Minneapolis,Minnesota | Last weekenb on Lake Bemidiji I caught a state record rock bass on a Raddog spinnerbait. Granted I didn't know what the record was at the time so we just let the big pig go.
I wish Papa Joe would send me the pics so I can post them.
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| Caught an egret a few years back on a burt. The bait hit the thing in midair and he dropped like a rock.
Had a loon follow a jackpot last year. What a mess that would have been. |
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Location: Wausau | Caught a blackbird in mid air, what a comotion that was. This year I caught about 40 feet of braided line and attached was a nice leader and a new Mepps Marabou, the sad thing was it is the only thing I have caught on my musky tackle this year.
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Location: Eau Claire,WI | Lets see,I have done the turtle thing,snagged by accident about 10 different kinds of fish,caught
anchors,fishing line and lures.I had a cormorrant try and eat a bucktail ,that was a trip! I have
had owls go after topwaters and I have hit bats in the air when casting.I am also a great catcher
of trees, logs,and submerged cribs. I even caught a muskie or 3 along the way! |
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| I was out one night and hooked up with a 16" footer, a kyak. No one claimed it so ended up selling it for $450.00. |
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| last year while trolling had a lady in a small sailboat come whizzing about 15 feet behind me and snag all 3 lines. I couldnt believe it, she just about stopped on a dime. To top it off she starts yelling at me to free my lines like it is my fault. I had $60
worth of lures out there and she wanted me to cut the lines. Finally they come free , she says nothing and just glares at me. |
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| I caught a nice anchor while pike fishing. |
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Strangest thing caught muskie fishing