|
|
| What are the strangest things that you caught that were not fish? I caught spinning reel and rod on Lake Holcombe trolling a muskie bait. It just got me wondering what other people have caught in there lifetime that weren't fish? |
|
| |
|
| My buudy caught a pipe bomb in the Lilttle Calumet River in Indiana--fishing for steelhead. He has also caught a shopping cart------ a dresser drawer---and a chainsaw. His father caught a black bra--- perch fishing on the Chicago lakefront----- he still waiting for the woman who was wearing it.-----Jobu |
|
| |
|
Location: Minneapolis | I caught a pair of underwear in the river last year...gross |
|
| |
|
Location: Eastern Ontario | A friend of mine caught body of a fisherman that drowned months earlier in Lake Opeongo Algonquin Park Ontario while trolling for lakers.He held onto it at the surface untill the police arrived. |
|
| |
|
| seagull on a topwater it was very noisy reeling in and he did fly away ... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 2687
Location: Hayward, WI | horsehunter - 9/24/2012 10:52 AM
A friend of mine caught body of a fisherman that drowned months earlier in Lake Opeongo Algonquin Park Ontario while trolling for lakers.He held onto it at the surface untill the police arrived.
EEK!
The spincast fishing rod I caught when I was a little kid doesn't compare to that! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1360
Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Was out doing some bottom fishing for bass a few years ago on a popular ice fishing lake. Got a hit, let her run, set the hook and started reeling... At the end of my line was a brand new still in plastic $75 ice fishing rod and reel combo, line was still around the line holder. I guess someone dropped it down a hole during the hard water season before they even had a chance to use it. It is still my favorite ice rod to this day, and the nicest one I own... Thanks to whomever dropped it, you have caught me many ice fish over the last 4 years! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 16632
Location: The desert | horsehunter - 9/24/2012 9:52 AM
A friend of mine caught body of a fisherman that drowned months earlier in Lake Opeongo Algonquin Park Ontario while trolling for lakers.He held onto it at the surface untill the police arrived.
I hope he didn't mount it.... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 3504
Location: Elk River, Minnesota | I once caught a piece of carpet fishing walleyes on the St. Croix river. Fought like a son of a gun, flipping left, then right, catching current, going down, then up...
Quite the embarrasment when fishing in front of moored yahts with people all out on the back deck watching and enjoying the fight... It was a good laugh, though...
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 1360
Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Pointerpride102 - 9/24/2012 11:08 AM
horsehunter - 9/24/2012 9:52 AM
A friend of mine caught body of a fisherman that drowned months earlier in Lake Opeongo Algonquin Park Ontario while trolling for lakers.He held onto it at the surface untill the police arrived.
I hope he didn't mount it....
---
I hope he did  |
|
| |
|
Posts: 833
| Lets see...
Bait Bucket on Alexander, thought I had the new state record walleye.
Giant Duffle Bag on a shallow pounder, thought I had my first ever musky. Not so much...
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 1317
Location: Lebanon,Mo | http://www.news-leader.com/article/20120912/NEWS01/309120034/live-g...
Got a phone call about this while in Minnesota.
Edited by missourimuskyhunter 9/24/2012 12:19 PM
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 1360
Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished |
---
I think this takes the cake! |
|
| |
|
| The body part is something I hope I never have to deal with, the new ice rod still in the package would have been great, but the grenade in the sock so far takes the cake that would have been cool to see. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 215
Location: Wisconsin | A sewing machine!
With a 9" weighted fire tiger suick in about 8 feet of water. It was an old Singer cast iron one. My best guess is that it was used as a fish crib :D |
|
| |
|
Posts: 568
Location: Lake St Clair | You can get most anything in the Detroit river
Tampons to body parts to tires |
|
| |
|
Posts: 548
Location: MN | Jigging walleyes in Eagle Lake in Ontario pulled up a 5" rock. Fought like hell. lol |
|
| |
|
Posts: 8824
| Caught a few rods, and some stray lures. Best one ever was an electrical cable running out to an island. Never even thought about how they got power out there until that day. |
|
| |
|
| I caught an old t-shirt, and a rope from a water skier on the fox chain bur that's not the worst out there lol. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 667
Location: Roscoe IL | A coleman lantern, thought I had a monster on. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 242
| I hooked a rope once that was attached to a noose that was around the neck of a baby horse (I guess they are called a foal). I guess the foal died and someone didn't want to have to dig a hole big enough to bury it and thought it was easier to just throw it over the hillside (that went right into the lake). |
|
| |
|
Posts: 8824
| A buddy of mine caught a bucket. Watching his rod, you'd never know it wasn't a fish. Funny!!!!!!!!! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 504
Location: Ludington, MI | Seagull. Casting from a pier on a busy Friday night, tourists streaming by and the dumbass bird flies into the rainbow of my line during a cast. Boy were the tourists peeed when I reeled it in. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 682
Location: Sycamore, IL | I caught a fake palm tree covered in x-mas lights and tied to a cinder block in the marina at Kinkaid...as a bonus it had a nice Hellhound hanging off of it! |
|
| |
|
Location: The Yahara Chain | Used condom from Lake Monona. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 13688
Location: minocqua, wi. | a beaver, pelican and a muskrat ... always wanted to catch a seagull (i think) but i want to catch it casting and not baiting (that would be like trolling and not count).
one thing tho ... if beavers bit consistently, i'd quit musky fishing. craziest fight of my life!!!! (not including the divorce!) ... LOL |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1360
Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | jonnysled - 9/24/2012 4:27 PM
a beaver, pelican and a muskrat ... always wanted to catch a seagull (i think) but i want to catch it casting and not baiting (that would be like trolling and not count).
one thing tho ... if beavers bit consistently, i'd quit musky fishing. craziest fight of my life!!!! (not including the divorce!) ... LOL
---
Was out fishing about 3 weeks ago and had a HUGE beaver go into my L turn. I thought It was a huge musky, I pulled the bait out of the water so fast when I saw the GIANT head. I think I peed it off, cause it came to the top of the water and slapped its tail against the water a number of times. Then swam to the other side of the boat and slapped it some more, so we moved on. But when I saw what it was I am pretty sure a little bit of poop came out... 
Edited by FAT-SKI 9/24/2012 4:35 PM
|
|
| |
|
| Bytor
And I thought I was the only one to catch one of those! Mine was from Mille Lacs though trolling for walleyes |
|
| |
|
Posts: 168
Location: Alexandria, MN | esoxaddict - 9/24/2012 2:39 PM
Caught a few rods, and some stray lures. Best one ever was an electrical cable running out to an island. Never even thought about how they got power out there until that day. Did the same thing on Vermilion. Had to giggle when all the lights in the mansion on the island would flicker every time I pulled on the rod. |
|
| |
|
Location: Not far enough north! | I caught a mallard while bluegill fishing when I was a kid dove right under and grabbed my worm. The funnest one though was a muskrat on a pacemaker after dark. You know the time when the water is glass still and you see a big V coming up behind the lure and get the adrenelin going. I said " Follow" then a couple seconds later he hit but was fighting really strangely. Got it to the boat and flipped on the headlamps and there he was hooked in the foot chewing the crap out of a perfectly good lure. Now talk about nervous while unhooking just glad we had some heavy leather gloves... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 337
Location: Central WI | Caught a shoe fishing at a spillway once... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 480
| Casting in the Mississippi River one evening, I snagged a "genuine" fake rolex watch
that had the correct time and worked for almost 3 years after I retrieved it. I gave it to a guy who worked for me as a 1 month anniversary gift.
The spot has never given up another piece of jewelry. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 4080
Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Capt bigfish - 9/24/2012 10:59 PM
Casting in the Mississippi River one evening, I snagged a "genuine" fake rolex watch
that had the correct time and worked for almost 3 years after I retrieved it. I gave it to a guy who worked for me as a 1 month anniversary gift.
The spot has never given up another piece of jewelry.
Now that there is Really funny ! |
|
| |
|
| A stringer with three walleyes on it.
A mallard. This happened on two different occasions both ties the duck attacked my offering.
Two rod and reels at the same time. |
|
| |
|
| I was working a Hellhound when it suddenly stopped gliding from side to side properly. I thought I had snagged a weed, but when I reeled it is a live clam had clamped on to one of the trebles! |
|
| |
|
Location: On the O | We're having some sewage release issues on the Ottawa after some heavy rain, but last year we hit the trifecta.
Condom, pad and plug....joke was match the snatch!
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 5874
| One of my favorites.
Attachments
----------------
 Bucketmouth[1].jpg (181KB - 1850 downloads)
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 209
| I caught a pair of flannel pants once. Also, me and a few friends had a good laugh when I let my bulldawg sink just a little too far and picked up an old soggy branch off the bottom of the lake. It was hooked just right that it swayed back and forth during the "fight," so I thought for sure it was a fish. I also had a monster blue heron attack a Seducer, but he didn't get hooked. I can't imagine trying to unhook that thing...
And as a kid I once watched a guy (who was always a complete a** to everyone at the fishing hole) catch a piece of tar in the river at a public pier. He thought he had a monster walleye on with the current providing just a little bit of pull. I think every single person there laughed at him. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 151
Location: West of the metro, MN | I had a bald eagle pick off my Long A bomber while trolling for pike. I thought he was just grabbin a fish didn't think for a minute he was taking my lure. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 880
Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | My buddy's Dad also found a body while salmon fishing. It got stuck on the downrigger cable and it wasn't pretty when the Coast Guard pulled it off. I caught what turned out to be a X-mas tree cemented in a 5 gallon bucket wrapped in chicken wire on Pewaukee. Keopp brought it up and it was full of lures. Come to think of it he never gave me mine back. Fought good l had a friend of mine with the net for 10 minutes waiting, LOL
Bruce |
|
| |
|
Posts: 253
| Caught a lawn chair on a bulldawg on Loon Lake in Illinois. Caught a ultralight spincast rod on Waubesa with a white bass still attached. Man, I hope I never catch a body. Always feared that when I was a river rat.
Steve |
|
| |
|
Posts: 61
Location: Anoka | Some kind of moon rock on white bear lake it had a bunch of holes in it and was pretty cool wish I had a pick but even better was the face of my buddy when he realized he didnt have a big muskie. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 7
Location: Toronto | The best thing I ever caught that wasn't a perch was a 13" Perch Grandma! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 688
Location: Northern IL | Sunshine,
The walleye stringer, that wasn't at Kinkaid was it? We've actually done that a couple of times, you'd think we'd learn at some point.....
Caught many strange things, clothing, condoms, pine trees, an alligator while bass fishing in the Everglades, that thing was pist! An iron chair, dozens of anchors and rods with fish (dead) on them but the coolest one has to be, from what I was told was a jaw bone of a moose estimated to be 300-600 yrs. I can't be totally sure about any of that but is a jaw bone and it was an eye opener!
One of these days we'll get a diver down and check out if there's anything else there.
It's hooking into a body that freaks me out, not looking forward to that!
Edited by jerryb 9/26/2012 9:38 AM
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 40
Location: B;acksburg Virginia | i caught a deer antler a couple years ago i was bouncing a jig along the bottom and thought i was hung up but when i got it in it was an antler. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 151
Location: IL | I caught a boot once and on the very next cast I got a glove... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 8824
| scot - 9/27/2012 11:16 AM
I caught a boot once and on the very next cast I got a glove...
If the next cast was a hat, I'd have gotten out of there before I caught the guy who was wearing it all! |
|
| |
|
| I caught a very large pair of Whitey Tighties one time... a sandal, and A fishing pole that the drunk neighbor lost of his dock the year before, it was pretty hilarious when he waded out n found it on the end of my line |
|
| |
|
Posts: 390
| I have caught a pelican, a brand new rod and reel, the frame of a sunken ice shanty (the only reason I know is I swam down to unhook my favorite lure), an old willies jeep that was lost many moons ago through the ice (also swam down to unhook a lure) on the bay of green bay and when I was a kid I caught my grandpa in the cheek at a fly in resort in Canada. And last week I hook a fatty dirty diaper out of milwaukee. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 121
Location: Plymouth IA | seagull, Rod and reel my youngest still uses, and the craziest was a snapping turtle that hooked on my favorite lure. got my lure back and my friend gave the snapper to his grandpa. mmmm good. |
|
| |
|
| I caught a beaver once also. They do put up one hell of a fight. I let him keep the lure. He was so peeed off I didn't want to get too close to it. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 8
| caught some fishing rods, bikes, clams, old blankets, old soup cans and a bunch of lures that wanted to hit my bait. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 99
Location: Hartford, Iowa | I have caught alot of not fish.. Casting net, spinning rod, anchor rope with anchor, minnow bucket, beer cans ect ect... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 8824
| Also several turtles, a giant bullfrog, and the biggest rusty crayfish I have ever seen. If you count saltwater fishing, I also have a pelican, several crabs, a commorant, a stingray, and a seagull to my credit. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 95
| i've landed old punch-top beer cans, tires, boot, lawn chair with zebra mussels, several nice muskie lures, a muskie rod and reel dropped by my boat partner (had to work the "spot" for 30 minutes)
My fishing buddy landed a 20 pound mushroom anchor
My son got a rusty crayfish 
My favorite was about 30 years ago, trolling for muskies on a windy fall day. I hooked the rope which connected both pieces of an old metal perforated bait bucket. Turned off the outboard and fought the bucket for 10 minutes while drifting in the wind, could even feel the "monster" head-shaking!
Kevin |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1188
Location: Iowa | caught a 25 lb anchor trolling the basin on white bear...fought like hell as i drug it across the bottom until it was right under the boat... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1530
| caught a coleman lantern. it was still lit |
|
| |
|
Posts: 8824
| I think woodiebait wins.
Amazing that more than one person has caught a coleman lantern, too.
Edited by esoxaddict 10/22/2012 11:50 AM
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 1530
| after all we are musky fishermen ...correct lol. |
|
| |
|
| I dropped a nice walleye combo in about ten feet of water on a windy day. As we drifted away I took my buddies pole with a 1/4 jig and casted in the general direction of the rod. I snagged the very last eye on my first and only chance as we were drifting away! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 555
Location: Tennessee | Got a nice WalMart shopping cart once. It hit on a small bucktail and is still in service today, just not with Walmart,hah |
|
| |
|
Posts: 186
Location: Waconia, MN | I had a seagull take a Topwater WTD bait, didn't know what to do. Once it got about 40 feet in the air I decided to try to pull it out its mouth, hooked it in the wing and sent it crashing back down to the water. After thrashing around for a good 20 seconds I decided to give it another good tug to see if I could free the hook. Luckily that worked and the bird flew off. This was a while back and I was fishing from a dock, there was a father there with his young child, he was covering his sons eyes.
I also trolled up a drift sock, thought it was the fish of a lifetime! It was darting left and right and didn't know what I had for about 5 minutes. Boy was I disappointed! |
|
| |
|
| 3 ft of rope tied to a bell anchor which was a beast to pul in. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 59
| I would have to say the craziest thing I've ever caught was the power supply cord to a floating fountain. The fountain was working fine when I left |
|
| |
|
| We went fishing on the root for steelhead for 5 yrs. My Dad couldn't catch a steelhead on his fly rod. We all come home with couple for the smoker and release bunch. But, he couldn't even get a tap. Last trip we made he finally yelled for me for help. I came over and noticed something was on his line and flashed in the current. He finally caught one!!!
A couple seconds later I notice something was different about this fish. As I went out to help land the fish, I almost peed myself. He was so excitied I couldn't tell him. I landed it.
He landed a 17" hub cap of a cadillac!! I told him "Well, you caught the cadillac of all fish!!"
Of course we got it mounted and gave it to for Christmas  |
|
| |
|
Posts: 209
Location: Big Falls MN | A 4x8 sheet of ply wood sturgeon fishing it was a hell of a fisht a few anchors and dead skunk they still stink when there in the water for awhile |
|
| |
