|
|
Posts: 369
| Hi everyone, I was talking to a friend and he said awhile ago he was fishing for muskie and actually snagged a muskie pole and reel. There's some weird stuff at the bottom of some lakes and I was wondering if anyone has snagged somthing while fishing? |
|
| |
|
| Diving flipper- thought it was a fish the whole time
Couple anchors
Two muskies in the dorsal fin
Carp in the bung hole
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 369
| Wow... Where were you fishing? |
|
| |
|
Posts: 470
| A red-eared slider turtle..
On the 20' break line..
RandalB |
|
| |
|
| Ice fishing 3 miles out on lake Michigan near Sturgeon Bay, caught a boot/ice cleat. Not like trolling where you are covering a large area, or even casting... This was jigging one spot, that apparently someone else must have been on or the current pushed it to me... We set the shack up that morning, no tracks or holes nearby. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 410
Location: Wakefield, MI | I pulled up a fist sized rock and a half rusted out beer can one day with a bondy bait. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 19
| This season alone: walleye crankbaits, painted turtle, whitefish, carp, catfish, snake swimming on the water, and bullfrog tadpole. Not a bad year so far! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 56
| It wasn't me but I was with a guy that somehow hooked a shake weight. If you don't know what they are it's hard to explain. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 295
| 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. |
|
| |
|
Location: Waukesha, WI, USA | Two identical rods and reels. Looked to have been there for awhile. Figured they flipped out of a boat.
A stringer with 2 live walleyes. Wierd fight.
A condom. |
|
| |
|
Location: Ontario | Well, my experience wasn't to pleasant, about 150lb, pink sweater...., I don't think I need to continue.... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 61
Location: Cottage Grove, WI | Snagged a live muskrat with #2 Mepps on 8 lb test. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 25
| Had a buddy snag a pair of shorts of which about 20 crayfish and an eelpout cane out of. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1
| Two things come to mind for me...a chair once and a lifejacket...attached to a person...in a canoe... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 146
Location: Alsip, IL | Haha. I just got an under armor hat a few weeks ago tossing a bucktail. Open water fishing, so no chance of snags or anything, and man did I set the hook hard. Few years back drifting small suckers on a river I set the hook and though oh baby I'm finally breaking 50". Fight for a minute or 2 and when it comes up I see a 30+ pound snapping turtle. I couldn't believe it. I was so disappointed it wasn't a muskie but it was really cool to see that prehistoric looking turtle. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 20248
Location: oswego, il | The bunghole carp fisherman, now there is a tv show I would watch.
snagged a very large nut on lsc a few weeks ago with fishing line somebody had used as a trolling weight. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1039
| Got a kite. Sweatshirt. Rusted out can. Children's Snoopy Pole. And the weirdest one...a diaper. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 162
Location: Metro, MN | Caught and brought up an otter through the ice |
|
| |
|
Posts: 345
Location: Poynette WI. | Along time ago I was fishing with my uncle in Tennesee and while out cat fishing I snagged a Dead Dalmation. I was probably only 12 years old at the time and thought I had a huge fish on, since the current made it feel like it was fighting. Freaked us out when we got it up to shore and figured out what we had on. It didnt look like it had been in the water or dead for too long... Poor dog! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 494
Location: midwest | Had a sucker swim down and snag a pair of boxer shorts. I brought them back to the ramp and hung them on ToddM's trailer. Besides that I snagged a dipsey diver, snubber, flasher and fly hooked to a 4lb coho on Lake Michigan while casting a spoon off a breakwall. I managed to hook a swivel at the front of the dipsey with the spoon at the beginning of a the retrieve! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 2894
Location: Yahara River Chain | A about 20# snapping turtle on a figure 8 and my buddy caught a Musky Hunter jacket. The jacket I threw it in the livewell and when I got home, a couple of crawfish were swimming in the bottom. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 325
Location: Otsego, MN | Mattress while casting... anchor, petrified wood/branches, beer cans |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1767
Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | snagged a bog on shore one time and couldn't get it off....as I went in closer the "bog" got pretty smelly. It got smelly because it was actually a dead rotting moose..... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 754
| 20 lbs mushroom anchor... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 723
| A couple anchors, a coffee pot, a drift sock, a downed winter jacket ( thought that was the big one) half empty sand-bag, a tire or 2, A guy I know in particular tied in to the same 10 speed bike 2 yrs in a row, cough Shane Mason cough, half a shopping cart, and last but not least, was with buddy who snagged and landed a boat battery full of jigs and zebra mussels,
green bay/fox river for most of this junk.... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 880
Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | 15lb teakettle full of sand, it put up a great fight. Caught an anchor rope attached to a new anchor. In the battle of the muskie1st teams years back caught a fresbee. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 369
| Sounds like some good catches, the only thing I've ever snagged is fishing line and a nice piece of driftwood that's going to go In my aquarium |
|
| |
|
Posts: 8828
| Lots of tackle and a fair amount of junk. Set the hook hard on what felt like a fish. Couldn't figure out what I had, because I was able to move it some, and then it would stop. Finally had to get right over it and pull the line with my hands. "What the heck is that? A rope? What is it tied to? No, that's not a rope. It's attached to something over there.. Oh. Oh %$&!"
Never thought much about how they got power out to the islands before that. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1283
| An old snowmobile. I didnt land it but Its still down there. |
|
| |
|
Location: MN | One year on walleye opener my dad fought an ice scoop for about ten minutes. At one point he even said this might be his wall fish(30+ Incher). He hooked it on the tip of the handle in deep water so it had a lot of drag. We were dying laughing when it came up. Anytime he gets a nice fish on now I ask him if he's sure it's not a ice scoop. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1
| A tube top. It was covered with Zebra Mussels |
|
| |
|
Posts: 566
Location: Elgin, IL | Did the same exact thing Jeff...in late November, by myself. Thought I had really hooked "The One". 
Looked around several times and was glad I was out there alone.  |
|
| |
|
Posts: 358
| 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. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 2894
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.
Edited by muskie! nut 9/26/2014 5:18 PM
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 719
| 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. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 116
| 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.
You landed a semi tire?? Wow |
|
| |
|
Posts: 8828
| A buddy of mine snagged a coleman lantern that actually WAS still lit! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1460
Location: Kronenwetter, WI | 1970s Polaroid camera |
|
| |
|
Posts: 109
| My buddy pulled a carbon arrow in from a brush pile. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 311
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? |
|
| |
|
Posts: 6
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan | A pair of prescription eyeglasses while jigging for whitefish. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 156
| 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. |
|
| |
|
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  |
|
| |
|
Posts: 32
Location: Centeral Wisco | Snagged a whitetail deer leg and a walleye rod and reel |
|
| |
|
Posts: 311
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.
|
|
| |
|
Location: Ontario | No, it was just me, took 911 40 minutes to get there. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1283
| Wow that is crazy. Did you ever get the back story for the missing person? |
|
| |
|
Location: Ontario | Yeah, paraplegic that killed her self. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 8828
| 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. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1283
| 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. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 84
| Yea I agree also something I always fear, never know with all the crazy drug addicts around here. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 131
| 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. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 20
| 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! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 216
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
Edited by FUBAR 9/28/2014 3:53 PM
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 463
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. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 167
Location: Tomahawk, WI | Caught a patio umbrella once. Talk about a fight!!!! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 706
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! |
|
| |
|
Posts: 75
| 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.
Edited by comet Ted 9/30/2014 2:38 PM
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 285
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. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 51
| My brother snagged a woman's garter the other day out on Pewaukee |
|
| |
|
Posts: 2089
| When I was guiding on Mille lacs, I snagged an All Star rod and Calcutta 400 that Hamernick lost the week before out of a rod holder while trolling in 3 footers. Henepin Island....... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 286
Location: Eagan, MN | I was re-tying my Pounder in the late fall using a headlamp. It was nighttime, cold, and windy. My partner is on the bow of the boat, casting his Pounder while I worked in the back of the boat. *SNAP* "What was that??" My partner had just thrown his favorite Pounder off and it took flight into the inky blackness of the night. My head was down, so I had no idea where it went. I finished re-tying and went to the bow to take over the boat control while my partner began his re-tying process. I threw my Pounder, pumped it three times, and thought I snagged a cisco. Nope. You guessed it. I caught my buddy's Pounder and lowered it to him off the end of my rod. I said, "This is destiny. You are meant to catch something huge on that bait." Later in the week, he caught his PB fish of 55" on that very bait. What are the odds?? BrianF. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1536
Location: God's Country......USA..... Western Wisconsin | Caught the power cable that runs out to the island on Butternut lake at Park Falls. Snagged a cable that was holding a diving raft in place, my bait slid up the cable for about 20 feet thought I had a giant there for a while the line was just ripping through the water. Big ol tire that I could lift and then would pull back down had fun for awhile. Assorted items of clothing, a couple rods n reels lots of line and baits. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 323
Location: Elk River, MN | Weren't fishing at the time, but we were headed to a spot for Walleye opener and caught a power cable that must have worked its way shallow in a channel in our prop. Saw a big flash in the water and completely stopped the boat. We managed to push it out of the prop with an oar. Half of the lake lost power for the morning until the power company could get out there. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 3908
| It took about a zillion hours on the water for you guys to catch all that #*#* above. Nice. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 70
Location: Winfield,IN | Caught a 20 ga. Sawed off shotgun inthe Illinois river trolling for walleye. This brought new meaning to "the deadliest catch" it was still loaded too with one empty in the chamber. Other than it being a little rusted it wasn't down there long. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 441
| Hopefully, that shotgun was used on a dead-beat thug, and not the other way. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 70
Location: Winfield,IN | Who knows what it was used for turned it over to the sherif he took my name and contact info that was two years ago and I have never heard anything about it. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 470
| Alumacraft11988 - 10/13/2014 7:17 AM
Who knows what it was used for turned it over to the sherif he took my name and contact info that was two years ago and I have never heard anything about it.
You won't. No Ballistics on a shotgun, especially a sawed off one...
RandalB |
|
| |
|
Posts: 14
| I had two interesting snags last year on Pineview Reservoir in Utah. On the first one I was trolling a crankbait close to shore when the rod hammered over. I grabbed the rod and got big head shakes right away. I was sure that it was my 50"er! Close to the boat it came up and revealed itself to be a 6 ft long beach towel! I had snagged it on one end and the "head shakes" were the far end of the towel whipping around in the water.
The second incident actually involved a fish. I was trolling a custom perch pattern Tuff Shad, and letting it dig into the bottom. The lure got slammed, but my braid broke at the leader. I assumed that I had hung a stump or rock. Two weeks later, and just to the west, two friends were trolling a Tuff Shad and hooked up a nice fish. After a few head shakes it came off, and a custom perch pattern Tuff Shad with a crappie impaled on it floated to the surface. Yup, it was the same lure that I thought that I had hung on a stump! Earlier this year I ran into the guy who had the lure, and he gave it back to me. The following week i was trolling the same lure, and it got hammered hard! I had forgotten to loosen the drag up after casting earlier in the morning, and the rod, reel, brand new Folbe rod holder went overboard. I tried to snag it with the other line that was out, but no love. As it turned out, the mount that held the rod holder to my boat rail sheared. I lost everything, including the Tuff Shad that had been lost, saved, and then lost again! Now I'm waiting for one of my buds to snag the rod! Fred K |
|
| |
|
Posts: 2515
Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | I used t guide the Milwaukee River for trout/salmon. I think I got everything from medical waste to underwear to old Schlitz bottles (still sealed) to a Sturgeon. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 2
| Where's Norm? Best beaver story ever.... |
|
| |
|
Posts: 70
Location: Winfield,IN | Also caught a seagull on a top water while fishing smallies on Lake Michigan. Let's just say it was like flying a kite for a few minutes. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 8828
| A pelican, which was surprisingly docile during the unhooking process, and a comerant, which was surprisingly NOT.
Had a buddy who hooked a loon. The story he told was that the entire time they were unhooking it it continued to paddle for it's life like it was trying to swim away while simultaneously emptying itself of everything it had eaten it's entire life, and even stuff it hadn't even eaten yet. The end result was that both anglers, the inside of the boat, and everything within 5 feet of them was covered in loon poop. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 123
| A sawed off shotgun and a cat. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 42
Location: Ontario | Fish, dead birds, anchors, red solo cup, lures, rod and reel, canoe, and a tree or 2 |
|
| |
|
Posts: 37
| A sea turtle while tarpon fishing and a 39" muskie that just broke my fishing partners line. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 504
Location: Ludington, MI | Shopping cart, seagull, and yes, a boot. There was not a fish in the boot. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 3156
| twice while fishing the miss iriver with jigs in Minneapolis Ive hooked condoms,,once right on the tip,,this was in the 70's,,,so it was the FIRST tube jig |
|
| |
|
Posts: 141
Location: Maryland | Got a rod while fishing for cats at a dam. Thought I had a big ol cat on but ended up being an ugly stick. Still using the rod to this day. Caught many of fish with it. |
|
| |
Has anyone ever snagged anything weird?