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| 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? |
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| 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 |
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Location: Minneapolis | I caught a pair of underwear in the river last year...gross |
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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. |
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| seagull on a topwater it was very noisy reeling in and he did fly away ... |
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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! |
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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! |
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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.... |
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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...
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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....
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| 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...
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Location: Lebanon,Mo | http://www.news-leader.com/article/20120912/NEWS01/309120034/live-g...
Got a phone call about this while in Minnesota.
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished |
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| 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. |
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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 |
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Location: Lake St Clair | You can get most anything in the Detroit river
Tampons to body parts to tires |
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Location: MN | Jigging walleyes in Eagle Lake in Ontario pulled up a 5" rock. Fought like hell. lol |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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Location: Roscoe IL | A coleman lantern, thought I had a monster on. |
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| 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). |
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| A buddy of mine caught a bucket. Watching his rod, you'd never know it wasn't a fish. Funny!!!!!!!!! |
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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. |
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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! |
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Location: The Yahara Chain | Used condom from Lake Monona. |
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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 |
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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
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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... 
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And I thought I was the only one to catch one of those! Mine was from Mille Lacs though trolling for walleyes |
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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. |
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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... |
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