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Location: central Wisconsin | Thought I snagged a body one time on the Minocqua chain. Fishing in about 25 feet of water with a Depth Raider and hooked something solid. I knew it wasn't a fish but kept horsing it straight up to the boat. When it got within 8 feet or so of the surface I could see what looked like a huge mass of blonde curly hair. Well I kept going and what happened was I snagged a nylon anchor rope that was attached to an anchor snagged up on something. The rope was all frayed and expanded and it looked just like a head of hair coming up from the bottom of the lake. |
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Location: Lake St.Clair | That would have me creeped out lol i can only imagine the feeling hahaha.
I've thought about two or three times hooking up to a body out there. |
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Location: Northern Illinois | I caught an old crappy fishing pole/spinning reel on Waubesa.
My kids have got these giant bullfrogs on their line while bass fishing in the pond in my backyard. They're kinda freaky. When you hold them up to get the hook out, they stretch out to about 18 inches head to feet and they pee all over the place. |
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| Snagged a large Snapping Turtle by it hind paw in the Allegheny River, wasn't hard to unhook. It sure was upset...CPRed it  |
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Location: SE, WI. | Jeff Hanson - 1/22/2014 3:06 PM Lots of nets, Fishing rods ( a few with fish still on other end), carp, catfish, sturgeon, condoms, pantys, jeans, sweatshirts, lots of anchors, pistol holster, 5 gallon bucket, Ice cream pails, a crappie on a creeper, muskrat, several snapping turtles, beaver, burlap sack, fruit of the looms, easter basket, t-shirts, duck, ski rope, ladder, gar, trolling motor, fish finder (old flasher), xmas tree, lots of beer cans, paddlefish, socks, diaper, doll, plastic bags, dogfish on figure 8, mannequin, fish basket full of rotten bluegills, dead otter, a 4' I beam with 50 feet of rope tied to it and lots of misc. trash. The joys of the Madison Chain Jeff Hanson madisonmuskyguide.com Jeff; Hopefully none of those hit the Headbanger! You may be able to start up your own good will store with that list!!! |
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Location: Richland Center, WI. | I once caught a water skiing tow rope while trolling (yeah I know) on Lake Redstone. My daughter beat that though. She had an owl hit a creeper. Had told her not to set the hook until you feel weight. Well, she felt the weight, set the hook and reeled the owl in. Funny, owls don't sit on the water like a duck!
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| Lots of Asian carp hooked in the mouth on Suzy Suckers.Filter feeders my butt. |
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Location: St Paul, Minnesota | I had a bat get tangled in my line on a cast out. After some fine work untangling his little wings from my powerpro and he flew off. |
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Location: Western U.P. | A 32" long 12 lb Walleye on a 7" Myers Soft Tail Crank. Wasn't expecting to see that when it surfaced after being hooked. |
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| Caught a Hellbender's (giant salamanders), lamprey, foul hooked giant Sturgeon, shopping cart, potato sack and Bondy Baits |
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| Lots of odd things to chose from, many very large gamefish, snagged a 60lb grass carp trolling - thought I had the state record for about the first 30 seconds.. but one of the craziest was a 12" bullhead after dark, that swallowed a DB 10!!.....how that fish got all three hooks of a 7/0 treble hook in its mouth I'll never know? one of the few fish Ive released that I don't think made it
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| caught a large gar while trolling a 9" muskie bait. Had a hard time netting it, as it wouldn't fit into the net with the long bill and its size. The bait was in the mouth of the gar. At first, I thought I had a nice muskie on. |
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Location: Detroit River | I've caught 2 anchors, a 16' wood plank (put up a hell of a fight in the current :)), shoes, hats, socks, women's panties & bras, sunglasses, caught a Bondy Bait with a Bondy Bait, several walleye jigs & handling shanks. Hooked a 55" sturgeon in the tail. Pulled in a huge clump of weeds that had about 50 1" to 1.5" long baby catfish inside it & got stung by the little bastards & my finger hurt for a week (didn't see them inside the weeds when I was pulling them off my bait). |
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Location: S.W. WI | Not really that strange- but i got a 9 lb 30 inch walleye on a nice, big 14 inch sucker I paid $8 dollards for. It was my only sucker that day so I was pretty dissapointed... ... Really? ? was my biggest walleye ever. |
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| I caught about a 6" clam at Wabigoon last year on a Super D. And it was actually hooked in the mouth (if you'd call it that). |
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Location: Algonac, MI | I have a list like Jeff, but most interesting hands down: A waverunner operator.
He came blasting out of Metro Beach, and ran between the boat and a fixed planer board. Going under the planer board line, but somehow DIDN'T clothes line himself. Guessing the "speed tuck position" he was sitting in, saved him. We were trolling West at 4kts and he was going East at about 40kts.
BUT......he was NOT lucky enough to miss the inside board line. Inside board rod 700 Tekota, took off screaming like never heard before. A 6" Bright Green Scale jointed Wiley King Jr firmly hooked in his shoulder, it ripped him right off the PWC!!!
He ended up going to the ER, to get 3 trebles removed. Sheriff wouldn't let us Knipex the hooks off the lure, and we never got the lure back, either.
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| Contender - 1/23/2014 12:44 PM
I have a list like Jeff, but most interesting hands down: A waverunner operator.
He came blasting out of Metro Beach, and ran between the boat and a fixed planer board. Going under the planer board line, but somehow DIDN'T clothes line himself. Guessing the "speed tuck position" he was sitting in, saved him. We were trolling West at 4kts and he was going East at about 40kts.
BUT......he was NOT lucky enough to miss the inside board line. Inside board rod took off screaming like never heard before. A 6" Bright Green Scale jointed Wiley King Jr firmly hooked in his shoulder, it ripped him right off the PWC!!!
He ended up going to the ER, to get 3 trebles removed. Sheriff wouldn't let us Knipex the hooks off the lure, and we never got the lure back, either.
This is the best one...WOW..
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Location: Knot on the WATER | seen a guy lake of the woods, crow rock area fishing by camp, great horned owl swooped down on his bait, he reeled it in, covered her with a towel and took the hooks out, all good. flew away happily as ever, but sore I'm sure. |
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Location: Hudson, WI | Contender - 1/23/2014 12:44 PM
I have a list like Jeff, but most interesting hands down: A waverunner operator.
He came blasting out of Metro Beach, and ran between the boat and a fixed planer board. Going under the planer board line, but somehow DIDN'T clothes line himself. Guessing the "speed tuck position" he was sitting in, saved him. We were trolling West at 4kts and he was going East at about 40kts.
BUT......he was NOT lucky enough to miss the inside board line. Inside board rod 700 Tekota, took off screaming like never heard before. A 6" Bright Green Scale jointed Wiley King Jr firmly hooked in his shoulder, it ripped him right off the PWC!!!
He ended up going to the ER, to get 3 trebles removed. Sheriff wouldn't let us Knipex the hooks off the lure, and we never got the lure back, either.
That's horrible/awesome. |
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Location: NE Ohio | Last year I snagged and retrieved a Drifter Tackle Muskie Stalker. The crazy thing was it was a custom painted one that I lost about 2 months before! |
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| Had a 40.5" flathead inhale a big chimney crank bait. I couldn't budge it then saw a huge white belly roll. I thought I had a monster musky. My fishing partner also hooked and reeled in a carbon arrow. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Moltisanti - 1/23/2014 1:35 PM
Contender - 1/23/2014 12:44 PM
I have a list like Jeff, but most interesting hands down: A waverunner operator.
He came blasting out of Metro Beach, and ran between the boat and a fixed planer board. Going under the planer board line, but somehow DIDN'T clothes line himself. Guessing the "speed tuck position" he was sitting in, saved him. We were trolling West at 4kts and he was going East at about 40kts.
BUT......he was NOT lucky enough to miss the inside board line. Inside board rod 700 Tekota, took off screaming like never heard before. A 6" Bright Green Scale jointed Wiley King Jr firmly hooked in his shoulder, it ripped him right off the PWC!!!
He ended up going to the ER, to get 3 trebles removed. Sheriff wouldn't let us Knipex the hooks off the lure, and we never got the lure back, either.
That's horrible/awesome.
Now that's what I like to hear! |
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Location: Detroit River | Moltisanti - 1/23/2014 2:35 PM Contender - 1/23/2014 12:44 PM I have a list like Jeff, but most interesting hands down: A waverunner operator. He came blasting out of Metro Beach, and ran between the boat and a fixed planer board. Going under the planer board line, but somehow DIDN'T clothes line himself. Guessing the "speed tuck position" he was sitting in, saved him. We were trolling West at 4kts and he was going East at about 40kts. BUT......he was NOT lucky enough to miss the inside board line. Inside board rod 700 Tekota, took off screaming like never heard before. A 6" Bright Green Scale jointed Wiley King Jr firmly hooked in his shoulder, it ripped him right off the PWC!!! He ended up going to the ER, to get 3 trebles removed. Sheriff wouldn't let us Knipex the hooks off the lure, and we never got the lure back, either. That's horrible/awesome. Ya horrible that he didn't get his lure back & awesome that the Sweetness bag on the jet ski got 3 hooks in him for being a dumb chit.
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| Contender - 1/23/2014 12:44 PM
I have a list like Jeff, but most interesting hands down: A waverunner operator.
He came blasting out of Metro Beach, and ran between the boat and a fixed planer board. Going under the planer board line, but somehow DIDN'T clothes line himself. Guessing the "speed tuck position" he was sitting in, saved him. We were trolling West at 4kts and he was going East at about 40kts.
BUT......he was NOT lucky enough to miss the inside board line. Inside board rod 700 Tekota, took off screaming like never heard before. A 6" Bright Green Scale jointed Wiley King Jr firmly hooked in his shoulder, it ripped him right off the PWC!!!
He ended up going to the ER, to get 3 trebles removed. Sheriff wouldn't let us Knipex the hooks off the lure, and we never got the lure back, either.
I'm wondering what brand of rod holder you were using? Should settle that ever popular thread debate topic once and for all. |
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| After a day of throwing double tens I decided to change up and throw a topraider for a bit. A brand new topraider at that... Not thinking about the fact that topraiders fly just a bit further with just a bit less effort, I threw a cast. As many of you know, casting becomes sort of mindless after 8 hours or so, and you don't often watch where your cast is going because you already know where it's going to land. To my knowledge, that topraider still has yet to see water, and likely still sits where I left it when I cut the line, 40 feet up embedded in a tree. It was the largest thing I've ever caught by far!
Reminds me of a day when a buddy and I were bored after not seeing a fish all day and decided to see who could cast the farthest. (By far, the best lure I've found for that is a baby Wabull. It's like throwing a rock.) After about ten minutes of me beating him on every cast we decided to make it fair by using the same lure. His first cast with the baby Wabull was impressive to say the least. *WHOOSH!!* I actually lost sight of the lure as it flew through the air. I can't tell you how far it went. Halfway across the lake, I'd reckon. I looked at him, put my rod down, and said "#*^@. You win. You just put that thing into ORBIT! How the hell did you DO that?!?"
He looked back at me with this dumb look on his face and said "I forgot to fasten the snap, man!" Lots of laughs after that one.
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Location: SE Wisc and Vilas County | got three anchors in the summer of 2010. since then my numbers on them have been way down. other then that nothing to exciting. |
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| live box turtle in the back foot, depth finder, folding anchor (sold it for $80), Maui Jim sunglasses, Incredible Hulk underpants, numerous condoms (recycled), twin size box spring, egret, and by far the best ever...a genuine fake rolex watch that kept perfect time for 2 1/2 YAC (years after catch). |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | We hooked a sunken tree while trolling on Mille Lacs. That thing was so much fun that after releasing it, we swung around and hooked it a second time. Amazing what one can pull up with modern Muskie rods.
Yeah, it was kind of a slow day.....
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| Sorry to hear you didn't get your lure back.
Contender - 1/23/2014 12:44 PM
I have a list like Jeff, but most interesting hands down: A waverunner operator.
He came blasting out of Metro Beach, and ran between the boat and a fixed planer board. Going under the planer board line, but somehow DIDN'T clothes line himself. Guessing the "speed tuck position" he was sitting in, saved him. We were trolling West at 4kts and he was going East at about 40kts.
BUT......he was NOT lucky enough to miss the inside board line. Inside board rod 700 Tekota, took off screaming like never heard before. A 6" Bright Green Scale jointed Wiley King Jr firmly hooked in his shoulder, it ripped him right off the PWC!!!
He ended up going to the ER, to get 3 trebles removed. Sheriff wouldn't let us Knipex the hooks off the lure, and we never got the lure back, either. |
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| One nite on Vermilion my buddy had a bat hit his line about 6' from rod. When we realized what it was he started flailing around like he was trying to kill a bee with a broomstick. My rod, I'm hiding behind pedestal seat. After about 30 seconds when he was sure it was dead he stopped. We both busted up laughing. It was so tangled, had to cut line. Next morning at cafe in Tower eating breakfast look out window and there's a bat hanging in windowsill. We look at each other and start laughing.
Caught a monster snapping turtle while flathead fishing. It didn't come into the boat.
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