What are the weirdest (whatever your definition of that is) things
that you, or any friends, have caught so far while fishing ?

Backlashed one very dark night with a sinking plug. Pulled free and dragged in what I thought was heavy weed and maybe a stone. Reached out and grabbed it..........found myself with a handful of lobster. Damn near fell off my rock.

a 6" starfish

Someone's 10 year old fleece jacket

a baloneyhead

fishing with a 3" storm for schoolies, 27" cod. that was a week or two ago.

a 40 plus # beaver

a $5 bill

a pair of pants

a shirt or two

a watch

a dog.... on a backcast :smash:

either the 15lb goosefish

or the soccerball sized spidercrab (it seemed that big at least.. those things freak me out)

A needlefish(the living kind,not the plug).

A snapping turtle that had to have been 4ft long.

An eel that was longer than the turtle.

Many a large spider crabs.

A 5gal. bucket.

And a few sea robin blitzes.

Oh and my own blurple Mambo more than two hours after breaking it off...........twice!

A 20 inch fluke took my live eel 2 weeks ago.

I took a Bunker scale out of my belly button lint this smornin..
Does that count..??

50 yards of 30 pound fishing line with a 7 pound tog still alive on it.

On consecutive casts last summer at the canal, a starfish hooked through a leg, and a clam that had closed around the hook, really strange.

What are those little 3"-4" reddish fish, with little pointy needle teeth at the edge of the canal? I hooked one in the side during a retrive with an Atom.:liquify:

A friend of mine caught a 9 foot rod with a nice shimano baitrunner and braided line and it still works fine now.

What are those little 3"-4" reddish fish, with little pointy needle teeth at the edge of the canal? I hooked one in the side during a retrive with an Atom.:liquify:



choggies.. when all else fails.. you can catch them till the cows come home

netting herring, my net started shaking, thought I had netted a schoolie or a largemouth. Turned out to be a pissed off possum.

I took a Bunker scale out of my belly button lint this smornin..
Does that count..??


only for you :hihi:

When I was a kid I caught the fat retarded kid from across the cove, he hit a Mepps Spinner. Fought hard but he broke off he was husky. :poke:

a gibbs bottle popper, looked brand new. I caught a birds nest of power pro and decided to pull it in and the plug had about 50 lbs of seaweed on the back treble.

a pistol . snagged while bottom fishing in Buzzards Bay.

This past Friday I and a friend went out for our first Chunk’n trip. We anchored and did everything you guys told me to do a few months back. After about a half hour my friend had a nice run, set the hook and was on solid. Seconds latter I was on. Now, we had a tussle going, one of us on one side of the boat and the other on the opposite side. We both had 50 pounder dreams dancing around in our heads. That is until we noticed that when he gained some line my rod would dip, when I gained some line his rod would dip. Oh, oh. Well, to make a long story short, not only were we connected under the boat, but we both had somehow fowled the chum pot that was hanging a little to far down. Had a good laugh anyway. That ended our fist Chunk’n episode. We went trolling and picked up a couple of keepers and a couple of Blues. I’ve heard fish called “brain food”... I think I have to eat more fish!

Al :jester:

starfish at the canal, a dish drainer in falmouth and also a nice "keeper" sized seagull in falmouth

Believe it or not???
A USED RUBBER!!!
Needless to say, I cut the line!!!

Believe it or not???
A USED RUBBER!!!
Needless to say, I cut the line!!!


Thats what we call a Coney island whitefish.:rotflmao:

Lobster Pot, Wire line with nice jig and under size bass still alive!, Another boat :hs:

about 5 years ago I caught a bluefish with a small toy airplane in it, and back when I was probably 10 years of age I was fishing off a dock in the norton resivoir caught a perch that was eaten by a 3 pound catfish.

a pistol . snagged while bottom fishing in Buzzards Bay.

Wow... how old and did you turn it into police?

A buddy of mine caught and landed a pair of mating horseshoe crabs, that was weird...
a rubber glove and a couple starfish round out my strange catches this year.

A ballast rock.
Fluke fishing in some d-e-e-p water
I set on something heavy w/ no fight (well just enough in the tide to feel 'weird' I gained line slowly, and brought it in. perfectly square. Flat ends, probably was from a wreck or dumped. Definetly not naturally shaped.

I cast across an opening under a railroad bridge with a popper, and as I worked it across the current a full grown swan swam down tide right into my line. I gave it slack but it was already tangled. As soon as it felt tension from the line it took off down tide and took flight, which caused it to hook itself in the foot. The reel was screaming! I grabbed the spool and parted it off. Later that week we baited it in, with bread, at my friends' boatyard nearby. A guy who worked there could catch swans by grabbing the lower beak as they reached up to take some bread. Kind of like lipping a bass. Well, once you grasp the beak the birds start flapping their wings and lift up. At this point he just wrapped his arm around it and it calmed down. We cut the hook off with some side cutters and sent him on his way.

A guy who worked there could catch swans by grabbing the lower beak as they reached up to take some bread. Kind of like lipping a bass. Well, once you grasp the beak the birds start flapping their wings and lift up. At this point he just wrapped his arm around it and it calmed down.

Where the hell do learn something like that?

1) 45' Viking moving 30Knots....crossed my trolling spread. Reel was smoking before I could cut the line.

2) I snagged a dead cow...a REAL COW it looked like a 700# Holstein I think (In a bay on long Island)

3) A Complete rod and reel setup. (rather encrusted)

4) A large light fixture from a wreck

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I guess he just tried it one day while hand feeding them. I have tried it. They don't attack or anything, but they do get a little excited when you lip 'em. They flap their wings, get their feet going up and down like they are trying to stand on the water and then lift off of the water a short distance. If you just let go of the lower jaw they swim around a little and then look for more food. Strange.

an enormous very dead fluke, the biggest fluke I have ever seen.

Open the attachment. True story...every detail.

I saw CAL catch a bat and run around screaming like a little gurl....:jester:

My son caught 2 blues on one plug last week and then did it again this week. They broke off with the plug and my buddy cast to them and recovered both fish and the plug!

last year I was reeling in a 5" needle fish and caught a prehistoric looking fish about 10" long . I THUOGHT IT WAS A NEEDLE FISH BUT IT WASNT ..I didnt know what it was . so showed a guy who has tropical fish and he said it was a gar fish, looked like something from jurassic park freeky looking bastard , it was long like a snake and had a beak like mouth with sharp teeth .. He said they come from down south and can grow up to 4 feet long . those things that go bump in the night..

Caught a seal in Scortons Creek. The nearby fishermen were having a ball catching large schoolies and wanting to get in on the act, I grabbed my jigging rod and put a small rubber shad on a small jighead. I cast it into the stream and it was immediately grabbed. It stopped dead and I thought I had a tree stump or something on the bottom. When haulin back to see if it would move, it gave a bit and I thought it seemed like a huge group of weeds. Because it was moving I kept hauling and when he was about 25 feet from the mud bank he raised his ugly head out and eyeballed me. I kept tugging and when he was almost to the bank, I called another guy over to give me a hand. I gave him my knife and told him to cut the line when he saw my leader. When the seal showed he almost had a stroke. He cut the line and ran like he... He wasn't aware of the seal being hooked.:hihi:

this past weekend i caught a bass with a tumor or parasite the size of my fist growing out of its neck...

Someone told me recently that YOU should NOT TOUCH that Tumor!seriously!
Ill try to get more info , but it is infectious or something.

i caught a dude who was wading abt 50 feet or so away from me in RI with basturbed a few eyars ago. I threw a mangum blurple bomber and hooked on soemthing
then i saw a surfcaster in front of me waving his arms like a mad man and i thought that i landed a bass. but the current mvoed my plug and hooked him. and i thought that i caught a big bass, but it turned out to be him. he fought like a big bass to me.

i hooked a seagull a couple of times in rockport and commorats. a 3 lbs monkfish while living a pollock.

about a twenty pound snapper turtle....thought it was a monster bass

Someone told me recently that YOU should NOT TOUCH that Tumor!seriously!
Ill try to get more info , but it is infectious or something.

yeah, luckily it came unglued at my feet...pretty freaky looking though...

good story Baldwin.

I caught this strange fish down in the keys till this day I have no idea what it was it was kinda shaped like a fat angel fish with whiskers like a cat fish and black and silver stripes....

Wish I had a pic. I didn't want to touch it at first wasn't sure if it had spines in secret areas

I snag a Butterfly kite with my Kastmaster off of the Canal two weekends ago.. Got a Skate this weekend on my firends boat (not too strange, but was my first ctach this year)..Then got three schoolies after around 20 inches... All released...

I was doing a little nightime freshwater bottom fishing from a canoe down in Peachtree City, Georgia on Lake Kedron landing 1/2 to 3lb catfish left and right on unpeeled raw shrimp. It was about 2 am, and I was out with my teenage cousin. It was midsummer so the water was about about 15 - 20 degrees warmer than the still night time air, so you can imagine the steam wafting off the surface, very eery. All of a sudden, my cousins rod doubles over hard!!! The run, was nothing like that of a bluefish or bonito or even a hooked channel cat, it was more like a keg of Heineken down a sloped drive way. We were only using 10lb line test so it was good 10 to 15 minutes (An eternity in the Freshwater fishing world) before what we thought was a huge catfish began to tire. As it neared the boat, I reached out to grab the line to haul the fish aboard, and out of the muddy water comes the biggest F****** Alligator Snapping Turtle I have ever seen! It had to be at 20lbs; the circumference of an office chair cushion. Its mouth, gaping wide, could have easily engulfed a softball. We were so startled we almost tipped the canoe. Needless to say we hastily cut the line and immediately went home. Breakfast was great next morning considering we brought home a nice bucket full of catfish.

There've been so many, need to get rid of the cobwebs ... but the first thing that came to mind wasn't so freaky in a gross way, rather it was a freak accident ... I was fishing along Route 41 (Tamiami Trail) in Southern Florida with a buddy, we were targetting snook and baby tarpon and redfish in the canals on the Western side of the penninsula ... it's a well known adventure ... but this guy had gotten it down to a science ... I had borrowed his 5-weight fly rod with his prized Hardy fly reel ... my back was to the road and then some snook started popping in front of me ... I quickly went into a back cast at which time a giant Winnebago or other motor home came cruising by ... my prized Trail Minnow tied by another friend Mike Conner that had taken tons of fish in this type of situation wrapped around a pole latched to the motor home ... it all happened in slow motion ... I watched that fly wrap around and around until reality set back in and the motor home traveling more than 50 miles an hour zooomed off attached to Steve's fly rod, the reel handle was spinning a million miles and hour ... not wanting to break his Sage RPLX or his Hardy fly reel, I bowed to the vehicle and kept the rod as level to the road and in line with the fly line as I could until the leader the line parted - I think the leader broke, Steve was over my shoulder screaming at me to grab the reel, but I didn't want to break a finger ... the fly line was ruined and some parts inside the reel (I think it was the Pawl) essentially melted due to the intense friction ... Steve had to jury rig his reel to get it back ... I happily coughed up the dough to replace the line and contributed what I could to get his reel back to working order ... Steve yelled out, you hooked a 50-foot metal wahoo!

... also was fishing with my tarpon guide when he caught a brand new 12 weight Sage RPLX fly rod and Abel 4.0 fly rod ... we were pushing along an inlet and he looked over and said what's that? As I turned, he grabbed the tip of the fly rod and pulled up an outfit he still uses today ...