One of our patrons at work just told me this story today.

His buddy was fishing a pond when he saw a deer swimming across. He motored over and held its head down until it drowned. They had a big bbq with it. Legal... ethical... I'm not goin there. But crazy story? Yup!

Last summer I took My son out on my dad's boat to have some fun catching scup. 4 rods off the back just drifting sandworms around well 3 of the rods are getting hit after hit after hit and the 4th just keeps bending over real slow and popping back up. I did not pay any mind to it as ive got all i can do to keep a 4yr old pullin in scup. after about 45min he is tired so we decied to go. I start pullin that one in and it will not come the rod bends all the way over, ok I am hung up but being a cheap SOB I keep on pullin line to get back as much as I can when up comes an 8 pound lobster no sand worm, he ate the hook no way it was comeing back out.

I was fishing for spotted trout with live mud minnows down in Texas when i was a youngster...and i caught myself not one, but two of the famous albino dumpster buzzards that dive bomb the bait.....sound like the ditch???? lol...mean critters when they are hooked ehh?

While scup fishin my buddie reeled in a quahog...I couldn't beleive it. "Whats the chances of that happening?'' I said. Later on that morning I reeled in a qauhog. :smash: I've also caught conks on while scuppin.

Seaworms is the bait of choice in your gonna shell fish rod and reel:D

A few years back i was fishin for LM bass off my dock at night, pitch black out that night. I had my girlfriend out there too. After catching a few bass something wanst quite right whith my rod. I took a cast but i couldnt reel in any line and the rod was twitching pretty good. I turned on my headlight and found a bat with his wing wrapped around the line and crammed into my tip top. I was kinda freaking out, nevermind the noises coming out of my g/f's mouth, damn flying rats. I bit the line and pulled the bat free. My heart was beating like crazy and then one step in the wrong direction i was swimming. Got out and called it a night.

Not me, but a buddy of mine had a seagull swoop down and grab his swimmer at sundown one night on the Drive - the gull got himself snagged in the beak and my bud is there with his rod in the air flying the poor bugger like a kite. I told him to screw down the #%@^##$ drag and get him in so we could release him, got him down and I grabbed my buddy's jacket to put over it's head to calm him so I could get the plug out (which I did). As a thank you the seagull pooped on his jacket, musta been scared. :laughs:

I laughed so hard I nearly soiled my waders - thank God I didn't fall off the rock, I was laughing so hard I woulda drowned.:rotf2:

Ive had some days i caught over 20 starfish. SOmetimes 6 at a time. Also hooked a sea duck at beavertail last year.

Caught my own nostrill once. I was about 8. It sucked.

I hooked a harbor porpise on cut mackerel fishing the bottom in the Canal. Ive wrapped up with a lot of gulls.The best one though a friend of my brother in law almost caught a fish in his mouth coming across the Chesapeak bay at night.Hit him right in the mouth on the flybridge of a 58 Hatteras(that like 25 ft off the water) and almost knocked him out. But they did release it.

The typical not me but my fishing buddy!
Trolling by the isle of shoals off NH, caught a Sea gull,,,
flying around
Saw him eyeing the lure, and sure enough he took it.

Had to hold a coat over him to get the lure out

Mikey caught three birds in one night last year. All of them flew into his line while we were fishing sandeels at RP. Funny doing the towel trick with him. He's actually getting pretty good at it. Guess they can't see the braid, they always fly into the line and get tangled.
Later,
Rick

Hooked budfans
 

Nice fluking rod and heaved it towards the wash russ was quick to throw his lure and wala hooked his rod before it sank!!:rotf2: :rotf2:

Storfisk ain't kiddin about the lobster. I was there that day. But if I remeber correctly the crew on my boat was pulling in a few bass while he and his son were catch lobsta! Wasn't that on chunk herring?

Took a small (low 100lb range) mako while bluefishing off Npt. in 1994; jaws are on my office wall (and avatar):smash:

A bag of kittens while bait fishing off a dock on the Cape. I kid you not. Put me off bait fishing for the rest of the season!

2lb Lobster,
Hooked through the crusher claw soft area. Went real well with the Striper fillets. I know no license. Sorry the thing ate my bait.

crossing the gulfstream racing to bermuda
dozens of flying fish
including a few in the face :eek:

a large cod on a PBJ sangwich out on stellwagon .

many transmitted diseases .

Caught a cold once....didn't see that coming

I've caught plenty of ticks while trout fishing....my best was nine in one day :vamp:
just one of the reasons i switched over to the salt...although i still get some from time to time in the brushier spots - like herring runs