What are the weirdest things you've caught so far, while fishing ?
 

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.

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.

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!!!

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.

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.

Swan ONNNNNNN
 

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.

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

Swan Capture Techniques
 

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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!

THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT
 

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.