What's the strangest item you've ever 'landed'?
 

We've all been there,, seemingly hung up on the bottom,, but after a few good pulls you end up hauling in some lost 'treasure' that the ocean decided to give back.

> This article in the globe talks about a wallet lost 39 years ago recovered!

What's the strangest / most interesting item you've hauled out?

i hooked a movie dinner tray off of the plymouth harbor jetty :rolleyes:

I didn't land it, but I saw a guy fight and eventually land a 6' diameter beach umbrella once---fully open--in the moving water of Fire Island inlet.

He thought he had the mother of all rays. He walked over two miles to land the sucker.

When I was a teenager I was out with my buddy Gerry in his 14ft skiff when he hooked into something huge while trolling...........a sunken 5 gal. bucket.

A fairly common item but the excitement was intense up intil that point when we saw the bucket.

I landed an old style "White fuel" Red Colman lantern,I went to X-Mart got replacement parts for it & got it up & running.

Does a 3lb spider crab count?

well.. maybe not that big... but it was HUGE!

I caught some very strange looking rocks (snagged them with a cod jig)

Giant basket starfish, tires (thought I had a halibut)


I watched a guy (on a party boat) loose a good fish, about 30 seconds later
I hooked a good one too. 18 pound wolf had the other guys jig still firmly attached to its upper jaw (I gave the guy back his jig and when the boat moved, I showed him how to tie an improved clinch knot)

lobsters, parts of gill nets, giant musels with 20 foot strands of kelp attached, fishing rod with reel (squidder) attached, cod heads (body bit off by sharks)... there must be some other stuff

jig'd up a rod an reel in deluxbury
caught a boot
caught a pair of pants some bird nests
a bunch of lures through the years
a rebel wind cheater of nauset 10 yrs ago
a pair of pantys
1 brake pad shoe
a cinder block
an a babys arm holdin an apple

hey, what do want from life?

to get a big TV and watch it every night

needle
 

Didn't land it but seen a needle float by the other night.

Not exotic, but once and only once I was fishing at narrow river with small jigs for school bass and caught 8 or 9 good size fluke.. needles to say I ate good that night!

I watched Don Willis land a small skiff once, in the Canal, that had broken away from whatever it was tied to.

Pretty good endorsement for how strong an Arra 126 1MH is :humpty:

Here theyh are !

socks,shopingbags,6 foot black snake

"Coney Island Whitefish".

"Coney Island Whitefish".
lmao

The strangest item I ever landed
 

My thumb with a trebble hook from a deep diver a few weeks that had a
F!*#ing dogfish on it doing a charter with Capt. Mike a few weeks ago!!!

I reeled up what we believed to be whale bones while cod fishing a few times!

Redlite....how did it taste goin' down? :sick:

Herring run this year I caught a "fish" with a red light on its head. Well maybe that "fish" caught itself. :cool:
Caught about 100ft of wire with a jig and the fish still attached to the jig in CC Bay.

WHERE'D YOU CATCH THOSE PANTS?????????

Originally Posted by bassmaster
jig'd up a rod an reel in deluxbury
caught a boot
caught a pair of pants some bird nests
a bunch of lures through the years
a rebel wind cheater of nauset 10 yrs ago
a pair of pantys
1 brake pad shoe
a cinder block
an a babys arm holdin an apple


That cinder block had to be rough. Pantys are always good to catch.

While fluke fishing, my friend hooked into what we thought was a dormat and we were right. Pulled up a large welcomemat.

Some species of trigger fish, them buck teeth were HUGE man!

Ed got a 2 lb Lobster on a Smiling bill yesterday morning :doh:

caught a traffic cone once!

I almost landed a 200+ pund guy from the other jetty plus an 8 pound bluefish one wee early morning...


I have intentionally snagged plugs I've lost before...