What are the weirdest things you've caught so far, while fishing ? - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

KL70 · 06-10-2007, 02:46 AM

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

numbskull · 06-10-2007, 04:23 AM

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.

UserRemoved1 · 06-10-2007, 05:42 AM

a 6" starfish

Someone's 10 year old fleece jacket

a baloneyhead

Christian · 06-10-2007, 06:18 AM

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

Skitterpop · 06-10-2007, 08:00 AM

a 40 plus # beaver

a $5 bill

a pair of pants

a shirt or two

a watch

a dog.... on a backcast

BrianS · 06-10-2007, 08:05 AM

either the 15lb goosefish

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

basswipe · 06-10-2007, 08:57 AM

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!

striprman · 06-10-2007, 12:18 PM

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

johnny ducketts · 06-10-2007, 02:01 PM

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.

Bedford Blues · 06-10-2007, 02:27 PM

a pistol . snagged while bottom fishing in Buzzards Bay.

Al in Westport · 06-10-2007, 02:45 PM

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

Sluggoslinger · 06-11-2007, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Bedford Blues

a pistol . snagged while bottom fishing in Buzzards Bay.

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

patpatriot · 06-10-2007, 08:10 PM

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

riverrat55 · 06-10-2007, 09:19 PM

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

eastendlu · 06-10-2007, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by riverrat55

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

Thats what we call a Coney island whitefish.

macojoe · 06-11-2007, 02:06 AM

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

redcrbbr · 06-11-2007, 08:59 AM

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.

5 String Bass · 06-11-2007, 02:11 PM

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.

RIROCKHOUND · 06-11-2007, 02:30 PM

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.

WoodyCT · 06-11-2007, 04:22 PM

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.

numbskull · 06-11-2007, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by WoodyCT

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?

Mr. Sandman · 06-11-2007, 07:04 PM

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

WoodyCT · 06-11-2007, 07:28 PM

Numb-
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.

baldwin · 06-11-2007, 07:45 PM

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

moosh · 06-11-2007, 08:45 PM

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..

bttfish · 06-12-2007, 09:12 AM

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...

doktorfaustus77 · 06-11-2007, 07:32 PM

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

buckman · 06-11-2007, 08:14 PM

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!

doc · 06-11-2007, 09:05 PM

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

UpChunk · 06-11-2007, 10:30 PM

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