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

[numbskull]

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]

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]

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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.

[baldwin]

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

[Slingah]

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

[moosh]

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..

[gone fishin]

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.

[bttfish]

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...