Strange catches?

[Patrick Krueger, Jr.]

I love hearing these types of stories, here's mine:

Caught a channel cat with a Frenzy lipless. I made a cast much further right than I wanted and was reeling it in as fast as I could so I could make the right cast. It was just suprising because you think of catfish as taking stinky baits that sit still and this lure was cruising!

Hooked a huge snapping turtle, maybe 20 lbs., with a Strike King Bitsy Bug in black/blue with a Zoom Super Chunk. I let off on the tension so I could get my camera, and it got loose.

That reminds me, I 've considered putting my polarized glasses in front of my camera to take pictures of various awesome things underwater. Anyone ever try it? Did it work out?

[NCYankee]

I caught a channel cat in shallow water on a floating Rapala.

I also caught a snapper on a jig (a craw jig.) It came unhooked as I pulled it up to the shore.

I posted a picture a couple of months ago of a snake I caught using a panfish as bait.

Occasionally, I've caught bullfrogs on topwater lures.

[crankybait]

in india, i caught a white carp on a beaver bait... is that regular?

[PowerBass]

I caught frogs on 5 inch tiki stiks.

[lovinfishin9]

i caught a snapper while catfishing, it came unhooked right in the boat and tried to bite my grandpas toes.

[Dyas]

I cuaght an eel fishin for speckled trout on shrimp once

I caught a chair on a rat l trap

I caught a pair of underwer bottom fishin for cats

I caugth a bream about 2 in. long on a crankbait

and I caugth 2 alligators 1 was 9ft. and the other was 3ft. long......

[KH.]

the weirdest one is probally when i wqs fishin with a worm,i thought i was hung up on something but it was a turtle about as big as me

[Rodman_Rob]

greater siren
half eel, half salamander, has 2 legs on the bottom, and 2 legs on the top, the top legs seem more suited for swimming. looked like something from mars or from a river with a nuclear power plant on it.

[basstech]

I've caught ton's of catfish on cranks. Two years ago caught a 20 lb. yellow/flathead on a jig-n-pig. Biggest fish broke me of like I was using sewing thread. I set the hook, the fish moved and could feel it just whip it's body one way towards me kind of, then the other way and snap. Someone thought I was shooting turtles with a .22.

[basser087]

Once I caught this fish during a bass tournament and I had no idea what it was, wouldn't even touch it. Later I was looking through a book and I think it was some kind of deformed snakehead. I have no idea how it got into the lake I was fishing.

[Dyas]

I once saw either a huge catfish, im talkin 80+ pounds, or a shark on the river when I was fishin. It was stuck on something and the top fin was sticking out of the water. Bull sharks have been known to go hundreds of miles up rivers so im thinkin thats what it was.

[crankybait]

a diaper while deep sea diving

[Dyas]

Good thing there wsnt the baby stil in it.........

[Rebbasser]

Probably several caatfish-one on a T-rig, one on a crank and a 20 lb flathead on a jig-n-pig.

[Patrick Krueger, Jr.]

Dyas, what did the gators hit on live bait or a LM you were reeling in, or what?

[HuckFinn]

Caught a 29 cent gold fish, used a husky jerk.
fishing a city pond with the jerk, hooked into a plastic bag and inside the bag was a gold fish like you would buy at a pet shop.
We were cleaning up the river, as we do each year and using a c clamp pulled in a shopping cart, hooked to the cart was a sump pump with pipe. Inside the pump was an eel.
Son made a cast with a top water lure, don't remember which one, and a seagull came down and caught it in midair. He spit it out before he hooked himself.

[JB]

Someone in town years ago snagged something at Crystal Lake, a small lake that a stream goes through, and after jerking hard came up with a piece of vinyl top from a 78 Monte Carlo...someone had stolen it and drove over the hill at the golf couse next door and drove it into the lake, after divers hooked it up and began towing it out, they also notices a yellow hand of a statue, and yep, you guessed it, it was a Ronald McDonald statue figure from the local mc E dees here in town rofl

[HuckFinn]

Glad they caught that clown what stole that car

[Wishing2BFishing]

JB, is that story true? If so, that is seriously funny.

Ever hear of the "urban legend" or is it "suburban legend" about the divers that were repairing a dam. While underwater in scuba gear, a big musky bit off a divers finger. Turns out that the diver was wearing his wedding band which reflected the sunlight. The fish went after the ring and off came the finger. I have heard that story so many times.

Actually, I did see a real story printed in a fishing magazine (I can't recall which one), about a Florida guy that caught a Marlin. He just got divorced and still had his wedding band. The fishing dude decided to put the ring on the sword of the fish. Several years later, the same guy caught the same Marlin. His ring was still there.

[lonestarboater]

I was fishing with a worm and bobber when I was little and I casted it too far and it went into the tree. It looped around the branch then landed in the water so I was reeling back in to get it out of the tree and just before the bait left the water a bluegill took the bait. I then reeled it in more so now the bluegill was stuck in the tree too. I finally got it out of the tree.

When I was about 4 I was casting a hook out into the water and a fish took it. A peice of seaweed got caught on the hook and the fish went after the seaweed then got hooked.

[Bass Ackwards]

Caught an rod and reel while fishing for Stripers off a Pier in the SF bay. To bad it had been there so long nothing was usable any longer.

[Rodman_Rob]

gators will go after any topwater. when I'm shiner fishing they go after the bobber more than the shiner.

[JB]

Yup the story is true about the car and ronalds statue,

in a unrelated story , I once was in a sunday morning tournie at brookeville lake and threw the popR behind a big stump and a fish blew up on it, I thought I had it for a second, but then realized it had missed the lure and the popR was lodged into the back end of the stump.
After positioning the boat and staying as far off the stump as possible (40 feet) , it finally free'd itself after about a hundred snaps of my line, and dang if a nice 19 inch bass hit it on the very first "bloop" that the popR made after being dislodged...it was neato rofl

[WTL]

I post this pic about every 6 months when this topic comes up. Caught this gator at 1:00 AM, in mobile bay (yes, saltwater) in early July a couple years ago. I ws lucky enough to have the camera nearby, or else I would have been called a liar by everyone the next morning. As it turned out, gators can go out into salt water for a short time - and in fact over the next few days I found out where this gator called home, there was a freshwater creek running into the bay oh about 10 houses down from where I caught him on the DOA shrimp. Well I went up that creek and turns out it was sufficiently tidal to even support a population of bass.



BTW, I aint scared of clowns - but we have one of the McDonals statues at the local walmart and the thing freaks me out every time I walk into the door. He's just sitting on the bench I know, I know, but the clowns up to no good.

[Patrick Krueger, Jr.]

I am cracking up at some of these stories. JB's about the statue was funny enough, but Huck's following comment killed me.

With the gators, I was thinking that Steve Irwin should take fishing gear with him to capture crocs that are too close to human populations.