Ok, so this guy is fishing in Nebraska and he suddenly feels dead weight on the other end. he ends up pulling out a live hand grenade. Apparently poachers are switching from dynamite to grenades. True story.

http://thegoat.backcountry.com/2012/08/06/nebraska-fishermen-catch-life-grenade/

I had to look it up. Pretty crazy.

Yeah! Makes you kinda wonder what's in your favorite fishin spot.

Imagine if he had set the hook hard on that thing.

Kaboom!!

That would have been sweet lol. We had to worry bout catching old mortar rounds when I was fishing on my deployment. I was on Kuwait navel base there were impacts all over the pier I fished and they combed the place for rounds from the Iraqis in the first gulf war.

Can't remember when exactly but it was a couple of years ago. Some kids were fishing in St. Clair, and saw something weird sticking out of the sand underneath the water. Turned out to be a old torpedo from cold war era. Don't know many details about it. Couldn't find anything on the internet either.

That would have been sweet lol. We had to worry bout catching old mortar rounds when I was fishing on my deployment. I was on Kuwait navel base there were impacts all over the pier I fished and they combed the place for rounds from the Iraqis in the first gulf war.

We had a guy bring up a spent .50 Cal. casing in Iraq while fishing around Saddam's old palaces. 

Back in the day it was a lot easier to bring stuff home with you while on deployment. Guys in WWII brought home all sorts of neat stuff.....and we're still finding it in attics and at the bottom of ponds, etc. I remember a few years back they were hauling crates full of machine guns and explosives out of the water somewhere. Not to mention any other type of more recent smuggling that comes to an abrupt end. If you want stuff to vanish in a hurry, throwing it in a body of water can make that happen pretty quick.

 

Unfortunately most of the stuff is destroyed. Even some of the rare stuff they recover gets destroyed instead of going to a museum or a collection. I'm pretty sure that grenade was a nam era pineapple. Pretty crazy to pull one up but I guess it's going to happen to someone somewhere eventually.

Can't remember when exactly but it was a couple of years ago. Some kids were fishing in St. Clair, and saw something weird sticking out of the sand underneath the water. Turned out to be a old torpedo from cold war era. Don't know many details about it. Couldn't find anything on the internet either.

I'd love to find one of those. It would look great in my room. ;-)