I was fishing a lake in Canada and we were doing well on bluegill one afternoon. A Blue Heron landed on a downed tree nearby and slowly inched his way over to where we were catching the fish.......you know what's coming.....yep, the darned bird decided he deserved one of the fish that we were reeling in. Let me tell you the excitement really revved up at that point. LOL

A friend of mine managed to snag two snapping turtles in the middle of a mating session. Not intentionally. Ive caught frogs and turtles. And once I found a tshirt knotted up and stuffed with drugs. Other than that nothing really bizarre.

that is literally my worst nightmare. i am so scared that someday i will dredge up a body. is it unlikely? yes. would i need therapy for a year? probably.

 

I discovered a dead body on the Lower Niagara River several years back.  Luckily I identified what it was before I casted to it.  He was a floater, and was pinned up against the bank where I was chucking a spinnerbait too while drifting along.   I was prefishing for a tournament, and that killed about an hour before the Coast Guard showed up and told me I was free to leave.  I was the third person in my club to discover a body on that river over several years, so apparently, it's a good place to go if you are looking for one.

I discovered a dead body on the Lower Niagara River several years back.  Luckily I identified what it was before I casted to it.  He was a floater, and was pinned up against the bank where I was chucking a spinnerbait too while drifting along.   I was prefishing for a tournament, and that killed about an hour before the Coast Guard showed up and told me I was free to leave.  I was the third person in my club to discover a body on that river over several years, so apparently, it's a good place to go if you are looking for one.

Yikes,sounds like the beginning of a Stephen King novel.

I discovered a dead body on the Lower Niagara River several years back.  Luckily I identified what it was before I casted to it.  He was a floater, and was pinned up against the bank where I was chucking a spinnerbait too while drifting along.   I was prefishing for a tournament, and that killed about an hour before the Coast Guard showed up and told me I was free to leave.  I was the third person in my club to discover a body on that river over several years, so apparently, it's a good place to go if you are looking for one.

what was your reaction?

Girls underwear on a casting spoon by a old diving platform in the lake..

what was your reaction?

 

It didn't weird me out too much.  I always wondered the story behind it, who he was and why he was there.  I tried to keep with the news for a while, but the only thing I saw was a brief blurp saying a fisherman discovered a body on such and such day.  Nothing more.

I've caught a small Plano box last night! I've also caught a swan, needless to say I cut the line. I also caught a bullfrog on a hollow body. Glad to see I'm not alone with that one haha.

I have caught several weird things over the years, some memorable and some probably forgotten about.   One of the more memorable things was a rock of all things.  Doesn't seem too strange, but I was dragging tubes on a Western New York three days after Christmas and the action was a little slow to say the least.  Also, it came out of 45 feet of water and weighed 4.3 pounds and was about twice the size of a softball.  For a hook to stay in that rock for so long without pulling out was kinda amazing.   Also, I just couldn't reel it in.  The reel just wouldn't handle that kind of dead weight (try it sometime, you'll see what I mean) so I had to carefully pull the rod up 4 or 5 feet, then drop the rod and reel up the slack quickly at the same time stopped the falling rock again.  Took a while to get it to the surface and when It got close I loudly called for the net.   lol   Got it scooped up and lots of cheering and high fiving commenced.   Like I said, it was during a time when the water is usually frozen around here, so we'll take any excitement we can get.  

 

That was ten years ago and still have the rock to this day.   

 

that is literally my worst nightmare. i am so scared that someday i will dredge up a body. is it unlikely? yes. would i need therapy for a year? probably.

my area, it's not too uncommon with all the drownings and things like that. And in the delta out here I hear about one being found every so often.

caught a crappie on a weightless super fluke while dead sticking it. haha. never caught a crappie before. it scared the hell out of me how hard it fought vs a bass. haha

Caught about a 2lb bull frog the other day on a hollow body frog.  Almost caught a Kingfisher on a sammy, he flew away with it luckily didn't get hooked and dropped it.