What have you caught that is a rarity, and please post pics if you have one! 

 

 

My wife caught me. I am absolutely a rarity and for sure a catch

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She has a dissenting opinion on that but since she's not on here.....

My wife caught me. I am absolutely a rarity and for sure a catch

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She has a dissenting opinion on that but since she's not on here.....

I always enjoy your wittiness. 

I've caught lots of pickerel and gar...Not really that rare.

 

My rarest sight while fishing was having a kingfisher dive into the water and hit a Husky Jerk when I was fishing for trout on the Caney Fork.  He got out of the water and started making a commotion like he was ticked. 

No rare fish, but fish caught under rare circumstances. Caught a channel cat and a longnose gar both on a popper this year, which is pretty rare for either species. The gar will hit them all day long, but hooking one is nearly impossible. My dream is to catch a bowfin on the tidal Potomac (very rare, but there are a few in there.) 

 

Also caught a red drum on the river here that was just a hair below keeper size, which is pretty uncommon this far up. It was during a really dry spell last summer, and the salinity in tidal portion of the river was getting up there. Atlantic needlefish were also swimming around the area.

First pike I ever caught was a silver pike at the age of 9

Wife caught a mirror carp in our area, pretty rare

I guess I will go with spoonbill, while they are not that rare in our part of the country I hear that they are endangered in other parts.

 

 

 

None of these are exceptionally rare but they certainly aren't common, at least not in our area.

Shovelnose Sturgeon from the Kansas River on a piece of cut shad.

Paddlefish from the outlet below Hillsdale Lake, KS on a slab spoon.

Goldeye from Milford Lake, KS on a live shad

Piebald blue cat from Milford Lake, KS on a Gulp Minnow

Not rare at all but the circumstances I imagine are. A large grass carp that crushed a 6 3/4" River 2 Sea S-Waver as it was slowly sinking.

I caught a few sturgeon on the Delaware river near trenton when we were using cut bait for stripers.  Other than that a bowfin which i really want to get some more of because they are awesome and next time i want to get one on my fly rod.

Trumpet fish

Trumpet fish

Now that is an odd looking catch.

I love these pics of interesting catches! Always good to see!

I've caught a goose while night fishing.  I thought it was a stump, and was trying to fish it.  I ended up catching it, set the hook while I was trying to get my bait off of it, and then fought it in shock as he flew away (eventually breaking my line).  That was not only the rarest catch, but the noisiest I've ever had!

About a 15# grass carp on a crankbait. It hit topwater as soonas it hit the water. Aparrently Grass Carp were feeding that way on Cicadas this year. I caught a couple more the same way in a few days, including a 22# and one over 30# that got off.

 

I'm pretty proud of this one as my goal to get a pike over 30lbs took a lot of years searching. 32lbs

 

I've caught yellow perch and sauger which is extremely rare for my lake

I caught a duck. Well, it got tangled in my line. What I thought was rare was the fact it seemed to let me reel it in, pick it up and get the line untangled from its foot. I'll never forget that day and I'm sure he won't either.

Not super rare, but I've only caught just the one.

 

European Rudd

 

That pike is a beauty!

 This is a great topic. The pictures are awesome. I guess a couple of the rarest fish I have caught would have to be a blueback trout up in northern Maine and the 9 lb 1 oz northern largemouth I caught a couple weeks ago.

Rarest fish for me would be a 10lb musky in south jersey which is pretty uncommon. Went to the lake just to cast out a newly spooled stradic fj 1000 with 10lb braid. I threw a 1/4oz lipless crank and thought i snagged a log. Was definitely a once in a lifetime experience....

Several years ago I cast out a spinnerbait and it got away from me.  Hooked a tree limb that a hornet nest was built on.  Luckily after I pulled it a couple of times the spinnerbait fell back into the water.  Hornets were a little ticked off, but no one was stung.

I caught my first few grayling this previous fall.  I wish i had a picture to post because one in particular had a big beautiful blue dorsal fin. 

I caught a duck on my buzzbait once. I reeled it in and got my buzzbait back.