I caught a seagull tons of snapping turtles and a alligator 

Last summer I left a minnow trap in a small stream for a week, and when I came back, I found two eels and around 20 half-digested minnows in it. Smelled horrible

4 foot alligator on a live shrimp while seeking redfish.

I have two. The first has now happened to me twice on the river. I hooked and landed a rock, I am amazed that they didn't fall off. I even was able to get a picture of one of them it wasn't exactly tiny. 

The second was pretty awesome. We were trolling with bottom bouncers and spinners for a Walleye and my rod just doubled over. Killed the trolling motor thinking I had a snag, but it kind of felt like it was fighting. Well somehow I got to the boat. My father in law had the net ready and well it was a 5 1/2 ft piece of wood I snagged. 

Well now the rest of the story lol. It was at night and I had him drag it in the boat for a picture. When he tossed it back in he almost went over the other side of the boat, it was not light and made a splash like someone fell in the water. I of course opened my big mouth and not quietly said 'man it sounds like we just tossed a dead body overboard'. And as I looked up well crap, another boat was slowly motoring past not 20 feet away. Funniest thing that has happened to me on the water, not sure what that boat thought was going on!

On 3/26/2016 at 3:17 AM, Sam said:

My wife.

Took it until page three for this one to come up - quite surprised!

I'll agree, and she's not even on the forum.

Well, considering the title this is cheating a little bit, but I'll say it anyways.

 

Last year I was dragging a t-rig on the bottom and it started to feel kind of weird. I reeled it in and realized I had snagged some broken off line that was on the bottom, which isn't that unusual. I start pulling in the other line after I get my t-rig untangled and to my surprise a small catfish is still alive and attached to the other end. Unhooked the little guy and threw him back. 

I managed to hook into a rock, at Table Rock, while casting a Spro Rkcrawler. Also once caught a lure by buddy lost the day before. Except this lure was attached to a 6lber. 

Not sure if i can top anyones but the strangest has to be a couch a harley Davidson and my little brother but that was on the cast at the dock dont know if that counts

A pair of women's underwear, sunglasses and a condom.

A sawzall about 10 feet out from a drainpipe. Cord and all.

Fly fishing I have caught a bat and a couple of birds while the fly was in mid-air.   It's not that uncommon to do actually, I would bet many fly fishers have done that at some point in their lives.  Such a weird feeling to execute the backcast, feel the rod load, and then transition to the forward cast when something feels really really wrong.   Kind of like picking up that empty can of beer that you thought was full.

 

 

I've caught a rock on an inline spinner, a blue crab on a hot dog and bobber, a bunch of turtles (painted turtles, snapping turtles, even a soft shelled turtle!), and a picnic table.  My least favorite though, was around 50 lb of weeds that covered a 6 inch smallmouth bass, (would have been my first and only smallie) which got off the moment the weeds collected. However, the 6 lb mono held up against the current of the Delaware and the weight of the weeds.

10 or 11 seagulls from the jetties at Destin, FL with frozen cigar minnows (early 80's). An otter on a worm in the Everglades.  Wife "caught" an alligator there as well.  Mussels, freshwater clams.  Lots of sticks and branches.