I went out fishing last week with a friend and he managed to catch an old kids shoe. Just like in the cartoons we watched as kids. It was pretty funny to see. I have also caught lots of things besides fish while fishing includeing a turtle, a duck, an old landing net, a glove, and a sock. What odd things have you guys managed to catch that are not fish?

I have caught a shirt, turtle, seagull, stick :, and a tire.

My son and daughter in-law both caught fishing poles at Lake Anna on different sides of the lake on the same day this past summer.

duck

geese

pelican

umbrella

net

turtles

grocery bags

and of course, sticks. ;D

I caught a shirt.  I thought I had a snag, but the snag moved.  So I horsed it in and it was someone's shirt they had thrown in the water.  

I have caught a shirt, turtle, seagull, stick :, and a tire.

What did you think when you hooked into that tire? That must have been pretty heavy?

Grocery bags, a lobster once, a porpoise ate my spanish mackeral that ate my silver spoon. Fought it for 10 minutes using 8lb test line. Had to chase it down with the boat when it nearly spooled me.  I thought I for sure had a World record KING, caught a suitcase the other day with a L/C crank bait.

goose, sticks, leaves, knife, huge mesh minnow trap (the size of a 55gal. drum) that sucker took me half an hour to get to shore from about 15 ft away on 50lb test., tarp, grocerey bags, various turtles including a massive snapper that broke my brand new lure, countless tangles of old fishing line, and this is the most common thing ive caught that isnt fish: WATER!!!  ;D

I have caught a shirt, turtle, seagull, stick :, and a tire.

What did you think when you hooked into that tire? That must have been pretty heavy?

yeah that tire fought forever ::)lol.

I went out fishing for crappie with my dad. There were three of us and we had few rods out each. We hit a nice size school and had one hit after another. Well my dad ended up having one of his rods pulled overboard.

Two days later and 50-60 yds away from his loss my buddy said he had bite. Then he said he was just caught up in some old line. We pulled in the line and to my dad's surprise it was his rod and reel.

Rocks. (Wedged into treble hooks)

alligators,loads of fun when your fishing topwater,NOT!

plastic barrier fence

trotlines

grocery bags galore

a small plastic christmas tree (LOL)

a pipewrench tied to a rope(makeshift anchor? LOL)

cormorants

an old spool of line(I pulled and pulled for 20 mins trying to get all the line and finally found the spool grrrr!)

a shoe

NO LIE... An apparently stolen purse,no ID inside,the perps obviously didn,t check the very small inside compartment which held $250.00 whoo hoo!!

I have caught a shirt, turtle, seagull, stick :, and a tire.

I try not to catch seagulls, but in the saltwater they get you so mad because they dive at the zara spook or any other topwater. So annoying  >

I catch myself quite a few times!! Treble hooks in the hand.....nothing better

CONEY ISLAND WHITE FISH

I've caught a crab trap, seagulls, snapping turtles, a fishing rod, another lure after getting a snag, a long piece of cable (like 20 ft), almost had a jetskier (I kept casting at him until he left, never got him though), an umbrella, a clump of mussels, a freshwater clam, crabs, a copperhead, and myself about 100 times.

Friend caught a boot in the James River while we were fishing. I asked him if he wanted to try for its mate but he did not see the humor in my suggestion.

I have caught mainly terminal tackle.  Nothing spectacular like the rest of you guys.

Once caught a decomposed arm with part of the hand still attached....just kidding  

Caught a shirt once in a really sheisty pond and was really worried that it would be something like an arm

Freshwater mussel (clamped down on lure), bullfrog, Jimmy Hoffa.

On a rat-l-trap=4 foot paintroller

On a tube=frisby

On a jig=Shopping cart

I hooked Neptune's castle in Atlantis once.

domestic goose ...... oh man, what a fight !  

water turkey,

heron,

freshwater clam,

turtles,

toads,

frogs,

a cowboy hat,

rests of gill nets,

grocery plastic bags,

a couple of chlorine bottles

a ladies panties ....... hipo size  

plus the usual stuff like leaves, sticks and so on.

On a rat-l-trap=4 foot paintroller

On a tube=frisby

On a jig=Shopping cart

How did that shopping cart fight? How far out were you when you hooked it and did you ever get it to shore to get your lure back?

I caught a really nice-sized dead bass  

My line caught another line so I pulled it in by hand and sure enough a nice size bass that was totally white and dead. Someone must have caught it and fought it and the line snapped and the fish died.  

 Every type of aquatic vegetation known to exist in our waters, a shirt, a soup can complete with bullet holes, grocery bags from every chain store in Georgia. The best ever was a minnow about 3/4" long on a lipless crank. The hook speared him in the side of the head. Aggressive little fellow!