Sea gull on a Rico. Thank God for braided line and neoprene gloves.A Christmas tree,soda can and a rattle-trap that was hung and broken off in the weeds.

i bass fish 95% of the time but i went out with a buddy of mine and my stepdad in the mobjack bay then ran to the bridge tunnel. we were catchin shark and flounder and tons of sea bass. well, i cast a hunk of meat back in the water after catchin a shark. this GIANT seagull. alot bigger than ive seen, grabs it and takes off. tryin to ****** meat out of its mouth ''cuz i saw hook wasnt in mouth'' it did a spin thing and was hooked through the bottom beak area. it finally got tired. my buddy took line i had on gloves. grabbed feet and stepdad held wings closed. got the hook out and let the bird go. no serious harm done i dont think. just a sore mought for a few days

nothing much, just a seagull off the ocean isle beach pier in Ocean Isle, North carolina 

Condems are quite common out of the Milwaukee Harbor.  Disgusting!

Caught this snapper on a Norman Thin N last Fall.

Here is another one from a few years ago....

Here is another one from a few years ago....

Did you get your lure back? Luckily for me the two I caught one was on minnow and other on wacky. So no loss there.By the way great pic.

No, I lost the Chatterbait.  I had to cut the line.

Here is another one from a few years ago....

I had one eat a jerkbait a few years ago. Hit it on the pause just like a bass. I got my bait back and he ate his last jerkbait  .

I was doing some fishing on the Nuese River and pulled in 25 ft garden hose with a spray nozzle still attached

A "I <3 NYC" t-shirt

The weirdest part was that I was fishing in Michigan...

It made great use after I tore it up for rags.

2 Seagulls and a few Mallards.  One Mallard this year broke off after a short fight in the air.  He took my brand new $25 swim bait, which he is still sporting around 2 months later.

I'm taking a bit of license here, and going back to my lobstering days.  We hauled up all manner of odd things, among them, about six anchors, one very large one, several basking sharks, railings from sunken vessels, countless sinkers, jigs, and assorted fishing rigs when lobstering in areas where the party boats fished.  But the winner, which falls into the "What are the odds category?", was a mainsail from a 34 foor Hinkley sailboat.

Three days later, when hauling the same gear, in the same area, the sail bag for the sail came up, wrapped around the ground line.

Condems are quite common out of the Milwaukee Harbor. Disgusting!

We have a winner!!

Not me reeling it in. But my youngest daughter catching a stingray that weighed at least 25 pounds or more on an 8 lb. test line. Still trying to figure out how she managed to land that big ray with her being so little, and it fighting like crazy.

I've caught some freshwater mussel. I guess they just close when the bait is dragged into them. Funny thing is you feel the line "tick" just like a bite as it closes on the line. Then you jerk and reel in a clam(mussel). They don't open, so you either have to bust open it and kill it, or cut the line.

My weirdest would be what was left of a rusted tricycle about 5 feet from the bank when I was fishing from the bank. Waded out and pulled it in because it was partially buried in the mud.

I was also the victim of my fishing buddies weirdest catch. . . ME. . .when he sunk his hook in the side of my neck while casting.

A tree bass. :D. Ha no but probably a bathing suit was the wierdest for me.

A black wifebeater in the delaware, it fought in the current good. I don't think i'll ever top my wife's catch of a diaper though  :-?

this may not constitute as a "weirdest catch" but most definately my top "weirdest sight"...rode my 4wheeler to a interstate pond by my house, about 2 miles away...i pull up where i usually park, look through the woods by the bank and see a guy in what looks like a diaper but i think it was just undies (just undies, no shirt socks pants anything), smoking a cig talking to someone fully clothed like nothing was "odd"...lets just say i was creeped out didnt fish that day

Caught a pair of somebody's boxers today.

Im not sure what the weirdest thing i ever caught was. I guess its between a bicycle a hub cap or a bird cage. I guess the best thing I ever caught was a tree branch with at least 20 lures on it when I was maybe around 12 or 13. It was like winning the fishing lottery and the rest of the day I remember trying to find more branches to snag on for more lures.

I reeled in a crawdad trout fishing with red worms along the bottom of a creek once. It just wouldn't let go of the worm.

I was fishing in the spill way at Rodman Dam a two or three years ago fishing for Strippers when they come up there and slay the big shad. I stuck something that was BIG and powerful it felt like a 35-40# stripper and the current at the spill way is really fast and strong so I was in the fight about 25 minutes and this thing just didnt stop it make 40-50 yard runs with (Daiwa pluton and 50# braid) and ide slowly bring it back and then bam run again... after about 45-50 minutes I landed it and it was a 8X10 foot piece of window screen... You couldnt believe how it was fighting I mean it fought just like a large stripper pulling line off on big unstoppable runs and then at times diving... That current rolling pulling it down deeper and deeper and then it grabbing the running current when I would get it up some and then back to diving it was unreal how much it felt like a fish... when it would shake and turn in the current it felt like head shaking.. I had about 10 boats and every one on the dam watching me and cheering me on lol as they thought I had a huge stripper just like I did it was something I will never forget and a few of my bass tourney buddies was out there sticking some strippers during the run and they still to this day rib me anytime we have a tourney at rodman about it.

Before I got married I used to enjoy me some stripper fishing once in a while.