The neighbor's cat. I was teaching a buddy to cast and had a jig tied on. Cats fight just like a summer run steelhead. They take drag and everything. It was carefully landed and the hook removed and some Sprite poured on the puncture to stop the bleeding and then released to fight another day.

Always carry a pair of leather gloves in the boat.

 

Seagulls (AKA: Dump Chickens) have a sharp beak!

Threw out a spinnerbait and reel back in another spinnerbait I had lost.

Not entirely weird things but interesting things.  I had lost a few crank baits in the same spot over a period of a few months.  I was using 12lb Sufix Deep Crank line and just breaking off for really no reason, switched to 10 lb CXX and pulled a tree branch with my cranks still on hung on some braid that was around the limbs.  pulled the rest of the braid out of the water and pulled up an underspin reel.  changed the hooks and spilt rings and still fish the cranks today

I've also caught what I call the redneck dropshot which was a gold aberdean hook with a crappie tube that had a nut tied below it

I would have to say the strangest things I've reeled in have been: rocks, old fishing rods, and canned food cans

Out on the VT side of Champlain there is an old railroad fill that they have a bike path on now, except one spot where there is a break to allow boats into Mallett's Bay we were C-Rigging back and forth in that break (17-20 fow) slamming big Smallies and getting scared by the big Sheephead when WHAM ! I slam into something big.  My buddy (not a very patient fisherman) says its a snag and to, "Cut it."  "No way it's sort of moving?!!"  The struggle lasted a few moments then we were able to see what it was...  a sunken sapling about 8' tall with about 200 Zebra Mussels on it, more snagged baits and hooks than we could count AND an underwater electric cable that was still humming...  SNIP!!!!

I landed that conglomeration on a Carrot Stick and 50lb braid with no ill effects (to many this is the shocking part).

beaver. didnt land the sucker, though.

i got a fire extinguisher last year but in the past iv snaged into bikes, rims, clams, birds, bull frogs, people. the worst was prolie last year not paying attention i went to cast and snagged my backpack i use when bank fishing omg it was the worst back lash i almost chucked the pole into the river i was so mad.

Several years ago I was night fishing with a big black jitterbug when a huge Great Horned Owl swooped down and picked up my bait off the surface. All I heard was a big splash so I set the hook and thought I'd hooked a monster  . Didn't know what to do when I figured out what I'd hooked but thankfully the owl crash landed in some brush along the bank and when he took back off the hooks got stuck in a vine and he pulled free. Called it a night after that.

Hey delta ripper how did the dead cows get in the kayak?

Ha not reeled in like the topic name.I didn't even have a rod that day.it was just a calf who had drowned under water that got trapped by a limb.there was another one further down the river

Once when I was trolling for Salmon in the Puget Sound we had a hit on a downrigger rod and began fighting a Salmon, not too long into it it felt like I had lost him, no head tugging or running but I still had a lot of tension on the line. As I reeled some more I saw that I had snagged some yellow poly rope, it obviously had something tied to it that was heavy, we thought it was most likley a crab pot that had lost it's bouy. So I set down the rod and started pulling in the rope and soon feel some head tugging on the rope. I wound up had landing a @7lb Coho that someone else had broken off on the crab pot line and got a nice crab pot as well.

I did lose my original fish and about $15 worth of tackle though

Two things...once, I was using 50lb braid at the river for stripers and I reeled in the top of a washing machine...

And once, I didn't really reel it in, but I was drifting a jig downstream in current and hooked into something that hit lightly, but fought hard...and I mean hard.

After about 3 minutes of trying to work this thing, the line just goes slack...I think I broke off a huge striper...nope, the fisherman 75 yards downstream that I couldn't see decided to cut my line before he got hooked...his buddy walked upstream and returned my lure about 10 minutes later. Turns out I knew them and I couldn't see them because of a bend in the river and brush on the bank...

Our lines had gotten tangled  ;D

We laughed about that one for a bit...

I have a styro foam cooler that I use to store my musky lures I hang the lures along the inside rim, I had this cooler on the table in the kitchen. One night my cat decided to jump in there for whatever reason. Talk about a tornado in the kitchen. I was in the living room watching TV at the time and dang near had a heart attack myself.

I guess I never reeled it in but my lures caught it.

From a friends facebook page.... A really malnourished fish.

I thought these were kind of ironic in one day ...

Both "caught" on a DD22

First caught an old old Coors light can.  Within the next 10 casts a caught a bra.

From a friends facebook page.... A really malnourished fish.

It's a GLoomis decal !

Bucket Mouth

Reeled in a trolling motor!

I hooked a line and my lure slid to the dead trout that was attached to it.  When I was pulling in the loose line I pulled up the ul spinning outfit that the dead trout had pulled away from someone.  Berkeley Tactix rod and Daiwa Regal reel.

I caught a big bullfrog on a Spro Frog.

My buddy and I used to cut Zoom Centapedes in half, put them on a 3/0 weigthless hook and go to a 100 acre lake we own.  The lake was full of grass and full of huge bullfrogs.  We would cast the centapede on top of the grass and twitch it and a bullfrog would come hopping over and eat it.  Set the hook and the battle was on, these things would take drag and everything.  Anyways, one day my cousin hooked one and he was jumping on top of the grass and all of a sudden a HUGE splash around the frog and his reel started stripping line.  He fought that thing for what seemed like an hour.  Ended up being about a 9 foot gator.  65lb Suffix braid is some BAD stuff!!

My buddy and I used to cut Zoom Centapedes in half, put them on a 3/0 weigthless hook and go to a 100 acre lake we own. The lake was full of grass and full of huge bullfrogs. We would cast the centapede on top of the grass and twitch it and a bullfrog would come hopping over and eat it. Set the hook and the battle was on, these things would take drag and everything. Anyways, one day my cousin hooked one and he was jumping on top of the grass and all of a sudden a HUGE splash around the frog and his reel started stripping line. He fought that thing for what seemed like an hour. Ended up being about a 9 foot gator. 65lb Suffix braid is some BAD stuff!!

I'd say you win this thread. that's one big gator. Too bad you didn't video it, make a great commercial for Suffix.  ;D

True story from last week on another forum...

A local fisherman was bottom fishing in San Diego bay, snagged something and reeled it in. It was some sort of electronic device with a light on it (I saw pics, looked like a bomb to me).He posted the pics, and a Navy man(another fisherman)  said it looks like something from the Marine Mammal's division of the Navy (dolphin training). The Navy man checked around and said he was causing an uproar in the MM division. Next day pics were off the post, and Navy went to the guy's house and picked it up. 

My buddy and I used to cut Zoom Centapedes in half, put them on a 3/0 weigthless hook and go to a 100 acre lake we own. The lake was full of grass and full of huge bullfrogs. We would cast the centapede on top of the grass and twitch it and a bullfrog would come hopping over and eat it. Set the hook and the battle was on, these things would take drag and everything. Anyways, one day my cousin hooked one and he was jumping on top of the grass and all of a sudden a HUGE splash around the frog and his reel started stripping line. He fought that thing for what seemed like an hour. Ended up being about a 9 foot gator. 65lb Suffix braid is some BAD stuff!!

I'd say you win this thread. that's one big gator. Too bad you didn't video it, make a great commercial for Suffix. ;D

Yup...I would have alot of good footage for a Suffix commercial.  One time while fish Lake Fork I had a herron eat my chug bug and I didn't want to reel her in, so I let him take some drag and he flew into her nest in the top of a tree in the middle of Dale Creek.  Apparently she was feeding her babies cuz when I finally jerked, the whole 20 ft. tree came down, along with the nest and I reeled in a baby herron.  And that was with 12 lb Seige!!

My buddy and I used to cut Zoom Centapedes in half, put them on a 3/0 weigthless hook and go to a 100 acre lake we own. The lake was full of grass and full of huge bullfrogs. We would cast the centapede on top of the grass and twitch it and a bullfrog would come hopping over and eat it. Set the hook and the battle was on, these things would take drag and everything. Anyways, one day my cousin hooked one and he was jumping on top of the grass and all of a sudden a HUGE splash around the frog and his reel started stripping line. He fought that thing for what seemed like an hour. Ended up being about a 9 foot gator. 65lb Suffix braid is some BAD stuff!!

I'd say you win this thread. that's one big gator. Too bad you didn't video it, make a great commercial for Suffix. ;D

Yup...I would have alot of good footage for a Suffix commercial. One time while fish Lake Fork I had a herron eat my chug bug and I didn't want to reel her in, so I let him take some drag and he flew into her nest in the top of a tree in the middle of Dale Creek. Apparently she was feeding her babies cuz when I finally jerked, the whole 20 ft. tree came down, along with the nest and I reeled in a baby herron. And that was with 12 lb Seige!!

:-?

Sorry I couln't resist...

My buddy and I used to cut Zoom Centapedes in half, put them on a 3/0 weigthless hook and go to a 100 acre lake we own. The lake was full of grass and full of huge bullfrogs. We would cast the centapede on top of the grass and twitch it and a bullfrog would come hopping over and eat it. Set the hook and the battle was on, these things would take drag and everything. Anyways, one day my cousin hooked one and he was jumping on top of the grass and all of a sudden a HUGE splash around the frog and his reel started stripping line. He fought that thing for what seemed like an hour. Ended up being about a 9 foot gator. 65lb Suffix braid is some BAD stuff!!

I'd say you win this thread. that's one big gator. Too bad you didn't video it, make a great commercial for Suffix. ;D

Yup...I would have alot of good footage for a Suffix commercial. One time while fish Lake Fork I had a herron eat my chug bug and I didn't want to reel her in, so I let him take some drag and he flew into her nest in the top of a tree in the middle of Dale Creek. Apparently she was feeding her babies cuz when I finally jerked, the whole 20 ft. tree came down, along with the nest and I reeled in a baby herron. And that was with 12 lb Seige!!

:-?

Sorry I couln't resist...

Perhaps "he" was the chug bug and "she" was the heron.  Or vice versa.