I am not sure if this appropriate… but it is the god’s honest truth. While wading in the Conestoga River using Mepp’s Spinners for Smallmouth or Rock Bass, I snagged a…. vibrator. One of those with the wire connected to a remote to pick settings. It was terrible. This is not supposed to be offensive, nor do I wish to offend anyone. But I am not lying, I just about threw my rod into the river and gave up. Instead I flicked the thing a country mile into a tree and kept on fishing…

I reeled in a pair of boxers a couple months ago on a lipless crank. Now, I can only think of a few reasons why a grown man would shed their underwear in the lake...and none of them are pleasant.

I am not sure if this appropriate… but it is the god’s honest truth. While wading in the Conestoga River using Mepp’s Spinners for Smallmouth or Rock Bass, I snagged a…. vibrator. One of those with the wire connected to a remote to pick settings. It was terrible. This is not supposed to be offensive, nor do I wish to offend anyone. But I am not lying, I just about threw my rod into the river and gave up. Instead I flicked the thing a country mile into a tree and kept on fishing…

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Worst thing I snagged was jagged bed rock.... 20 ft down in the river. Was in my kayak, so i went in after it. Dove down after it and came up with it snagged in my thumb because my kayak kept moving downstream pretty quick. Not a good time, had to cut the hook and push it through the side. OUCH! Got my crank back though!

My buddy's ear. With a rat-l-trap. It shredded his ear and he must have bled out a quart. He was mad at me but he walked in my line of fire. We were back fishing the next day laughing about it.

I am not sure if this appropriate… but it is the god’s honest truth. While wading in the Conestoga River using Mepp’s Spinners for Smallmouth or Rock Bass, I snagged a…. vibrator. One of those with the wire connected to a remote to pick settings. It was terrible. This is not supposed to be offensive, nor do I wish to offend anyone. But I am not lying, I just about threw my rod into the river and gave up. Instead I flicked the thing a country mile into a tree and kept on fishing…

some happy squirrels runnin around up there

Worst thing I snagged was jagged bed rock.... 20 ft down in the river. Was in my kayak, so i went in after it. Dove down after it and came up with it snagged in my thumb because my kayak kept moving downstream pretty quick. Not a good time, had to cut the hook and push it through the side. OUCH! Got my crank back though!

You must really like that crankbait!!! 20 ft dive, I would just break it off, even if it was a Mega or LC.

A seagull once when I was surf fishing. The thing went right after my lure it the air, thinking it was food or something.

A bat at my local lake. Same thing, it thought my lure was a bug and went after it.

Canadian goose. Swam right across my line then panicked and got himself tangled/snagged around his leg. Trust me, trying to untangle an angry goose from your line is not an easy thing to do without getting bit.

Me? I've caught fish entrails, a pushbroom and various other types of garbage, and turtles. My father on the other hand...has a tendency to snag birds. Alive, dead, it doesn't matter. Back in the early 80's we vacationed in San Diego and were fishing off one of the piers catching mackerel and feeding them to the seals swimming under the piers. My father casts out his line and hooks into a pelican. Well it turns out this pelican was a regular at the pier AND it had only one leg. It had apparently been hooked before. If I remember correctly, the bird was somewhat tame and a guy at the pier who was buddies with the pelican was able to coax the bird in and untangle it. He has also caught seagulls, loons, and ducks.

I've never caught anything on a Spook. Kudos to you

I caught an owl night fishing with a muskie jitterbug. Thought I'd hooked a monster bass from the big splash and drag pulling but when the line started to guy up like the fish was going to jump but it didn't stop going up The owl flew in front of the full moon and I realized my situation. Not sure what to do I laid into the owl hard to try to pull the hooks out and the owl must have lost it's bearings and did a nose dive into some blackberry bushes. Thankfully the hooks got tangled in the vines so when the owl took off again it pulled the hooks out, called it a night after that.

You must really like that crankbait!!! 20 ft dive, I would just break it off, even if it was a Mega or LC.

It was a LC and i was crushing fish with it that day. I swim and dive well, I sure wasn't expecting to do that deep though. It was rough, but totally worth it!

I hooked a beaver while workin a spook.On spinning rod with 8 lb it was a good fight but broke me off.

I caught an owl night fishing with a muskie jitterbug. Thought I'd hooked a monster bass from the big splash and drag pulling but when the line started to guy up like the fish was going to jump but it didn't stop going up The owl flew in front of the full moon and I realized my situation. Not sure what to do I laid into the owl hard to try to pull the hooks out and the owl must have lost it's bearings and did a nose dive into some blackberry bushes. Thankfully the hooks got tangled in the vines so when the owl took off again it pulled the hooks out, called it a night after that.

Same thing happened to me one night. Same bait, too. My cousin started reeling the thing into the boat and I was screaming "What are you doing?!" I really didn't want an angry, injured owl in my boat. Luckily the owl was able to just let go.

I snagged my brother in the earlobe when we were younger kids. He screamed like a little girl... oops! I snagged a seagull while fishing for crappies with a cane pole. I've caught a shopping cart and a lawn chair on the St. Joe river. Never know what you will catch out there. Weirdest thing I hooked into was a Nintendo 64 controller which also came out of the St. Joe river.

The worst thing I have ever personally snagged was a big snapping turtle. In Louisiana there are all over the place, and they are fight crazy...even more so with a hook in their face! I hate snagging turtles because its so hard to get the hook out of them. I have even seen them chase a live worm all the way ON to the bank, persistent little jokers. I have also snagged a big bag of what seemed to be a dead dog out of the Chattahoochee. My Brother snagged the BIGGEST Goldfish I have ever seen in my life (perhaps it was a Koi species of some sort), it was HUGE, like 8lbs, 15" long. I've seen my Uncle snag TWO eels back to back out of Lake Ponchatrain in New Orleans.

I had cast under the limbs of an overhanging branch. As soon as I started the retrieve I felt weight - heavy weight. But it wasn't fighting. I didn't know what it was but thought that a branch would have broken the surface.

About halfway back to the boat this non-largemouth object revealed itself: a snapping turtle, about 20 lbs. worth.

Let me ask you this - what are the odds that on a 500 acre lake you are going to make a cast so precise that you slide the hook just under the front edge of a snapper's shell?

Alrighty then. I'm reeling slower now, doncha know, watching jaws wildly snap at air and thinking that I really don't want to share the boat with this enraged reptile . . . but on the other hand, I didn't want to leave a 5/0 hook in its shell.

I brought the beast to the side of the boat, looked at my long nose pliers . . . would they be long enough?

Yes, they were. I then decided to try some offshore spots I knew.

I had cast under the limbs of an overhanging branch. As soon as I started the retrieve I felt weight - heavy weight. But it wasn't fighting. I didn't know what it was but thought that a branch would have broken the surface.

About halfway back to the boat this non-largemouth object revealed itself: a snapping turtle, about 20 lbs. worth.

Let me ask you this - what are the odds that on a 500 acre lake you are going to make a cast so precise that you slide the hook just under the front edge of a snapper's shell?

Alrighty then. I'm reeling slower now, doncha know, watching jaws wildly snap at air and thinking that I really don't want to share the boat with this enraged reptile . . . but on the other hand, I didn't want to leave a 5/0 hook in its shell.

I brought the beast to the side of the boat, looked at my long nose pliers . . . would they be long enough?

Yes, they were. I then decided to try some offshore spots I knew.

On a similar note, just Thursday I was fishing and cast out a BRAND NEW Cotton Cordell crankbait, about a 2 - 3ft diver. Just as I got it out there good and started to crank it back, it got hung!! Needless to say I was rather unpleased. But early I had caught nice sized Largemouth, so I was like 'you win some, you lose some'. Then after 10 casts with a Bomber A in another direction, I decided to put on my trusty Hot Spot (lipless crank), and would you believe I cast out in the same area and snagged the lure that I had just previously lost!! What are the odds of that?! To not only cast at the right angle, but to actually get it to the right depth to somehow snag my crankbait from whatever it was snagged on. That was certainly ALL sheer probability, and had NOTHING to do with my casting ability, because I had no intention of cast back near that snag, but I had apparently forgotten where it was. I'm just glad I got my lure back!! lol. Amazing what you can catch sometimes besides fish.

I've snagged and even gotten large snapping turtles to bite my lures in a pond I used to fish. I really don't enjoy getting those hooks out of their mouths.

Caught a nice sized snapping turtle two days ago on a spinnerbait... needless to say I couldn't get that spinnerbait back. When I first started fishing, I snagged a reel I accididently threw into the river just by luck.

my thumb

I got a new one after last week. Fishing a tournament and my non-boater catches an honest to goodness underground cable. They claim the conduit was somehow eroded and he snagged it just right. Thankfully, it was a long dead test routing for a fiber optic line. I didn't want to doubt the guy when he said it was moving, which it was because of the boat, but man, was it hilarious when he finally saw it. He went all sorts of berserk, "What do I do, do we call someone? Where to we go, to unhook it? Is it live? What if it's live? Can it shock me in the boat? What do I do? I don't have the money to pay for this... We razzed him about it for the remainder of the tournament. That was day one of a three day.

Walleye