What is the oddest thing you have hooked? My buddy hooked....

A big old women's fishing rod. Trolled into a cove with her rig set up on a rod holder and her in a chair. Reeled in and pitched out sure I was plenty far from her setup. About the time I felt a tug I set the hook and simultaneously saw her rod shoot out into the lake and her just a tad behind chasing it down into the water.
Took me a bit before I realized what had happened while she's telling her fam that a whale had taken her rig. They were all bigger then me and I so wanted to just cut the line where they couldn't see since they didn't know I was involved, but just couldn't do it.
Reeled her rig up and once she saw it...sailor talk.
I slowly trolled over to her keeping my distance as I was described in some very colorful adjectives. Got just close enough to hand it to her without breaking it and quickly retreated, not giving her a chance to use it as a whip.
Might had been the same trip my brother snagged my temple with a big rattle trap. Oh the memories...

Not me, but back in the early 80's one of the guys in the local bass club hooked a cadaver. Supposedly it was a suicide victim who jumped off the bridge very early Spring that year and must have floated up when disturbed. At the time there was no local Sheriff marine patrol and cell phones weren't a thing yet. He called on marine radio or CB to contact authorities and when they got there, they wanted him to put it in his boat or pull it to shore. He said I'll wait forever until you come get it, but that thing is not getting in my boat! The ironic part was that was the club classic and he lost much of the day dealing with the situation. They at least should have given him lurker money......:laugh:

A Zebco 33....hehehe....

Friends calf on a missed topwater bite. My Grandpa caught an Owl on a jitterbug once.

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Originally Posted by bigbass201

What's the oddest thing you have hooked into and reeled in? My buddy had a seagull dive bomb his topwater and got hooked. What a show on the deck of the boat fighting it out with the Seagull. Video in the link below.

https://rumble.com/vko7xm-fisherman-...66lt3&mc=9e0fe

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I had the same thing happen with a herring gull which is 3 times bigger than that one.Took me 30 minutes to get it to the boat and another 20 minutes to fight it and free it, tough birds.

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Originally Posted by mean_dean

Friends calf on a missed topwater bite. My Grandpa caught an Owl on a jitterbug once.

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I’ve caught owls twice on a frog,fishing flooded timber at Kerr lake both times.

ive hooked a blue heron with a top water. he proceeded to fly off with it and I had to reel him in from the sky.

the other was

https://youtu.be/YXPvHeEn_Rs

https://youtu.be/_7POCzkk74Q


we was both wore out by the time I got him in

Fishing lake Erie with Virginia state team, I reeled in a nice spinning rod and reel. Looked brand new. That night at dinner a team member sitting across from me described loosing his new rod and reel overboard. Sure enough it was his. My good luck was his better luck.

An alligator and a goose

OLD BVD"S

A guy's fishing jersey that had been in the lake for over a year. I contacted him and he said to just throw it away. LOL

A fresh water mussel clamped down on my line one time. Hooked myself in the earlobe while fly fishing and my brother buried a Jitterbug in my scalp onetime while ripping it out of a tree.

Seagull
Duck
Shimano rod/reel
Penn reel

When I had my first Skeeter (16’) I was notorious for snagging my partners hats and tossing them in the lake

No lie...Plastic bag that had a pink dildo as long as my arm in it...….and no I did not check to see if it smelled like fish. :sick:

That spot on Cherokee Lake is now known as "The Dildo Hole".

I've caught a few rods before. A pie pan once. Snagged the farmers dog once as a kid and had no scissors/knife on me at the time to cut it out of the matted hair. I've caught rope and old carpet rug in the rivers in Pittsburgh countless times. I also seem to have the best luck at catching old line with lures still attached.

I once caught some line with an 1/8oz Rooster Tail tied on while I was cranking an old road bed in 20FOW. Not sure what that person was trying to catch in that deep of water with that lure.

Barbie combo,with channel cat still on the hook.Several other combos.But the oddest one was a tampon in the surf in Daytona last year,It had been washed clean.

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Originally Posted by E-rude_Dude

A used condom冷

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"Coney Island Whitefish" /FTFY

Snagged a dead catfish skeleton in the spine on a C-rig once. Caught a sock full of rocks. We didn’t catch it but my partner and I found a small igloo full of dildos, lube and other toys floating in the AR river close to Spadra.

I was working a lipless crankbait when I hooked some monofiliment line. My fishing partner pulled up the line and up came a rod tip. He started bringing up the rod and at the other end was a Shimano Tekota 300 linecounter reel. The reel was in great condition. I cleaned them up and still use them.

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Originally Posted by Transom

Did you catch the top two at the same time?

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:laugh: Need to use my "D" rig to catch those!