Strangest Catch

[Fargo_Jim]

What's the strangest catch you ever made?

My nephew caught a three pound walleye in the hottest part of the day in the summer in a pile of lily pads using an 8" Lazy Ike. He was trying for northerns.

My kid caught a smallmouth on a 1" diameter treble full of carp dough while fishing on the bottom.
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[caddisbadass]

channel cat on a top water at lake Powell, just kidding. but I've seen rolan martin do it on his show do at Powell a few years back
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[kicknbass]

[font "Comic Sans MS"][black]I caught a muskrat on shrimp once. Faught hard for a minute and then I reeled him up. It set the hook right through his head.[/black][/font]
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Not unusual to catch cats on topwater. Wherever the water is clear enough for them to be "sight feeders" they will take food from the surface. In some waters it might be berries or bugs. In other waters it can be small fish or frogs...or even mice and birds.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Over the years I have fished all over the country and have taken quite a few channel cats and even a couple of flatheads on topwater bass baits...poppers and buzzers...when the shad were schooling near shore to spawn. All the predators follow them and feed heavily on the lovesick shad.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Probably some of the more interesting top water cattin' was on Chatfield Reservoir, south of Denver. Late in the summer the cats stay close to shore and whenever a grasshopper hits the water it disappears in a big swirl. I fished some big squirrel hair hopper imitations on a 7 weight flyrod and was bendo constantly...on cats from 3 pounds to about 15 pounds. Better than any wimpy Strawberry cutt ever thought of being.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One of my most unusual catches however was catching six nice trout on one hook...one cast. My dad and I were fishing on Irvine Lake in Southern Cal and the fishing had not been very good. As I had done throughout my many years of fishing with my dad, I begged for "one more cast". He was pulling the anchor up when I hung something big. It felt funny but I could feel some action. It was fishy. We both had a hearty laugh when we brought up a limit of nice rainbows...all alive and feisty...pinned to a metal chain stringer that had come loose from some unlucky angler's boat.[/#0000ff]
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[tmas]

My friend Mike who was a guide with me up in Alaska had a client with a crazy catch...as we trolled slowly down the river one day i was just behind him about 100 ft. in my drift boat. He suddenly had the hardest takedown i've ever seen. I Fully expected to see a 70+ pound King...but soon his client brought in a 30 pound HARBOR SEAL! I couldn't believe it. The Seal bit him hard when he tried to unhook it so he had to cover it's face and mouth with a jacket and push the pliers in to unhook it. Soon it was off swimming in the river again!!!

Just about a week later my buddy Colten was fishin in my boat and he had a really soft takedown...i thought it was a stick. But he reeled in to find a really nice sockeye...already filleted! Haha i'm gonna try to get a pic of the seal from mike but here's a funny picture of Colt's Sockeye.
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[Fargo_Jim]

That's hilarious. About 25 years ago, a buddy and I walked down to a lake (more of a big pond by MN standards) in W. Minnesota to look for some crappie. The lake was surrounded on all sides by private land with access at only one spot. We started walking around the lake and two gentlemen on the other side took off running through a cornfield. I guess they thought we were the law. When we got to their spot they had left their tackle, about 100 crappies/sunfish on stringers - and a large cooler full of beer! They must have not had licenses or maybe they were smoking weed. We took the beer but didn't want the real law to think the fish were ours so we left and phoned the warden.
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[mactuna]

Fishing the backside of Catalina Island for White Seabass, I hooked into some thing and was pulling in my White Seabass and asked my friend why his line was on mine and he said he wasn't. Landed my fish and a line was hanging on mine reeled it up and a rod and Accurate reel was on the end. No joke heres the picture.
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[RyanCreek]

[ul][li]I caught a Smallmouth Bass using carp bait at Flaming Gorge once.[/li] [li]My friend caught a carp on a perch pattern rapala at Yuba, thought it was a monster bass. Watched the whole thing. Hilarious.[/li][/ul]
Wierdest one!: [ul] [li]I was fishing with another friend when he hooked into a large bull snake accidentally that was swimming. When he brought it in he found it had been chewed up. Later we found out it was from the Rottweiler that was on the opposite shore. The owner said it was attacking a snake before it hit the water and swam away.[/li][/ul]
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[Fargo_Jim]

Back in 1979 or 80, while in the Navy, I was aboard a S. Carolina class guided missile cruiser. We were at anchor in the med fishing for red snapper (or whatever else we could catch). The ship’s captain was sitting on the deck in Bermuda shorts and a cowboy hat. One of the guys caught a big mako shark, maybe 6 – 7 feet long. The shark wasn’t concerned about being caught and was swimming nonchalantly around the bow with the sailor chasing trying to keep his line from breaking. The captain yelled, ”Away the security alert team!” and three marines in helmets and M-16’s come running on deck.. The marines probably thought we were going to war. The captain yells, “Kill that f***ing shark” and the marines blast the heck out of it with M-16s. They lowered a big metal barrel down on a rope and managed to drag the fish onboard. Somewhere I have a picture of the proud fisherman with one hand on a pole and the other on the shark, bleeding from about a hundred holes.
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[Schlitz]

I caught a rock at fish lake. Hard to fillet but tasty.

Schlitz-
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[shelby]

I was night fishing for bass on a small pond in Ohio. I was using a big jitterbug when something hit. When I reeled in I had a great big bullfrog.
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[redlight88]

Here's a strange one from yesterday:

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[southernman]

saw a guy catch a 2-3/4 lb crappie on a wheatie ball in Illinois in the 70's, fishing on bottom for carp

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[ChubbyChaser]

I caught a 6 inch walleye out of the Jordan river on a ball of worms for catfish. He ate it on the way in while relling, it was so small I had a hard time deciding what it was until another fisherman helped me confirm it was a walleye.

I have also seen kids catch bullfrogs from the Jordan River by hand.

I have also caught Crawdads at Scofield on powerbait. They hold on until right up to shore and then let go.

I didnt actually catch it, but I found what would be a 10 pound catfish cut in half in the Jordan River and still trying to swim away. It looked like it had been hit by a boat prop or swam through a generator blade.

The JR is full of weird stuff.
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[Majja]

I caught a 5lb carp on a 5" fire tiger crank bait out of yuba about 2 years ago. Just off the ramp as I was kicking out in my float tube.
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[mactuna]

Thats pretty cool.
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[FOOLFERFSHN]

One day up at Pineview casting off the back of a boat, I accidently snagged a seagull flying buy. The beach near by was crowded with terrified spectators as I reeled in my catch. Believe me when I say that those birds can really scream. So embarissing.
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[WaveWolf]

[#005028]My buddy and I were fishing Chesterfield.... We were using a light anchor and letting the wind drift us.....My buddy pulled up the anchor rope at the end of a pass, and two Shimano rods and reels were attached.....Must have been a boating accident or something...Never did figure it out.[/#005028]
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[Elkoholic]

3 years ago I was trolling at Bear Lake and my pole released and started to act kinda funny so I decided to reel in and see what was going on. When my Rapala came up I had hooked another guys swivel. He was long lining off Cisco beach. While I was trying to figure out how I managed that I saw this guy come running out of his trailer heading for his pole. I just unhooked and continued on but I should have waited a minute and see what kind of fight he would have put up!
After that My buddy and I decided we had better head to Idaho and get some lottery tickets. I used up all my luck catching the other guys rig though.
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[fsh4fun05]

About four years back I was fishing for rocks near Lincoln Beach and caught a walleye [cool]. Strangest thing I've ever caught? A latex glove with a pair of sunglasses out of the Jordan River. I remember when I caught my first perch out of Starvation while bass fishing and thinking "what the he!!???? There's no perch in Starvation!" I thought that was pretty strange but no match for the good ol' Jordan, never know what you're going to pull out .
Last year I hooked a water moccasin while fishing the lillypads in a small pond in Florida, the guy next to me (I didn't know him) was laughing so hard it pissed me off. Appearantly me screaming like a fat chick at a Ricky Martin concert was pretty funny [blush].
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