Wierdest Catch

[tubeN2]

What is your wierdest catch? One of my favorites was when I was fishing in the Provo river in Utah and caught a 4lb cutthroat trout on a chartruese green crappie jig. What is one of your favorites in the wierd category???
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[anglerp]

my wierdest catch was also my biggest a 20lb chinook on the tinyest curly tail grub on the market trout pole and 8 lb test.
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[davetclown]

my weirdest catch was a 16 inch bass caught while realing in a 3 inch blue gill that had just been hooked.
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[tubeN2]

[cool] Hey Dave that sounds like one of the others I had too at one time. I was realing in a lil sunfish on 2lb and had a 12lb LMB crab it.
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[johnincolorado]

My wierdest catch was not by me but one I witnessed first hand. With some free time between refuelings at sea during Vietnam, the ship I was stationed on decided to have "fish call", in 3,000 ft of South China Sea water. A Gunners Mate had 500 yards of 1000 # test shotline and a humongous trebble hook attached. he got a piece of spoiled meat from the cooks, slapped it on and tossed the line behind the ship (we were going very slow at the time, somewhere between a back stroke and a breast stroke). Laying in the hot Asian sun, a soft breeze blowing across the fantail and he was soon catching some ZZZZZZs. When he woke up several hours later, just about the time we were ready to crank on some speed, he found his line pacing the ship, not trailing behind. FISH ON! The Captain, who was an avid fisherman, slowed the ship and most of the crew crowded the fantail cheering him on while he hauled in the line, hand-over-hand. When it got close, we could see a 12 ft hammerhead shark at the end. Shark fin soup? Rigging up a hoist, the Gunners Mate began lifting it toward the handrail but then that shark gave a big burp, out popped the hook, he/she/it hit the water and swam slowly away.
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[tubeN2]

[shocked] I guess you lost out on a good meal there. sry.[unsure] That was a wierd catch though. Good post.
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[tubeN2]

[cool] Sounds like some good experiences. Keep them coming. They are really entertaining.
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[davetclown]

I have a place where I fish for crawdads.

hook and line, the dads grab hold of the hook with one claw and pinch off the worm with the other, if you reel them in fishing from a bridge streight up thay will hang on all the way up.
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[tubeN2]

[cool] We have some areas around SoCal to catch Dads also. I can never fail with green power bait. #12 or 14 treble hook and up they come for the ride. At least the LMB don't like the power bait..............Yet![]
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[hharada]

My weirdest catch?

When I bicycled to fish because I was too young to drive, I had a frog take a mosquito fly I dangled in front. I also hooked a snapping turtle that was swimming across a lake on the surface.

Like several others, I had a largemouth take a green sunfish I was reeling in. My largemouth, however, was only a little over a pound.

Out of one spot of fairly fast water on a high mountain trout stream, I hooked and landed three fair sized suckers on a #1 gold Mepps.

Out of a very small hole on that same stream, I landed three or four rainbow which I, on cleaning, found all had deformed backbones. That was over 30 years ago! I wonder now if it was whirling disease.

While stream fishing for trout, I hooked and pulled up this terrible looking fish. When I lifted it out of the water, up to the boulder I was standing on, all I could see was a monstrous, tooth-filled open mouth and its ghastly eyes!! It was the first live, undressed walleye I'd ever seen.

On that same stream, I've landed a less than three inch sculpin and a ling that was about 10 inches. I had never seen a ling before and having one come out of a stream on the end of your line when you're trout fishing is a shock!!

My most weird catch, however, was when a friend of mine invited me to do some boat fishing on a small lake in Southern Colorado. We were slowly trolling around catching yellow perch and a few small Northerns. All of the sudden, my 8# line started peeling off against the drag. We thought we had a snag, but in backing up to the spot my line started to move around! Lifting hard, I could raise whatever it was off the bottom, but it was so heavy, I'd back off not wanting to break the line.

My friend told me people would catch Northerns around 30 inches from that lake every so often and we thought we might have locked into one. We moved with whatever was moving my line around for something over thirty minutes, pulling the monster up toward the surface and then letting it back down when fearing the line would break. We passed by several other boats while doing this and my friend would point down into the water to the occupants of the other boats and with a , hold his hands about a yard apart. The envious looks on the other fishermen were priceless.

I was finally able to lift the monster within five or six feet of the surface. The water was pretty clear, and my friend and I were finally able to see what I had been fighting all that time. It was about a seven foot piece of barbed wire!! It moved around because it wasn't attached on either end. While the people in the other boats watched, not able to see what was on the end of my line, I jerked hard and broke my lure -- and the barbed wire off. We pantomimed our disappoint in losing such a huge fish and quickly putted away from the other boats. I'm sure those people wondered why, in the distance, we were laughing when we had just lost such a big fish!
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[tubeN2]

Thanks for sharing that with us. It's neat how we all have some unique experiences and some of our experiences are close to being common. I really liked the barbed wire. That must have been funny.
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[aquaman]

i to have caught snapping turtles frogs on a peice of red ribbon but one of my wierdest was a snake as a matter of fact it was a water moccasin when i pulled that in i just tossed the whole pole in the water and let the snake have it was just a cane pole anyways
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[tubeN2]

Hey there Dryrod, yes that does count as a wierd catch. At this time I don't have any recipies for boots otherwise I could share one with you. Maybe nextime buddy.
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[tubeN2]

Hey there aquaman, I do have snake recipies if you need them for next time. The thing is that you have to catch and land the snake to make use of the recipie.[cool]
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[FlyFishingMoose]

I once snagged a little 8" catfish through the side while peir fishing along the Texas coast @ Port Lavaca on a bare hook
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[chiefpanfish]

Last summer while fishing for stripers in Mass. we had a great day and caught a lot of schoolies so being out of bait we decided to leave reeling in we hooked into sothing solid but it have give so up comes a 5/8" rope. It was green with algie but decided to see what was on the other end. This took some time because we pulled up about 80' of rope. but then it stopped and was stuck hard. I decided to put some pressure on it so I started the engine and moved around it in a circle. This freed up the catch. It was an almost new boat anchor, it was just the right size to use with my boat. I took it home and soaked the rope in clorox and water which made it look new again. Also this summer My main anchor broke and so into service the found one went with out a break in the action. Chief
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[SLAYERFISH]

While ice-fishing on Steamboat Lake,my buddy Todd hooked into something that was fighting like the dickens-and when he got it close to the hole,it would just stop as if it was holding on! It finally came halfway up the hole and then hid in the foot or so of slush between the ice layers.I put on a pair of gloves and reached in and out came a muskrat about 20"long-man it was MAD-HE HAD SNAGGED IT ON THE BACK LEG WITH A KASTMASTER-I grabbed my pliers and out came the kasty and that rat flew down that hole we laughed hard for a long time.
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[lonehunter]

YEARS AGO IN THE HURON RIVER , FISHING FOR SOME GILLS , THE BOBBER WENT UNDER AND THE ROD DOUBLED OVER , PULLED AND FOUGHT FOR ABOUT A COUPLE SECS WHEN THE WATER STARTED TO BOIL AND SWIRL , COUGHT ME A SCUBA DIVER LOOKING FOR LURES , I THOUGHT I HAD A RECORD CAT ON .
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[BC]

Hi TubeN2...hows Castaic?...well...well I too caught a few weird things...when I was a teenager...in Malaysia...I was fishing for African Knifefish....I snagged a 1 and half inch long Tiger Barb....so I took it home and it went into the tank...
Then one day while fishing for tilapia...I thought a had hooked one as my line was pulling and it had tugs....so I reeled in and it was a tin can...it was tugging cause I was fishing near a waterfall...and the water current was hitting against the opening of the can...lol
Well...back in the US...I was just playing around in a little pond beside my wife's parents home in Missouri...the pond was just about 7foot by 7foot...about 2 feet deep....and had a stream running into it...I was just trying to test out my new Rebel Crickethopper crankbait....and as soon as I casted it to the middle of the pond...I head Croaks all around the pond...and bullfrogs started to jump into the pond and rush to my lure...I managed to hook a few...but they were too small to eat...I then casted the crickethopper to the side of a brush by the stream...and POW...and lunker bullfrog chomped on the crickethopper...I lifted it with my rod and it doubled over....it was around 20inches with its legs extended..so now that I know they like the crickethopper...next summer I am going back to get me some frog legs...
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[tubeN2]

[cool] Hey BC, It's good to hear from you again. Glad you could share those stories with us. I hav'nt been to Castaic for a couple months but I am going back soon. I have been fishing a little more at Hansen Lake. They are having a float tube derby there this coming Saturday.

I will go to Castaic on the Dec 20th. You are welcome to join us if you want. I am going to Big Bear Lake on the 13th. I want to see if there is ice up there yet. Thanks again for sharing with us and Happy Fishing.[]
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