ryne Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 As i was wading in the stream today i got to thinking about all the wierd things iv caught or snagged while fishing. I figure with all the river and stream fishermen on here there has to be some wierd and strange objects caught. The strangest living thing i ever caught was an albino catfish, and the wierdest non living thing is a little kids bike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rich mc Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 last year i caught two rod and reel outfits at shabbona. nothing of value. and 4 years ago i caught an umbrella. whata fight. a storm popped up later and we used it. and once by castle rock flowage i caught a northen pike, my lindy rig hook went thru a ring on a steel leader that someone broke off with the fish still on it. rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kast Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 Weirdest thing I ever dragged to the shore was a car door, out of the fox river. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve SPIZ Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 window frame and a watermelon out of the fox and a diper and a dead cat of the duper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonn Graham Posted July 26, 2008 Report Share Posted July 26, 2008 17" Brown Trout out of a little tributary of the Rock River. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark O'Donnell Posted July 27, 2008 Report Share Posted July 27, 2008 Hi ISAer's On the Kankakee I once caught a pair of pants with a dead fish in the pocket. Mark O'Donnell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jude Posted July 27, 2008 Report Share Posted July 27, 2008 Hi ISAer's On the Kankakee I once caught a pair of pants with a dead fish in the pocket. Mark O'Donnell Or maybe the pants were just happy to see you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rprice Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 Or maybe the pants were just happy to see you. Jude- At our age, we know that pants can't be "happy" with a "dead fish" in them! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy C Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 I once caught a amplifier for a car radio, and a BPS rod combo with a 2lb white bass still on the line at Kinkaid Lake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymond k Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 Last year after bragging how clean lake mighigan is /on my first cast I caught a used condom yuk!// Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maineman Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 On the way back from taking one of my kids to college, I stopped at Kankakee state park to fish some topwater under the full moon. It wasn't Halloween, but I caught a bat on my cast. I don't know whether it was by accident or intention on the part of the bat, but, needless to say, I was not about to unhook him; so I cut bait and walked slowly, carefully away. Not one of my better moments. RonG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryne Posted July 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 good to see noone has caught a dead body or a body part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kast Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 good to see noone has caught a dead body or a body part. My biggest fear is stumbling across either one of those while walking to or in the river! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnk Posted July 29, 2008 Report Share Posted July 29, 2008 I didn't catch it but there once was a 24 inch baby doll in about 2 feet of slack water on the bottom that gave me the creeps, I was hoping for a big rain to wash it away. It stayed there for a least 1 to 2 months and I stayed away! I first noticed it walking over a bridge, thank God I didn't kick it while wading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark K Posted August 2, 2008 Report Share Posted August 2, 2008 Back in 1997 or so I caught a 12" rainbow trout Sure it was a Rainbow and not a King Trout? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maineman Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 Went out Saturday on a creek in McHenry. OK, catching a snapping turtle, although unusual, does not qualify as "weird". The weird part is that I had a clear omen something like this might happen. Another car entered the parking lot the same time I did. It was a family, and they carried a large box out of the car and toward the picnic tables next to the stream. I assumed a picnic. But by the time I got my rods ready and headed that way, they returned to the car with the box, now empty. I asked them what they were doing, and they told me they had just released a snapping turtle into the water. The turtle had appeared on their back lawn, over a mile from any water source. I thanked them jokingly for putting that beast into the stream where I was going to wade, and decided to walk downstream on the path beside the creek. I was about a mile and a half from that spot, when I caught the large, dreaded creature, so I'm sure it wasn't the same one; but that was the only thing I caught all afternoon. By the way, its body may be slow, but its neck and jaws are lightning quick, as I discovered when trying to extricate my hula grub from his mouth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bterrill Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Smallmouth Fever. Bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm M Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 I thought Don Rego was the turtle catching pro. I just know what to do to get them unhooked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TerryD Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Coleman lantern. When I was a kid my dad took me and my brother and some neighbor friends up to Indian Ford dam on an all night fishing trip. Being the dumb kid that I was I accidentally kicked our lantern over backside of the dam. The lantern never went out. I dropped my hook down and snagged it and pulled it right back up. Never went out. Neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim bielecki Posted August 8, 2008 Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 I caught a patio umbrella out of the DuPage River in Naperville. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maineman Posted August 8, 2008 Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 I thought Don Rego was the turtle catching pro. I just know what to do to get them unhooked. Norm, what caliber is your turtle-unhooking device? Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark P Posted August 15, 2008 Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 A roller blade out of the Fox. I believe it was the right boot. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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