Have you ever caught anything other than fish?

[Aaron1976]

Chatting with some friends the other day I recalled the epic moment when I was fishing and caught a pair of denim shorts!

 

Have you ever hooked anything from the merky depths? Always nice hooking disgarded tackle, I remember ending up pulling somebody else's broken line with a pike trace and spinner attached! Cheers!

[GlennB]

Chatting with some friends the other day I recalled the epic moment when I was fishing and caught a pair of denim shorts!

 

Have you ever hooked anything from the merky depths? Always nice hooking disgarded tackle, I remember ending up pulling somebody else's broken line with a pike trace and spinner attached! Cheers!

 

A small child's tricycle, caught on a spoon, from the Bristol Avon in Bath. 50lb PowerPro landed it OK.

[gozzer]

Chatting with some friends the other day I recalled the epic moment when I was fishing and caught a pair of denim shorts!

 

Have you ever hooked anything from the merky depths? Always nice hooking disgarded tackle, I remember ending up pulling somebody else's broken line with a pike trace and spinner attached! Cheers!

 

Many things Aaron. The one that put up the best fight was, a used condom, hooked at the open end in flowing water.

 

 

The most bizarre and disgusting happened during a perch session on our local canal. I was fishing worm near a warm water outlet pipe, the flow from the pipe caused my float to move across the canal, and the perch would often take the bait when it reached the edge of the flow. This enabled me to 'trot' the swim.

During one swim down, my float moved sideways and slowly sunk. I stuck into a 'dead' weight, applying more pressure, caused the object to rise from the bottom, and with the help of the small current, 'kite' across the flow. This caused me to believe (for a few seconds) that I had hooked a monster. As the 'monster' came into the still water, I could see that it was in fact a sack. I had to use my landing net to get it on to the towpath, I then cut it open. The smell and sight of a couple of dead kittens, that had been festering in the warm water for some time, caused me to throw up, and it was some time before I could bring myself to continue fishing.

 

The feline corpses were disposed of on a bonfire, which thankfully, the lock keeper had burning in his back garden.

[big tinca]

Ive caught a TEREPIN on the Leeds-Liverpool canla before hard to believe but TRUE!

 

Ive also caught Newts before aswel

[A Worm OOE]

I also had a Terapin from the Baisingstoke canal in Aldershot many years ago.

[BoozleBear]

I once spent 5 hours piking with plugs and spoons and spinners in the canal in London from Caledonian road to Camden.

 

Only had 1 take all day, the rest of the time I kept on having the 'oh, what's this, that's a goog tug, oh no, another plastic bag full of sludge' moments. I must have pulled over 50 bags out of that canal.

 

I had planned to spend the day there but after all that hassle I packed up at lunchtime to head to the pub. As I was sat on a bench packing up I looked up and saw a dredger coming along with a woman at the helm.

 

"Don't bother!" I shouted, "I've done it for you!".

 

 

 

I have also caught a wellie - I thought before then that only happened in cartoons!

[Ken L]

I caught a huge and very scarey turtle whilst fishing in Turkey.

 

I've caught a seagul - but have also lost pidgeons and a kingfisher.

 

I once caught my younger brother.

 

I have caught myself - both fairly in the lip and most unfairly in the testicles

 

I once caught a 4lb+ chub. It was hooked perfectly in the corner of the jaw but didn't fight much - it was green and fury because it had benn dead for at least a week.

[ayjay]

I've had a few tufties from about 12'0" depth when Tench fishing in one particular swim.

[Dick Dastardly]

My mate Luke hooked and landed an alligator whilst livebaiting for Gar in Florida! He also lays claim to fame by "fishing" for several green tree frogs that had set up home in his father in laws chimney there to!

 

As for my self one extremely frightening Snapping Turtle in the US and a Cormorant (picked up a bait in over 20'!) from Ardingly Reservoir!

[zenith10]

ive caught many plastic bags they weigh a ton when full of water. caught nearly half a tree the other day that had several items of clothing on it. caught a few shopping trollies. ive caught planks of wood