Have you ever caught anything other than fish?

[dogfish]

I also once caught a condom while fishing with a lead core line on Eyebrook reservoir.

 

It filled up with water and gave me hell of a scrap

[CHEWY49]

I've had plenty of plastic bags and trees.

 

Also had a small spinner on a trace.

 

I think my best "odd catch" was a Mink from the River Irwell at Rawtenstall East Lancashire.

 

Only saw about 3 seconds of it before it ate through my line, and swam off leaving a trail of bubbles.

[zenith10]

suprised no1's said it yet but ive also caught a cold whilst fishing

[bungral]

mine has to be a set of handcuffs, still in the leather sheath, put up one hell of a fight in the Thames at Kingston in the winter flow, took a good 20+ minutes to get them in, still out in the shed.

 

Ha! They probably came from a copper trying to arrest someone from McClusky's

[Snatcher]

A bat and a sheep,the latter gave me a great fight - I was down to ny backing

[Bobj]

With 60 years of fishing behind me, I have caught quite alot of odds 'n' sods.

About 5 rods and reels, many birds of varying descriptions etc. etc. Last odd thing was a 25 ft length of 15mm rope. Nearly bust the foo foo valve trying to get the rope on board; you see, it was tied to a 100lb lump of concrete..........Goodness knows what the concrete was used for....in a barramundi dam.

Worst part was that my lure had snagged 22 feet down on the rope.

Nearly forgot, caught an outboard motor, 4 hp version Evinrude, had to use the 70 lb handline to lift the outboard on board........It musta bin many years old as everything had seized completely.

[chevin]

Once while fishing with Vagabond at Dungeness I hooked someone's lost terminal tackle that still had two cod attached to it. However, on another occasion at the North Met Reservoir, Vagabond hooked a push bike which he rode along the bank. It squeaked a bit but it seemed to be OK. Being as he had driven up from Sussex, Vaggers elected to park the bike in the bushes rather than ride it home!

 

I also caught a slab of concrete in an onion sack when fishing off Valencia Island, Co Kerry. Initially every one on the boat thought it was a skate! A slab of concrete in tides running as they do there does strange things. Thankfully I expressed my doubts as to it being a skate long before I got it to the surface!

 

I did hear of a guy who caught a black vynal disc with a hole in the centre of it. Apparently he reckoned that it was a record!

Edited May 27, 2006 by chevin

[Gav Walker]

over the years- a tufted duck, a coot, several cormorants, and a small octopus from my local docks. i dont know who was more scared. after squrting ink on my trainers it crawled back over the dock wall and hid in a patch of seaweed until the tide came in.

[Andy Macfarlane]

Ive hit bats dozens of times whilst fly-fishing late at night but never actually hooked one. Other than that, I've caught dead sheep, discarded puppies and kittens, a mannequin, which was quite scary till I realised it wasn't a dead body, various footwear, bags, shopping trolleys, a complete fishing rod/reel, complete with end tackle, dead fish, dead birds, whole collections of lures and stuff....I've caught everything.

[DJMCJERICO]

The usual plastic bags, terrapin, bits of line, lures and have also had keepnets (from the middle of lakes) trolleys, chairs, seatbox's, bungy cords and a pair of scissors hooked through the finger hole

 

At the start of the last pike season i hooked onto some line, and saw out the corner out of my eye the bloke in the next swim's ball buster going mental, i ended up getting about 50 yards of line and left it safley in the margin 10 yards from him.

I think he learned 3 things that day, don't cast across the lake, pay attention to your tackle and remember to turn your bite alarms on