RJFlowers Loc: Montana

I was about 14years old (before the wheel was invented), and was fishing a stream in Michigan's U.P. with my dad. We were dunking night crawlers for brookies. We stopped to fish a beaver pond. There was a likely lookin log close enough to flip my worm to. I sent the worm, and sure enough, a good 11 incher lunged for the worm, which was a few feet from the log. Inches before he nailed the worm, he came to an abrupt stop, like he'd run into a glass wall. I reeled in and cast to the same spot. Again he lunged, but came to that same abrupt stop. I again reeled in and re-cast, but this time, closer to e log. I hooked him. As I reeled only about 2 feet, he came to that same stop. I couldn't get him any further. Well, I wasn't about to lose him. I waded into the pond to find that someone else had caught this beauty, and had snagged their line on the log and broken off. This fish was tethered to the log. I reached into the water and snipped the tethering line, and put my catch into my creel. Got several more good fish that day from that pond, and other holes ,under banks, and fallen trees. It was a very good day.

Seeeeya; RJ Flowers

fishyaker Loc: NW Michigan (Lower Peninsula)

Great story! I'll bet that trout was absolutely famished...being tethered to a short feeding leash! Your mind was busy working in overdrive to figure out what in the world was going on!

As a youngster, I grew up fishing annual fish runs that came in to the stream behind our home on the Devil's River near a small town called Ossineke, MI. During a Spring sucker run, I caught this large goldfish that I have to assume was let go from somebody's aquarium and it had managed to survive for several years in the wild.

Many years ago, a friend of mine told me about a small overgrown retention pond located behind an apartment complex that was "brimming" with "multi-colored" goldfish...so of course I headed on over to check it out in person. Much to my delight, he was not fibbing! Went back home and tied up a couple of trout flies that had the appearance of large "food flakes" that might have been programmed into the fishes memory banks. Sure enough...those plump Koy and other miscellaneous related fish were more than compliant to aggressively take the bait. Terrific fun on a fly rod! I think this pond had become a "dumping ground" for unwanted "fish pets".

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A foot long goldfish that had the misfortune of being spotted sneaking by our home in 1972.

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

I've caught stuff in brackish water that I have no idea what there was. Especially when I was at camp Lejeune in N.C. fishing some black water there. Strangest I can identify my wife 👍

D Tong Loc: San Francisco,Ca

The strangest thing I’ve ever caught is my wife been together 19 years and still can’t figure her out 😜🤩

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

D Tong I've been with mine since 95. Still haven't got a handle on it. All I know is when she says I'VE BEEN THINKING I'm in for multiple headaches 😂😂

Jeremy Loc: America

I use to fish on a coastal river for coho and chinook salmon this time of year. One day I was with my buddy and hooked a nice fish … fought it for 5 minutes and my new line broke. So I re tie up. Hook another one. Same thing.. again tied up… lose it. Again.

I finally realized my main line on bait caster was under the next revolution on the spool of line. I get it out from underneath it and get tied up. Well problem was gone. Then before you know it my buddy reels in to recast…. He realizes a line is wrapped on his but just line like mine. He blood knotted it to his mainline and then landed one of my lost fish. Then I did same thing until we tagged out.

ranger632 Loc: Near Yosemite Park Ca.

crog1967 Loc: Avondale Estates, GA

I was trout fishing one April morning near Tellico Plains, TN. I was out in the water up to my shins when I looked down and saw a small burlap sack floating by my legs. I picked it up and inside was a plastic sleeve of mostly frozen elk sausage. No trout for breakfast that morning, but the sausage was pretty tasty.

bozokarl Loc: south central Pa

I netted a football out of the creek one day while trout fishing

jimspivack Loc: Ogden, Utah

my wife caught a tennis ball off the bottom of the lake this last year. Last year in the same lake i had a fish pull my rod and reel of the boat dock. I unsuccessfully tried to snag it off the bottom with my other pole and a heavy sinker blindly because it was too deep to see it under the water. So, i rigged up that pole to continue fishing and felt a hard strike! When i reeled in my line it brought up my line from the first pole and a two pound trout which was still attached to it. So, all was recovered after an hour and a half! I call it my" blessed" pole now!!

fishyaker Loc: NW Michigan (Lower Peninsula)

That is amazing! Glad that you had that rare experience!

Smokey2 Loc: San Diego

I was ice fishing on Mil Lacs lake in MN. I looked down the hole, and it looked like a bullhead, it was an eelpout,
It wrapped around my arm, and I freaked out.

Jeremy Loc: America

A good buddy in Wyoming told me a strange story last year.

He was fishing in Flaming Gorge and Trolling. Felt strange pull on line and reeled up. It had a sock 🧦 on hook. Kept fishing and trolled through same area similar feeling and reels up another sock. Kept fishing… Trolling through same area felt a pull and low and behold reels up a bra.

The thing there is if you fall in your likely to sink and never get seen again.

When he told me that story I said I wonder if someone spilled their laundry basket but more I thought about it and I think he was figuring it was a skeleton on the bottom that the clothes were barely attached to.

Most places when someone drowns they bloat but there the water temp is COLD so they don’t bloat. Then they get eaten.

fishyaker Loc: NW Michigan (Lower Peninsula)

That event sounds like the beginning of a script to a horror story! CBD could get it going with more details!

ranger632 Loc: Near Yosemite Park Ca.

Is your friend's name Steven King????