What’s the weirdest thing you’ve caught while fishing? (Page 2): New bilge pump. Still in the package. No good any more but a strange catch.

Catfish hunter Loc: Riggins idaho (Paradise)

New bilge pump. Still in the package. No good any more but a strange catch.

Shutupandfish Loc: Transplanted roots back to Wyoming

Graywulff wrote:

I'll bet there's a couple of really good stories there.....Id have stained my pants at the snake...

First two bank fishing as a kid in Mississippi and thick area, didn’t know hooked a snake, yeah when that big white mouth opened when I pulled it on the bank at my bare feet, kinda like a cartoon, swear I’d jumped as high as I was tall and took off thatta way from that elevation. Don’t think I stopped running till 3 farms from ours.

Graywulff Loc: Cortez,Co.

Shutupandfish wrote:

First two bank fishing as a kid in Mississippi and thick area, didn’t know hooked a snake, yeah when that big white mouth opened when I pulled it on the bank at my bare feet, kinda like a cartoon, swear I’d jumped as high as I was tall and took off thatta way from that elevation. Don’t think I stopped running till 3 farms from ours.

I'll bet nobody could've outrun you either. WithOutWords.....😃😃

Larry M Loc: North Clairmount, San Diego

A Mantis shrimp.
Mean suckers, they’ll slice your hand open if you hold them.

Shutupandfish Loc: Transplanted roots back to Wyoming

Larry M wrote:

A Mantis shrimp.
Mean suckers, they’ll slice your hand open if you hold them.

Ok, that’s cool heard of them never seen one

Smashers can punch at same velocity as a gunshot from a .22 caliber rifle.
Smasher mantis shrimp have two raptorial appendages (called ‘dactyl clubs’) on the front of its body that it uses to punch its prey. These fists are spring loaded, able to accelerate from their body at over 50 mph, delivering a force of over 1,500 newtons, enough to smash through crabs and clam shells. That’s 2.5k times the force of the shrimps own weight, if a human could do that they’d be able to punch through steel.
Their punch is so fast it results in ‘cavitation’ bubbles. This is a super heated bubble and small flash of light, which for split seconds also generates temperates of 4,400c (which is nearly as hot as the sun) in the surrounding water.

Larry M Loc: North Clairmount, San Diego

Shutupandfish wrote:

Ok, that’s cool heard of them never seen one br b... (show quote)

Like I said, mean suckers. lol
They are real colorful.
Pictures on google search.

Shutupandfish Loc: Transplanted roots back to Wyoming

Larry M wrote:

Like I said, mean suckers. lol
They are real colorful.
Pictures on google search.

Also says they are not really a shrimp

They are not actually shrimp. Or Mantis
The mantis shrimp is not a shrimp, and it’s not related to the praying mantis, either. Instead, mantis shrimps are 450 different species belonging to the order Stomatopoda.

Flytier Loc: Wilmington Delaware

Shutupandfish wrote:

Also says they are not really a shrimp

They are not actually shrimp. Or Mantis
The mantis shrimp is not a shrimp, and it’s not related to the praying mantis, either. Instead, mantis shrimps are 450 different species belonging to the order Stomatopoda.

Only one of those I've seen in person came out of a package of Gulp

Fish4fun Loc: Clinton, NJ & Venice, FL

An old soda can I thought was filled with water. When I went to empty it it turned out to have a small catfish inside.

OldBassGuy Loc: Temecula, CA

Was fishing at Pyramid Lake, and hooked a pretty nice cuthroat trout. When I got it to the net, I saw what I had hooked was a stringer that the fish was on that had apparently broken free from the shoreline.

bapabear Loc: Blaine, Washington

Probably not that unusual, but I have caught a variety of birds and a bat. The biggest bird being a pelican. Actually in most cases they caught me.

captjim Loc: Antioch Ca

Not sure if it is strange. When rock cod fishing I have hooked a smallish rock cod, and had a ling cod, around 20 lbs. hit the rock cod. The ling does not have a hook in him but refuses to let go. You don't want to horse them in, take it slow and easy and do not let them get all the way to the surface. Net them just under the surface. This happens often enough there is a phrase for it. We call it "hitch hiking"

Lurehappylou Loc: Southwest Wisconsin

I caught an American Flag and flag pole while fishing near Hayward, WI. The flag pole is now standing straight and the flag flying at the resort I was staying at. No idea where it came from.

Smokey2 Loc: San Diego

I caught an eelpout icefishing. I thought it was a bullhead and I grabbed it and it wrapped around my arm.
I almost dirtied my pants. I threw it across the fish house.

captjim Loc: Antioch Ca

When I ran my charter boat on S.F. bay through most of the summer we would be live bait fishing for halibut/striped bass. At least a couple times a year we would hook a seal or a sea lion. The seals would just take off hard and spool you if you did not cut the line. Sea Lions being much bigger tend to just stay in one place, again cut the line. Pelicans were a daily nuisance with at least one a day getting hooked. One year the bait in the bay was scarce and the only food source for the birds was our bait, the poor things were starving. That year the daily bird hook rate was around 10. Getting the hook out was not a problem. Just reach down and pull it out of the beak.