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Billycrap2 Loc: Mason county,W(BY GOD) Virginia, 🇺🇸🦅

TooMuch wrote:

As a young tweener, my mentor put a an old 33 vinyl record on my line when I went to the pot. He said I had nibble while I was gone and I should check my bait. The whole time I was fighting it in he was screaming 'that's gotta be a record!!!'
Does that count?

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Jim Kay Loc: Franklin, Virginia

PLS wrote:

Just sitting around wondering what some of the wei... (show quote)

What is the citation weight for umbrellas there?

MT Thorp Loc: Madisonville Tx

Fishing Fulton pier at Rockport, Tx. My grown son started hollering, come here pops, I got something big ! I ran to the end of the pier where a small group watched him reel up a telephone line about 3 inches in diameter.

surffisher Loc: Panama City Beach, FL

Caught several rods, but most unusual was an electric waffle iron in the Potomac River near the old Wilson bridge.

PLS Loc: Kingsport, TN

JB134 wrote:

Came across another one the year before floating next to some boats in a slip inside Newport Beach Harbor (CA)…. Number 3 was not a pretty sight approx 40 years ago surfing 🏄‍♀️ in southern calif when I bumped into one inside the surf line. Subject had been in the water eaten and rotting away for weeks… at first I thought it was a dead seal. Nope.

Have you ever thought about joining Search and Rescue? I believe they could use your magnetism. I say that with a touch of tongue in cheek even though its not funny. You have to admit, that is highly unusual for anyone to find that many bodies by accident. I have known one other person that hooked a body while fishing. It would probably give me nightmares for a while.

PLS Loc: Kingsport, TN

Jim Kay wrote:

What is the citation weight for umbrellas there?

Depends on whether you keep it or throw it back.

JB134 Loc: Montana

PLS wrote:

Have you ever thought about joining Search and Rescue? I believe they could use your magnetism. I say that with a touch of tongue in cheek even though its not funny. You have to admit, that is highly unusual for anyone to find that many bodies by accident. I have known one other person that hooked a body while fishing. It would probably give me nightmares for a while.

My father was a mortician… and I was in law enforcement for 42 years. Guess being around dead bodies has just been the norm… interesting you mentioned search & rescue. I reached out here in Montana and volunteered for exactly that. Never heard back. But I rather catch bass than bodies. Hahaha

spike123 Loc: Racine WI

I was walleye fishing with my brother in northern WI at night. We were fishing very near a bridge that went over the lake. My borther suddenly had a very big one on and he fought it hard. I was the netman so as it got closer to the boat I got the net and turned the flashlight on. I could not believe what I saw. He had hooked a skunk. I said stop reeling I have to get the knife and cut the line. He said are you sure so I shown the light again so he could see better and he agreed. I cut the line. We figure the skunk was swimming from one side to the other side of then opening under the bridge. That was freaky!

rhoadda1 Loc: Southwestern. Utah

My grandfather caught a muskrat while night casting for bass many years ago. apparently the animal swam across his line and dove. Bait flipped around and caught itself. Unfortunately the animal strangled - or probably fortunate that it did as I have no idea what you do with live muskrat flopping around outside your boat. Cut the line I guess.

DLancer7676 Loc: East Tennessee

I was trolling Reelfoot Lake with two rods, one on either side of the boat. The rod on the left side took a sudden lunge and I grabbed it and set the hook. After reeling with some effort, and feeling the jerk of a fish, I finally saw my lure hooked into a pretty nice rod and reel outfit! What luck to gain another outfit someone had lost to the lake! Then I realized it was MINE! A nice bass had grabbed its lure and, unbeknownst to me, had jerked the rod into the lake. Then luckily my other lure had snagged it. And when I retrieved my submerged reel, I was able to reel in the bass on IT’S lure.

Gmchief Loc: New Hampshire coast

Fishing from a boat under a pier in Redondo, Washington, between Seattle and Tacoma. Pulled up a heavy deadweight. It was a giant Pacific octopus, probably 12 foot or better.

Smitchell Loc: Church Hill TN

My ex-wife was the Queen of bringing up all kinds of weird stuff. From fishing poles to flipflops to sunglasses to even bringing up a pistol! My self, I got an old fishing pole with a zebco reel 🙄

Redneck bass boat Loc: Smyrna Tennesee

I caught a tire in Stones River West thought I had a big ass cat played for about 5 minutes and got a tire to surface on 8 lb test lol

PLS Loc: Kingsport, TN

JB134 wrote:

My father was a mortician… and I was in law enforcement for 42 years. Guess being around dead bodies has just been the norm… interesting you mentioned search & rescue. I reached out here in Montana and volunteered for exactly that. Never heard back. But I rather catch bass than bodies. Hahaha

Any kind of fish rather than bodies.

PLS Loc: Kingsport, TN

DLancer7676 wrote:

I was trolling Reelfoot Lake with two rods, one on... (show quote)

I call that really good luck.