Explain this to me..

So I went to Lake Nac today to test my boat out and wet a line. Dropped down and came up with a fishing pole! Then looked on it and saw something. Are these eggs sticking to this pole???



Other than that, I caught about 10-12 keepers on docks.

Certainly looks like eggs. Would that be considered irony? That fish looks like it's been caught before.

That's just amazing. They have to be fish eggs, right? How deep was the rod?

14.5 ft deep.