A LM Bass on RayRob.

Years back, I threw my anchor over the side and waited for it to hit bottom. Watched the line zip into the abyss below and realized that I had not tied the end to the boat cleat. I’m sure you weren’t at Boerne lake though.



Haven’t caught anything too odd, a rock, a metal chair, small chunk of asphalt and a tire. Not sure how the tire didn’t break my line, it was a beast.

Chicken foot used as bait on a trot line

awesome story ---- did you get a video of this -- I am sure it would be a hoot to see their reaction

A baby beaver.

A gator.
Caught someones fishing line with a bass still on it.
Caught a jerk bait with a crank bait. It was new.

A trolling motor remote control. It was the same make and model remote that I used so I took it home and cleaned it up good after taking it apart. To my surprise it still worked so paired it up to my trolling motor and used it as a backup. It was the only thing I caught that day.

And I thought I was the only one to ever catch a big clam! I was fishing on Lake Fork and I felt something mushy so I set the hook. I was fighting this softball size clam to the boat. I was fishing a Texas rig and the weight was inside the clam.

I know I like to fish slow but am I fishing too slow? On a positive note, I think I found one of those elusive shell beds that McFarland always talks about,

I caught a pocket rocket at lake gladewater. It was floating around by a dock and hooked shooting docks for crappie. A buddy of mine used it for a beer coozie for the longest time.

A flying buzzard
A flying duck and bat on my first cast
Nutria
Cormorant
Home Depot Bucket
A broken line that was snagged on another broken line that had a 10lb carp snagged on it
An old fishing rig (I was trying to snag mine that I had just lost)
My ear

Starfish while halibut fishing on a slack tide out of Kodiak Alaska.

Sep-Brother says, "That's when you know fishing is good. When a Starfish has time to crawl over your bait."

Blue Heron on a buzz bait at Fairfield.

A stringer of catfish.

In 60 plus years of fishing I've hooked a variety of creatures besides fish....owls,snakes,turtles and..... a coon....
True story and I've got a witness to prove it....back in mid 90's my no boater and I were practicing day before a BFL tourney on Millers Ferry (south Alabama)...we were in the backwaters off the main river, fishing some flooded grass with spinnerbaits....I had rolled the hook down on mine so I wouldn't hook any fish that I might want to come back and fish for in the tourney...looked up ahead of us and there was this half grown coon wading around in the shallow grass,I assume he was looking for crawfish...
coon wasn't paying any attention to us and I threw my spinnerbait probably 8-10 from him to see what his reaction would be...I thought he would probably run off but the opposite happened and he made a mad dash over trying to grab the bait...I jerked it away from him and shouldn't have thrown near him again but I did....the spinnerbait landed a little too close and he pounced on it quicker than I could jerk it away...
give anything if I could have had a video of what happened next....this coon has got my spinnerbait in his mouth and is backing up with all four feet and I'm pulling back as hard as I can with 20lb line...this coon is stripping drag and going backwards for 10-12 ft and apparently he bit through the line..when the line broke,he stopped, took the spinnerbait out of his mouth and held it with both paws and started eating the skirt and worm trailer just like he was eating an ear of corn...he ate the worm first them would take bites of the skirt and when he try to pull the strands of rubber off they would break and slap him in the face,he'd shake his head and take another bite...took him a couple minutes to finish then he sniffed the bait couple times,threw it down and ambled off down the bank...never did pay any attention to us...tried to go get what was left of my spinnerbait but it was too shallow and boggy to get close enough to retrieve it...

The shirt to a sheriff deputy uniform.