If you fish long enough you will hook something weird, unique or unusual. It can be animal, plant, or mineral. Here are a couple to start. Let’s see yours.

Here is my wife’s 12” mantis shrimp she caught in Port Aransas. That is a big shrimp.



Here is a snake I caught on a fly in Colorado.



The bottom fish is a unique colored hybrid tilapia.

Here is a goldfish that I caught from a park pond in Arlington.

Seeing that mantis shrimp reminds me of the first time I ever saw one. This one was at South Padre Island. It had come up under the lights I was fishing from the condo pier. I always thought that they were only seen around coral in the deep tropics. Well done to your wife on that unusual catch.

Beautiful clown knifefish. Definitely on my bucket list. Congratulations on a great catch.

Thanks, caught 4-5 this size, what a fight. Also a bunch of peacock bass and a few mayan cichlids. Florida is AWESOME!

caught a motor mount from a sbc off the dock at ray hubbard. didnt take pic.

Did you get a guide or just go yourself?

Awesome thread.

Come on Chuck, do some digging. I know you have caught something weird.

Not terribly unusual, but here is a koi that I caught at Lake Arlington a few years ago.

I once caught a bra fishing below Lavon Dam. Unfortunately I didn't take a picture.. .

I caught a towel!

I have also caught a long rope with an anchor on the other end. No pic though.

Leo has caught a lizard

I thought this was unusual at the time, did not realize how lion fish had taken over in South Florida. Caught this one off a deep wreck
in Key West.

MO