Weirdest Thing You've Ever Reeled In?

I did a quick search and couldnt find this recently. Love hearing the stories of stuff people have caught. Personally, Ive caught old cans and some shoes but never anything truly weird.

Jigging a Little George(tail spinner) I caught a freshwater muscle. The weird part was the entire treble hook was inside the shell. (plus a couple snakes, several bull frogs and a duck).

I've reeled in some pretty big ones after 2am.

hat, can, trash bags... occasionally a fish. carp, catfish... you know, the common fish I catch when bass fishing LOL!

Almost like it was trying to eat it? Thats pretty odd.

Alligator snapping turtle the size of a manhole cover on a fluke.

I have had that happen a couple of times before.

The weirdest that I ever reeled in was a pair of boxers.

3 foot snake, just before sunup. Thought is was a piece of rope.

Throwing a DD22 I snagged a heavy tarp that looked like a cigar with duck tape holding it together. Didn't ask questions, I just cut the lure and down she sank..........just kidding!!!! I always tell myself when I'm snagged on something and it starts to come up slowly, I hope it's not a dead body!! On a serious note, I caught a pelican once fishing for barricuda in California. The boat hand just grabbed him by bill and pulled the hook out. It was pretty crazy!

I have caught an oyster on rod & reel in Galveston bay, and foul hooked a delicious lobster in Hawaii.

A open table umbrella. When it started rolling down hill I thought it was a big one.

8" fresh water clam out of Lake Dunlap. It literally chomped my squarebill.
Catch and release. I wonder how much bigger it will get?

Red Solo cup, house brick

Blender motor

A pair of flowery panties on a 6xd at Amistad. They were empty. Lol.

catch em, kiss em, let em go. and

Caught a filleted crappie with the skin still on in the mouth with a crankbait.

Caught a dead Alligator Snapping Turtle that weighed 25lbs

caught this

3ft. Alligator on a Yellow magic ,15 lb. big game got him to boat my brother just fix to snap a pic and the line broke and yes he did put up a heck of a fight. I lost my yellow manic too, it was a boss.

Seen my buddy catch a bucket and fought like a huge bass

A abu Garcia rod and reel still in good shape.

Lace panties on tawokoni.

Let's see a beer can, clam, an old rod and reel, fishing net, a lid from a trash can (that fought like he##) and a lawn chair. The lawn chair fought good too.

A Bass

caught a mussle one time, caught a tin can, caught a lace up boot, but never lace up panties.

The older lakes that have all kinds of [censored] on the bottom, not much telling what you will catch.

Pair of Tasco binoculars at Eagle Mountain

Plus size bikini top...i tossed it back in hahaaa!

Some mussels, socks, bags, beer cans, rod/reel, fish.

had a good fight with a backwards hooked clear solo cup at lake arlington that had me fooled.

A bra in a pond behind a church.

I should have thrown them back in hindsight!

I caught a wallet on a crank bait on Pat Mayse lake in a cove. It had money, ID, etc in it. Turned it in to the Paris PD so they could get it back to the owner. Went back and fished that same area the next week and caught a jacket in the same spot. Quit fishing there, was afraid of what I might drag in next!,

I caught a bat fly fishing at night but in I'm Oklahoma. Size 10 black cone head marabou muddler. I was just starting to bring my back cast forward with about 40 ft of line out, when it snagged on something and my line fell to the water. I figured I had snagged a tree limb or something. I felt something on the line as I stripped my bait in closer but I figured a leaf or something. I got it in close, flipped on the light and "oh shet, look at this". Luckily my buddy had some forceps and shook the hook free. The bat just fell in the water and began floating off down river. I don't know if he made it or not.

By far, my wildest catch.

Bucket, buzzard, nutria, comorant (that was a heck of a fight could have done without the hissing once on bank), zebco and rod (a fish had pulled my in Schimano and I was dredging for it).

A Ranger Boat baseball hat, that the only thing left was the bill, the ribs of the hat and RANGER emblem still on it.

I had a customer one time reel in a Tonka Truck. We were fishing a old oil well site and the road going to it when he caught the monster truck. Funny stuff.Weirdest thing to this date.

I once caught a bluegill with a snelled hook in its mouth. My hook had gone through the loop in the leader that was tied to the hook. In 30 feet of water. Also a clam as big as your fist closed up on my cut shad bait.

Wife caught a 10lb anchor and rope at richland chambers. Lost same a year or so later at cypress springs hung on a root I suppose.

38lb common on a weightless fluke and an old beer can.

Nothing too weird for me so far -- but just this past weekend out on Lake Travis I snared some cut fishing line, and when I pulled it up there was a crankbait attached. This happened TWICE on the same day...about an hour apart.

Weirdest thing I ever caught was a 12' long 2x6 on lake Travis. It was water logged and I snagged a small cut near the middle of the board. One end was cut at an angle and it was slightly bowed the opposite way. The short of it was it swam circles around the boat while wobbling so it felt like a fish swimming. It took over 30 minutes to get it to the boat. The whole time we though it was a huge catfish.

I also caught 6 crank baits fishing on Falcon one trip. They were all in good shape. I gave them to my buddy and he's been catching fish with them ever sense.

I have not been bass fishing very long, started last May and of course I became hooked. One morning I was using a yellow magic popper and on a pause it went under like a bobber. Reeled it in and I had a small bluegill hooked on it. That's not the weird part though. He had the bottom treble hook all the way in his mouth somehow. Their mouths are tiny I have no idea how he managed that. I also hooked a catfish on a drop shot worm once. I have heard of people catching cats on bass lures before but I had never done it till then.

I've caught a freshwater mussel on Lake Wood, a turtle on the Guadalupe, a seagull in Matagorda and a silicone slip-in breast size enhancer for bathing suits on Lake Dunlap. It had barely any algae on it, had to be a fresh loss...

I still have it if it belongs to your wife, pm me... just kidding.

You fools can't even come close to this. Used Magnum rubber on a shad rap#9.

wonder what HP that Johnson was?

I caught a large rock on a spoon, Fought pretty good, catch and release!

Crappie fishermans coleman lanturn and it was still burnin! Beat That (pants on fire)

A 3ft gator out at Toledo

Crank shaft from someone's 4 banger.

Sorry Jersey Dan I ain't no fool but I got you covered . . or maybe what you caught covered my catch.
I was fishing from my float tube in a lake in California when I hooked something that felt like a tree limb and when i got it to the surface I started laughing so hard bout peed myself!
It was 16" x3 " (guessing here) rubber penis complete with a testicles!(only in California)
If felt like wood reeling it in and low and behold it was. Har!
Since I practice catch and release it was a no brainer . . . I couldn't get it unhooked from my jig fast enough
I'm pretty sure it was the largest rubber penis ever caught but this isn't something you want to have mounted . . .lol

I know y'all are thinking I'm joking but its the Gods truth

A clam.

half of a perch trap fought like a s.o.b.

Believe it or not I caught a walleye in the Sabine river. Cross my heart hope to die....We didn't know what it was at first but 1000% sure now.

I caught a pair of panties in front of the old Junction Marina swimming area, on Bob Sandlin. Spooning. Was a 1st for me.

I didn't hook it but I came across this strange piece of coral on the beach in Florida. It was the day after a storm came through that ripped up the reef.

A 4pounder with as snapping turtle attached to its tail

Another to add to the list. A tail hooked pleco. Thought I had a good one.

1 OAR pulled this in yesterday. He wins.

I caught the rod and reel that I lost the year before.

"Bullet proof vest" in it's original case. Turned out that it had been in a state troopers car that had been stolen from Rockwall. They must have thrown it off the 66 bridge I was fishing under.

My grandson and I were catfishing at Tawokoni, off a park pier, he got a bite and set the hook, reeled in a large catfish......HEAD..just a decomposing head. probably off a 15-18 lber.I told him it was a zombie catfish....he said really?He tells all his friends he caught a zombie catfish.

Well, a Clam, bird, beer can, hat, flip flop, rock, shirt, and turtle.

Oh yeah, I also caught a lawn chair while trolling one time, it got away though, as I was pulling it in it spit the hook. My fishing bud caught a motorcycle frame in a cast net, that count.

At Hubbard I could see something moving across the water like an alligator. It was a cow and all that was above water was his nose. It started following me so
i led it to the bank about 100 yards where it walked out. It was Feb, and the water was cold. Possible I saved it.

Caught this nice piece of *%#% this afternoon. Great technique for sinking brush...

A Spam can at the discharge on Monticello.

The EM lake record bass which turned out to be a half grown Beaver during a night tournament. Talk about fun getting the hook out.

Caught this slow rolling a rattle trap. Only double digit I've caught so far.

my weirdest is definitely an airplane seat belt I pulled up from ray hubbard.

my cell phone, did a great backcast with a c rig, gor awful heavy, got it in and it had caught my cell phone which I had clipped to my windshield....that was two days AFTER I fell in Tyler, and had to replace the first one.

I reeled in a twisted piece of rebar on a crankbait. It felt like a big one at 1st but I noticed it wasn't fighting it was just dead weight.

On Falcon, I caught my brother in the forehead with a couple treble hooks of a rattling rogue

Caught a leapord top 32" bikini top on Party cove from lake Lewisville one time. Too bad I didn't catch the rest of it or what was in it. LOL.

I have caught might near everything that has been listed but the weirdest thing with out question was a manikin. A red headed one at that, when the arm came up I didn't know exactly what to do cut the line or reel it in. Not funny till about a year later

Not the one in little caney was it?

I caught a dead coyote once.

Pair of jeans, t-shirt, rod and reel, resin lawn chair, toilet seat, tire, a bra {I'm sure there is a story behind that...} and the run of the mill trash.

Nope Dan, it was in Ray Hubbard. Several years prior to that my cousin caught the real deal,a guy that was missing running a trot line on sun point on tawakoni, that was a flash back to then.....

rod and reel combo and a horseshoe on a crankbait during a tourney on Lake Twok, Thought that meant good luck and I was going to win the tourney, but not to be.

Boxers, couple shirts, casting net, trash bags. The normal trinity river thing

Outboard motor downrigging at Braunig Lake.Me and a longtime fishing buddy pulled it up,drug it to the bank removed the brass prop which my buddy kept and polished to like new later.We stood it upright on the rocks for the park rangers to find.Do not remember the brand but it was very old,had a cowling shaped like a football and I believe may have been some off brand distributed by sears.(25 HP)Oh I almost forgot,2 black bass on 1 rattletrap,2LB. and a 3Lb.up river on choke canyon near the windmill.Thought I had a hog.

A horseshoe with part of the horses leg still attached in lake lewisville

My rod and reel combo that was dragged into the water a week before. The most awesome feeling after seeing it disappear into the black waters. Another time I caught a huge snapping turtle. Lost my $8 Spro frog.

Caught a 4 1/2 ft gator on a top water frog while fishing canals in south florida..I was using 50lb braid so I got it to the boat and got a pic and released it unharmed..my son caught a nice 15" crappie that still had the hook in it from my rod that it had pulled in minutes earlier..the nice.part was I got my rod back.

I was bank fishing on Lake Lewisville casting a baby brush hog and got a hit. After setting the hook, it didn't act like a bass or any other kind of fish I had caught before. It fought pretty good and when I got it to the surface, it was a 4 ft. water moccasin. It had the bait halfway down its throat. Needless to say, I cut bait and the snake head.

Caught half a bass half swallowed by a water moccasin. He was fighting mad. Also caught a piston arm from some old motor.

Crankbait , skateboard oh and my nephew ..durn kid! Threw him back.

Just had to bump this one back up,alot of funny stuff in here maybe we could get a few more.

Hey Cajun,, What color were the flowers on the panties ? I had this girlfriend she would come with me and one time we well it's a long story

Caught crabs once. That was horrible. Oh wrong thread sorry.

After spudding a hole through the ice on Houghton Lake in Michigan I started jigging for Walleye. Thought I had hooked a good one and pulled up my ice skimmer that had fallen into my fishing hole the Winter before. Knew it was mine because I had built it in shop class with a stainless steel scoop. Guess I had a pretty good line up on the shoreline for my favorite spot.

I was stripper fishing at Whitney with a good friend. We were catching some pretty good fish. Biggest was 27lb. He hooked an anchor. He fought it for a long time. He swore it was a giant! The look on his face was priceless when we saw it. I've caught many weird things but that came to my mind as soon as I saw the post.

I caught an old antique lantern and it was still lit....

Caught this arowana. Should have seen the wake it made heading to my topwater lure from out of the tules- was scarey, thought I'd caught a heck of a bass.

Fishing Ray Hubbard in the summer of last year, when my partner snagged a beaver. He still got it to the boat, before he cut the line. That was one hell of a fight. Funny to watch......