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Big Jim wrote:
Oooop's...almost forgot, when we were kid's we caught a body on a Canadian Wiggler behind the Parliament Buildings... poor guy went in all the way up in Braeside in February on a snow machine.

You caught a dead body?!?! That definitely takes the cake.

A beaver, didn't get it in.

While jigging for Salmon with my dad on the west coast, I thought I had caught an underwater cable on the bottom when the line fetched up tight. After a minute or so of straining my bacon trying to budge the jig, I was getting ready to cut the line when my reels drag started to scream. Now I figured I had on one of those giant halibut. Wrong again.....A minute or so later, a bull sea lion popped up about 50 yds from the boat with my jig hanging out of it's neck. He must have gone at least a thousand lbs. I'll never forget the look on dad's face when he asked with a grin.."You want the net or the gaff??" Didn't need either as the beast took off and broke the line.

Caught a bird cage bottom bouncing in the Ottawa, I just hope there was no bird in it when it went in

sturgeon on a bull dawg

These are some crazy weird replies! Especially Big Jim's!

And I thought WIG's lawnchair was an odd catch.

W.

I caught pneumonia on a fishing trip, was a cold wet weekend back in Oct 1988... bad catch...

Man I could write a book about this very subject, I've caught just about everything from lawnchairs to rocks to nets to beer cans.

I caught an antique rod once, another time I caught a zebco rod with a catfish at the other end. Turned out a guy fishing off a dock had lost it 5 hours prior.

Same area I caught my lure and 60 feet of power pro that I had lost 3 weeks prior when the line was wrapped around the tip when a fish hit. Funny thing is I rarely ever cast that spot and I just cast right through a weedbed when I saw the line hooked by my lure.

Might not be the weirdest but sure was the funniest, my client caught a bag of rocks once, we were fishing a steep dropoff so as the bag fell down the cliff it gave the effect of a huge muskie headshakes. That was untill he got it within 20 feet of the boat and it was dead weight. Turned out to be a homemade marker with 1 litre oil container still attached.

I've also caught the same fish 4.5 years apart.

A guy's mother in law on the evening before halloween. I kid you not. The guy works at the same place I do. Didn't catch it actually, but it was floating in the weeds near shore, just below the Quebec bridge near pembroke. We though it was just a post or something laying in the water. We were pickeral fishing in a nearby hole, went in for a closer look and . . . .

Anyway, the aftermath is quite a story in itself!

I caught a snapping turtle when I was fishing at our cottage on the Moon River

Decided I wasn't going to lose my jig to a turtle so I netted it & brought it in the boat ... not the most brilliant of ideas

Prefishing the Rideau River with Mike Merrill a few years back, when he hooked a snapping turtle

I also have 2 seagulls to my credit when I was fishing with Brian Harrington (sorry about the mess on the boat)

I caught a snapping turtle when I was fishing at our cottage on the Moon River

Decided I wasn't going to lose my jig to a turtle so I netted it & brought it in the boat ... not the most brilliant of ideas

Prefishing the Rideau River with Mike Merrill a few years back, when he hooked a snapping turtle

fenderbender wrote:A guy's mother in law on the evening before halloween. I kid you not. The guy works at the same place I do. Didn't catch it actually, but it was floating in the weeds near shore, just below the Quebec bridge near pembroke. We though it was just a post or something laying in the water. We were pickeral fishing in a nearby hole, went in for a closer look and . . . .

Anyway, the aftermath is quite a story in itself!

Now that is traumatizing...

W.

Once I caught a sea lamprey with a 12lb king still attached to it.

I snagged the sea lamprey and the ugly SOB would not let go the poor Salmon. It sure did after I cut it's head off.

Next was pike but what makes this strange as I caught the same pike the day before, put it on a stringer and it somehow broke the stringer the next day I caught this same pike with part of my metal stringer still in its mouth. I had to let him go.

A crikket bat out of the Rouge River in Scarborough.

About 20 years ago a bunch of us were fishing the Black River just outside of Watertown. My budy hooked an old screen door. I don't remember how much lead and other stuff was attached but it was covered.