Weirdest (non fish!) thing you have pulled in?

[SmellyFerret]

Whats the weirdest / daftest or just wrong thing you have pulled in or seen pulled in fishing?

I've pulled in:

A carrier bag full of shingle (hooked by the handles somehow!) .... felt like the fish of a lifetime..

A whole small tree, about 6- 7 foot tall with root ball!

I also cast out once from abbotsbury with just a weight (testing a new rod) and pulled in 3 rigs wrapped around it! :)

I've seen 2 seagulls caught too... although once the anglers had them I think the seagull caught them a bit too!

What have you seen / pulled in?

[cfish]

Carrier bags,sanitary towels,lump of weed with a small silver eel tangled in the weed,couple of ducks and morons(released unharmed).The best was foul hooking a 5lb6oz lumpsucker when i was a kid LOL

[billy bennett]

Once hooked a sheep while fly fishing. needless to say i never landed it on a 3lb tippet

[donkeydawe]

was fishing the river exe many years ago for flounder and ended up catching a specimen used sanitary towel. need less to say it was returned with the hook as their is no way in hell i was touching that thing!

[baza]

i caught a sole in a match once, its all that was left of the shoe

[chris grace]

once pulled up a bucket full of lead weights whilst fishing out of weymouth!


My brother in law thought it woul be fun to connect it to my mainline with a length of line and link swivel when I wasn't looking.



Hardest fight I ever had my arms were hanging off by the time it surfaced.

[Cascars]

Carrier bags,sanitary towels,lump of weed with a small silver eel tangled in the weed,couple of ducks and morons(released unharmed).The best was foul hooking a 5lb6oz lumpsucker when i was a kid LOL
So what bait do you use to catch MORONS then?:laugh:

[cfish]

LOL Nickname for moorhens cascar.I am sure theres plenty of bait for morons if you now how to post it properly/present it properly!:laugh:

[Mulletcut.]

A 2feet long section of lead pipe and an engineering brick both about a mile off Old Harry.Almost forget until some kind person reminded me ,a 2feet tall toy teddy bear from the shore at Worbarrow Bay during a club comp.

[rosscolfc]

I once went carp fishing and got snapped of on 15lb line after a 20mins play. the following week i went back fished the same spot after the elusive beast, during the session i hooked a snag and pulled in my float lost the previous session and many other all attached to the same branch!

bugger of a fish and twigged (no pu intended) that he could grab a bite and dive for cover under this branch!

Never got him to this day!

[bones96]

was out on a charter boat last year when the rod next to me bent almost double the bloke with it said he was snagged up on the wreck we was over skipper came out of his wheel house to have a look and try to free it up when it eventually came up the bloke had caught a lobster of about eight and a half pound in weight but after having his pic taken with it he let it go back

[nemofish2000]

When i was 15-16 yrs old i was fishing silecroft in a real good storm when my rod shot out of the rest with me after it, grabbed it and battled it for a good ten mins to see this big white thing bouncing in the edge of the surf WOW its a bloody big ray oh sh1t it a back yard door i was gutted

[topnot]

I know a bloke who was fishing in the estuary, he saw his rod tip bend over really fast ,he grabbed the rod quick before it disappeared and hung on pumping and winding with his unseen quarry going downtide at a fair speed with the current.When he finally managed to get it to the shore,on the hook was a dead baby Bullock that hed foul hooked....it must have drowned in the floods.
When i was a kid i tried tying up a homemade mackeral trace in my bedroom...there i was jigging it up and down ,thinking how good it looked...when i turned round my mothers puppy was there looking interested in what i was doing,i told it to go back downstairs as it wasnt allowed upstairs.I carried on proudly jigging my rig up and down thinking what fish could resist taking such a magnificant creation...i heard the door push open and the puppy looked at me and my jigging feathers and launches a attack at them before i could stop her....she got hooked cleanly in the corner of the mouth...i had to get a neighbour to take me and the puppy to the vets.
A young lad was fishing near me in the estuary once and wasnt having much luck,he said its because he didnt have enough beads like on my traces...so i set him up with a new trace and the next cast he was shouting Mr,Mr i got one i got one as he proudly reeled in a used sanitary towel.
On a different theme (but still funny).......a bloke who works with my mrs asked if she would ask me if he could have a few crab for bait as he found it hard to collect them after having heart problems...she asked me and i said he could have a few....so my Mrs dropped the crab round to his house,but as he wasnt in left them with his wife.........later that day my wife was in the high street shopping when a voice booms out to her "THANKS FOR GIVING ME THE CRABS !!" MY mrs said everyone was looking at her a bit strangely.

[TimmyButler]

Quite simar to the above post here - Was fishing Folkestone pier last week and lost a rig. casted out after that (maybe 40 yards or so) and hit another snag. was a bit peed off until i got it free - and wahoo... the rig i had just lost 10 minutes prior was attached to the one i had just brought in.. the luck in that heh.

[Puggy]

Had that happen 3 times over the winter, and each time ive had a fish attached. Twice was having a nice bite, getting snagged and hour later reeling in, get my old rig with a cod on the end. And once the same thing, but just getting snagged, and reeling it back in hour or so later with a nice plump flounder on the end.

[steve martin]

Fishing denge marsh a few years back with my mate Andy, he was holding his rod and i was attaching a starlite to the tip, the rod ripped out of my hands and Andy was being dragged down to the surf, after 40 mins he landed a 6ft railway sleeper! i have never laughed so much in all my life his face was an absolute picture, a rough sea in full flood in the middle of winter - did he think he had hooked the biggest cod ever - how wrong he was.

[butgoose]

whilst casting caught a seagull and had to reel it in from the sky , what a nasty little git it was,would av won the match aswell a the heaviest fish was only 1lb 4oz lol damn.

[makgas]

on the river don close to doncasteri i think it was,well in land someone got sammy the seal

[Fisherman333]

One night I was fishing in fairly rough seas from the shore when I had an almighty bite. The best bite I'd ever had, in land or on sea, in fact...

Not hesitating, I immediately struck - the fish was definitely hooked and heave as I could the rod was being pulled all over the place - the only thing I could do was to hold on for dear life.

I was all alone and my first thought was my god how am I going to get this in by myself in these waves? It was pulling me down to the shoreline, so I gave it some slack and just held on for a few minutes.

I had enough time to grab my torch and shine it on the waves. I was convinced at this point that it was so strong that I was going to lose it.

And then I sees it, right in front of me!



A huge truck pallet!

Got my trace back in tact after a few sharp tugs though, the bastards!!

[dab hand]

A good few years ago fishing out of Ayr aboard the charter craft Liznic, hooked into something solid. Hard graft got it off the bottom, but the reel seat started to break up, so all aboard agreed that we could hand line it into the boat. Lots of puffing and panting till it broke the surface. The skipper informed us that we had just brought up the mainland to Isle of Arran underwater telephone cable.

[nuts about fishing]

erghh....a plastic bag with a small pouting in it.

when boat fishing my m8 caught a bass and it snapped then 10 mins later i caught the same fish with the hook in it.

ow yer also hooked the same fish as someone next to me.

and some stupid yatch person on a dighy, all the space ov the river but chooses to come right in close and suprise suprise they caught up in my line...derhhhh

[bigads]

2 seaguls and a seal :D

[tagman]

Dead pig whilst spinning my local millpool. Thought it was a branch, when i got it close wished it was a branch.

[gulp me drug]

on morecambe stone jetty. huge knock, then reeling in: rod bent right over. those fishing nearby all stopped to watch. whatever i was pulling in leapt out of the water, a bright flash in the darkness. then went back to being a struggle. my heart was pounding, mouth was dry.

and what was it? pin whiting on bottom hook.............carrier bag on top. cue hurtful comments from the cheap seats about ready packed fish etc etc etc.

[welshwanner]

A 1 clawed green n black lobster

[Snatcher]

Have duplicated the sheep hook up whilst fly fishing the Derwent Reservoir when I was a lad !!! I too was broken off after a very short fight

Also hooked a seagull off Blyth pier whilst float fishing fish strip for mackerel. As I freed it the damm thing turned around and sliced my finger open. If I ever hook another one I will wring its neck :spiteful:

Hooked a bat whilst fly fishing the river Tyne at dusk. Hooked it fair in the gob and it flew away unharmed.

The hardest fight I had was in a charter boat out from Craster,Northumberland.We were a long way out in deep water fishing for ling. Got a slow pull on the line and struck into what I thought was a right beast of a fish. There was a hard rip running at the time and what a battle I had. The skipper felt the line a few times and said he could feel a "pulsing" on the line. Well after a long and hard fight we finally caught sight of the beast - A CAR TYRE which had been spinning in the tide giving the pulsing feeling :whistling We all had a good laugh about it. My mate said it was even baldier than me :roll1::roll1:

[NobbyC]

a seagull in Scarborough harbour when I was kid. oh! and my mate Ray's head.
I was alos with another mate, again years ago, when he pulled in a stone dead bream from our local lake which was lip hooked and covered in news print!!! Never did work that one out.
Nobby

[gav_clements]

Years ago, out on my dads boat in the mumbles bay, me my grandad and my dad all had one rod out each and nothing biting, my dad board of just sitting there, dropped a hand line down in the hope of a flatty. After about 20 mins he felt a nock, so he struck it and heaved it from the depths. When we got it to the the top, it turned out not to of been a prize flatty but a large lobster who had the line in a double hitch around its tail, and very tastey it was to!!:bleh:
Another time, also just outside the mubles, had a really good cod session. One large cod had a really weird shape to its body. Once it was home and gutted, on closer inspection, inside its stomach was one of those cheapey plastic drink cups that you have to punch the straw through the top. Someone must of chucked it over and the cod thought it was food. Proof to all those fishermen that say cod will only take black lug lol:lmao::laugh:

[Harry_Fance]

On gillingham pier, kent. I started to reel in slowly to try and get a flattie on the way back in. about 35ft away from the wall I got what I thought was a great fish got 15ft away from the wall and my line snapped. When the tide was going out I could see my rig on a bicycle.

Doh!!

H

[accordionjim]

Night fishing from Brighton marina, soaked by the high swells smashing into the wall, I dragged up a long, narrow, canvas bag. I emptied the bag of its contents which consisted of an unidentifiable brown sludge and an onion. The onion rolled over and in the roots was some kind of sea life that for a few seconds glowed a luminous green then disappeared forever.
What it was and why it glowed I'll never know. Was it expressing its surprise at being hauled from its home? Was it making one last exultation before its life was extinguished? Perhaps it was a highly intelligent life form that made one attempt to communicate with a less intelligent species before realizing it was pointless. It was the only thing I caught that night.

[shy tangler]

Sorry lads, some good ones there but I think I win the cup for the strangest thing. Many years ago while fishing in Portsmouth harbour at Tipnor I had a bite and then the rod bent double. I hung on for a minute or so but could not budge it, so put the rod down to handline it. Slowly but surely whatever it was came back to the boat and my friend stood by with the net. Out of the depths appeared a wooden box and my friend shoved the net under it and we dragged it into the boat, I used an old screwdriver to prise open the lid and inside were two glass jars full of Peanut Brittle toffee. These jars were the type you used to see in shops, selling by the quarter pound. Very tasty :fishing1: