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Kyle Sandberg

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I have caught snapping turtles, painted turles and bulfrogs on purpose. My wife caught about a 1 lb rock on a Shad-rap in the B-Dub.

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Anchor (couple of times)

rods and reels

Shirt

transducer

clam

rock

baseball hat

shoe

checkbook (my own after falling down the ice hole)

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I once caught a basketball and an ice rod. both were rigging on the big pond.

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Not weird, but creepy and gross... pink Womens pantys big enough to wrap around my waist almost twice.

Pool 2... go figure.

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Not me personally, but a guide I fished with caught a human skull once.


What happened? Throw out a marker buoy? Did anybody identify the teeth or anything?

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Every time I fish on Madison Lake I catch something strange in the narrows. A spoonplug, landing net, a rigged bottom bouncer, 100' of lead core and the list goes on. I can't wait to see what I will catch next. It has been a long time since I've cought an old boot though. grin.gif

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When I saw the subject of this thread I thought it was going to be about a new show on the Discovery Channel.

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Fishing the Mississippi a few years back my brother in law pulled up a badly bloated body of an elderly man. Turned out the poor guy disappeared like a week or so earlier.

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Over the years while flyfishing I have managed to snag three birds(different trips) out of the air while back casting.

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was fishing a lake one opener, trolling for northerns, when i thought i had a nice weed at the other end. so i reeled it in, and to our delight it was a jig stick with with a nice mitchell reel that still worked. It was kind of set up like my gramps ice fishing for northern set up. Heavy black steel leader with a plain hook. My dad and i brought it home, showed him and he asked why i had his ice fishing rod. grin.gif apparently he had lost one down the hole snoozing

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Here's one....It didn't happen to me, it happened to my brothers friend. He told me he laughed until he just about cried.

They were fishing the river and brothers friend wasn't paying any attention to his line and it evidently drifted close to a big Great Blue Heron and the stilt grabbed the bait.

As retold by my bro, the bird gave a mighty tug, almost relieving his friend of his fishing rod...the rod went into the water and the guy had to run in ankle deep to get it and then the fight was on, back and forth they went, first one gaining the advantage, then the other.

Bro said the Crane looked like a skinny guy in a gray suit, fightin for his life. The Crane fell down a couple of times, his skinny legs buckled, but he fought his way back up to his feet and continued the fight.

Finally the hook straightened out and the bird got loose, his bud tumbled backwards and rapped his head a good one on an old piece of dead wood and the Heron flew away.grin.gif

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once while fishing on vermillion. i caught a rock. it was a very small rock but the thing had a hole in it, and yup you guessed it. i caught it right thru the hole. pops and i had quite a laugh. ... paul

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I was fishing up on Rainy with my new wife the first week of August, honeymoon( that's right-honeymoon, her idea) and witnessed a guy catch an old metal ladder, probably from the railroad bridge, with his anchor.

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I really enjoyed this post, I haven't hooked a body yet and I hope it doesn't happen but here are some of the things we have hooked over the years: drift sock, minnow nets, landing nets, folding nylon chair, anchor, Coleman lantern, a brass door knob, Northland Tackle hat, pink zip-up sweatshirt, sunglasses, part of kids toy truck, fishing rods, Blatz Light beer can, plastic pop bottle (1 liter), old tree parts, loons, gull, chipmunk (on land), racoon (shallow water on a #11 Rap), turtles, clams (many)....

We'll have to see what's next, hopefully a 17 pound 9 ounce walleye.

Walleyedan

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I hooked a garbage bag by the open end while trolling a crank bait. I thought I had a hold of the drain plug. shocked.gif

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I pulled up an old tire from a Model T. It was well preserved and it's part of a flower garden now. Makes me wonder if the whole car is down there!

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I have caught 3 different rocks in the past two weeks. I have no idea how they are getting hooked...

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He keeps going andgoing until the same exact lure hewas trolling with pops up into our boat. What are the chances of that?


this spring i hooked into a walleye while drifting a sand bar. must have been one to many knicks in the line, when i set my hook *snap*..

retie a crawler harness and continue drifting the same bar. about an hour later i set the hook again, start reeling, find i had hooked some disgarded line. pulled it to the end to discover it was my line, and on the end was a 18" walleye.

weirdest thing caught to date, a t-shirt, this past weekend in 23' of water.

btw "hello"

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welcome to fm addictedjerry!!!

I have caught a rock or two and a couple clams but this year in Canada I caught a 5' ul uglystick with a rapala reel while jigging in 18' of water....thru some line on it and 10 minutes later landed a 25" walleye on it!!! grin.gif

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Hey that might of been mine, grin.gif I set one down on the ice for a second, then ploop, it was gone.

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A number of years ago a friend and I were pulling cranks and his lure had surfaced because of a small weed. He was watching his graph and all of a sudden he says he has something. I look back and see his line rising off the water along with the crankbait and a seagull trying to fly off with it. After a good laugh we were able to free the seagull uninjured. I don't think either of us will forget that! My personal bests are an old tire and an old Diawa rod and reel combo.

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    • Brianf.
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