What are the weirdest things you've caught while fishing ?

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:06:08 -0700, salmobytes wrote:

On Jun 8, 10:00 pm, Colin wrote:
What are the weirdest (whatever your definition of that is) things
that you,
or any friends, have caught so far while fishing ?

The night hawk was weirder than the bat.
But I think the rattlesnake takes the cake.

Two years ago my brother and I were fishing at Lake Thunderbird, near
Norman, Oklahoma. On a cast from the dam my brother snared a wayward
seagull in midair. The angry bird couldn't fly in that condition. My
brother had to real him in and untangle him from the line. What a mess.
The rest of us on shore just watched in a bemused amazement.

When it was all over the bird flew away, no doubt wondering what that was
all about.

--

James E. Morrow

James E. Morrow wrote:

Two years ago my brother and I were fishing at Lake Thunderbird, near
Norman, Oklahoma. On a cast from the dam my brother snared a wayward
seagull in midair. The angry bird couldn't fly in that condition. My
brother had to real him in and untangle him from the line. What a mess.
The rest of us on shore just watched in a bemused amazement.

When it was all over the bird flew away, no doubt wondering what that was
all about.

I hooked a seagull in the foot, on the beach at Nexpa, Michoacan,
Mexico. While I was struggling to set the MF free, and while it was
biting me, a wave caught my rig and drove a big treble hook deep into my
thumb.

A guy I was fishing with at Christmas Island caught a huge albatross
while trolling for trevally. The guides, who had to release it, and who
had told him to bring his rig in when the albatrosses started going for
it, were ****ed,.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

James E. Morrow voiced his/her/it's humble opinion in
rec.outdoors.fishing.fly on Sat 09 Jun 2007 11:33:53a:

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:06:08 -0700, salmobytes wrote:

On Jun 8, 10:00 pm, Colin wrote:
What are the weirdest (whatever your definition of that is) things
that you,
or any friends, have caught so far while fishing ?

The night hawk was weirder than the bat.
But I think the rattlesnake takes the cake.

Two years ago my brother and I were fishing at Lake Thunderbird, near
Norman, Oklahoma. On a cast from the dam my brother snared a wayward
seagull in midair. The angry bird couldn't fly in that condition. My
brother had to real him in and untangle him from the line. What a mess.
The rest of us on shore just watched in a bemused amazement.

When it was all over the bird flew away, no doubt wondering what that was
all about.


That happened to me at the Vedder Canal in BC. I cast high to get across
the river and the stupid bird ran right into it.

I had to reel it in and hold it's beak to get my lure back.

LOL


Later......

LabRat...... |:^{)

LabRat wrote in
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James E. Morrow voiced his/her/it's humble opinion in
rec.outdoors.fishing.fly on Sat 09 Jun 2007 11:33:53a:

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:06:08 -0700, salmobytes wrote:
On Jun 8, 10:00 pm, Colin wrote:
What are the weirdest (whatever your definition of that is)

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That happened to me at the Vedder Canal in BC. I cast high to get
across the river and the stupid bird ran right into it.

I had to reel it in and hold it's beak to get my lure back.

LOL


Later......



These are truly *fowl* birds.



--
James E. Morrow
Email to:

In the piscatorial realm I caught a Green Garfish (rare this far north,
& as a kid fishing for flounder at Ocean City Md. I caught the oddest
fish I ever caught. It had a mouth like a largie & was red. My dad said
it was a sea robin. Non fish include a large snapping turtle (I cut him
off), & a waer snake grabbed a bluegill I'd caught.

i have caught many diff fish but trolling once at lake james i caught a
pair of mens underwear , another time i caugh a round rock with a tiny
hole in it just big enough for the hoo to set in believe it or not
reeling it in it was like a fish fighting from side to side