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

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On Jun 9, 6:35 am, "Ken Ward" wrote:
"Colin" wrote in message

oups.com... What are the weirdest (whatever your definition of that is) things
that you,
or any friends, have caught so far while fishing ?

A Bat.

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Colin wrote:

What are the weirdest (whatever your definition of that is) things
that you,
or any friends, have caught so far while fishing ?

A bat.

Red wrote:
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Colin wrote:

What are the weirdest (whatever your definition of that is) things
that you,
or any friends, have caught so far while fishing ?

A beaver

I was cat fishing at night, a beaver swam into my line, and the hook
ended up it it's front leg, one heck of a fight on 30 lb test line :-)

--
Rodney Long
SpecTastic Wiggle rig
Formally the Mojo Wiggle rig
http://spectastictackle.com/

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In article .com,
Colin wrote:

What are the weirdest (whatever your definition of that is) things
that you,
or any friends, have caught so far while fishing ?

A bat.
Octopus. It was well p***ed off. Caught a seagull once.
--
Clint Sharp

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In message
, Red
writes
In article .com,
Colin wrote:

What are the weirdest (whatever your definition of that is) things
that you,
or any friends, have caught so far while fishing ?

A bat.
Octopus. It was well p***ed off. Caught a seagull once.

If you want a proper good laugh get about 6ft of 30lb line with a hook
at each end and bait it with some rotten old fish. Chuck it near a horde
of ****ehawks[1] and sit back and watch the fun :-)

[1] For that is their proper name.

--
Matt - Dorset.
It only takes two-strokes to excite me (or a threesome :-))

Red a écrit :
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Colin wrote:

What are the weirdest (whatever your definition of that is) things
that you,
or any friends, have caught so far while fishing ?

A bat.

My brother's hear. :-|

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Red a écrit :
In article .com,
Colin wrote:

What are the weirdest (whatever your definition of that is) things
that you,
or any friends, have caught so far while fishing ?

A bat.

My brother's hear. :-|

I have caught a bat too. I guess they are popular.

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In article .com,
Colin wrote:

What are the weirdest (whatever your definition of that is) things
that you,
or any friends, have caught so far while fishing ?

Off the end of Felixstowe pier several years ago a Paul Kerry rod and reel.
I guess someone cast and forgot to hang on! Used it for years, lovely rod.

Bill

Not a personal catch, but a true story...

Center Hill Lake in Tennessee and Lake Cumberland in Kentucky are
jeopardized today by ever-enlarging fissures in the limestone rock
formations surrounding the dams. Water rushing through the fissures and
caverns is dissolving the limestone. As the channels widen, the amount of
water available for hydro-generation decreases, and the foundations of the
dams are weakened.

Years ago, there was a dam across the Tennessee river below Chattanooga, not
too far above where Nickajack Dam is now. Hales Bar Dam was owned by the
Tennessee Electric Power Company (TEPCO). It, too, was built on limestone
bedrock. Apparently, small fissures connecting the water above and below the
dam, undetected at the time of construction, grew in the course of 20 to 30
years. In several places along the dam, such leakage flows produced visible
"boils" on the surface. Those boils were an excellent place to catch Sauger
(known in Tennessee back then as "jacks.")

TEPCO tried to plug the leaks by dumping barge loads of rocks and gravel on
the spots above the dam where some of the inlets of the fissures were
detectable, but that was ineffectual.

Undaunted, TEPCO assigned their best minds to solve the problem once and for
all. Sure enough, they came up with a novel solution.

Due to changes in ladies clothing styles in the late 1930's, merchandisers
found themselves with large stocks of lace-up corsets that they couldn't
sell. TEPCO got a boxcar load and put them on a barge at Chattanooga, along
with many coils of barbed wire. Positioning the barge above the holes
upstream of the dam, they cut the bindings on the coils of wire and dumped
them into the holes. Then they started throwing in corsets, weighted down
with rocks.

Brilliant! How could that approach not work!

Well, nature found a way. Corsets were pulled into the holes by the
currents, but the leaks were not significantly reduced. Large numbers of the
them swept through the holes, emerged in the boils, and drifted off
downstream. trotline fishermen for miles down the river found their hooks
loaded with corsets over the next few weeks.

For more like this, see http://haubenreich.net/halesbar.htm

Joe
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"Colin" wrote in message
oups.com...
What are the weirdest (whatever your definition of that is) things that you,
or any friends, have caught so far while fishing ?

In article ,
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Not a personal catch, but a true story...

Some great reads here, Joe.
My grandad worked for both TEPCO and then TVA at Hales Bar.

Anyway, hate to pick a bone, but when you say:
"Spoons cast into the turbulent water around the boils often were
struck by hickory shad. These river herring were full of bones and
universally regarded as inedible, but when hooked they ran and jumped,
providing some excitement when the jack fishing was slow. "

These are NOT hickory shad, but skipjack herring, as you more properly
suggest in the second sentence when you say "river herring". Our famous
"Tennessee Tarpon".

best, and thanks for the read,
MM