whats the strangest thing you ever caught a fish on?

[the shootist]

The strangest thing I have caught a fish on was a 338 cawse filled with lead with a treble hook. Caught a kelpgreenling with a 19 pound lig attatched.

[Shootmoore]

My bare hands.  We used to tickle trout out of the creeks for lunch because we could not carry fishing poles in the fire truck.

Shootmoore

[Black Plague]

The strangest thing I have caught a fish on was a 338 cawse filled with lead with a treble hook. Caught a kelpgreenling with a 19 pound lig attatched.

ha ha let me translate...that would be a 338 case.... and a 19 pound ling ...ha ha.... besides fish eating marshmallows, which is really weird when you think about it...I have caught fish on hot dogs too....   but one time all i had was a size 10 hook and a fishin pole...found an ear plug, a blue bird feather, and a twisty tie like for bread on the ground after about 5 minutes of looking....hooked the earplug like a grub and attached the blue bird feather to the plug with the twisty-tie...leaving "little arms" on both sides and I was in business....caught a bunch of little 10-12 inch bass with it and a couple of 8-9 inch perch by top-water fishing it...

[PolarBear]

Caught fish with my hands s well.  I have used chewing gum to catch bass and rock fish.  Hot dogs and Ivory soap for catfish.  My Grandpa would use a spark plug soaked in WD-40 and a treble hook for bottom fish.

[Sneaky]

Caught fish on part of a roast beef sandwich, a bear hook many times, and caught a perch once when I was swimming with my bare hands in Lake Washington.

[383man]

i've pulled trout out of the water on the sinker before, of course they let go before you can get them all the way out, but in the small pools of the rapids in the southfork of the clearwater river in idaho, the fish were so hungry one day they just kept hitting the sinker cause it was shiny

[Tealer]

UI used to use dirty socks for sturgeon, with a little smelly jelly. I have noodled a few catfish, but last year a buddy hook a summer king on a corona bottle cap with a trebble hook. We lost the fish near the boat.

[rasbo]

filter of a cigarette

[bowhunterforever]

My bare hands.I have also caught small mouth bass with a jig head and a gummy worm for a grub.

[Tom Reichner]

filter of a cigarette

[Houndhunter]

bare hooks, gummy worms, theres a few types of fish at the right time of year will just bout hit anything you throw at em

[bowtech721]

I used those little peperoni chunks to catch a couple flounder 

[let.it.fly]

i have cought lings and zon on home made hook/lead combos. just a tube of lead around the shank of the hook. poured of course.

[NRA4LIFE]

Caught a carp on a piece of a hotdog.  Caught a dinky largemouth while bluegill fishing on my bobber.  Little sumbitch just would not let go of the bobber.

Ran out of crab bait once (novice at time) and put a whole pack of baloney in the bait box.  Nothing would touch that.  Hmmmm.........

[Mike450r]

Caught a stringer full of rainbows with a pack of skittles when I was about 13.  Every time the skittles commercial comes on with the phrase "taste the rainbow" I think about it.

[h2ofowlr]

Used gummy worms for sturgeon.  Ran out of corkies and used orange foam ear plugs.  That worked.  Caught a fall chinook on the C.R. using a larger silver spoon that I cut the handle off of and placed a swivel at the top and a side wash hook on a split ring at the other end.

[PolarBear]

Caught a bikini whale with a tube snake. 

[the shootist]

I love that skittles one taste the rainbow!!! thats awsome!! I've also tickled a couple types of fish trout, and chubs but I almost caught a fish on a moth when I ran out of worm while trout fishing many years ago. I put the hook through the back end and carefully flipped it out over the water, and the line was light enough that the moth accually flew with it for a couple feet then rested on the water where a brown trout snatched it, but I missed him when I set the hook. 

[MikeWalking]

mm? Caught one Trout on a minnow pattern flat fish and found two others trying to take it away from him all the way to shore....lured in Trout with Parmesan cheese sprinkles (just to watch'em feed, they had been attacking me as I swam in that lake.) Used a patch of Scotchbrite and foil once to get some Trout...

Got something with Cheetos to bite in Greenlake once. Don't know what it was but it damn near tipped over my Float Tube

[upwind]

fishing willow creek in Alaska for silvers we were using salmon roe and my brother bought yellow smiley bobbers at walmart the salmon kept hitting the bobbers instead of the eggs so we took off the eggs and moved the bobber down by the hooks .we both limited out .

[MuleySniper]

We were silver fishing at Neah Bay one year fishing was so hot we had numerous quadruples going down. We ran out of herring and began using the head from the cut plug and they were slamming that. Fishing was so good, one of us got snagged on a piece of kelp and caught a fish just by reeling in fast with a piece of kelp on the hook.  Weird thing was we went out the next day and couldn't even get a bite. They had just moved on.
MS

[MikeWalking]

Caught one on a Kite once......yea it was a Flying Fish..

[hunter guy]

Caught the eye of my swivel I had lost earlier and it had a 10lb catfish on it.

[h2ofowlr]

I was fall fishing on Lewis River and 25 lb chinook had broken off up stream.  He was dragging about 20' of 40lb mono.  It tangled around my line and weight.  I reeled in as much as I could then hand lined him in.  It was a legal hook up in the mouth, so I kept him.

[CMG]

I was invited to go panning for gold while in visiting a Friend in northern Calif. one year. Wasn't planning on fishing. I noticed some nice trout in the creek and the wheels started turning. I pulled a piece of filament out of a nylon rope I had in the truck for line, found a bobby pin in my first aid pack for a hook, and used a periwinkle out of the creek for bait. took awhile but I landed one. No playing around, it was a hook and jerk!

[upriver]

Caught a fish on a couple baked beans messing around at Shannon Lake once.

[PolarBear]

CMG reminded me of when I was a little kid fishing on the Natchez Trace in Tennessee for trout with a hook made out of a bobby pin and balled up pieces of wonder bread.  I caught a ton of blue gill on a red rubber band.

[fishcrazy]

Can't say what the stranest thing I have caught fish on it's a secret. But the strangest thing I have seen someone els catch fish on was eggs they purchased from a bait shop. LOL 


Kris

[let.it.fly]

there was a guy on the green last year when the pinks were in. he was slamin emm on styrofoam.

[NGOWENS]

Caught a carp on a piece of a hotdog.  Caught a dinky largemouth while bluegill fishing on my bobber.  Little sumbitch just would not let go of the bobber.

Ran out of crab bait once (novice at time) and put a whole pack of baloney in the bait box.  Nothing would touch that.  Hmmmm.........

My family and I use canned cat food for crab down on the Oregon coast.  Have not tried it up here yet!  Prob will this year for sure!  Just punch some holes in the can to get water mixxing in and out and your golden!

[cohoho]

Caught a spare tire on the anchor in the Willamette River .... 

Right out of the box Wheaties (wet then crushed and squeezed in a towel) made the best dough going for carp.....

Velveeta Cheese rolled into balls for stocked rainbow trout can't be beat.... 

[saylean]

Trout on a piece of red yarn.

[DOUBLELUNG]

Caught several chain pickerel and a largemouth with M-80s as a kid.  My friend and I would spot a suspended fish at the edge of the weeds (mid day, bright sun).  Stuck an M-80 in the gape of a hook where the barb would hold it in place, light the fuse, lob out past the fish and reel it back.  Pickerel would hit it, the bass was just a proximity concussion.  Obviously very illegal, and not recommended.

[Whitenuckles]

 I caught this guy out in the sound!

[lokidog]

Within "sound" of an oil rig? 

I was on a tuna boat tied up at the Starkist cannery in Puerto Rico.  Tarpon were snarfing on the surface all around but I only had jigs and lures for open water fishing, no floaters.  I found a chunk of net float, stuck it on my lightest jig head tied a piece of unwound white rope on and tossed it out.  I caught one that was about 12 pounds which I was able to land using a net gaff from 10' out of the water and one about 40 pounds but could not get it out of the water so broke it off.  There were sonme around that were 100 lbs + as they eat all of the tuna wastes.  Tarpon don't taste all that great.

Another trip I lost all of my lures to sharks, yellowfin tuna, wahoo and mahi mahi but a crewman had some bass worm hooks so I cut a groove in a bullet weight, put it around the hook with some solder and then tied a little bundle of white cotton rope threads around it.  I caught a dozen or so mahi mahi and a few yellowtail and one tuna on that one.  I still have it too.

[Screaminreelz]

My buddy used a Budlight beer cap with a siwash attached to it an a swivel. We were down at the shack haven a few beers and a buddy of mine fashioned it up and and threw it out. We all thought he was crazy and sure enough he caught a 8 inch trout 2nd cast.

[Big D]

While I was in the Navy stationed aboard the USS Camden anchored in the lagoon at Deigo Garcia in the Indian Ocean I caught a 32 pound lobster. We boiled it up using a ships kitchen steam kettle. It turned out real tuff but tasted great.

[Alaska316]

Caught large mouth bass on a water bobber. Also a bluegill on a swivel with no hook. Oh, I also caught my wife on the lip on our first fishing trip, before we were married.

[Turkeyman]

Trout on a piece of apple.

[DOUBLELUNG]

Can't claim as a catch, but worth relating: in high school was skinny dipping with a group one spring, one of the young ladies said, "Hey, look at this fish!".  She was standing neck deep in the water, and a big bluegill was suspended facing her about a foot away, just under the water surface.  The bluegill darted in and attacked her cool water-erected nipple.  She shrieked, and I don't know what happened next because I was laughing too hard. 

[rasbo]

Can't claim as a catch, but worth relating: in high school was skinny dipping with a group one spring, one of the young ladies said, "Hey, look at this fish!".  She was standing neck deep in the water, and a big bluegill was suspended facing her about a foot away, just under the water surface.  The bluegill darted in and attacked her cool water-erected nipple.  She shrieked, and I don't know what happened next because I was laughing too hard. 

:chuckle:I would have explained,how the bite of a bluegill can be extreamly dangerous..We must get the poison out NOW   

[boneaddict]

 

[jackelope]

42 pound striped bass on a live 14" herring.
not really strange I guess but a little out of the ordinary...

[fishcrazy]

Can't claim as a catch, but worth relating: in high school was skinny dipping with a group one spring, one of the young ladies said, "Hey, look at this fish!".  She was standing neck deep in the water, and a big bluegill was suspended facing her about a foot away, just under the water surface.  The bluegill darted in and attacked her cool water-erected nipple.  She shrieked, and I don't know what happened next because I was laughing too hard. 

Good thing it wasn't looking for small worms!!! you might have been the one freaked out.


Kris

[DOUBLELUNG]

Can't claim as a catch, but worth relating: in high school was skinny dipping with a group one spring, one of the young ladies said, "Hey, look at this fish!".  She was standing neck deep in the water, and a big bluegill was suspended facing her about a foot away, just under the water surface.  The bluegill darted in and attacked her cool water-erected nipple.  She shrieked, and I don't know what happened next because I was laughing too hard. 

Good thing it wasn't looking for small worms!!! you might have been the one freaked out.


Kris

Good point - at that water temperature, more like an acorn than a worm! 

[littlemac]

Caught a nice rainbow with a 13' Whaler.

After a storm on Lake Stevens I went down to make sure the Whaler was OK in the slip and there was a big trout swimming around in the boat. 

I felt bad for the dumbazz trout and let it go.  All in all, the Whaler must have caught it off a wave or the fish jumped in the boat

[wadu1]

Fly fishing up in the Green Water Lakes in the 70's and caught a bat chasing my fly! The guy I was with had another doing the same thing and smaked it into the lake. On the same trip I caught a cotten tail with my rod (fishing that is). I know the YARs will have a field day with that!!!!!

[MikeWalking]

My Nephew and his buddy have both caught Bats while Fly Fishing on the Tolt.

A friends Dad caught ME that way once...set the hook in the back of my neck