whats the strangest thing you ever caught a fish on?

[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!