re: Weirdest catch while fishing

Fishing in Toledo Bend a couple years ago. Tight lining some sacs under a bridge, I hooked on to a rod n reel. It still has line in the water, so I reeled it up and there was a catfish on.

Not me but back in the 90s we were deep sea fishing. I was in my teens and there were other young ones on the trip too. Mainly going after snapper but also caught some amberjack and grouper. This young guy is fighting like crazy and we think he must have hooked a grouper on the bottom. Several minutes later we see it start to surface and see a big red blob under the water. We're thinking this must be a huge red snapper. He gets it to the top and his hook has snagged a massive lobster between plates on his body and tail. It must have been 18-20 inches long. They tossed him in the live well since most of our live bait was gone and I think the kid may have had him mounted.

I caught a rod and reel back in the early 70's. But it was a Zebco 404. But it was better than my 202.

Me and brothernlaw was fishing Hot water canal many years ago, catching Some gator mouth trout. Bro, yelling at me, that we need to go, it about to Rain. Ok, one more cast, i'm hook up, the reel screaming, the line running like crazy, then stops, i start reeling in the slack. The line take off again, bro yelling, it time to go it raining, i'd scream back,shut up cupcake. By now it pour down raining, im horseing the fish in, only to find out it wasn't a fish but a umbrella.

Every time i would reel in the unbrella would open up, and the curent would take it.

To this day my Bro, will never let me live it down.

He had it mounted on a plack, and gave it to for Christmas.

Was fishing off the beach in waveland on a sunken shrimp boat and my plastic jig snagged on the back part of the shrimp boat with the bait suspended about 2' below the surface. I pop the line and put a new lure on. Go back the shrimp boat the next day because I had caught some nice trout the day before and notice a dead trout floating on the top. It had swallowed my jig head I left and drowned. It was still pretty fresh, hadn't been dead long so I threw it in the ice chest. Was about 21" long. Must have come up with the full moon feeding on top. Was in 12' of water.

Most memorable catches for me in no specific order.

Man's wedding ring.

Pair of Air Jordans that were tied together.

A Redfish with a whole 10-12" mullet in it's mouth. The head was in it's stomach and partially digested and tail sticking out the mouth an easy 6".

Multiple rods and reels, one of which was still connected to a live Amberjack.

Gag Grouper that threw up a pork chop and a partially eaten corn cob when it the deck of the boat.

My FIL once bought some ducklings cause he thought it would be cool to have some ducks in his pond. He turned them loose in his pond and they didn't last 15 minutes, the bass in the pond ate all of them. Later that evening my BIL caught a bass and, you guessed it, it spit out a dead duckling.

Fishing ponds on a hunting lease in Angie a friend caught a really nice bass. We get back to Metairie and realize something is coming back out the mouth. It had half a dozen little turtles in it. One was still barely alive but died.

A seagull. I was fishing out of a boat in Myrtle Grove. As I cast out the line wrapped around a seagull. The bite was one, but I had to stop fishing to release the bird. He was not happy.

I caught a bird and a gafttop on the same cast in a kayak. I got into some birds and started picking up trout with a popping cork and vudu shrimp. Made a cast out and a bird managed to get tangled in my braid, flies around for a bit then just lands on the water. So I start reeling in slowly to get it closer to help this ungratefully little shite off my line when the bird goes underwater. We were still in the school of fish so something had nailed the Vudu shrimp with the bird still on it. Got the bird close to the kayak, untangled it and got it loose and the fish was still on the line, felt good too, bigger than any of the other school trout I had been catching. Turned out to be a gafttop.