Things you have caught...besides fish

[Boatleg1]

Just wondered what type of things have been pulled up from the depths over the years?

A mate once hooked a rod and reel covered in barnacles and other growth.....both cleaned up well, with the reel being surprisingly waterproof after what must have been weeks under water.

Turned out to be a Spheros 14000FA. Both are still going strong after a couple more years of use.

Can't help but feel bad for the guys that lose gear. Guess most of us have done that too...

[JarrydA]

Ive caught boots and a bike wheel.

Once my dad was diving Copeton dam looking for a boat that a person sunk that day, and he found another boat!

[madmullet]

bags most common, bike parts, rods and reels, line, hooks, lures, old crab pots, 1 anchor rope with one anchor and chain still attached and my most memorable thing na dmy favourore was an old rope gaff i caught of the urangan peer with a beautiflu piece of fan coral attached to it.

[Bi_polar]

We found a dead body once while we were fishing, It ended up that the girl was murdered (Caroline Byrne) and the guy accused of the murder (Gordon Wood) only got out last week.

[Redgie]

A shopping trolley, and pulled it thinking it was a snag, it came to the surface... then suddenly the sinker came back like a bullet past my head - hitting my friend in the ribs. he had black and blue ribs for a few weeks! :whistle: woopsss.. :cheer:

[BASSTURD]

nothin as exciting as a dead body, but i hooked a lure box at colleges crossing ages and it was full of lures and some where still in the packet. those lures have since returned to colleges thanks to the great snags

[fishingnut]

We found a dead body once while we were fishing, It ended up that the girl was murdered (Caroline Byrne) and the guy accused of the murder (Gordon Wood) only got out last week.

You win !!

[Carter]

Myself, I once pinned myself to a 20lb cod. An 8o snell rig had caught the cod and the fish was attached to the bottom hook, I went to gill lift it in, it went beserk and the top True turn went through the back of my hand. I had to get one of the customers to push the hook through and cut the barb off so it could be pulled back through.

[Jords]

Found dead bodies twice in the brisbane river, while rowing not fishing though.

Caught a duck and many many turtles, about as interesting as it gets. Found a small fold up anchor inside of moreton when swimming - no rope, no chain, in about a 2 foot of completely clear water too....

[Boatleg1]

Interesting stuff.

Sorry to hear about your find Bi-Polar....way to put a dampener on a fishing trip....

[plugger]

Herpes had to be said. Well it was near the river :silly:

[rosstralia46]

A deck chair whilst castnetting and wow that would have been a crap find stu

[bootyinblue]

I think I will let Freshy describe my catch at Summer Classic, although I might have to chime in later in my defence.

[Seiran]

I think Bi_Polar and Jords win this one.......or lose :S

[Keen-as-fisho]

Not what I have caught but someone will catch, a Daiwa tierra 7' rod with a stradic 4000 reel attached near mud and a small tackle box with about 200 bucks worth of jigheads inside near middle reef somewhere probably rusted out by now but

[Damien2Rad]

Towels, hats, caught a sandcrab on a trolled richo's, a kingfisher was trying its damn hardest to eat my Zman swimmer in the shallows, keelback snake...

Nothing too fancy or gruesome.

[Woodlaz]

A rusted out BETA VCR.

Cheers

Woodlaz

[Boatleg1]

Just goes to show there is enough crap out there for a decent garage sale. I thought perhaps the recent flooding might have also provided some interesting catches......maybe accounts for the VCR???

[melrichsin]

Nothing too morbid, but back in NZ on a mild summers evening I caught a seagull using a floating rubber mouse at a river mouth. Wound it in with the rod tip wanting to pull up not down for once... and when I finally got it in I had the pleasure of dehooking it's wing and washing the crap out of my hand as I watched it fly off in ever decreasing circles.

[jnewy]

went fishing with my brother at our jack spot and i got snag after snag , i started to pull it in but snapped my line . as it was pissing me of i went home. my brother went back the next day to the same place and the police pulled up a dead body my brother said the bloke had one of my lures in him but when my brother asked for it back they told him to piss off

[tugger]

Caught crabs once but not in a crab pot and they were very tiny made me itch like hell

[jeff f]

computer monitor at kooka park

shopping trolley under indro bridge

lawn mower in currumbin creek

bicycle in tallebudgera creek

[tiotony]

Quite recently caught a snake on an earthworm meant for a tilly!

Caught heaps of soiled disposable nappies in Tarawa (central pacific), as the lagoon is used as a rubbish bin :sick: :sick: :sick:

[Miegs]

I caught a Bat once (as in the mammal) on Glenelg jetty (Adelaide). Caught it on a 3" flickbait when I cast out, poor thing must have thought it was an insect.

I've also caught a pelican once on the Murray River that went after a Carp I had hooked.

One of my mates caught a seagull on a Gar line at Grange Jetty (Adelaide)

I also know 2 people who have caught foxes haha. Once in a river when they cast to the otherside and didn't realise until the fox ran off with their bait. The other time was when my friends were fishing in the surf in SA and the current dragged their pillie up onto the beach, the fox must have been scavenging on the beach and found the pillie.

[Jords]

computer monitor at kooka park

shopping trolley under indro bridge

lawn mower in currumbin creek

bicycle in tallebudgera creek

Stop casting into peoples lawns!

[coldasjoe]

Someone might hook up on my lost nitro and stella combo that went in last year at the seaway:(

[jon]

Someone might hook up on my lost nitro and stella combo that went in last year at the seaway:(

:pinch: ouch thats gotta hurt

[coldasjoe]

Someone might hook up on my lost nitro and stella combo that went in last year at the seaway:(

:pinch: ouch thats gotta hurt

yep sure did the big one yank it right off and away

lesson learnt lighten off that drag when rod in holders

[cookie_7]

coldasjoe - is that why you fishing at the seaway this week? trying to hook it up?

[summerbreeze]

Christoohagus and I were fishing at Luggage point and he was trying to catch some live bait. He pulled in a dvd titled: HOME MADE BOTTOM BOYS.

Anyone want to claim it?

[coldasjoe]

coldasjoe - is that why you fishing at the seaway this week? trying to hook it up?

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I wish i reckon its long gone

[battlescar]

castnetted an iphone at breaky creek and a microwave at boggy creek haha