What's your strangest catch?

[chex]

I bet he was in the throat of a larger fish and you hooked it when the bigger fish hit your bait/lure.

Haha! Talk about stealing someone's lunch!

[Foursteps24]

A large oyster was clamped onto my top bottom rig. I had to open it just to get loose and ..........I ate it. Tasty too.

[Redfish12]

Jim, I agree with MOC, definitely a lizzard fish.

I caught a monster eel at HRBT last year on a flounder jig with a stinger hook. Grilled Sardine had to help me with his pliers too, that thing was pissed.

[AesopRocks247]

A sea robin while surf fishing in ocracoke nc, really cool fish.

[Meadeo]

A 75 lb Atlantic Stingray in Tappahannock Virginia above the bridge several miles at 3 am. We were all like WTF is this a sturgeon?? To our suprise 30 minutes later we have this huge stingray in fresh water... 45 miles from the bay.

Also over the years i have caught 3 fish with hooks in there mouths attached to fishing rods and reels.. I still have one of the ugly sticks hah..

Meadeo

[ronaultmtd]

A Lizardfish on a XRap....

[J.A. Veil]

Last July I caught a large mantis shrimp on a bottom rig at Wachapreague Inlet.

[bignose]

I was fishing a small farm pond, and hooked a bass on a popper. The owner's 80 lb black lab who had been running around the pond, jumped in, grabbed the fish and got hooked in the rear leg. I tackled her before she could get her mouth around to the lure (can you imagine if she got one in the mouth as well as the one in her leg?). While struggling with a wet, scared dog, I managed to bury one of the trebles in my middle finger. I got the hook out of her easy enough, but it took 20 minutes of bloody cussing to get the hook out my finger.

[perchy]

A watersnake on a spinner!

[Yak Fish]

I guess if you fish long enough you're bound to have some weird things happen.

I caught a duck, turtle and a crab, all released safely
I also got a perch on a large bass spinner bait.

I'd like to claim a weird fish, but none of those yet.

I did see a guy get his surf rod pulled over a pier only to have his buddy catch it a couple of hours later.

[Cliff]

I did see a guy get his surf rod pulled over a pier only to have his buddy catch it a couple of hours later.

That is awesome

[kayak456]

Where is the 301 bridge

[kayak456]

I caught a croaker with a gotcha plug in nc, I also have caught over 30 cow nose rays in the south river

[frettr00]

A few of these

One of these...



The notorious plastic bag fish....

[jet]

^Those bag fish fight the best pound for pound!