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[FINS]

Since there is alot of people that post on this board that have alot of experience and knowledge i'm curious as the whats the craziest thing that some has ever caught? Fish or no fish. The oddest thing i caugth was an octopus when i was younger fishing with my parents on a bridge/pier in South Padre Island. It wasnt the biggest in the sea but it felt like i had jaws on at the time and even snapped my pole in half. The neat thing i can remember was it was spraying the purple dye when we were brining it up. I remember some oriental guy coming and taking it off my hook, he then asked what i was going to do with it and of course i told him i was going to throw it back. He asked if he could keep it apparently he was going to eat the arms i guess u call them. I also remember him taking awhile to get if off of him as it wrapped itself around his arm and was sticking to it.

One time i was in the surf fishing for whiting and actually hooked a whole live sand dollar, it happened to get hooked in one of its holes. What r the odds, that was the biggest catch of the day.

I saved the best for last, one time down in big shell we hooked into a shark that was 8ft +, when it was cleaned we found a lantern in its stomach dated 1952!!!!!!

The craziest thing about it, was that it was still lit!

[Aaron]

The craziest thing about it, was that it was still lit!

i call BS
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That ain't all that's weird about FINS' story. The color of octopus ink is sepia (a very dark brown, almost black), so that bit must be the result of "purple prose".

Hooked lots of sand dollars, clams, and sand fleas - those are way more numerous than you'd think. Poked my gig at a minnow acting strangely once, and gigged a previously invisible squid holding the minnow. Another time while gigging saw a duck try to dive in less than 2 feet of water, breaking its neck and dying at my feet. Threw a wine bottle at a running jackrabbit, striking him graveyard dead. Two weeks ago, 2 brown pelicans got tangled in my and Richard's lines simultaneously. Released unharmed, they have to be a sign it's time to take that species off the endangered list.

Oddest catch wasn't about the what, but the where: a small walleye from the Nueces River downstream of Mathis.
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[FINS]

Im not too sure of the color of dye as i was way way younger but i do recall it spraying some dye of some dark color and i do remember it was an oriental guy who wanted to eat em.. .... i know about there being lots of sand dollars in the surf, we have came home with big cups full on a few occasions. When the tide is out and ur on the 2nd bar or so u can let ur hand dig in the sand and find many this way.

[Lost Cajun]

If hunting trips count I got a funny one. I was dove hunting with my buddy and my Lab around Poteet one year. Hadn't killed a bird all day and had only seen about five. My dog was getting restless so I picked up a good sized rock to throw for him to retrieve. As I was in the motion to throw it the first dove I had seen in two hours came by so I directed the rock at it. I hit it, killed the bird and my lab retrieved it!

We still laugh at that one every time we get together.

[topdog15]

Last summer, I caught a 27 inch trouch off a pier. Unfortunately the trout had already been cleaned. the funny part is that a managed to hook him in the mouth somehow. Explains why the fight was so short.

several years ago, after days of heavy rain, the CC Bay's salinity was down to almost nothing. My brother and I caught two yellow cats off a pier at Resort By the Sea

[Lat22]

I caught something in Cabo one time while I was down there fishing. Actually, a southern stargazer is probably the weirdest fish I've caught.

[putawaywet]

I got a good one.
While fishing under the birds north of Mansfield I tangled a gull. Started a fast retrieve so it could get a good bite of my hands while I untangled it. Almost to the boat the gull disappeared under water. A few moments later I got it to the boat, untangled it and pulled in a nice 22" trout.
We joked about tangling another and tying a line to it's foot.
Kite fishing for trout.

[surffan]

I have "caught" 2 sandollars in the surf also both on the same day about 2 years ago.

Not the oddest fish caught but oddest way of catching: was at Charlies Pasture bulkhead with a crab net out and forgot to pull it in as wake from a big ship came by. Wake caught net pulled it way out then back in ( I had kinda long line on it) when I retreived it it had 1 blue crab, 1 stone crab, several hermit crab, some pinfish, 1 hardhead, 1 6in flounder and one small red.

[FlatsAssassin]

Dont know how unusuall this is but I've cought a 25in trout in a crab trap using a hot dog...

[WD-40]

Some friends and I was fishing a creek just south
of FT. Worth several years back when my buddies
wife snagged a rock. We all laughed at her and gave
her a hard time about it. About an hour later i pulled
in a ziploc bag filled with rocks and mud. Guess who
they laughed at then.
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Topdog's story reminds me of fishing for sockeye salmon from an island at the combat fishing zone on the Kenai River at its confluence with the Russian River. Hung a stringer with a fresh sockeye already on it. The owner caught a ride across the river and reclaimed it.

Another time while fishing the Kenai we saw something repeatedly thrashing in a backwater area while we were anchored fishing for silvers. When we got ready to leave, we motored over to see what it was. A shiny jack king was tangled in a wad of loose fishing line, so I reached over and freed him. Not a hook in him anywhere.
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[51baldeagle]

I remember like it was yesterday back in Dec.1963 I was hunting with my brother in near Uvalde,by the dry Frio river when he spots a turkey on a tree he shoots the turkey,well when we go to grab it,the turkey drop on the neck of 12 point buck,broke his neck well we pull the buck out and on one of his alters was a 8# bass,yeppers that how it happen.



GOOD TIME GOOD PEOPLE THAT IS WHAT IS ALL ABOUT.

[TexasJohnny]

Never really caught anything too odd but,
One time I was with a friend wading in the Oso, and for fun I thought I'd see if I could cast as hard as possible (little penn 9). I did and spooled the reel until it got to the knot and of course the knot broke sending all my line out into the depths. I was mad because now I have no line, just littered and my friend is laughing, minutes later as he's reeling in because the trip is over, he snags my line, I got the end, got it through the guides, retied it to the reel and reeled in a keeper drum.

I also caught a boot once as cliche as that is.

[Seabass]

Most unexpected fish was a 23 " sheepshead caught on a red/white cocahoe minnow while fishing for trout in Oso Bay.

On a trip out at Cedar Bayou years ago, I caught a juvenile lookdown in a castnet. Later that night while gigging for flounder, I came across a small patch of seaweed that looked funny. Further inspection revealed that the seaweed had a long slender head and fins attached to it. I guess it was one of the sargassum fish.

Down at the Mansfield Jetties one time when I was fishing with Carl B., we came across a little crustacean about the size of a small crawfish. But it wasn't a crawfish. It looked like a small lobster. And no, it wasn't a ghost shrimp. I still haven't identified it. We just put it back into the channel cause it was still living.

Seabass

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