Objects Caught From Bottom

[Mike the Pike]

Hey folks what are some of the objects you have retreived from the bottom?

 

Myself I have caught a small tire,an old construction boot many piles of Zebra mussels.Fishing lines with lures in great shape.

 

Has anyone ever caught something valuable?

 

Lets here the the old weird tales .Mike

[Crazyhook]

size 9 converse all star blue, size 8 construction boot ( thought the damn thing was a monster, it was filled with water and I was fighting it in current)

also a few anchors and ropes, one ice fishing pic that fought great

[Bernie]

Hi Mike...Lots of stuff pulled up---just like you though, old fishing line with lures on them and a couple old fishing rods and lots of Lake Nipissing clams. Thank goodness no Zebra mussels in Nipissing.

[Gerritt]

Hooked a shopping cart with the anchor on my grandfathers boat..

 

 

that was a treat lemmie tell yah.

 

Gerritt.

[irishfield]

15lb anchor out of Fushimi that someone had cut off due to bottom snag I guess.

 

Fishing rod/line/lure that my son still uses as his personal rod from behind the "big" island on Fushimi

 

100+ feet of steel line this year and a few other lures/bottom weights etc.

[medic]

Fishing Missinabi River by Glass falls a known portage area for canoest. Was fishing a deep hole for walleyes beside falls when I pulled in a backsack full of camping gear.Small burner, water purifier, Knife, axe, compass, raingear, fishing tackle, first aid kit, and a gps. No I.D , checked with local guide in area to see if anybody had flipped there recently. Told me it was probally from two years ago when some people from Germany tried to run the falls. Still have all the gear except the gps which was finished.

[John Glynn]

I pulled up a tire in Greenwood Lake in NJ. For a while I thought I caught Jimmy Hoffa.

[crusty]

I lost a rod ice fishing one year(those pike are quick) only to pull it out the next season

[GbayGiant]

Just don't snag into a electrical marine cable trolling a large musky lure

[POLLIWOGG]

Buddy caught a 5 lb rock on LO, 1/2 hr or more he got it up 100' in the current we had five boats circling us expecting a whopper.

[b2kptbo]

Came up with a wallet, nothing important in it just some expired (3yrs) credit cards, no cash , dropped it off at the cop shop...

[steve_paul]

Caught a telephone cable the runs underwater between 2 islands at the French River last summer.

[MuskyBill]

Yep, last year I got this Patio Umbrella, which was fully opened up & had 2 baits attached to it already, a small beetle-spin & a crackle-frog SwimmWhiz...

 

 

And the year before, I pulled up this makeshift anchor...

 

[hawkeye]

among other things I dropped my gaff down a hole while ice fishing. An hour or so later I was jigging the hole and felt a little resistance, yep the gaff. The rope on the handle must have floated up a little and I snagged it.

[setomonkey]

Nothing as exotic as some of the others, I've snagged old line or branches with lures still attached, some of them still in decent shape (crankbaits, spinners, and I think one spoon).

 

Mike

[lew]

Certainly nothing as elaborate as Bill's umbrella, but I did manage to snag a nice little Jake off the bottom of Lake St. Clair last December

 

[Stein]

I caught two rocks within an hour. The second one was about softball sized, but flat. Felt like a fish. We have now caught five rocks from this lake (Milford Lake in Kansas) The rock is limestone with lots of holes and the hooks of crankbatis will snag in the holes. Never seen so many boated rocks.

[mepps]

Jon caught a 15lb anchor with 50feet of rope attached while trolling jack lake. (thank god for powerpro, we needed a new anchor)

[Chris Cross]

Got me an old Lawn Boy lawnmower.

Lawn chair.

Old fishing pole.

CX

[Mike the Pike]

I am starting to understand why some OFC ers prefer superlines.Mike

[mistyjr1]

A few years ago i caught a fishing net full of zebra mussels. It was not in bad shape.

This is my favourite one, about 5 or 6 years ago on rice lake we were still fishing. My dad looks for his basket of sunfish. Well it was at the bottom, of the lake, thank goodness that the lake was like a glass that night he put on a HUGE red devil and dragged it along the bottom and he got it back!! I will never forget that night!!

[bassmaster4]

i pulled in a crapload of weeds and tehre was a tiny largie in there

[fishindevil]

i caught a rock with a hole in it while bottom bounceing for walleyes in the ottawa river,it was a piece of shale like rock,it was real cool still have the rock just no pic,ive caught about 300ft of wire line,i snaged off bottom while lake trout fishing ,when i crewed on a charter boat we almost hit a picnic table doing full speed in a 29ft enterprise while on route to our fishing location on lake ontario,the table was foating right side up and we almost hit it dead on,it was being hidden just inches below the water line,that would have had disaterous consequences at 30mph in a 3ton salmon boat..... also snaged clams,plastic bags,rope,and a plastic construction helmut in oshawa creek while trout fishing on my noodle rod,put up a hell of a fight too....

[Rich]

Anybody remember the infamous milk crate pic?

[Carp]

I pulled up a tire in Greenwood Lake in NJ. For a while I thought I caught Jimmy Hoffa.

 

Go try again.

Just a little more to the left.

 

Oh,..forget it. I'm thinking of someone else.