starngest thing hook on a fly??????

[Pucho]

what is the stanges thing you have hook flyfishing?(live or dead, animal or non animal),
-today i was flyfishing for snook in shallow water and i cought a huge bluecrab and i mean HUGE bluecrab and 6 month a go a balyhoo on a slamaroo fly on a #6 hook.( i catch balyhoos for trolling offshore on line 4 and #20 hooks with a small piece of bread) this one looks like he was very hungry.:D

[sandycb]

When fishing for salmon in Scotland I caught a cow in the backside on the backcast. Gave me a run for my money, I can tell you...

[widdoes]

Had a bat pick a royal Wulff off the surface of a lake in the Adirondacks. It was in the midst of an enormous drake hatch, and I don't know if he took the fly or picked up my leader while going for a real bug. He swerved instantly and broke the leader.
Other than that, my own hat, jacket, pants, ass are pretty regular hook ups. Gotta stop fishing in Nor'Easters.
-WJ

[Mark Cahill]

on a clouser. I guess I was really getting down.

[Quicksilver]

I have caught a couple of squid. I knew a guy who claimed he hooked and landed a seal. (I gotta think he wasn't fishing Monomoy!) I think I have caught one or two spider crabs. Starfish don't count right? I would imagine that for someone who is not familiar with them a Sea Robin would be pretty strange - can't remember ever catching one. :rolleyes:

[Pucho]

wow sea robin, we have them here, but they get deep, also the first day i went flyfishing i hook a dog on the back cast, he unhook himself, only a small scratch(dog came to me later and i check him) damn i felt low that day...lol, lucky i was all alone at the beach, no one was watching only that poor dog...lol.

[gutcutter]

i once caught a condom (unfortunately used) in the monongahela river close to downtown pittsburgh while sightcasting to large carp with a heavily weighted crayfish fly. although it was my last of a favorite color(light olive), i just couldn't bring myself to unhooking the "mon river whitefish". i thought about using a boga grip, but just cut it off.

[Quicksilver]

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!

[kayaker]

On Cape Ann I have twice caught two-thirds of a "slam'': starfish and crab. A complete slam would include a mussel, which I have also caught. In Ft. Lauderdale, fishing for giant grass carp in roadside canals, I hooked a speeding car's antenna on the backcast. Smoked the reel and suffered a nasty line burn on one hand. The car never knew it was hooked.

[John Wade]

Speck, my dog (twice).--124-3

[saltyric]

caught the back of my head. Hurt like no tomorrow!!!!!:confused:

[beast3]

Once I caught a large houndfish (like a really big needle fish) on a clouser.
Fish inserted his beak into the loop knot which then tightened when I set the hook. He was lassoed by his top jaw, fly was just dangling below.

[Pauper Piscator]

Nothing like a following breeze and a double hauled, mach 2, 1/0 Lead eye clouser impaling itself into one's derrier. Had a purple bruise the size of a baseball for weeks. mmmm tender. --124-3

[peterjay]

A few years ago, while trying to whack a Jetskier with a weighted fly, I became a bit overanxious, failed to watch my backcast, and wound up hooking a tourist in the back of the neck. I apologized to the tourist, who understood completely, once I'd explained what I had been trying to do. I felt pretty bad about that, but I felt even worse when the Jetskier zoomed off unscathed. It isn't often that one gets close enough to one of those rascals to give him a good thwacking.

[Luv2Fish]

While fishing Monomoy I hooked a decent size fluke, while moving around I filleted it and tossed the rack overboard. About an hour later I hooked the same eaxct fish or at least what was left of it.:eek:

[fishin-bum]

Not on a fly, but I was fishing for bass on my pond from my kayak using skirted grubs... I overshot my target and the grub landed on the lawn. From out of nowhere a cat pounces on the grub and it's CAT ON!!! the cat tore across the lawn and my drag is screaming - I grab the face of the reel and break him off and paddle the heck outta there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happened so fast!

For you cat lovers, at least the hook was barbless.

My friends have suggested I try a mouse fly in some back alleys in town....

[crashfromboston]

one of my counterparts on another board,

caught a dog fish while drifting heavy deceivers for

stripers...


me, i caught a soda can while fooling around with a heavy cone headed wooly bugger...

[Punchshot]

while yaking in the middle of busting stripers and diving terns acouple of weeks ago, caught a tern on the back cast. He didn't put up much of a fight and was released to fight/fly another day. :)

[green ghost]

I hooked 2 very small flounder in the mouth with a clouser on an intermediate line both on the same day! Each time I picked up the fly line out of the water to cast, the fish were airborne. I had to remove the barbless hook both times and I have a witness. Such a small mouth really odd. And YES, I have caught multiple Sea Robins! I had at lest 7 behind my fly in < 6 inches of water after ai was tired of catcing them. Glad I had long tweezers!

[Ray]

My own elbow with a huge Tarpon fly.

You know the ones you sharpen to a razor point so they set in the jaw bones!!!!!

Brought me to my knees!!!!!

[hightechtoo]

Got the Stonington CT Slam.....

Scaup, Tautog and Starfish.....all on the same day!

[ikarus47]

I have hooked the usual spider crab, mussel, and clam (impossible to get the fly out- they are so strong!).

The funniest hookup I have heard of was my father - in - law at Beaverkill: a beaver, went for a beetle pattern: strong take, then swam towards him, he saw the black thing swimming toward him and fell over in shock. Father in law got wet, the beaver broke off.

Next time he showed up at the Beaverkill Angler, they warned him that the squirrels were pretty aggressive that week....


Andreas.

[jim1205]

a coney island whitefish
turtles 2x
terns
seagulls
Mctrout numerous times
a weird lizard looking kind of fish
a scary sea surpent in St. Lucia (yellow and black)
myself
my dog (GOD BLESS HER SOUL)
bats
and my inflatable raft

[FireFly]

Not on a fly:

Pulled in a 1 dollar bill while casting from shore in Hampton, NH. Bait shop thinks it was from the fishing boat which went down several days prior to.

I had back luck for as long as I kept the bill. I finally spent it at Home Depot and the bad luck went away immediately.

[red harvest]

Yesterday, I went saltwater fly fishing for only second time ever. From the Long Island Sound at Fairfield, CT, I pulled in the ugliest damned fish I'd ever seen. I'm told it is called a Sea Robin, which hardly seems a fitting name for this menacing creature. For the record, it took a blue and white Lefty's Deceiver (I forget the size). Since I didn't catch any of the Blues I was after -- despite their active feeding frenzy -- I guess I should be content to have gotten anything at all.

[titleguy]

One very cold, windy day while fishing at Ferry Beach in Scarborough, ME, I caught a shirtless jogger in the back w/ a 2/0 mushmouth tied on a coombs offshore hook- all I could think of was "A Man Called Horse"

I have caught many bats in my trout fishing, broke my winston 4wt last year trying to get my fly back

Broke my 7wt trying get my magic closuer back from a very large ray a few years ago

My friend is still laughing about my 40 lber on a fly which turned out to be a wing caught skate.

Caught massive houdfish in FL last year, he owns that fly.

While casting on the lawn in the off-season, practicing, I regularly fish for cats with a piece of yarn on my leader.

Bowfin- got to catch one of those prehistoric critters on a fly.:-%

[jaybo]

I once caught a seagull on a gurgler fly. The wee beastie plucked the fly right from in front of a Bass that had been following it. It took of heading South with my last gurgler so I imeadiatly set the hook hoping the damn critter would drop the fly and I could retrieve it and keep on fishing. Well once I set the hook the nasty little thing dropped from the air like a stone. No fight in him at all, at least till I got the bastard into the boat! Worse than trying to un-hook a big blue without pliers! Cheers, Jaybo. :-%

[boba]

Lesse. Lobsta, crabs of varying kinds, various starfish and eels, naah. The best was an old boot (no accompanying skeleton). In freshwater, I've caught 3 bats, but subsequent conversations with the warden told me they weren't keeper size. Since there wasn't enough fur on the hide to use for tying, I didn't bother to keep them anyway before the warden wandered on the scene.

[boba]

"Unfortunately used?" Gutcutter, don't tell me you would use one of those after running a hook through it?--124-3

[peter mac]

On the fly,
a Sea Bass, porgie, multiple sea robbins (part of the westport slam, bass, blues, and sea robbins), a trigger fish (in Montauk), a few gulls, one 10' above the water, got extra points from my buddy for mid air hook-up, myself several times.........and was also hooked by a friend while albie fishing.
Peter Mac

[FlyFishMich]

Dead, decaying, rotten salmon...in the mouth...on an egg fly. Guess I was fishing too deep? Being the avid catch 'n release type of guy, I quickly twisted the hook out of its mouth without even touching the fish or bring it out of the water. --123-3 Strangest fish that I have actually targeted would be freshwater drum (or sheepshead as they refer to them in the midwest). They look like a silvery black drum and fight about the same. Can be caught in large numbers out of a boat casting clousers on sinking lines and run up to about 15lbs. :)

[sandflyx]

caught a copperhead on the delaware while fishing for smallies..............

[lazman]

A barred owl, while fishing for largemouth at night. Not on a fly, but a Crazy Crawler. It must have thought it to be a mouse or something, picked it up with talons, flew over the boat as far as the line would let it, crashed into the water. Retrieved it into the boat, not a lot of bird inside those wet feathers. Damn thing jumped ship and swam to shore with a modified breast stroke.
Oh yah, I've caught tons of sea robins on flies, also fluke.

[Stan Wright]

While filming a TV show off Kona, Hawaii, with Mike Sakamoto (Fishing Tales on the Outdoor Chanel) a huge whale shark surfaced near the boat. We moved in to get some great video and still pictures. Smaller fish were hanging around the huge beast so someone cast out a fly and accidently hooked the whale shark. Right in the upper lip. Now this thing is over 30 feet long and even with a heavy fly rod it was a battle. With the cameras rolling, the giant fish was finally eased over to the boat and released. And we have the video to prove it.

Aloha,
Stan

[stingray]

A really big sea gull next to the captains lady on plum island while the boat was loading to go on a whale watch. Alot of very angry and yelling people. Dang gull got the best of me in the scruff. Didn't know they had spurs on their feet....

[Stan Wright]

Anyone who attended Navy boot camp in San Diego has "fond memories" of the seagulls. Eather they were dropping shell fish on the road to break it open to eat...... or they were dropping something else as we marched along. Seagull droppings really stood out on a white uniform......

Aloha,
Stan

[Bruce H]

Always amazed at what you can catch...Was fishing for striped bass during a Mako Boat owners tournament and thought I had the world record or at least the tournament record Saw the shadow in the water as I was getting it to the boat surfaces after a run ~100-140 pound Harbor Seal Was able to get the all terminal tackle except the jig back Didn't want to really try and see if I could get the jig out it's mouth with those teeth

ALso explained why Striper fishing was poor to dismal during the tournament

[flatwingflinger]

Read of a Frenchman who hooked himself in the penis tarpon fishing. I do not envy that sorry gentleman no matter what his flyfishing ability! Hooked plenty of sea robins as they are common in one of my "haunts". Hooked a scud once trout fishing. And had an uncle who hooked his bosses dog in its rear end. He kept his job. but never fished with his boss again.

[flatwingflinger]

Appologize for my odd spelling of French.
Cheers! :-%

[titleguy]

1. Jogger in a yoga outfit- 2/0 circle hook and 300 grain deep sea line- hooked him and zoro'd him at Ferry Beach in Scarborugh last fall;

2. Golden Retriever at Plum Island, man did he ever eat that clouser. :-%

[bullimiami]

In the Bahamas on the beach.
Got her on the backcast with a white deciever.
I hear "AAAAAHHH something bit me".
Oops.

Lucky I didnt hook one of the kids which were like 2 and 4 at the time.

I did catch a big barracuda right after though, right where we were swimming.

[flatwingflinger]

Giant conch shell. Still alive.

[Sagebrush]

The funniest thing I saw caught on the hook goes as follows. We were new to fly fishing doing some deeper waters in R.I. with some good current. My friend hooked up and basically got winded and handed me the rod. I fought it for a few more minutes, then asked the third guy to edge the boat up. It was hung on the bottom.

The current with the lack of visual references made it less than obvious. At least thats my story and I'm sticking to it.

:rolleyes:

[zimmjas]

Half of a six pack of Budweiser when I was about 11 years old fishing for largemouth. Although I didn't catch the biggest fish that day, Dad gave me "the buck" (a wager everytime he and I go fishing) that day.

[teflon_jones]

half of a calf-length rubber boot (the bottom half). thankfully there wasn't a foot still in it! :)

[mdrew9]

I caught a striper once. Doesn't happen often but every once in a while I think one of them gets in the way. Weird.

[16Mohawk]

I've caught several baby (10"-12") gators over the years while fishing for Largemouth Bass with hairbugs. Their ability to hide themselves is amazing.

[LeonR]

Was fishing the Root river in Wisconsin during the Salmon run with my bowhunting buddies, Dave and I caught several Koho and our friend Cisco who by the way is now the recurve 3d worldchampion showed us why he sticks to shooting a bow. After watching a bobber for an hour he pulled out and fought in a rusty Ford hubcap which he released on the grounds that he is a Chevy fan...we don't hold that against him though. --125-3

[Snuffy]

I stopped a retrieve of a clouser minnow in P'Cola FL to wipe my face and wham there was a nice Cat on there that had picked it up on the bottom... (#$119)

[Tord]

I remember having hooked, played, and released a Sea Cucumber.

[north coast]

A mud puppy in the conn. river in vermont,looked something like a big salamander, weird, never even heard of them before that. A muskrat in the balls while trout fishing.(swear to god) A scuba diver in the back through his wetsuit not through the skin (luckily for both of us) I'll never forget the look on his face when he surfaced trying to fugure out what was pulling on him(fairly good fight) and realized it was me. Not a happy camper. I swear I didn't see the bubbles, And last but not least a seal, in 150 feet of water, in the fin ,jigging for cod.thought I had a world record. he didn't look too happy either. all absolutly true.

[Joey Langan]

Not on a fly, but whle fishing an eel in connecticut the eel swam under a rock and the current pulled the line around a barnacle a few times. My rod bent over and I dragged a 5-7 pound rock across the bottom into shore. I heard they were a little crunchy to eat so I released it.

[teflon_jones]

I hooked my kitten the other day. She put up a heck of a fight on the 4 wt too, almost broke off a couple of times. She kept trying to hide in the structure scattered around the house. --123-3

[Joey Langan]

In the summer I hooked a submerged tree bracnh with my 5wt. fought it fo ten minutes. It had my rod bent in half the whole time. when I got it in I had some trouble gettin the hook out. The branch was about 5ft long and a few pounds. I left it on the shore for a Beaver to chew on.

[gotcha]

While dry fly fishing on the upper Delaware I hooked a bat, It made a good first run, than ran out of steam. All in all not a great fight, however my 5wt was a bit overkill.

[John Wade]

Out at PI for the tide. Very slow with the clammers picking up a few, nothing for me spinning. Averagejoe stops by to say hey and I'm thinking I'll grab the flyrod and throw for a while-still nothing.
The incoming got to moving enough to start bringing the storm gak back into the river and fishing starts getting a bit difficult, Joe says see ya and walks off.

The next cast!

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I HOOKED A USED CONDOM!!!!!!!!!

A first for me.
A Plum Island Slam=1 rubber, a wad of seaweed, and some clam chukkers line!!