Whats your most unusual catch?

After yesterdays P.B. Jacket (see Tyram Hall trip) i have caught a Flat fish in Holland miles away from the sea whilst spinning for Pike, i hooked a 4lbs Barbel and immediatly picked up a morrisons carrier bag, you can imagine reeling them both in, the fish moving and the weight of the water in the bag getting dragged upstream, i really thought it was a record breaker, my fishing buddy has not stopped laughing and it was 3 seasons ago. so whats your most unusual catch?

I could write a list but most probably a dead sheep comes to mind first.

i dont know if these things are becoming common in english rivers but i caught a chinese mitten crab while fishing for barbel 3 months ago from the prison stretch of the river don. it picked up a 15mm prawn boilie i got the shock of my life when i saw it.

Hi Wymo & welcome to the forum, good crowd on here (most of 'em from Donny )
Chinese Mitten crab doesn't surprise me at all, a strange multi coloured Perch like fish was caught on a local section of the Trent a few weeks back, something like you see in an aquarium.

hi mate youre not the first person to have mentioned those being caught out of don,never had one myself but they seen to becoming a common turn up now

i once had an old sleeping bag while carp fishing at tyram hall, also had 2!! hand bags 1 from delves and 1 from the canal. both stolen and weighted with bricks, such a nice bunch round here. also hooked into a HUGE barge once while night fishing on the Trent but am afraid that after a frantic battle of 5 seconds the ruddy beast spooled me, dam they take some stopping, after that i stepped up my rods and line to 3lbtc and 15lb line. i will be ready for them next time, sneaky buggers

MAD BAD ANGLER wrote:i once had an old sleeping bag while carp fishing at tyram hall, also had 2!! hand bags 1 from delves and 1 from the canal. both stolen and weighted with bricks, such a nice bunch round here. also hooked into a HUGE barge once while night fishing on the Trent but am afraid that after a frantic battle of 5 seconds the ruddy beast spooled me, dam they take some stopping, after that i stepped up my rods and line to 3lbtc and 15lb line. i will be ready for them next time, sneaky buggers

The sleeping bag must have been a tougher critter than Steve's Jacket I once caught a dead cat near one of the bridges on the Trent, note i said bridges, not barges There was an old Humber barge (Brocodale) moored up opposite Nottingham Forest last year, about a 200ton model nearly as long as Trent is wide If you hooked that, you wouldnt forget it It was scrapped, Gardner diesel removed and sold, how sad

oh yes the sleeping bag put a real good account, thought i was going to lose it at 1 point was too big to net so was forced to beach her, then had to jump on it to stop it rolling back in as for the barge, well dont know how much it weighed, as i say i lost it but i didn't have a sling big enough to weigh it in anyway

In Ireland I once hooked a German (I was well hidden as allways)who had cast over my line(65lb braid) he struck I struck , nearly had him out of his boat, good stuff that braid,he appologised and moved away from where I was fishing,see there not all bad.

But did he have a sense of humour?

wymo wrote:i dont know if these things are becoming common in english rivers but i caught a chinese mitten crab while fishing for barbel 3 months ago from the prison stretch of the river don

I'm positive all mitten crabs have to be killed and if they're in the Don, you should report your finding to the EA immediately for advice.

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a couple of weeks after i caught this another bloke caught one from the don and ended up on the front page of the local paper [nicked all my glory ]. if you look closely you can see the boillie in its gob

Looks a mean critter to me......how on earth do these get into our waterways?
You should certainly inform the Environment Agency

fishing on the burr of a boat iwas plugging and i hit something really heavy my mate thought i was in to a monster i knew it wasnt a pike but i kidded him got it to the surface shit he said its a cable drop it it was actually a carp rod and bait runner been down there years it looked like the titanick full ov fossils rod cleaned up but reel to far gone.

pikeing pirates wrote:fishing on the burr of a boat iwas plugging and i hit something really heavy my mate thought i was in to a monster i knew it wasnt a pike but i kidded him got it to the surface shit he said its a cable drop it it was actually a carp rod and bait runner been down there years it looked like the titanick full ov fossils rod cleaned up but reel to far gone.

a condom in the mersey, my god do they pull back in the flow

a dolls head on halloween very eerie

A Black widow gadder one of my first spin sessions and a old boot?????? god there has to be a boot

Pulled an open umbrella accross a canal basin once. I was lure fishing at the time and I didn't see her until she was under my feet. I must admit... I was a little worried as to what it was going to be....

Andy

I once had a barge on a mackeral on a canal not to far from me

But then again you know this already

Thinking of going back for its sister ship

Adie

last year i hooked a cormorant!!! luckily it got off my line before i could get it in

the funnest thing i've seen is a friend catch a flaterned coke can and he played it for a few mins thinking he had an eel the way it was twisting in the waster

a seagull...... on a ledgered sardine....... IN 18FT OF WATER!!!!

a merc car bonnet on a jerkbait

I caught a Garrick (local gamefish) about 8 years ago from the harbour breakwall in Port Elizabeth, South Africa which only had half a bottom jaw!!! The strange thing was that the wound was clearly a very old one and had healed over perfectly already (other than that the fish looked as if it had a huge top overbite). The fish was in pristene condition so data was taken, tag inserted, and once again released to fight another day............. btw, the fishes weight was in the region of 8 Kg's (+-17,6 lbs) if I remember correctly but was never reported as recaptured after liberation.

I caught a Donald Duck soft toy at Thorne lock a few weeks ago and a postmans bike on the witham last week. Never got the bike out tho but it put up one hell of a fight

This is my bro-in-law catch. We were sea fishing in Aus. We guessed the diver didn't want to end on our bbq