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ABOUT 10 ROBBIEGILL LURES :lol:

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ABOUT 10 ROBBIEGILL LURES :lol:[/quote]
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Strangest thing I caught was my own pole that I lost in the river three weeks before

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the strangest thing I have hooked would prolly be a goose. it got away tho

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This weird goldfish caught it with a cubbie mini mite jig at big bend lake :shock: put up a pretty good fight :mrgreen:


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my bad i didnt read the part that said non fish :oops: i guess the strangest thing would be a really old beer can that had to be from the 70's on the des plaines river :lol:


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I made a topic like this a while ago.. It had some cool responses too

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This thread has been reborn a few times. To my best recollection, Darth Wader had a funny condom snagging incident on the Fox River. If someone is REALLY bored, maybe they find that story in the archives.

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Coolest thing was a ripped up harley shirt with three inline spinners in decent condition. I also caught a few milk crates, both intentionally and accidentally. All "keepers". :lol: Once on Geneva I caught a big trolling rod/reel combo while jigging, but it got off before I got it in the boat.

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Weirdest thing I ever caught was a nasty-looking pair of tidy-whities (brief underwear) while fishing on the Kankakee.

Worst thing that I ever heard get caught was a dead dog. One of my dad's buddies was fishing ice out somewhere in WI and he snagged into a dead lab. The dog had a tag on and he called the number. Turns out the dog disappeared over the winter. Guess it fell through the ice.

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thats a terrible story Paul S. At least maybe the owners got some closure though.

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Paul S wrote:
Weirdest thing I ever caught was a nasty-looking pair of tidy-whities (brief underwear) while fishing on the Kankakee.

Worst thing that I ever heard get caught was a dead dog. One of my dad's buddies was fishing ice out somewhere in WI and he snagged into a dead lab. The dog had a tag on and he called the number. Turns out the dog disappeared over the winter. Guess it fell through the ice.


That sucks. If I was that family I'd rather not have known :(

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While fishing at the Chain... I hooked a pair of sunglasses that were tethered to a good sized rock (about the size of a baseball) held together by about 6" of shoelace and fishing line. How a rock and a pair of sunglasses ended up tied together... i have no idea.

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Damn Paul, that is depressing :shock: :cry: :lol:

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I caught a metal door on the Fox in St. Charles.


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caught a mickey mouse fishing pole.

Also heard about my friends uncle catching a dead dog at racine while fall salmon fishing a few yrs ago. I think it might have also been a lab.


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A squirrel...

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Other strange things caught out of the Fox...a winter coat, a horseshoe, a dead drum, fishing poles, and a huge cluster of zebra mussels.


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Near the South Elgin dam, I caught (snagged) a fish fillet. Skin on, one side only. Looked like a White Drum. I have a pic, but my phone isn't allowing me to upload. I'm working on it.

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In waukegan perch fishing in about 65 ft of water I caught a pair of binoculars nasty stuff all I could do was throw it back in or keep it in the boat to throw away on shore. I did just that waited for shore.

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I didn't catch it but it was strange. Two years ago in Rhinelander I hooked a loon. I watched this loon hanging around the lake for days. One morning I was fishing for Crappies in shallow water reeds. I was using small minnows about a foot down from my float. While watching my float, I saw something big flash in the water by my float. I thought it had to be a big Muskie. Seconds later my float takes off and I set the hook. A loon comes jumping out of the water, then dives and rips off 100 feet of line before I knew what happened. I couldn't believe it. I never saw the loon around that morning, it came out of nowhere. Now I have a loon hooked, no way I can stop the thing and I don't want the line to break where the loon is carrying a bunch of line out of his mouth. I decided to tighten the drag and hope the hook would bend and unhook. The line ended up breaking close to the hook. I remember looking around the lake to see if anyone saw me. Thankfully nobody was around.

Many times in Canada, I have fished in the same area of the lake as diving loons. Since they dive so well and can stay under water for a long time, I often wondered if one would go after my lure. Never had it happen but I now know it does happen,at least with live minnows.

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My father had a loon follow his musky bait to the boat also years back. He got a glimpse and thought it was a big musky also. THen the second time it followed the lure in, my father recognized it was a freakin loon! :lol:


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I've caught numerous things over the years... about five different rod and reel's, a leach bucket in bay de noc, a BMX bike at St Charly ... (I put it on the island), a few buckets. A Lift control cable thrown into the river a year before i found it... and I have witnesses to all...Paul


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i caught a net on the chicago river but the weirdest thing was like a ball of gray hairs :shock:

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I hooked a mermaid and had sex with her, when I looked again it wasnt a mermaid after all. There must be something behind the term acting looney? maybe those birds are just crazy?


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I once caught a jewel osco bag filled with old cell phones, and shampoo bottles.


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I once caught a jewel osco bag filled with old cell phones, and shampoo bottles.



if it was desplaine river sounds like it fell from the bum condos under the bridges. they got a whole setup under them

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I snagged a beaver this season on the fox!! Crazy fight. Luckily the hook popped out eventually.

On a small pond in Elburn I also caught a broken rod with only the first guide on it. There was about ten feet of 20lb test tied to the first guide and on the end was a tiny fly. Looked like a hobo's fishing combo LOL.

Hooked onto a very old reel on the fox and still plan on cleaning it to see if it works.

My dad hooked a dead frog while musky fishing on the chain o lakes.

When I was younger I had a seagul hit my rapala. It was running just under the surface and the seagul swung down and grabbed it. It started flying away and I opened my bail and let it take line. I realized my line was running out quickly so I shut my bail and the seagul stopped dead in it's tracks and the rapala came out. This was when I was about 10 so I didn't know what to do lol.

I'm sure there are others I'm missing. Fishing in a place like the fox you never know what you will pull up!


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I caught a baby alligator in a Georgia swamp back in 1996. I didn't know what to do but got the hook out without loosing my fingers. He was about 1 foot long and I wished I could have kept him as a pet. :P

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I just caught about a 10' long 2 X 4 at dam #2 on the Des Plaines a few days ago. :shock: I thought I had hooked into a huge fish, the way the lumber was turning in the current felt exactly like a fish! My heart was racing thinking I was pulling in the pike of a lifetime! :mrgreen:

I can't believe I actually landed the thing and got my lure back! :P


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On Fox about 8 years ago. Me and my buddies go carp fishing for some reason...St Charles area. After great day of fishing I have another bite...very light so I just set the hook since they were biting really light that day. Seems like a really small carp going right and left in the water pulling some line, at this point IM SURE that's a fish. After about one minute fight what do i pull out of the water???? A voodoo doll with somebody's picture sawn to its chest...we just got a quick look at it since I got so freaked out by the whole thing..Burned the line with my lighter and we left as soon as possible. The scariest thing was that it was hooked by the dolls right hand...we never fished that area again. To this day we talk about that fishing day when we get together.

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On Fox about 8 years ago. Me and my buddies go carp fishing for some reason...St Charles area. After great day of fishing I have another bite...very light so I just set the hook since they were biting really light that day. Seems like a really small carp going right and left in the water pulling some line, at this point IM SURE that's a fish. After about one minute fight what do i pull out of the water???? A voodoo doll with somebody's picture sawn to its chest...we just got a quick look at it since I got so freaked out by the whole thing..Burned the line with my lighter and we left as soon as possible. The scariest thing was that it was hooked by the dolls right hand...we never fished that area again. To this day we talk about that fishing day when we get together.



what if you found out that the person in picture actually drowned?

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On Fox about 8 years ago. Me and my buddies go carp fishing for some reason...St Charles area. After great day of fishing I have another bite...very light so I just set the hook since they were biting really light that day. Seems like a really small carp going right and left in the water pulling some line, at this point IM SURE that's a fish. After about one minute fight what do i pull out of the water???? A voodoo doll with somebody's picture sawn to its chest...we just got a quick look at it since I got so freaked out by the whole thing..Burned the line with my lighter and we left as soon as possible. The scariest thing was that it was hooked by the dolls right hand...we never fished that area again. To this day we talk about that fishing day when we get together.


That's freaky!!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

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On a fishing trip in canada, I was fishing near the shore I casted out and somehow a baby bat flew into my fishing line. It took me by surprise because their was suddenly a lot of splashing when i finally reeled in it took like 20 mins to untangle it.


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I landed a quarter of an old rusting barrel today, it was covered in tar.


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