What's the strangest thing you've seen while fishing?

[gogreeenz4]

i think its strange when i dont find a crack pipe at near by streams

[Marley]

Coming up the line into Newport Harbor one afternoon we passed a big yacht involved on a porn shoot. Everyone thought the boat ran over a school of something when we started circling, then realized what was going on. Everyone in the wheelhouse had binoculars on the event.

[BALLERONBUDGET]

...not strange but sad and funny scenarios
1. fishing on the cattleboats elbow to elbow..., guy bumps into his buddy's arm = there goes $$ rod combo to the sea gods...."bastard, u owe me big time!!!!!" ; seen it also done by the solo fisherman with same result.....

2. pier fisherman pissing away in the wind..... (hey wen u gotta go and theres no portapotty ) or like venice pier 4 bathrooms for 500 people on a sunday

3. took a buddy fishing for his 1st time.. he pratices underhand casts off pier with bail open dropper loop set up but line twisted around tip . so upon cast weight swings back upward nails his hand " MOTHER F***" drops my setup as he yells yet managed to hook his shirt same time...... so rod combo goes over but luckily bail open.... so i tell the fool hand wind 100yrds up until my rod comes outta the water.... at that point was laughing my arse off so much i cud care less if i got my rod back or not.. pendejo whey!!!!

[City Dad]

My own reflection.

And then there was that evening my brother and I were fishing the Okanogan and we waded out to an island in the middle of the river. It was July so the water had been dropping for a bit and the shoreline of the island was soft and muddy. Nigh about dusk when we headed home and as we were crossing the mud my brother tripped over something in the muck. It appeared to be a square chunk of marble.

Curious, we decided to dig a bit. When the other two edges failed to turn up straight away we endeavored to excavate more until we could determine what lay buried there.

We had found a tombstone. One side bore faint traces of engraving, but we could make out no name or date. We tried to carry it with us, but that wan’t going to happen, so we left it.

Next night we went back and the tombstone was gone. We could make out no tracks other than those we had left the night before.

The shortest rout from either bank to that island would have been a fifteen yard wade in waits-deep water. On the East side was cow pasture. On the West, a tangle of trees and blackberry bushes. How that stone got out of there I have no idea. It was about 33” x 48” and 5” or 6” thick. How much would that weigh?

Anyhow, it’s stuff like that that makes me wish Bigfoot would just go ahead and show herself to me.

[Stalker Of Fish]

While rafting down the American river and fly fishing I came across two naked girls having sex on a large flat rock that was
in the water they just smiled at me as I drifted by . What made it extra strange was two weeks later the same two girls
were sitting right in front of the stage at Club Can't Tell in Sacramento when my band walked out to play our set . I could not stop grinning after I looked down and saw them and they recognized me . Half way through our gig our Singer came over to me and asked what was up I told him and he took them home after the show . I got a whack from my girlfriend who was also
sitting up front .

The other strange but sad thing I experienced was on the Merced River. I had boated up the white water as far as possible
and beached my boat . I was casting a lure and hooked a wet suit it was turned inside out and thought I made a lucky find .
I caught my fish and returned to my dads gold dredging camp down river happy as A 16 year old could be with my new wet suit.
An hour later the Sheriffs river patrol boat came up river and asked us about a missing 15 year old boy who used a truck
tube to float the river from several miles up stream . My dad showed them the wetsuit I found and they told us because
it was inside out and scuffed on that side it was a very bad sign . They went up river and found him below the 25 foot falls
caught on a boulder . He did not notice the metal rails bolted to the granite before the falls that was a portage point to walk your raft/kayak around the falls .

They came by and told us they found him he was wrapped up on the deck and I never could forget that sight . I always gave every river I went to an extra measure of respect from that day on .

[Riverdale]

Great thread guys! Nothing gory or sexy...Had a huge King snake swim across the canal where I was fishing,I stood very still(dont like snakes)and it climbed the rock bank and went right thru my legs.Small bass jumping vertical about a foot and a half out , catching small red dragon flies.4 inch Bass eating a six inch Senko.Real frog tracking and eating my Snag proof frog.14 lb cat fish ,tail hooked with my crank bait(that was fun)) Having cabin fever during a long heat wave and decide to throw some T-rig worms to get off the couch,got hit on every cast my girl too,until the black senkos were gone it was 112 deg!!!!Fresh water Otters!!Girls that can throw a bait caster.

[fishermanx14]

I also have another story, when i was like 12 my grandpa took me to the serrias for the first time and the first day up there we fished the lower owens and there were a bunch of drunk kids up there partying. While we were fishing i head a girl say something to the effect of "hey i should flash that kid" and she kept telling her friends that over and over and my grandpa told me not to turn around but i finally did and she flashed me and my grandpa.....somehow my grandma never found out about that story...also had a lot of drunk of girls flash everyone at lake havasu and lake mohave

[castle]

Hypo needles, condom boxes. Wear thick soled shoes and long pants.

[Ifishtoolittle]

I'd say the strangest thing I've seen so far was at the golf course pond we hit. The fact there was evidence of someone living and drinking under that patio was really weird. Then again, I've seen so many new/strange things this year that almost nothing surprises me anymore.

[Cowboy Hookup]

It was taking the family to Cerritos Regional park for the first time and the first and only hookup of the day was the skeletal remains of a large Catfish.