The Angler Who Cried Coyote

[flytyer57]

What is the strangest thing you ever caught while fishing?

This angler caught a coyote.

[stlfisher]

That is a great story.

I caught a baby duck on a hot dog when I was a kid. The mom duck was not happy with me.

[ColdWaterFshr]

Gonnorhea.

[Jason Essary]

Hilarious, my nick is Coyote but never thought of catching one on a hook.

[Buzz]

I'm sure this isn't all that starange, but I had a Blue Heron jump from an old dead tree top and grab my spook. I saw him diving, but realized too late what exactly he was diving for. I was able to jerk it away from him before he was able to swallow the lure. I know someone who got spooled when a heron grabbed his spook.

[flytyer57]

Fishing Shell Lake in WI, I had an bald eagle dive after my topwater lure. Jerked it away just in time.

While trolling around the island on Pine Lake in Waukesha County, WI, I once had a bird fly low to the warter and got tangled up in my line. I reeled in to cut him lose & it flew away.

Another time I was fishing the shore of Lake Michigan and seen a gull with a jointed Rapala in it's beek. All attempts to catch the bird by me and several other people were for nill. I still wonder if that gull is still alive and if that lure ever got off it's beek.

[id10t]

What is the strangest thing you ever caught while fishing?

This angler caught a coyote.

A Border Collie named Frank. I did a very stupid thing when he was a puppy. I decided in to put my arkansan engineering degree to work by putting a tennis ball on the end of my rod and casting it as far as I could. Frank would dive in after it and follow it all the way back to the bank or dock. It was our little game, just for me and him or so I thought. He had other ideas. It was a game he could play with anyone who had a rod in their hand. He cam home on more than one occasion with a spinner bait or Rapala hanging out of his lip. Fishing tourneys were the worst. Needless to say our dock and several others that were close were off limits to the tourney fisherman. I have never heard so much cussing and laughing at the same time in my life. Tourney guys need to relax a little.

If you ever get a Border Collie keep this in mind. They are by far smarter than we are. They tolerate our stupidity only because they cant verbalize the dumb things we do. Only when you get that stare from a Border Collie will you realize "what the hatie was I thinking" You walk away muttering under your breath that the dog knows more than you do. You know the dog would have never attempted to put the canoe in in the crook tree to wash it during a thunder storm and 50 mph winds. It had to be done it was full of fish slime. After you pick the canoe up off of you and rub the knot on your head the rain would have cleaned it. You will go in the house to find the dog and your wife with the same dumbfounded expressions not saying a word. Then and only then will you realize why you fish. You might also realize you would never trade the dog or your wife for anyone else. They have become accustomed to your idiot ways and they both tolerate them and who wants to change that.

[Greg]

That's a good one. I can't top it but I have caught an alligator once and a cormorant (bird) - both in Florida.

Greg

[DaddyO]

I was Fly Fishing on the Norfork river, two years ago, in the Quarry Park area. I made a few false casts to feed more line out. Just as I was making the final cast, one of those buzzards flew through my cast and I snagged him. My 7x tippet never even stood a chance and the bird didn't falter in his flight at all.

[flytyer57]

I was Fly Fishing on the Norfork river, two years ago, in the Quarry Park area. I made a few false casts to feed more line out. Just as I was making the final cast, one of those buzzards flew through my cast and I snagged him. My 7x tippet never even stood a chance and the bird didn't falter in his flight at all.

That kinda reminded me of all the trees I caught on my back cast.