What's The Craziest Thing You Ever Pulled Up In A Cast Net?
 

Other than a 7' alligator once at Rockefeller this may be it.

Are those hardheads? My sons are wondering where they go in the winter. Where'd you get them?

Those are 3 channel cats. They weighted 8, 11, and 14 lbs respectively. Caught them way back in the marsh around Chenier Au Tigre

Wow!

I caught a 3.5 foot Gar this past fall and once I caught a 20 lb black drum. I got him loose after a few minutes with only one hole in the net.

I pulled up a crab grabber like this one.

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A 3-4lb speck, a 30-40lb drum, a small gator.... saw an old woman catch a massive school of hardheads at the hog. Took forever to get them out. Nice meat haul on the channel cats, did they rip your net up?

Not too bad. Broke the barbs of with some pliers and they slide right out.

Did not catch this in a cast net, but in a shrimp troll, (Blue Point, near Cypromort Pt.) a 45 pound thrust trolling motor, Motor Guide, with barnicles as big as your thumb. I called John Glespy a VP in charge of advertising and he sent me a brand new Motor Guide. They took my found trolling motor and displayed it in several fishing shows while running it in a glass cage.

Pretty cool story. I can't believe is still worked.

Of course it worked. It just needed a new circuit board and a new motor. The plastic case and shaft were just fine. The smiley emoji is added to mean this is a joke on my part and no hard feelings are intended.

Caught a huge muscovy duck when I was 10 or so. It didn't go well.

Caught an anchor behind Wiers and a marsh anchor. Not the same day.


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a whole bunch of sac a lait. nice fat big sac a alait.

Flounder......

Off my dock

In Blind River

Don't mean to be mr know it all but those are blue cats

As for me I watched my buddy crap his pants once when we were about 10-12 he threw a cast and netted 2 30-35pd drum

Ha! Lost a cajun anchor behind weird this year...

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Not weird, but I filled a cast net to max with mullet casting in the surf in Grand Isle. I was giving mullet to half the beach, we had a good tidal pool that was pretty deep and staying above the tide, so we used it to house what we didn't use for crab bait right away. It took 3 of us to get it to shore and we didn't know where else to dump it. We made a cut the last day of our trip to let the remaining mullet go back to freedom.

One summer, far out at the Trash Pile in VB, I reeled in a pink colored Snoopy style Zebco combo, complete with a leadhead and plastic. It was very recent as it had no corrosion on it. Cleaned it up and it worked perfectly. It was pre-internet, and I eventually gave it to someone's kid as a gift.

Again years ago, while fishing the Cameron Jetties, my cousin reeled in a chunk of Coral. It was dead of course, but how it got there we forever wondered. It was the size that someone would have in their aquarium for a structure so perhaps someone threw it out there thinking it would live on.

I caught bass, a couple big drum, a bull red nothing to weird.

This wasn't caught in a cast net but my father caught a Browning automatic shotgun in a soft case back in the '60s at the Ellender Ferry. Had it reblued after it started to rust then found the owner. Turns out they were going duck hunting and the boat flipped the same day my dad caught it.

nothing to crazy but about a 50lb drum when I was younger, probably 14 or so and I was super skinny back then and it nearly pulled me out the boat, I had to grab onto my seat lol

I've caught a lot of gar in my cast net, a good many redfish and black drum, lots of flounder at Rollover. This spring I brought my 10 year old to the Rock. She's been throwing the cast net like a champ since she was 8. Her first cast she caught a gar that was about 10 pounds. She then proceeded to catch a bunch of sailfin molly's and sheepshead minnows that we used to stock her aquarium. She's fun to watch, opens the net every time.

Mermaid in Florida years ago, during Spring Break !!!

Where is Rollover ??

Hwy 82 heading west of Lafayette. Once you pass through Pecan Island, Rollover Bayou landing is to your left after you pass up last curve in PI that doglegs right. Should be able to Google map it

I set the hook at 1:00 am on a full moon on False River fishing a dock on what I thought was gonna be a 10 pounder..Turned out to be a lawn chair..

you know the rule! Pics or it didn't happen!

Especially when "Florida and spring break" are mentioned in the same sentence.

Sure beats catching Crabs in Cameron.

Ok. thanks

my son, then age 14, caught a 35 lb black drum in a 3 foot cast net from the boat launch he thought he had the net caught on something

i picked one up in a drift sock-------it didn't work.