List of all the things you've found while fishing

Hey Mike those three items are pretty cool. Maybe even valuable. The stone w/hole would be worth taking to a museum. The spear head is awesome. The bottle, if its old, might be collectible. 

Like most of us here I have  found alot of old lures and such most of it unuseable.

The most unusual thing I've caught while fishing is a bird, a cormorant to  be exact.
 
 While fishing  from a jetty in Seaside OR. 10 years ago, I had just cast my offering into the drink when I notice a bird dive into  the same area 5 seconds later. a few seconds after that the rod goes bendo and I set the hook and start
reeling in thinking I have a fish on. Wrong,  I notice the bird surface and try to get airborne but something is holding it
down. I then realize I've caught bird not fish Oh sh!t, the bird puts up a great fight, gets airborne 2 times as I
think about what to do next. I decide to try to reel it in to C&R it. After a good strong fight I bring it to feather
grab it by the neck and start to untangle and unhook it while it is pecking the hell out of my arm and hand (it even drew
 blood) I get it untangled and unhooked, place the bird on a rock to recover and in seconds it flies away without
major harm or a thank you.
 How many AOTY points is a cormorant worth

Tad
 

Randall I have done a bit of research and best guess was the bottle was made 1860-80 by a very small Whiskey Maker No records . The doughnut rock I have taken to a few experts and remains a mystery they found a few similar at hunters camps around Lake Sonoma but they were very rough best guess its that is was used in some kind of Game or Ceremony they all wanted it bad. Here's one for you do you know why this Mortar I found has a hole in it?

From the carbon deposits I would guess placed over coals to heat whatever was being ground?

Here's one for you do you know why this Mortar I found has a hole in it?

Its a Pre historic funnel?

Or the whole tribe used it every afternoon at 4:20!

This one was anciently "killed" An ancient practice of punching  out the bottom of mortars, or otherwise breaking tools and other possessions when the owner went to the happy hunting   
 grounds. which really adds to it's special, unique character.   

You guys are funny I thinkI'll award you the Pestle Award

I have heard that before Mike. Thanks but I have my own pestle.

I found a drowned scuba diver once.  Fishing out of Pacific Grove saw a bunch of people on the beach looking out to sea and moving frantically.  Figured it was a bunch of tourists oohing and ahhing at some wild life.  After a while, I started looking around to see what was so cool, and saw dive fins sticking up in the air.  I have actually found dive fins (no one attached) in the past, so paddled over.  The closer I got, the more queasy I felt.  I realized the tourists were looking for a diver, and I found him.  Face up, fully rigged, weight belt on, and blue as can be.  Completely tangled in a thick mat of kelp, in an area with periodic breakers.  Decided the best course of action was to hail for help, rather than try to drag him in.

The rescue guys took the diver to shore.  They cut off his suit an tried CPR.  Found out later that he did not make it.  He had not been diving in years but just started again with a solo beach dive.  We will never know what happened; equipment failure, panic, blackout, medical...

Took me awhile to fish that spot again

HAHAHAHAHA!!  Banjotad that story had me laughing my ass off.  Reminded me of a time fishing for kokanee. One of the guys I am with has a seagull snatch his bait right out of the air mid-cast and  flies off with it.

Funniest thing I've ever seen is a guy with a flying bird hooked.  The other guy got pictures and they ended up in the local paper.  From then on Roland was "Birdman".    He did get it in and untangled and unhooked but, he was bloodied for it.     He was small town famous for quite a while LOL

Basically a lot of the items that have already been mentioned, the latest find was this full tackle box below.

On a side note while diving the American River over the years I have found thousands of pairs of sunglasses, random rings, (2) platinum wedding bands, several other wedding bands (plain gold- diamonds), money- one trip years ago yielded $600 bucks in hundreds,watches, briefcase,cameras, anchors,enough beer to get a country drunk, keys, walkie talkies,dive masks/fins/snorkels, fishing rods, reels, paddles,chairs,road cones, you name it I have probably found it.

Whoa! is that a Pre-Historic dildo? 

Basically a lot of the items that have already been mentioned, the latest find was this full tackle box below.

On a side note while diving the American River over the years I have found thousands of pairs of sunglasses, random rings, (2) platinum wedding bands, several other wedding bands (plain gold- diamonds), money- one trip years ago yielded $600 bucks in hundreds,watches, briefcase,cameras, anchors,enough beer to get a country drunk, keys, walkie talkies,dive masks/fins/snorkels, fishing rods, reels, paddles,chairs,road cones, you name it I have probably found it.

Man i have never found any thing good in the Feather River,time to  dive some new water.

I found a message in a bottle once.

Once when fishing with my parents when I was little I snagged what my Dad swears was a brick of coke all wrapped up and floating in the sargasso weed line out in the Gulf of Mexico...I netted it and was like "whoa what's this?".

 

My Dad didn't want to leave it out there so he brought it all the way back into shore and threw it away in the dumpster at the Marina...Mom was all pissed that he left his finger prints on a big ol bundle of blow. 

Good thing I was young and naive at the time or who knows what we would have done with it!

 

 

Sincerely,

Jim