Nice Catch....Sharp.

I once hooked the crank bait I just had to cut off because the line was snagged.

I have once snagged a rod with carp in tow at a pond on the Virginia Tech campus during the Mudbass tournament the local American Fisheries Society puts on. A guy not far down the bank let his rod go unwatched and a carp dragged it in. I gave it back to him, just a little muddier.
Another cool snag was a paddle in the New River just outside of Blacksburg, VA. I thought I had the end all and be all of smallmouth hooked because the paddle was catching in the current and cutting left and right when I was winding it in.

That would be so fun to catch. I would think it was a Huge fish and then to get a treasher like that would be so cool.

I am the only person I know of that has ever caught a 5 lb. rock on a Shad Rap. I actually brought into the boat!!!

one time we snagged an old rifle while bass fishing

When I was a kid my family, mom, dad,aunts and uncles, would go spoonbill fishing. I remember one time they snagged a 14 ft johnboat that had sunk. Some how they pulled it back to shore, no one claimed it so it went home with us.

I once reeled a GIANT pair of granny panties out of Lake Ontario.

My dad and I were fishing in California, he just got a gift from his mom before she passed away, and it was a beautiful surf rod he had always been eyeing, he put some cut bait on it and set it in a sand spike, then walked off to go fling some lures. The striper hit it so hard it flew out of the holder and into the water before I knew what happened. Well, to say the least he was heart broken, he lost the last gift his mom had given him, we went home and decided to fish tomorrow. I started throwing a jig and snagged something, we got it to shore and I had snagged the guide on his rod, he grabbed it and felt a tug, to then realize he had a 10 pounder still on his line. he reeled it in and then let it go, I aked him why he let it go, and he said " He didn't go too far away,so I'm giving him a second chance." that is my favorite "Fish" story.

alex nice story

Only things i've got was other lines with a lure still on. My buddy did catch a carp that had another hook in it's mouth. He pulled on the line for a bit and got a pretty nice pole out of the deal.

Snagged a broken off line once, fishing near some pilings in a bay marina. as i was trying to untangle, it started tugging. I handlined in about a 4 or 5 lb striper. Wasn't big enough, so, i left him go, and got a decent plug for my trouble. Saved his life probably. Always feels good to let one go.

Twice I have had rods fall out of the boat with fish on the line. Twice I have casted daredevil's and drug them on the bottom and caught my rod back. One time it had a nice spawning walleye on, and the other time the fish had gotten off.

I remember shore fishing with my dad when the crappie and bluegill were in shallow. My dad went to cast into the channel, but his line never hit the water. He immediately began getting frustrated thinking he snagged a tree or something. We looked up in the early morning dark and saw his little crappie bobber floating and waving wildly around over the water. He had hooked a poor little bat. We reeled him in and tried to unhook him without getting bit and sent him on his way.

When he was young, my grandpa says they used to go to parking lots in Utah with moderately heavy rods and put a piece of cheese on a treble hook. When a seagull would pick up their bait and fly away, they would snap their bails shut and start cranking on their screaming reels. He said the sight of the birds was unbearably hilarious.

This winter my dad and I were duck hunting, and on our way back to the truck when I noticed something stcing out of a clump of brush. As I got closer I could see that it was a baitcasting reel and rod. Upon further inspection at home I found out that it was a Quantum Te1160pt, a $250 reel.

One time in Canada I broke off a walleye, after motoring up wind again and drifting over the same spot my new line got tangled with my old line and i pulled it up, walleye still hooked.

I recall a Paul Harvey story that is about 10 yrs. old where he reported that a Minnesota fisherman pulled up a World War II bazooka round from the bottom of Birch Lake near Babbit. Luckily, it didn't explode. www.RewardTax.com

A guy who works for me hung something heavy in a local reservoir. He was unable to reel it in so decided to dive into about five feet of water to check it out. It was an old 9 horsepower Evinrude motor. He went back in the late fall when the water had receded and dug it out of the mud. Nope it wouldn't take an overhaul.

Man I am full of these stories. When my kid was about ten years old his fishing friend cast a 1/4 oz. Panther Martin while standing by my son. The lure caught my kid in the temple just behind his eye. Since the trout were biting good that afternoon the kid just taped the lure to his head until he came home. It required a trip to the ER to get the two hooks out. I have a good photo of this I will try to post one day.
On yet another day years ago in Mississippi the guy in my bass boat with me cast a Jitterbug which hooked me in the back of the head pinning my cap to my head. He had a sharp Case pocketknife which he used to cut my cap and scalp to remove the dangling aggravating lure. I bled like a stuck hog.
Odd fish in strange places, a friend caught a sturgeon like four foot fish in the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. No one had ever seen anything like it in those waters.

My brother once hooked me. I don't think he thought of it as a treasure, but he sure found it funny until the hook was out.