Weirdest thing you saw/heard when hunting or fishing

[02ducky]

Saw this discussion on another site and thought it would be fun to hear/read your stories.

What's the strangest, weirdest, scariest, odd thing you have see while hunting, camping or fishing?

[Jamnanc]

A saddle, tack, and pack that was obviously from a year or two earlier.

A a small deer that impaled itself jumping over a downed log.

[Ianski]

sorry, a little off topic, but once while driving in rural WI, a friend and I saw something we couldn't explain that had us quite worked up for a bit. still don't know what it was. We were headed out to my buddies house in the sticks at night and while i was riding passenger i saw something very tall, grey and walking on two legs cross the road in front of us a about 50 yds or so.. i thought maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me until i looked over at my buddy who was driving and his mouth was hanging open and asked if i saw what he just saw. He described the same thing i had just seen and neither of us said a word the rest of the drive. what ever it was was between 7 and 8 ft tall and long grey hair. only explanation i have is that it was some massively tall college kid playing a prank or something, but it was a sci-fi work of art if it were a costume. I know i sound like a crazy person but I still have no idea what on God's green earth it was.

[davsel]

Tens of thousands of Daddy Longlegs huddled together under the trap door to a blind in Texas before first light. When I put my flashlight light on them, they all started pulsing in unison like a heartbeat. Creepy as hell.

Took a date out prairie dog shooting - always test them with prairie dogs and fishing before getting serious. After shooting for a while, walked out to check the carnage. As we walked past a hole, this wounded dog emerged dragging three feet of gut and gasping. I stomped its head, and it's eyes bugged out like one of those stress ball dolls. She passed the test - better than I. Though, she was a nurse and they tend to have a sick sense of humor.
Disgusting as hell.

[ray1970]

I know i sound like a crazy person but I still have no idea what on God's green earth it was.

Obviously it was a sasquatch.

[buffalobo]

Obviously it was a sasquatch.

Or Gus's ol' lady.

BTW, WTF, is goony goo hoo, Gus?

sent from my electronic ball and chain

[ray1970]

Or Gus's ol' lady.

BTW, WTF, is goony goo hoo, Gus?

sent from my electronic ball and chain

Now,that's funny stuff.

Or it might have been one of Jim's relatives.

[T. B. Turner]

Around 20 years ago or so I was doing some target shooting S.W of Sedalia back when it was still legal to shoot in that area. I was getting ready to leave when a group of young people showed up in a jeep Cherokee. I spoke with A young fellow with blond hair and I told him I was just leaving so that they could use the area. He was polite and respectful but something about him creeped me out to the pint of being glad that I had a loaded gun in my hand. It was like there was something going on under the surface and made me wonder if they were up to something. I have hunted and fished most of my life and met many people in the field and none had ever caused me to feel that way.
I had forgot the incident until a few years later I saw a picture of a person on the cover of "Time Magazine" And I wondered where I had saw that person before. It turned out to be Dylan Klebold.
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Correction, It was about a year or two before columbine happened. Sometimes I lose track of time.

[sako55]

Caught a bat while fly fishing late in the evening. It took the fly right out of the air. Thought I hooked something on my back cast and reeled it in to fix and there it was flapping in the water.

[SamuraiCO]

Camping at the Onion Reservoir in Nevada with some friends. Something woke us up in the middle of the night. Lots of loud breathing and snorting. Flashlights out and we could not see anything. Did not wander far from camp. Never did see anything or any signs of what it was.

I spent two summers at my friends fish camp in Kenai Alaska. One summer we spent three days floating the Kenai river. While crossing Skilak lake as we neared there was a school of sockeye so big near where the lake dumps into the river again when they moved a 2-3 foot wake was created on the surface.