I in fact didnt' catch
"it". But my uncle did.....
He was fishing some late summer weedbeds in the "Mille Iles Riviers" (Thousand Island River) in Laval, Quebec around 1978. He was out in a 'really old' float tube which by the way, was a REALLY bad idea in this type of water. He was hitting a nice bunch of fish just before a drop off along the front of a weed bed using surface plugs. His 'last fish of the day' (a nice size smallie) slammed that plug and promptly pulled it to the bottom leaving him snagged.
After much pulling and yanking, he finally unhooked himself and reeled in what looked like a huge slimed covered birdsnest of fishing line.....
It turned out to be a clump of "
Human hair with some scalp bits attached to it...".
VERY, VERY nasty....
I'm pretty sure that took a few years off of his life and I know that he never got into that tube, nor any other float tube until his death a few years ago.
Sad, but true.....
/FC