I have been fishing in LE since I can remember which is more than 50 years. The largest fish I ever caught was a carp about 30lbs. The weirdest was when we were fishing in the spring and I thought I was snagged on the bottom. I kept pulling and finally it came loose but I could feel there was weight so figured it was a gob of zebra mussels. There were 3 of us in the boat when I pulled what looked like a cue ball but turned out to be a giant eye ball! It was huge and had veins hanging off of it and we were all just staring at it until we started to smell it, it smelled like rotted fish. One of the guys told me to get rid of it because it was making him sick so I slammed my line down to get it off of my hook. I immediately regretted getting rid of it because none of us could imagine what could have had a eye ball so big. I joked if it was the Lake Erie monster he will be looking for me the rest of my life while swimming in circles! 
One time there was 5 of us fishing near the Hen/Chick's in Canada in about 10' of water. One of the guys in the boat hooked what he thought was the bottom until I noticed his line going off into a different direction. This thing pulled out line at a slow steady pull until he was almost out of line, he tightened down his drag and could put a lot of pressure on the fish with 30LB braid line. We all reeled up and just watched him fight this fish for over 20 minutes, he would gain some line and it would pull the line back out over and over. The fish then headed for shallow water and he couldn't stop it from getting in to the rocks and his line broke. We never seen the fish, it never broke the surface so we didn't think it was a big steelhead. One of the old timers that was in the boat said he bet it was a big carp but we will never know what it was.
What is the largest and/or the strangest thing you have caught in LE?
One time there was 5 of us fishing near the Hen/Chick's in Canada in about 10' of water. One of the guys in the boat hooked what he thought was the bottom until I noticed his line going off into a different direction. This thing pulled out line at a slow steady pull until he was almost out of line, he tightened down his drag and could put a lot of pressure on the fish with 30LB braid line. We all reeled up and just watched him fight this fish for over 20 minutes, he would gain some line and it would pull the line back out over and over. The fish then headed for shallow water and he couldn't stop it from getting in to the rocks and his line broke. We never seen the fish, it never broke the surface so we didn't think it was a big steelhead. One of the old timers that was in the boat said he bet it was a big carp but we will never know what it was.
What is the largest and/or the strangest thing you have caught in LE?
