Stuff you've found on the water

We all find stuff while we are kayaking.  What sort of stuff have y'all found?  I'll start.

At a very low spring tide while preparing to launch I saw a cluster of what looked like turtle eggs in a tide pool.  As I approached I saw another smaller cluster a bit further along the beach.  Turtle eggs on Puget Sound?!  They were golf balls.  More than 2 dozen golf balls.  Someone must have been launching them from one of the houses across the railroad tracks, and the wind and wave action had collected them in a couple of tide pools.

Everything below was found floating offshore:

- An US Airforce baseball cap - high quality.
- An Eddie Bauer sport cap - baseball style with mesh temples.  TLW loves it for gardening.
- A Washington State Ferries E.H. Repair Facility Pipe Shop hardhat with webbing, cushion, and knob adjustment all intact- robin's egg blue.
- Large yellow/red torpedo float.
- Medium white torpedo float.
- Large white egg float.
- Small green egg float.
- Mylar balloons, plastic bags, styrofoam bait trays.
- One unopened can of Budweiser Beer.
- One unopened bottle of water.
- Dozens of tennis balls, and a couple of other doggie throws.

Nate and I found a floating zip lock bag full of pee while we were fishing for Springers. It must have been some lucky pee because he picked up a nice native and I got a 14lb hen that day.

I caught a Point Wilson Dart, along with probably 30' of monofilimant out at Hobuck last month. 

At low tide in Humboldt Bay a couple weeks ago out clamming I found a bag of cremated human remains. There was identifying information on the bag - I returned it to the funeral home.

Seems I'm always scooping up floating trash otw but that was a new one on me.

Nate and I found a floating zip lock bag full of pee while we were fishing for Springers. It must have been some lucky pee because he picked up a nice native and I got a 14lb hen that day.

I think that bag was a fluke.  I have since found several other pee bags in that area and I have yet to catch another salmon.  Besides the usual flotsam and jetsam I found a nice glass bowl and and small aluminum pipe while picking up trash during pee breaks last spring.  I also have nice and sun faded can of Coors lite in my fridge if anyone wants it.

At low tide in Humboldt Bay a couple weeks ago out clamming I found a bag of cremated human remains. There was identifying information on the bag - I returned it to the funeral home.

Seems I'm always scooping up floating trash otw but that was a new one on me.

   at least the remains were cremated........could'a been worse.

At low tide in Humboldt Bay a couple weeks ago out clamming I found a bag of cremated human remains. There was identifying information on the bag - I returned it to the funeral home.

Seems I'm always scooping up floating trash otw but that was a new one on me.

Hey, me too! That was by far my most interesting find.
http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=9032.msg97964#msg97964

While lauching a kayak in the Scioto River in Columbus Ohio, I found a 450lb gang member (my suspicions were confirmed by the local sheriff who had apparently had several run-ins with this fellow) who had apparently been taken to this remote area to be executed but they didnt kill him, they had shot him in the back and he was paralysed from the neck down. We ended up helping the EMS get the guy into the ambulance, and talking to the sheriff for an while about gang activity, apparently this was a favorite spot to leave people who they wanted out of the picture...

Silver Lining was that the guy survived and gained use of his upper body, and turned into  a states wittness and his testimony and evidence put 10 other gang bangers and drug dealers in jail.

Also found what we were sure was a floating body in the Ohio River just south of Louisville, turns out that it was just a black hoody floating face down in the water with the hood up and the arms outstreched, kinda freaky. Thankfully somebody just lost a hoody and not their life!

other Random stuff:

10lb coho salmon  ( barely alive) still hooked on a spoon with 25ft of line attached in Lake Michigan
   ( I still have the spoon and we ate the salmon I dove in and collected it with my bare hands Bear Grylls style.

Plastic fullsize swan decorative planter

A door to a jeep, the metal kind that fits on the hardtop

plastic dolls head (several different times, oddly always in West Virginia ??)

Nude beach in the middle of the Wisconsin River, probably the most random thing I have ever seen, huge sandbar with 100 or so naked folks flying kites, and playing volleyball etc. right smack dab in the middle of Wisconsin farm country.  I guess thats one way to get rid of that pesky farmers tan...

Found my lucky boonie hat.  It was a hot spring day after work and I forgot to bring a hat, found it floating in the water.  Once I put it on my head, the fishing got really good.

Nude beach in the middle of the Wisconsin River, probably the most random thing I have ever seen, huge sandbar with 100 or so naked folks flying kites, and playing volleyball etc. right smack dab in the middle of Wisconsin farm country.  I guess thats one way to get rid of that pesky farmers tan...

I'd be jealous of that find if I wasn't aware of the body types typically encountered at nude beaches.

I caught a Point Wilson Dart, along with probably 30' of monofilimant out at Hobuck last month.

Nice catch! Those are sweet jigs...especially for free

Nude beach in the middle of the Wisconsin River, probably the most random thing I have ever seen, huge sandbar with 100 or so naked folks flying kites, and playing volleyball etc. right smack dab in the middle of Wisconsin farm country.  I guess thats one way to get rid of that pesky farmers tan...

I'd be jealous of that find if I wasn't aware of the body types typically encountered at nude beaches.

OH Yeah!! Its always the people you wish had their clothes ON at a nude beach, and in Wisconsin I can attest that is definitely the case, beer , brats and cheese are not the foundations that make a good looking naked person

I found a grey and white cat on the Willamette once.  I made a flyer, but no one contacted me. 
http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=6476.0

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!

I found a grey and white cat on the Willamette once.  I made a flyer, but no one contacted me.
http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=6476.0

You goofball.  Hahahahaaa