Nice specimen bullhead pics !
Get a few of these on the feeder down our local bit of Colne. We had one weighed in one of our matches at an ounce and a quarter a couple of years back- in excess of the record I believe but we didn't publicise it as didn't want the river overrun with glory hunters turning it into the next Adam's Mill....
Weirdest thing I've caught, fishwise at any rate, was a lumpsucker from the breakwater at Warkworth in Northumberland, godawful looking thing.
For strange ways of catching though, and certainly the luckiest match I've ever fished, was about 15 years ago when a local club ran a few opens on the Colne at West Drayton. Drew in the weirpool and was catching nothing when tip went round in an odd sort of bite. Turned out that my hook had gone through the eye of a swivel on a rig somebody had lost which had a 4 ft hooklength attached with a 3 pound bream on. Landed it despite a floating dead branch catching the line as I was about to net it , unhooked my hook from the swivel and propped rod against my carryall while I sorted the tangle of line, bream and branch in the landing net. The propped rod had left my feeder just out of the water so the two maggots on the hook must have been wafting around just below the surface a foot out from the wall in 4 ft of water. Dropped bream in keepnet, looked round to pick rod up and the tip's bouncing- 3 lb chub . Added one tiny perch and weighed 6-2 for third !
Amazingly, didn't win the lottery that weekend.