Fisherman catches a lawnmower off the West Australian coast

• Angler Alex Rugus thought he’d caught an octopus when he felt a 50kg weight
• But to his shock it was actually a long-lost lawnmower covered in algae
• He hauled it back to the marina but it was gone by the time he got a trailer 

By Nic White For Mailonline

Published: 18:24 BST, 30 March 2018 | Updated: 18:27 BST, 30 March 2018

Alex Rugus thought he’d hooked a whopper when a 50kg force on the end of his fishing rod almost bowled him over.

But what he reeled in off the coast of Jurien Bay, north of Perth, was even more surprising – a long-lost lawnmower covered in algae and certainly not edible.

The 60-year-old said he thought his catch was an octopus and have it a good heave, but was confused it wasn’t thrashing about.

Alex Rugus thought he’d hooked a whopper when a 50kg force on the end of his fishing rod almost bowled him over

‘I had caught myself a few trevally and thought I was on to something bigger,’ he told PerthNow.

The stunned angler said it was definitely the strangest thing he’d have caught and he wasn’t about to release it back to the wild.

‘I pulled it on board and hauled it back to the marina area. Someone joked it must have been the gardener’s from Atlantis,’ he said.

‘I left it there to organise to get rid of it, but it had gone by the time I came back. I assuming to the bin, not for someone’s shed.’

He had actually caught a long-lost lawnmower covered in algae and certainly not edible

The stunned angler said it was definitely the strangest thing he’d have caught and he wasn’t about to release it back to the wild

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