If I Catch You Again
What if you were fishing one day and managed to reel in an object, weird fish or some other organism that surprised yous to the point of almost having a centre assail? Many fishermen accept had such experiences, and nosotros've gathered their best advice for keeping safe and alarm every fourth dimension your rod is cast.
Santa Rescue in the Sea
I was angling with my Dad off the declension of Mallorca in Spain when I was near 15. It was really warm and we weren't catching anything much, then nosotros got some snorkels and went for a swim effectually to run across if we could come across anything interesting, (it was only almost 20 feet deep).
Around these cavern-like rocks, I spotted what looked similar a corpse. I started trying to dive down, simply I'm not a super strong swimmer so every time I got to near 10 feet away from it I had to come support for air. Eventually, my Dad got to it and discovered it was a slimy life-size plastic Santa. I'm glad I was in the sea considering I'yard pretty certain I peed my pants. My Dad idea information technology was hilarious.
An Explosive Find
We were fishing down in Southern Maryland and what is called the "Target Ships" in the Chesapeake Bay. The ships are old navy vessels that take been set up on concrete pillars then they remain above water. The military uses them for radar testing and test bombing runs.
Suddenly, my rod became very heavy. The officer stopped his inspection and said "Get alee son, reel it upwards. Let's come across what you got". I pulled it in and it turned out to be an unexploded test explosive. The officer brandished his knife and cut my line. He then ordered my dad to just throttle the gunkhole and get away as fast as he tin. Needless to say, it did NOT detonate when information technology hit the lesser of the bay. I know its difficult to believe this story without proof, but we were unable to get a picture of it. Nosotros tried, just the declension guard officer was determined almost us getting the heck out of there as quick as possible.
Deadly Catch
This happened the first time I went fishing with my dad and brother. A nice guy on the opposite end of the pier came over and gave the states a paw setting up every bit well equally some tips on casting off etc earlier leaving usa to it. After a while, my blood brother realized he had a bite and reeled it in. He pulled upwardly a really ugly looking fish and was well-nigh to grab it off the line when the guy who had been helping the states previously shouted "DON'T TOUCH THAT!!" He came over and explained to united states of america that it was a Lesser Weever. He just cut the line and kicked it back alive before explaining that you can't kill them in case they wash upwardly on the embankment.
Tough Catfish
A few years back I went catfishing at a river non far from my house. I was line-fishing for shad on an egg sinker a few feet deep when I got a very weak hit. I gear up the hook and started reeling in and whatever was on the other end was heavy, only not fighting…similar at all. I saw the tail rising out of the water a few times, so I knew it was a fish, but the matter only kept flaccid. When I landed it I constitute out simply how tough catfish are. Someone had caught this fish earlier, cut off the filets and released information technology back into the river. This fish had been stripped of all muscle only was fully healed, still pond and even hunting. I put it out of its misery, only that poor fish was tough as nails.
Nature in Action
I guess it was more the experience that was weird, but I caught a pocket-sized walleye and was actually lifting it out of the water when a HUGE northern thruway jumped in out of the bluish, engulfed the walleye and dove back into the lake. When we looked inside it after, there was a pristine fully intact walleye sitting in its belly! Awesome experience.
Dogs of the Deep
One time when I was about 7 or viii, at around dusk when information technology was getting hard to run into, I was angling with my dad from a rowboat. I had defenseless something and reached over the side of the boat to pull in what I expected to be some other pan fish. Still, what I grabbed was slimy and had arms and hands!! I dropped it in the boat and yelled for dad to take a look. He laughed. It was a mud puppy. I had never seen 1 in my dwelling town'due south lake before but he patently had.
The Captured Fish
I was fishing with my dad and he reeled in a fish, except there was another fish right side by side to it. It seemed weird, and when he pulled his grab up onto the dock, the bonus fish landed on the dock also. Well as we figured out, fish number 1 had taken someone's bait, but the line must have broken off. He then proceeded to spit out the hook with some bait still on it, while a agglomeration of line was however lodged in his tum. Fish #2 and then decided to eat the allurement abaft from fish #1's butt. Must take just happened also or else they both would take probably been expressionless. No ane believes him when he tells the story.
A Rare Sight
When I was a piffling kid I went on a chartered sea-fishing trip in Wales. There were a dozen or so people on the trip, and the guy running things was kind of a jerk. He yelled a lot and wasn't very patient. I'd already gotten some tackle caught in someone else'southward line, so he begrudgingly came over to me when I was later struggling with my angling rod. He rolled his eyes, took it off me and set up about getting me "out from under a rock." He then reeled in a 12lb pollock that was one-half my size. The balance of the boat fixed their rods and came over, told me they call those 'Grunters' and that yous rarely ever see ane.
Alligator Fish?
When fishing, I idea my hook had gotten caught up on a log, but the log rose up and information technology was a 42″ musky! I was terrified and said to the other guy in the canoe, "I caught an alligator!" The affair dragged the canoe around for a half hour before nosotros got it upward. The iii.5′ fish thrashed around in the canoe until it broke the line and literally jumped out of the boat. Information technology was the biggest adrenaline rush I've always had fishing.
Leviathan of the Deep
As a child I went fishing off of a pier in Florida. A woman in her twoscore's was reeling in something huge! As information technology got closer to the water, she needed three men to agree onto the pole with her. It was a manta ray, and it'southward wingspan was hands 15-xx anxiety beyond. A existent sea monster!
A Near Priceless Discover
My parents and iii siblings were fishing at Castaic Lake nigh fifteen years ago and my older brother, who was probably 10 at the fourth dimension, was skipping rocks while he was waiting for a catch. He picked upwards this 1 off looking stone and ran over to my dad to prove him. Turns out that it wasn't a rock at all, but a fossilized baby megalodon molar from millions of years ago. Needless to say, we kept it.
A Not-So-Friendly Turtle
While fishing, I grabbed pliers from my tackle box and wrapped the line around it a bunch of times and and so started pulling my catch upwardly. It was something heavy, but I figured information technology was a downed tree limb or something. When it fabricated information technology to shore, it was a huge alligator snapping turtle. I pulled the line so as to flip it on its dorsum and stretch its cervix out. And then I stepped down with my boot and unhooked my expensive angling lure out of its mouth earlier running abroad every bit fast equally I could.
Pelican Wrestling
I'll never forget virtually accidentally hooking a pelican when line-fishing off a pier. My blood brother and I were angling and my father was sitting dorsum most 50ft or then watching us. I caught the pelican near its wing when I went back to cast. Now, the pelican concluded up beingness fine. But information technology was funny watching my male parent wrestle that thing to get the hook out.
Fishermen About Become the Prey
I went with a buddy and his family on vacation down to Florida a couple years back. His dad is big on making crab cakes and all that so we went out and bought all the gear for going crabbing in the Everglades. On our way into our spot, I had seen a pocket-size alligator (maybe 3ft/1 meter) and immediately started joking about how I wanted to catch a gator. While catching crabs, I felt a trivial tug on the terminate of my rope. I didn't call back annihilation near it and told my buddy to grab the net because I had 1 on the line. Around the time he turned effectually with the internet, a vii-8 foot gator came straight up out of the water with my rope hanging out of its oral fissure! Long story short, it put a stop to our crabbing in that expanse.
A Rare Fish Sighting
One evening I was fishing at our riverfront property, and I'm not sure why but I left my pole in the water while I went inside for lunch. When I came back out, it was stuck in between some rocks in shallow water. I walked out and grabbed the pole and it started to fight dorsum. When I reeled information technology in I found a 14″ or so alligator gar. I had never seen one earlier and had no idea what sort of prehistoric beast I had caught. Information technology's pretty amazing that the affair didn't pause my line with its gnarly teeth.
An Unexpected Catch
Years ago a few friends and I were fishing a river in betwixt two different lakes called Burleigh Falls in Ontario. We weren't having much luck until we noticed what seemed to exist like a feeding frenzy near the water surface most 30 feet away. I snagged something. It was HEAVY and I pulled at it equally much as I could.
Later a full two minutes of reeling this thing in, a scuba diver popped up beside the boat and asked if 'this belonged to one of usa' and pointed at the lure hooked on his gear. We were more than a little freaked out by the situation and everyone had a good express mirth almost it just it wasn't until after that we realized how it could have concluded much differently if we decided to kickoff the engine. It'due south certainly the biggest affair I ever caught.
A Long Manner from Dwelling house
Much of my mum's side of the family as well every bit my dad worked on a trawler off the n-eastward coast of Scotland. The weirdest story I tin remember at the moment is when they caught some kind of tropical fish from s of the equator. How it got to these much colder waters on the other side of the planet without passing away en route is a mystery. They put it back in after they had identified it.
What Have I Caught?
Living in Alaska I'd expect more strange stuff – but not really: equally I was dragging it upwards, I saw what looks like a giant mass of kelp on my hook. I know I wasn't dragging on the lesser, so I figured I simply came across a kelp farm. It was a wolf eel instead. Information technology had two large, protruding teeth in the lower jaw. I even stopped a State Trooper and fishing and game official considering I had NO CLUE what I had just pulled out of the h2o. They told me it was a wolf eel and to go ahead and throw information technology back if I wasn't going to eat it. Past far the weirdest I've seen.
Mission Accomplished
I was deep sea fishing with my family unit when nosotros were on vacation. Before we left I had said that I wanted to grab the ugliest fish in the sea. Our helm took us out on the water and handed me the rod that he had cast out. I reeled it in and pulled up an oyster toadfish. He looked at me while I was reeling it in and said: "That has got to be the ugliest fish in the body of water." I considered it a successful trip.
Aboriginal Alaskan
I fish in the Copper River upwardly in Alaska and found the oldest human pieces of homo skeleton ever found in the state. It was nigh 25% of the skull. We turned it over to the troopers who sent it off for testing. The test showed it was around 2000 years old.
The Insulated Catfish
We in one case pulled a steel butt out of a lake. It was fully intact, and the cap was missing. Subsequently draining all the water out of information technology, we heard a loud flopping sound inside. Upon prying the lid off the barrel we discovered a large catfish inside. The only way we could figure it ended upwardly in there was by pond through the small-scale opening from the missing cap which was maybe two inches in diameter. It must have done this as a baby and had been trapped in that butt for years, growing and unable to escape until we ready it gratis.
An Innocent Bluegill Catch Goes Amiss
When I was a little kid, I caught a small bluegill that was maybe iv inches long. Every bit I was reeling it in I saw a shimmer in the h2o. My Grandad told me to drop my rod. I, as a nine-year-onetime, said, "Forget that! I caught a fish!" and kept reeling it in. At some point I noticed my Gramps was already on elevation of the picnic table we had our gear on, yelling at his buddy to get me.
Here I am still reeling in my awesome fish. Male child, this little Bluegill is fighting difficult to not get caught! My Grandpas buddy slapped the rod out of my mitt and pulled me dorsum in time to run into the huge ophidian that had my bluegill in its mouth and somehow had gotten itself hooked besides. You see, an extreme fear of snakes is a family trait. I shudder to call back what would have happened if my Grandpa's buddy hadn't come forth.
A Haul with Real Substance
When I was 8 years onetime, I reeled in a small duffel bag full of soaking wet bricks of a grassy looking substance I didn't recognize. Weird thing is, it turned out to non exist the start time that this had happened in my town. My dad took the handbag the moment I pulled it onshore and threw it in his truck. I didn't realize what I had caught until I was a bit older.
A Bulky Snag
I was fishing with my father on a river north of Seattle back in the '80s. I had cast out across the flow of the river and was doing a slow retrieve looking for trout. I snagged onto something that I thought was a log, simply and so it started slowly pulling on my rod. I was able to make some headway (no pun intended) on retrieving it, but as it got well-nigh the depository financial institution of the river, I could see that I had snagged a full-size cow's head that had been floating downwards the river.
A Tasty Take hold of
This happened when I was a child angling in a local human-fabricated lake in Texas. My line floated toward the wooden ledge at the water'south border, and a petty crawfish or crawdad tried to snake my worm! I had no idea that blazon of beast would exist lurking effectually in the surface area.
Fishing Without a Permit
My blood brother and I were angling in a lake last yr, and we pulled a hat with a angling license on it out of the water. It was an out of state license, but it had the guy's name and location. Nosotros used Facebook to message him and gave him his slimy, drenched hat dorsum.
Sting Rays Hate Him for Some Reason
My brother and I do a lot of fishing, him especially. Between usa, we have caught the aforementioned fish multiple times, birds, turtles, people (unknown random tourists getting too close on an overhead cast), a bounding main lion, octopus, clams, crabs and a lobster.
Just past far the near memorable was catching the stingray that almost killed my brother. He pulled up a ray that was only near a foot long and was trying to unhook it. It went scorpion tail on him and jabbed its affront directly into an avenue in his hand. When it came out, it turned into a medical emergency and the blood began squirting profusely out of his hand.
He had had a few drinks, and then he was merely kinda in shock and didn't know what to do. Luckily, my buddies become him down the dock and into their automobile to go to the ER. He goes into shock in the automobile and blacks out, loses consciousness and wets himself. They get him to the ER, docs stitch him upwardly, give him a agglomeration of meds and he goes home that evening. He required a few surgeries on his hand, and its still a gnarly scar.
Wink forrard a couple of years and we are surf line-fishing in the same spot next to the pier he got stung at. He steps on a stingray, and it hits him in his Achilles' tendon. I become him to the beach, where he promptly loses consciousness once again due to the stingray toxin. I manage to go him upward and talking and carry him on my back about a half-mile to the parking lot. That guy has the worst luck in the world sometimes.
Snakes of the Sea
The weirdest thing I've caught is a freshwater eel. I thought I'd somehow managed to catch a serpent because it looked serpentine in the water and I didn't know there was such a matter every bit a freshwater eel. They're a pain because all they practice is tangle line. They're good for catfishing, though.
Poor Bambi
I was fishing on the Smith River near the California/Oregon edge. Around mid-day, I was angling in a deep hole when I snagged something. I thought it was a log, so I decided to pull existent hard and snapped my line. It turned out to be a deer corpse. Information technology must have been stuck on something under h2o considering it was all bloated and clearly full of gas. The smell was indescribable.
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