On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:00:32 -0700, Colin wrote:

What are the weirdest (whatever your definition of that is) things
that you,
or any friends, have caught so far while fishing ?

I guess I'll have to delurk after an absence of 11 yrs from ROFF.
About 20 yrs ago I was flyfishing for steelhead in the lagoon at the
mouth of Pescadero Creek (CA). As I was hauling back to recast, a
grebe paddled by and I snagged him by the tail feathers. That sucker
was *strong*. When I had him just about close enough to release him,
the game warden came up behind and made a sarcastic comment
about my catch but declined to assist me in the release (no waders).

A grebe is pretty scary up close with red eyes and a long sharp beak
(and ****ed off).

BTW, the warden was the same underachiever who shouted from the
bluff above the lagoon for us waders to hold up our licenses so he
could look at them through his binoculars on an earlier occasion.

Back to lurk mode ;-)

Bob Weiske