AlanPortsmouth wrote:
I've just joined and thought I would introduce myself via a funny
story...

A couple of years ago I was in a text conversation with my son who I
had taken out fishing a couple of times to teach him the basics - and
this was just after his first 'solo outing' with one of his friends...

The conversation went something like this...

Me: Did you have a good time?
Him: Yes
Me: Did you catch anything?
Him: Yes
Me: What did you catch?
Him: A duck!

Aparently mid cast a duck had flown by and picked his hook out of the
air. I must have spent a couple of hours giggling to myself thinking
about him reeling in a duck much like bringing a kite down... :-)

Was wondering if anyone else has had anything else really unusual
attached to the end of their line!

Welcome to ROFF, Alan.

Many people here have stories about hooking weird stuff: bats, frogs,
snakes, ears -- you name it, they've hooked it.

My most recent weird and awful hookup was a seagull last January on the
beach at Nexpa, Michoacan, Mexico. I was trying to free the spinfishing
lure (a floating deep diver) from the bird's foot, while it was biting
me nonstop. A big wave hit, threw me and the bird ass over elbows up the
beach, and drove a barbed treble hook deep into my thumb.

The bird survived with only a small hole in its left foot web.

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