Strangest thing you've seen while fishing?

I was fishing off the rocks in Greystones a few years ago & a big plaice/flounder jumped about a foot into the air 2 feet from the rocks.

What's the strangest thing you've seen while fishing?

I've never seen a plaice or a flounder jumping from the rocks! Did it take a run up or just do a standing jump?

That's why it was so strange - did a backflip! :)

Strangest thing I saw was on the White Rock beach next to Killiney. Just getting light and two huge Great Danes walked up to me, closely followed by an old man. About a minute later, same man walks stark naked into the sea, swims round the rock and walks back up to the hut! I'm standing there in the middle of winter with about 10 layers on!!

i was fishing a beach outside boston when a dolphin tried to beach itself almost right beside me. me and my brother helped it back into the water, it came back twice or three times. eventually it left the area (we thought) , however we left that beach later that day and on the way to another mark close by we saw a dead dolphin either washed up/beached & to us it looked like the same one. strange & sad.
another one...we chartered a boat off the coast of scotland a few years ago and just as dawn was breaking a huge submarine surfaced about 100m off our port side...scary

I saw a Whale Shark (not a Basking!) about 12 mtrs. long while fishing for wrasse at Ross, Co. Clare in the warm summer of '95. It passed right under me and I nearly passed out!
While fishing by moonlight from the shore on the Clare side of the Shannon Estuary last summer two dolphins came so close we could nearly touch them! Magic!
I had a tug-o-war with a seal at The Bridges of Ross last summer - it got the better part of my pollock! It was resident all summer and had many a "snatched" meal at anglers' expense!
I had a huge "ray" of Doughmore Co. Clare which took off with the tide and surfaced 200 meters from the shore! When finally beached it was a white fertilizer bag - "lip" hooked!
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"If you want to catch fish, fish"!

Was fishing near black head last summer for pollock and mackeral when a dolphin tried to help himself to some of the brothers feathers. Thinking it was a once off he cast out again. Once again the dolphin had a go!!
Besides that landing a fish finder belong to some dingy fisherman was about as strange as I've seen.

I was fishing off the beach on the South Coast of England about ten years ago. It was past midnight and there was only a couple of other anglers on the beach when suddenly a girl walked up to me and asked me the time. I would've answered her but for the fact that she was completely naked! I stammered for a minute before just gawping at her before she walked off. A while later I heard a bunch of lads and lasses laughing their heads off, obviously at my expense! Mind you; I had the biggest smile!

Fresh water: Fishing with maggots for Bream in France when a duck dived and swallowed my maggots. The English and continental carp anglers had a great laugh as I played the duck mid air for 2 minutes or so until he snapped my line. I changed the float to a bottom rig with some dog biscuits and had the last laugh with a 12 lb and 20 lb carp in the space of an hour.

Sea fishing: On Clones strand middle of winter and I catch someones swimming shorts. I reckon the water was so cold that the swimmer had shrunk and actually fallen out of them.

Was fishing in Balscadden for mackies, when a few lads arrived down and started casting (very badly) all over the place. One of them unfortunately managed to hook the biggest, meanest looking seagull I have ever seen. He dragged it up the cliff, and seemed more concerned with getting his feathers back than the welfare of the poor gull. He was standing on it's head with the poor thing squawking and flapping around - believe me it made quite a sight! I wasn't particularly keen to get involved until I heard him shouting at his kid to get his hurley from the car. I just couldn't believe what I was hearing and seeing! Ended up managing to free it unharmed for him, albeit with some rather sore peck marks on my ankles, and more importantly, without the use of a hurley. I have refused to fish in Balscadden since!

I was walking across marshy ground to get to a spot and came across a recently dead Heron with a pretty big eel half in/half out of its mouth. Greedy thing must have choked! (Insert obvious joke about biting off more than he could chew here)

Once saw two biggish bass on the surface by a harbour wall - one was obviously in trouble and unable to swim upright, and the other was nudging it with his snout to keep it on an even keel. Watched til they were out of sight, so I don't know the outcome. My father once hooked a swallow through the wingtip while casting, but freed it with minimal damage.

Basking shark 1 mile off Dover. Lost or what!

Fly fishing lough leane Killarney Co Kerry, put the fly rod down started spinning for a while heard something stiring behind me I had caught something :shock: a robin on the dropper!!!!!!!!

I was walking across marshy ground to get to a spot and came across a recently dead Heron with a pretty big eel half in/half out of its mouth. Greedy thing must have choked! (Insert obvious joke about biting off more than he could chew here)

Funny that, I heard the Opposite once, A local lake renouned for its Pike, a swan had been watched with its arse in the Air in the same spot for about 2 days, Obviously something was wrong, So some guy went round the Bank and lifted the swan which had a Pike clamped onto its heed!!!

Accidently caught a seagull at the Baily once and it wasn't happy so it decided to puke all over me. Also asking a group of lads in Ballscadden what they were fishing for in the middle of December, "Mackerel" they said. I remember talking to a fellow fisherman at the baily once and " The Kish" came up into the conversation. " Can you get the train there", he said. :lol: . Saw a twenty pound spent salmon swim under my feet in Killaloe this summer.

watching my mate Harry making his first cast with his brand new spinning rod and the top half of the rod flew off with the lure.The look on his face was priceless.In his haste he hadn't secured the spigot tightly.It snagged on weed and we had to wait 3 hours to low tide to get it back.

Porbeagles cruising around 50 yds from shore Green Island Co Clare on a hot summers eve.

Years back in the good old days I was fishing off the pier in skerries on a scorcher of a day,
well we had just baited up with a bit of mackerel and I turned around for a split second, a small white
terrier dashed in and took it !! and off he ran back to his beckening master.
The line was buzzing off the reel until he came to an abrupt stop...ouch! Three of us had to hold the
beast down to get the hook from it's tongue. The only doggy I ever caught :lol:

A sneaky dog on Killiney beach who managed to get past 2 of us and steal a whole mackeral(our bait). I managed to grab the mackeral by head and tail either side of the dogs mouth but the dog would not let go and consumed the middle leaving me holding the each end of the fish :shock:

Not satisfied with that one he returned and managed to do the same again :!:

Since then we have ensured that all bait is kept in a cool box with the lid on and only removed when required :idea: