bigden wrote: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.
The one doing the nudging was the male and the one pretending to have a headache was the female. Happens all the time.
Gone Fishin, there's a sign upon the door............
A few years ago while fishing at Downhill beach on the North coast ,the guy fishing next to us had two huge Rottweillers with him and every time he caught a flounder he threw it to these dogs,who proceeded to rip them to bits and eat every scrap leaving nothing.Never saw more vicious looking dogs in my life before.Bloody scarey.
A few years ago while fishing at Downhill beach on the North coast ,the guy fishing next to us had two huge Rottweillers with him and every time he caught a flounder he threw it to these dogs,who proceeded to rip them to bits and eat every scrap leaving nothing.Never saw more vicious looking dogs in my life before.Bloody scarey.
I take it you didn't take the opportunity to explain the finer points of conservation and 'catch and return' to him then .
[color=blue][i]Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?[/i][/color]
Mate of mine years ago was fishing with me for perch in Eyrecourt on the Shannon. Caught up the bottom and proceeded to haul in a manky looking welly. After taking bets on what was inside it, he proceeded to pour it out and found a lovely 2lb eel inside...
My Brother in Law was fishing for mackerel in Salthill about 15 years ago, caught (and landed) a blue shark by lassoing it around the tail with the feather rig he was using. True story as I've seen the pictures!
Was fishing in donegal bay last summer and I had hooked a nice size pollock, there was a good fight in him until suddently it was just like a dead weight!!! When I got the fish up to the boat I had found that something had take a rather large chunk out of it, more or less half the pollock had been chewed off!!!
ah yes george the train to the kish .one day we had a comp in killiney half way through this man walks up to me and asked me for a knife and a plires i just looked at him and he sad have you got them i gave them to him he ran down the beach bout 50yds to his friend who was holding a dog i got down a saw the dog had eaten all 2 hooks baited with mackerel and the 3rd hook in his leg. stupid godam dog
Fishing in Courtown last year and friend was bringing up a smooth hound as the fight continued the fish surfaced and i seen another one come swimming along the surface and went under the boat at surface level. It was as if he was following the hooked one. really fast and sleek. beutiful fish to see swimming freely like that.
on the same trip we had a seagull take special interest in the boats aerial while we were anchored. The aerial kinda wobbles and bounces around. this seagull seemed to think it was something worth eating and hovered for ages on the wind and kept returning to have a go at it even though we were standing right beside it before finally losing interest.
strangest thing ive seen, was up at Waterfoot a few months ago.
me and my mate were fishing away when 3 navy ribs come belting into the harbour with what looked like navy seals on them guns and all!!! we bricked it for a minute thought we were witnessing some invasion or something lol. turned out they were just in taking photos of the back drop.
thompo wrote:
me and my mate were fishing away when 3 navy ribs come belting into the harbour with what looked like navy seals on them guns and all!!!
They're annoying as hell!!! Back in the days when I worked on a boat, 2 boats Motored over to us... and what did they say... What was the question that every pier/beach angler expects within the first 5 seconds? 'Have you caught anything'
I saw a body being uncovered under a large pile of seaweed after a storm, about 50 yards from where I was fishing! I know its not an amusing story, but its definitely the weirdest thing I've seen while fishing!
(tumbleweed)
My partner dropped me of fishing and went shopping but she was unsure in what direction I had gone. I duly advised her by text:-"HEAD WEST AND BRING A KNIFE" on her arrival I asked for the knife "what text?" was her reply, I'm sure who ever got it was it concerned!!!
Sorry to bring this topic up again, but I was talking with my Dad last night and it was a case of "do you remember the time that...."
We were on holidays in Portnoo, Donegal when I was about 12. Doing loads of fishing. We came across a lagoon type place, and I could see loads of small fish darting around, probably eels. Not knowing much better at that age, I started spinning for them, not knowing that i had no hope of catching them.
After a few casts, I hooked into something, although it wasn't giving any fight. After a lot of huffing and puffing, I managed to pull in a black bag. Jesus the bloody weight of thing! Started trying to get my spinner unhooked from the bag, when I realised the unholy smell coming from it.
Not wanting to get too close (I was almost gagging), I started yanking on the spinner, which eventually tore free of the bag. Unfortunately it had ripped a large hole in it......
.....and out tumbled a poor deformed kittie. On closer inspection the whole bag was full of kittens. There must have been 7 or 8 of them. All partially decomposed. Poor little fella's. Stood there blinking back tears while my ol' man kicked them back over the edge into the water.
Last time I went spinning for eels!
(Hope no-one is eating their brekkie reading this).
I caught a Mackeral last week on feathers, one hook was in the mouth & another one of the snoods had created a perfect hangmans noose around the tail. He hadnt much chance of getting away!
I know its not an amusing story, but its definitely the weirdest thing I've seen while fishing!