I Went Fishing and All I Caught Was…

They say you can go fishing and never catch anything, or you can go fishing and catch something you’ve never even imagined.

…€400,000 of marijuana… An Irish fisherman thought he hooked in to a trophy on River Liffey near Manor Kilbride in County Wicklow, just south of Dublin, only to discover that it was a motherload of marijuana. Sounds like a perfectly mountable trophy to me!

…a WWII bomb that exploded and killed 3 people… Three fishermen from the Philippines found a WWII bomb left by the Japanese and while trying to pry the bomb open it exploded killing all three of them. Let’s see, you find a bomb thats been on the sea floor for decades and for some reason you think that prying it open is a good idea? That’s definitely a Darwin award.

…a near death experience and myself… Veteran Santa Cruz fisherman Carl “Boccie” Azevedo fell overboard while fishing for black cod 20 miles off the Monterey Bay as his boat drifted away he managed to grab on to one of his long lines, hooking himself in the hand, and was pulled in to the boat by an automatic pulley.

…a sucker punch from a Mackerel… An Australian angler was speeding around at 20 knots when he crossed paths with a 1.5m long Mackerel, knocking him over and covering him with bruises and cuts. He described it as “running into a brick wall”.

…lost my rod, lost my life… While fishing a German lake near the Polish border a 46 year old fisherman lost his grip on his fishing rod and jumped in after it. After swimming a few 100 meters he found his fishing rod as the fish ambushed and killed him. It is reported as being just an ordinary fish.

The only interesting thing I’ve ever caught was a 100′ of rope and a 25# anchor, without a cadaver..

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December 6, 2005 by Jonathon Marshall

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