Swan Capture Techniques
 

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I guess he just tried it one day while hand feeding them. I have tried it. They don't attack or anything, but they do get a little excited when you lip 'em. They flap their wings, get their feet going up and down like they are trying to stand on the water and then lift off of the water a short distance. If you just let go of the lower jaw they swim around a little and then look for more food. Strange.

an enormous very dead fluke, the biggest fluke I have ever seen.

Open the attachment. True story...every detail.

I saw CAL catch a bat and run around screaming like a little gurl....:jester:

My son caught 2 blues on one plug last week and then did it again this week. They broke off with the plug and my buddy cast to them and recovered both fish and the plug!

THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT
 

last year I was reeling in a 5" needle fish and caught a prehistoric looking fish about 10" long . I THUOGHT IT WAS A NEEDLE FISH BUT IT WASNT ..I didnt know what it was . so showed a guy who has tropical fish and he said it was a gar fish, looked like something from jurassic park freeky looking bastard , it was long like a snake and had a beak like mouth with sharp teeth .. He said they come from down south and can grow up to 4 feet long . those things that go bump in the night..

Caught a seal in Scortons Creek. The nearby fishermen were having a ball catching large schoolies and wanting to get in on the act, I grabbed my jigging rod and put a small rubber shad on a small jighead. I cast it into the stream and it was immediately grabbed. It stopped dead and I thought I had a tree stump or something on the bottom. When haulin back to see if it would move, it gave a bit and I thought it seemed like a huge group of weeds. Because it was moving I kept hauling and when he was about 25 feet from the mud bank he raised his ugly head out and eyeballed me. I kept tugging and when he was almost to the bank, I called another guy over to give me a hand. I gave him my knife and told him to cut the line when he saw my leader. When the seal showed he almost had a stroke. He cut the line and ran like he... He wasn't aware of the seal being hooked.:hihi:

this past weekend i caught a bass with a tumor or parasite the size of my fist growing out of its neck...

Someone told me recently that YOU should NOT TOUCH that Tumor!seriously!
Ill try to get more info , but it is infectious or something.

i caught a dude who was wading abt 50 feet or so away from me in RI with basturbed a few eyars ago. I threw a mangum blurple bomber and hooked on soemthing
then i saw a surfcaster in front of me waving his arms like a mad man and i thought that i landed a bass. but the current mvoed my plug and hooked him. and i thought that i caught a big bass, but it turned out to be him. he fought like a big bass to me.

i hooked a seagull a couple of times in rockport and commorats. a 3 lbs monkfish while living a pollock.

about a twenty pound snapper turtle....thought it was a monster bass

yeah, luckily it came unglued at my feet...pretty freaky looking though...

good story Baldwin.

I caught this strange fish down in the keys till this day I have no idea what it was it was kinda shaped like a fat angel fish with whiskers like a cat fish and black and silver stripes....

Wish I had a pic. I didn't want to touch it at first wasn't sure if it had spines in secret areas

I snag a Butterfly kite with my Kastmaster off of the Canal two weekends ago.. Got a Skate this weekend on my firends boat (not too strange, but was my first ctach this year)..Then got three schoolies after around 20 inches... All released...

I was doing a little nightime freshwater bottom fishing from a canoe down in Peachtree City, Georgia on Lake Kedron landing 1/2 to 3lb catfish left and right on unpeeled raw shrimp. It was about 2 am, and I was out with my teenage cousin. It was midsummer so the water was about about 15 - 20 degrees warmer than the still night time air, so you can imagine the steam wafting off the surface, very eery. All of a sudden, my cousins rod doubles over hard!!! The run, was nothing like that of a bluefish or bonito or even a hooked channel cat, it was more like a keg of Heineken down a sloped drive way. We were only using 10lb line test so it was good 10 to 15 minutes (An eternity in the Freshwater fishing world) before what we thought was a huge catfish began to tire. As it neared the boat, I reached out to grab the line to haul the fish aboard, and out of the muddy water comes the biggest F****** Alligator Snapping Turtle I have ever seen! It had to be at 20lbs; the circumference of an office chair cushion. Its mouth, gaping wide, could have easily engulfed a softball. We were so startled we almost tipped the canoe. Needless to say we hastily cut the line and immediately went home. Breakfast was great next morning considering we brought home a nice bucket full of catfish.

The 50-foot Metal Wahoo
 

There've been so many, need to get rid of the cobwebs ... but the first thing that came to mind wasn't so freaky in a gross way, rather it was a freak accident ... I was fishing along Route 41 (Tamiami Trail) in Southern Florida with a buddy, we were targetting snook and baby tarpon and redfish in the canals on the Western side of the penninsula ... it's a well known adventure ... but this guy had gotten it down to a science ... I had borrowed his 5-weight fly rod with his prized Hardy fly reel ... my back was to the road and then some snook started popping in front of me ... I quickly went into a back cast at which time a giant Winnebago or other motor home came cruising by ... my prized Trail Minnow tied by another friend Mike Conner that had taken tons of fish in this type of situation wrapped around a pole latched to the motor home ... it all happened in slow motion ... I watched that fly wrap around and around until reality set back in and the motor home traveling more than 50 miles an hour zooomed off attached to Steve's fly rod, the reel handle was spinning a million miles and hour ... not wanting to break his Sage RPLX or his Hardy fly reel, I bowed to the vehicle and kept the rod as level to the road and in line with the fly line as I could until the leader the line parted - I think the leader broke, Steve was over my shoulder screaming at me to grab the reel, but I didn't want to break a finger ... the fly line was ruined and some parts inside the reel (I think it was the Pawl) essentially melted due to the intense friction ... Steve had to jury rig his reel to get it back ... I happily coughed up the dough to replace the line and contributed what I could to get his reel back to working order ... Steve yelled out, you hooked a 50-foot metal wahoo!

... also was fishing with my tarpon guide when he caught a brand new 12 weight Sage RPLX fly rod and Abel 4.0 fly rod ... we were pushing along an inlet and he looked over and said what's that? As I turned, he grabbed the tip of the fly rod and pulled up an outfit he still uses today ...