Fishing a funny old game !

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:15 am

What is the funniest thing you've seen when out fishing?

After a nights fishing at dover on the admaralty we were engulfed with foriegn types (coso's) who had turned up for a crack at makereling,
after they had set up they gave us a wonderful display of casting, One cast went straight up and landed back on the pier nearly hitting someone, another chap managed to catch the chainlink fence behind him as he casted out almost snapping his rod !!! and another swung his rod around to cast out and was inches away from knocking out the rest of the people around him, They were all ducking and shouting at him it was hilarious.

It was like watching a comedy film me sides were splitting i was crying laffing :lol:

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Not so much what I've seen, as somethimg that has happened to me that my mate thinks is hilarious every time it happens.

Now, it has to be said that I don't tend to catch very much. I have resigned myself to the fact that there is a newsletter that goes round all the fish everytime I get my rods out that says watch out Dunc's about! So it gets a bit frustrating when not only do you not catch but you also loose a shed load of gear into the bargain. However, I seem to have developed a habit of 'catching' my own lost rigs. If it had happened once, I'd say fair enough, have your laugh and be done but its happened so many times now that I get home and the first question is how many rigs did you catch?

I find this very economical. My mate found it highly amusing until the last time I had a leader crack off and the lead narrowly missed him. Ha!!

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:49 pm

best thing i ever seen was on southend peir, this fishing know it all came over and said you cought anything, we said no, he said i will show you!! he then set up his gear,and tryed casting in to a head wind , with just a rig no weight on it, it then blew back and hooked him in the face,i said to him are you ok,he said yes, i said you need to put a weight on the end, he said no you dont!! he then cast just as a train came past and hooked it, it riped the rod out his hand and down the track!!

we have never seen him again!!!!!

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I once lassoed a herring gull mid cast on Halfpenny Pier. It was a right b*gger to get in and I then had the joy of climbing down the pier to untie it, in front of the thirty or so people who had gathered to see what all the fuss was about. The gull repaid me for my kindness by taking a chunk out of my leg (I was in shorts) OUCH!!

concrete.

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:53 pm

Daiwa....... gone without a trace! (groan)
His face must have looked a mess, I bet that was the ugliest catch you've ever seen lol :?

contrete did you manage to play it in flight or did it just plummit to the ground, i can just imagine someone playing a bird flying about now that would be a sight to see big grin

Member Joined: Jul 31, 2006 Posts: 90 Location: out to sea

I tried to show off to my mates on a sailing trip, when we were moored in mull marina, that I could maybe catch some big fish by chucking in a whole small mackerel on a large hook attached to a heavy spinning rod, On the first cast a black-back gull swooped down and necked the whole bait before it hit the water. Now the bird was sitting in the drink looking confused, as was I , peals of laughter to be heard from my sailing buddies. So I tried reeling in, this sank the gull as the lead had sank down and the winding motion pulled the bird under water. Its face when it first came back up from its enforced dive!!!!!! was fairly amusing. I decided all I could do was reel the poor bugger in quick and try to do something about it on the yacht. So I reeled fast dragging the gull under several times, when it decided to regurgitate the bait inc hook, however the commotion had attracted many many black back gulls and as they saw the fish being puked out of the first gulls mouth it was a race to see who could gulp it down next. I reeled like a crazy man.....the laughter behind me from my mates stopped. All I was doing was bringing this now huge "swarm" of hungry black backs to the yacht. It ended with me flailing the rod around with the bait right at the rod tip practically , desperately trying not to let another gull neck the hook and bait. We were covered in gull-shit and the laughing stock of the boaty people at Mull marina. Fortunately the mackerel came off the hook and a lucky gull got the fish. I was banned from fishing for the rest of the trip. big grin

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It nose dived into the water, but as I untied it, I unclipped the lead and it was a bit like flying a kite big grin

Member Joined: Dec 09, 2005 Posts: 36

Me and a friend went fishing on Hayling quite a few years ago and midway through the night session he had the most almighty bite. He picked up the rod and wound down tight and struck into something pretty heavy and began to pump the 'fish' in, as it reached the surf it began to take line and proceeded to do several very impressive runs. Eventually it came in close enough for a wave to beach it and upon investigation it turned out to be a carrier bag full of dog s*it 8O :lol: :lol:
To this day he has never lived down his epic 15minute struggle to land a bag of S*it 8O :lol:

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:14 am

mines one from my match angling, i fished a place in the midlands last summer and i was doing brilliantly with over90lb of carp in the net and more comign steady. all of a sudden i hook into a good lump which weighed 15lb's as i went to land it another pole rose to the surface, this same fish had taken someone elses pole from furthur down the lake:D

i did return it but it was too a good laugh, if i ahdnt caught it the fish could have died and he'd have lost 3 grand of carbon fibre

also i played and landed a tin can at woodlands thinking it was a small carp i swear it gave me a bite :oops:

Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:23 pm

concrete wrote:

I once lassoed a herring gull mid cast on Halfpenny Pier. It was a right b*gger to get in and I then had the joy of climbing down the pier to untie it, in front of the thirty or so people who had gathered to see what all the fuss was about. The gull repaid me for my kindness by taking a chunk out of my leg (I was in shorts) OUCH!!

concrete.

I've done that on a boat. Ungrateful b*ggers,gulls. Also caught a pigeon on Walton Pier. I have to say, out of the two species, pigeons are far the better mannered.

Stu

Regular Joined: Jan 13, 2005 Posts: 449 Location: Norfolk

Something I remember was not hilarious but slightly odd. We turned up at a beach one night in the dark. We unloaded the gear from the car and I could hear this funny noise. It was all grassy behind the beach where we were and I was looking across the grassy area to see what the noise was. All I could see ( with the faint help of a streetlight ) was what looked like a bag of crisps moving all over the place unaided. Well what was weird was that there was not a breath of wind, so by that time I was thinking perhaps I would get back in the car and have a fag. 8O
Eventually my mate got his lamp fired up ready for the trek across to the fishing spot. I mentioned to him that I wanted to borrow his lamp for a moment just to go and check the scene out. I wandered about twenty five yards and eventually spotted the white on the crisp bag. By this time it had stopped moving and as I swung the lamp round to light the area up, it moved very quickly about five yards. I thought sh*t, kinda makes yer heart jump. Well the lamp was swung round to light the crisp bag up and there was this black cat with the crisp bag stuck quite tightly over it's head. I reached out and quickly pulled it off of it's head before it it got spooked by me and did a runner. Anyway once I removed the crisp bag the cat just fled. Think it would have given me a good run for me money if I had have been on me Yam 600. happy