Gone Fishing

[TankCopter]

Once, my dad and I were out on a river, and one of our crab pots starts going berko. We start pulling it in thinking it's a croc, so we have the baseball bat ready. Then when we get it to the surface it's a TWO METRE SAWFISH. THE THING WAS MASSIVE. The teeth on it's nose were about 5-6 cm each. It was pretty lethal looking. We got the crab pot untangled safely, so it lived

We also went on a fishing charter while on holidays at Christmas Island, everyone else who'd been out in the preceding week had caught nothing. We caught 9 wahoo, and then the guide showed us this spot where he feeds the heads to the local fish. MASSIVE GT's, bass, and heaps of white tips in crystal clear water, all spacking out. God that was awesome.

 

[RavingPenguin]

I fish quite frequently actually. I love to fly fish, I once went to my dads secret spot to go trout fishing. God there were alot of fish there, you were garunteed a bite at least every 5 casts. My first fish, though, was a 3 foot lake trout I caught on Lake Illiamna when I was 4, it became dinner that night.
I love fishing, you name it Ive probably caught it (ok, so maybe not) but Ive caught everything from shark to grayling.

EDIT: I dont like combat fishing though, its no fun.

 

[XJ-0461]

I've never gone fishing. I usually get my fish from a supermarket, in the shape of a finger.

 

[OpiateChicken]

I've gone fishing twice, and I once caught this huge fish, probably 4 feet long.

The catch was that it was dead, floating along the surface of the water, and I caught it with my hands because I suck at using fishing lines, and as I picked it up half its body dropped into the water, so that's why the measurement is an approximation

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

I caught a Magikarp.
You may laugh now, but when he hits level 20 you'll see...you'll all see.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Went offshore fishing with my father and grandfather a couple of years ago.
Caught an obscene amount of mackerel and a catfish.
We found out that catfish don't urinate, they sort of..assimilate it into their body. The realization came as we were eating it.

Plan to go fishing for conger eels at some point in the near future. They're mean bastards, so that should be exciting.

 

[Cxizent]

I was fishing off the pier once with my high school buddies (we were the cool group, naturally), and this old guy was fishing with chicken breast. We saw him pull up an octopus.
We saw him. Pull up. An OCTOPUS! He threw it in a bucket, and it kept trying to escape, so he periodically stabbed it with a butterknife until it fell back in.
A bit later, he was trying to reel in a sea snake of some sort (or eel, not 100% on the difference, but this one had some fight in it). It was backpeddling (wriggling?) faster than he could reel in, his rod was bend over double, eight inches of the snake was above water, and we could only make out the next two feet of its body because it was backwriggling so hard the water got choppy etc.
In this commotion, the octopus ran out of the bucket and escaped.

 

[Bernzz]

I caught a big fresh water bream in a brackish canal once. Noone believes me

I think ive been used too thick a line all this time. I was going for Walleye's and other fishermen near me caught one after another. One of them caught one while he was fishing for eels using worms. Its pretty rare to catch a walleye with worms. He gave it to me so I could take it home and pretend I caught it.

My better fishing days were years before that when I fished for roach with a bamboo rod and bread in a large duck pond near the trainstation in town. On sunny days you could see the carp swimming in the center, those were too smart to be caught. Theyve seen all kinds of bait and knew wich ones not to bite. On rainy days eels would come out of the water at night and crawl in the wet grass. I caught a few with my bare hands that way. There were also local myths of a monstrous pike swimming around in there, occasionally eating ducks. Never seen it though.

The myth of the Lake-ness Pikester.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I wouldn't go fishing in case I caught old Gregg.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Well I helped land a 20 inch big mouth bass.

Theres a story to go with it, but I we all know fish stories are made up.

 

[DazZ.]

Don't go fishing exclusively, have a dabble at afew BBQs but its boring for me, I prefer spearfishing.

Much more fun trying to get stealthy then shooting your prey.