Most unusual Catch????

[Davy Holt]

Ok we had the most memorable catch.. next stage.. what's your most unusual catch??

 

I've had a few... an Argintine from Loch Long and a Starry ray from the Sound of Mull, a 18' speed boat + Skier from Gourock, A Diver off Arrochar pier (took a set of mackerel feathers)to name but a few

[MarkV]

Laser sailing dinghy from Bembridge Yacht Club while boat fishing in Priory Bay!

[10 brownie points]

I once saw a guy foul hooking a large basking shark in the tail from the top of a 50foot cliff

and two other anglers had to hold on to him to prevent him going over the cliff.

[Dan]

A small sandeel on a 28gm toby, or a mackerel with cuttlefish attached, landed them both!

Dan

[Norrie]

Hi Davy, Years ago, Out of Dunbar, I had a bucket, which really fought all the way to the top. There were 12 of us from a now defunct sea angling club and most of them were over my shoulder giving me advice on how to play my Tope, gonger, Massive Pollock etc, when as Rex Hunt say,s we could see some colour there was a hush, then there you go a bleeding Galvanised Bucket. All I got then was that I should have known better,that it wasn't a fish at all. Turns out that the action of reeling it in and the open bucket against the water made it go all over the place or should that be plaice. But I have had a 3lb cat fish from Arbroath, now that is ugly....

[Vagabond]

This is an unusual fish from an unusual location.

 

It was caught in the Southern Ocean, just off the Antipodes Islands, which are a long way Southeast of New Zealand.

 

It is about as far away as you can get from my house without needing a space suit.

 

Its called a notothen, - Orange Throat Notothen - and belongs to a group that includes the ice-fishes.

 

Intended to do it up brown and nosh it, but found the flesh was almost solid with worms.

 

[Leon Roskilly]

From the Admiralty Pier, Dover, on feathers.

 

 

and I really hated catching these things!! (In North Queensland)

 

 

Tight Lines - leon

 

[ 13 April 2002, 12:18 AM: Message edited by: Leon Roskilly ]