Strange but true thread: outrageous behaviors/ statements made by surf fishermen

[ledhead36]

what crazy stories have you heard or seen out there when fishing the salt?

[baitstealer]

Well I have run into some crazy characters. You see the most of them when fishing weekends, or inlets usually attract the drunks.

[jonthepain]

That's why it's a good idea to take a break on weekends.

[DarkSkies]

The reason I'm posting these is that there have been a lot of funny statements or behaviors I and others witnessed recently.

I admit to doing stupid stuff plenty of times, but I thought we could put up some of the more outrageous things seen and heard here.

Let's try to be as generic as possible. Don't describe the person or place in too much detail. We dont want to start arguments or cause bad feelings.

Here's why: My intent is not to make fun of the specific guy/guys that said it, but to have some laughs about the non-logical things we say or do sometimes.


Also to give us some entertainment during the long cold winter!

[DarkSkies]

I can't laugh at others if I'm not willing to laugh at myself first.

A while back G and I caught a monster eel on bait. I decided to get the hook out without pliers, cause everyone knows eels don't have big teef!

Yep the small ones don't!
So that sucker clamped on my thumb and wouldn't let go, I thought we were going to have to chop his head off to get it to let go. Finally got it off, the cut from it's teeth took a week to heal.

Total goog move, yep that's me.

[DarkSkies]

Now that I slammed myself, we can start talkin about the weirdness that comes out of other peoples mouths....

This morning while fishin, as Finchaser is unhooking and releasing a 30" bass, a guy "down the beach" comes up to him and says:
"Hey buddy that's a nice fish, but I just wanna tell ya if you were using clams you might catch one even bigger!!!"

The well meaning fisherman caught that morning.

Ya just can't make this stuff up!

[DarkSkies]

Yesterday I was moving from one place to another so I could shoot the west wind wally video. There were 3 guys fishin, and 2 guys watching them fish, and commenting on them.

As I was passing by, I said, "hey what's up guys, goin fishin?"

They said "Yeah, but not just yet"

I'm thinking what are these guys waiting for King Neptune to authorize a full-out blitz? It was a slow afternoon pick but the fish were right there in front of them. They just couldn't seem to see that. There was less than an hour before it would be dark and the bite would shut off.

So I tried to help one last time. I said, "dudes the fish are there".

They said: "OK, thanks."

They got no fish that afternoon.

[DarkSkies]

As told by Finchaser:

Coming off the beach one morning, ran into a guy who was raving about the fishing...
"Hey ya know we should catch a lot of fish today, there's bait all over the place!"

Fin:"What bait?"

Raving fisherman: "Why, don't you see all the clam shells there in front of you? That's how you can tell! "


**The clamshells are leftovers from the guys who fish that beach with clams. There are no offshore clam beds directly in that area.