So lets here about some practical jokes you've played on your fellow fishing buddies!!! This should be fun.
I have a couple to start it off. Was up in Bamfield during the 3 consecutive bad Mackerel years in the 90's. The water in the sound was really warm and mac's were terrible. I told Gary Mawer who guided back then to go along with this the next day on the radio. I said I'm going to call you and say" did you see that?" and go on the say we hooked into a Marlin or Sailfish and it was jumping all over the place before it bust off. Gary goes with it and says; that was unbelievable I thought that is what it was didn't believe my eyes, that must have been close to 200 pounds. I said I guess with all this warm water the odd one is up here with the mac's. Left it at that then waited. It was going through the pub that night and all over Bamfield that someone had hooked into a Marlin. LOL
The 2nd one was a very slow fall day in Sooke fishing for coho. Nothing was happening. Sometime before noon TarBaby calls me and asks if I have found any coho, he hasn't. I said to my customers, you want to see how many people are listening? I said ya we only need one more for our 8 fish limit. How deep you fishing he asks? I said I'm down 135 feet, nothing up shallow so I went into the basement and found them. Immediately guys all around us started letting out the downriggers. We laughed then I told him I was just kidding we had nothing...didn't want those guys finding them down there and having the last laugh!!!
I have a couple to start it off. Was up in Bamfield during the 3 consecutive bad Mackerel years in the 90's. The water in the sound was really warm and mac's were terrible. I told Gary Mawer who guided back then to go along with this the next day on the radio. I said I'm going to call you and say" did you see that?" and go on the say we hooked into a Marlin or Sailfish and it was jumping all over the place before it bust off. Gary goes with it and says; that was unbelievable I thought that is what it was didn't believe my eyes, that must have been close to 200 pounds. I said I guess with all this warm water the odd one is up here with the mac's. Left it at that then waited. It was going through the pub that night and all over Bamfield that someone had hooked into a Marlin. LOL
The 2nd one was a very slow fall day in Sooke fishing for coho. Nothing was happening. Sometime before noon TarBaby calls me and asks if I have found any coho, he hasn't. I said to my customers, you want to see how many people are listening? I said ya we only need one more for our 8 fish limit. How deep you fishing he asks? I said I'm down 135 feet, nothing up shallow so I went into the basement and found them. Immediately guys all around us started letting out the downriggers. We laughed then I told him I was just kidding we had nothing...didn't want those guys finding them down there and having the last laugh!!!