Weird crap you've seen fishin

[Lipripper]

The deer in the river reminds me of a picture that used to be in the album at Chinootka Lodge. The owners were heading back to Cougar Ck in their skiff after a mid-winter check on the lodge. They came across a large Cougar swimming from one side of Tlupana Inlet to the other. They got the skiff within a few feet and snapped a few pics of a pissed off and snarling cat. All you could see was the head then about 6 feet back the tip of the tail. Cool one in a lifetime photos.

Not to hijack the other thread.... so you started it Dbl R.

I had to stop the old mans tug (so I didn't hit it) with a bunch of flatlanders on board... Coming into Pedder in the slow zone just outside of the Pearson dock for what they thought was a black hippo....... There was a split second that I believed them cause I wasn't expecting a bear to taking a dip there

Ill send out some e's and see if I can track down the pics they took.


....Flatlanders.... Smoke on the water came on the radio...... that was #2........ If I hear it called "Slow Walking Walter" one more time.... I will probleee pizz myself laughing... fire engine guy

 

[tubber]

A lone wolf getting between a seal and the water, then having part of it for breakfast on the backside of Malcolm Island was cool to see.

A lone cougar in a tin boat jig up a 30lb halibut in 60 feet of water, then troll up a 25lb spring fifteen minutes later on the same day as the above event was probably cooler. She was actually more of a kindly grandma. She hailed me over to give me some octopus so I could get a chicken as well. She said she gets her octopus walking the Malcolm rocky beaches at low tides in winter. I guess wolves don't bother the locals.

 

[Lipripper]

We can call, a kindly G-ma schooling your azz at some fishin then helping out a weird story


Thats cool

 

[tubber]

We can call, a kindly G-ma schooling your azz at some fishin then helping out a weird story


Thats cool

There's something to be said for a handline for hali and one rod off an old blue downrigger and 55 lbs of fish in a few minutes time. She schooled everyone that day and probably has done so many times. My grandma taught me to fish out of Chemainus 40 odd years ago. Grandpa was too busy with his broomstick and planer and his homemade bicycle crank-concrete in a can-meatline on his side of the boat to show me much.

 

[Lipripper]

As the wifey down stair yells....Are you coming to bed yet?


One time.... back in band camp...

No really, in the Commies days.
We found our way up to the Cape Caution area...Trolling towards the Charlotte's fishing sockeye.
There is a whale breaching just off bow to the side in the distance.. Well thats cool....look at that Humpy go we says.
We got closer.....It was having a grand ole time.
We got closer.... An Island appeared. I could have easily walked on it. It wasn't a Humpy jumping at all.... It was the offspring of this island.
Right in our path but to the starboard side we came up....Looked like a Trident sub without a coning tower...(In my mind atleast)..Almost like she was sleeping.. 200ft off the starboard stabie "The island" arched up and sunk below the surface... Baby in tow.... not seen again.
It could be a fluke....I could be wrong... Pretty sure I saw Blue and baby that day

 

[scott craven]

Black submarine surfaced about 200 yards from where we were fishing in Oak Bay, scared the $hit out of us...

 

[profisher]

Over the many years of fishing in Sooke, on the very best of summer days....hot, no wind...lots of naked women showing off to us guys fishing close to the beach. Helps kill the wait for a bite to start, keeps the customers entertained! lol

 

[Fish Assassin]

We were fishing the north end of Orcas Island when all of a son we found our selfs fishing in the middle of a pod of orcas. After about 15 mins we seen this huge one surface in the middle of the pod. It was a submarine. It was way to cool and totally messed with my head.

Not sure if this is the coolest thing I seen but one time when guiding we caught a humpback. It is the biggest fish I ever hooked into. Never seen it till it was hooked. It went under my boat and lifted my 15lb canon ball the the surface as the cable was laying over its back. Got all my gear back but the hooks and maybe a foot of leader after it nearly spooled us.

 

[Dogbreath]

Lotsa naked hippie broads on St. Mary Lake Saltspring Island-helps to pass the time when the bite goes off.

 

[Lipripper]

Thetis is good for a good booby hatch in the summer too

 

[scott craven]

Lotsa naked hippie broads on St. Mary Lake Saltspring Island-helps to pass the time when the bite goes off.

OHHH, that's scary, could you see anything past all the hair ???

 

[Pippen]

A Chicago Blackhawks flag.....flying all by it's lonesome.....on a hill........in Critter Cove.

Really "odd" site in BC.

 

[Pippen]

it wasnt by its lonesome, there was a Canadian and American flag flying with it as wellholmes*

Okay....well it looked "weird" and "outta place".

 

[trophywife]

cruising through the bretton islands (east side of quadra) prolly 25 years ago,, saw a yellow eye/rockfish floating dead,, eyeballs the size of an orange, musta weighed 60-80lbs....local divers said the really old ones lived in some caves around there. wonder if it died of old age.

 

[Pippen]

cruising through the bretton islands (east side of quadra) prolly 25 years ago,, saw a yellow eye/rockfish floating dead,, eyeballs the size of an orange, musta weighed 60-80lbs....local divers said the really old ones lived in some caves around there. wonder if it died of old age.

Wow.....that's frickin huge! I don't doubt that there are some huge old ones kicking around out there.

 

[wolf]

Along with the many bears and deer also one time a pack of wolves swimming all in the surrounding areas of knight inlet but this one time :

One day in the Upper knight inlet trolling along look about a 1/2 mile away notice something which had dark on it flapping in the water.... watched it for close to about an hour so we trolled towards it... couldnt believe it a bald eagle swimming...... it was pooched and almost done for so i netted it and put it on the bow of the boat and trolled over to what we called Siwash bay and fished there waiting for this thing to hopefull recover. 40 mins goes by and hes/her had been preening him self and flapping his wings then poof off he went.

Ive sen it only one other time and in the same bay but the next time he flew away.

Wolf

 

[Deewar25]

A lone cougar in a tin boat jig up a 30lb halibut in 60 feet of water, then troll up a 25lb spring fifteen minutes later on the same day as the above event was probably cooler. She was actually more of a kindly grandma. She hailed me over to give me some octopus so I could get a chicken as well. She said she gets her octopus walking the Malcolm rocky beaches at low tides in winter. I guess wolves don't bother the locals.

Read that carefully - now imagine you were some 70 year old non-fisherman....imagine how confusing that story would actually be...lol

 

[Bassblaster]

Oh Great, now I have visions of a Granma "Cougar " using an octopus to choke your spring Chicken! And THAT would be the weirdest thing I've ever seen fishing!

 

[Fish Assassin]

How about a leather back turtle the was wider then the Whaler I was fishing is. Or a basking shark that I never seen the other end of. Or a Great White on line for almost 2 hours in the Charlottes the same day as the the turtle was spoted. Them were some very cool days fishing.

 

[Steelhead S2]

My mum tells a story about seeing an eagle swimming. She was at her parents' place in Gunboat Bay and the small salmon run was coming by. And eagle tagged one and tried to lift it, but it was too heavy. Rather than releasing it, it swam it to shore. She also watched a pair of eagles tearing violently into a flock of seagulls in the same bay, feasting on them.

For me, i've posted this before. But strangest thing is probably hauling up the transom of a boat with a pair of mens underwear hanging off it on the longline gear.

Some of the bull$hit I've seen on the Nitnat is pretty strange, too. But probably not the sort of thing this thread is about.