Used to go fishing all the time with my dad when I was a kid. Had my own rod, little tiny tackle box, different lures. Everything. Never once caught a damn thing.
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Didn't find out until I was an adult that he absolutely hates fishing and was just doing it to bond and give experience o.O
During family reunions, we used to go fishing together (2 groups). Somewhere in the middle of the trip, my grandpa suddenly pulled up a pufferfish. The first mate took it off the line and BOUNCED it off the deck like a tiny basketball. He only did this for a few seconds, so we let it go afterwards (couldn't eat it).
I once went fishing with my grandpa at Rhine River where we caught a 20 Pound jackfish. I say we 'cause it took 12-year-old me and my 70-something grandpa like 45 minutes to get that dang fish tired.
Didn't catch it, but in the reservoir where people can go fishing and catch what they want within the rules, a guy fished up this HUGE alligator snapping turtle. It could fit a 5 year old's head in it's jaws, and that was just the head. And that was the only thing you could see clearly besides the claws that scrabbled at the rocks it was dragged up to. Someone from the reservoir, (think sorta like a park ranger) came up to see what was the commotion and noted that they usually didn't get to be that big, since they get killed before they reach that size. It eventually snapped the line after 15 minutes of trying to get away, and I made sure to keep my feet out of the water from then on.
And on another occasion I was sure I had caught a snapper myself, but never saw it since it literally pulled the line taught in 3 seconds of the hook catching, and snapped it after nearly snapping the rod itself. Whatever it was, turtle, or fish, it was heavy and strong.
We would go fishing with our grandfather at the lake on their property. One of the first times with all 9 grandkids, where some of us where still learning, I swung back too aggressively. I caught my grandfather’s leg. Not a fish but still unusual to catch a human leg.
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Didn't find out until I was an adult that he absolutely hates fishing and was just doing it to bond and give experience o.O
I was playing with it in a bucket and it pinched me between my thumb and finger. Then I had my dad cook it