Scariest thing to happen while fishing!

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Went fly fishing this evening and while in the river everything was nice. Been a bit of rain today so water level slightly up. Rose about foot while I was in it. Then as the evening cooled and light faded an eriee mist descended. A splash by the bank and a flash of something from the corner of my eye. Oh it's just Mister Otter. That'll explain why I haven't had a bite for a while and then BAM. A great big chuck of a branch smaked me in the back of the calf. It was below the surface and at first I thought a salmon had swam into me then it surfaced like a sinister monster. Nearly filled my waders with the brown stuff.
 
Had several moments while sea fishing that have proved adrenalin is brown and runny.
Apparently there is no such thing as a freak wave. BS there's not!
Fishing near Trebarwith strand one night with a mate about 30 feet above the water with some reasonable sized waves coming in but nothing that got within about 15 feet of us when all of a sudden a wave comes in OVER both of us. We sh*t ourselves! We were very lucky not to get washed in but I did lose one of my bags and one rod. He lost just one rod. Cost us over £300 to replace everything and we only fish there when it's really calm now.
 
Used to go out with a skipper nicknamed Phsyco.
First time in bad weather 8 of us were ment to be going out for an 8 hour deep sea trip. 4 cried off saying it was too rough but the rest of us decided to let the skipper decide. Arrived at the boat in th harbour that was nice and calm and asked if he thought it was going to be ok. His reply. "I'm up for it if you lads are". As we cast off he told us all to sta y in the cabin till we got to the grounds as he didn't want to lose anyone on the way out. We set off and as we left the harbour the true gravity of the situation revealed itself as we saw sea, sky, sea, sky. We made our way out to the fishing grounds 7 miles offshore. When we got there he handed us each a piece of rope to tie ourselves to the boat just in case. 8 hours later and no need to put down ground bait as the 2 on the far side of the boat were doing that all by themselves. Finished the trip with over 50 fish and 20 of them 30LB plus. Knackered, wet and cold but loved it.
 
2 occasions
1st was boat fishing, we really should not have gone out and even the skipper said so during the trip. waves higher than the boat and all bar 2 of us had severe sea sickness. Proper scary

2nd was fishing at Drayton reservoir when apparently a tornado hit (was reported as a tornado afterwards by all accounts). Me and my dad were happily fishing when we heard a whooshing sound, suddenly we were hit by wind and rain I have never experienced the like of before or since, branches crashing down and one landed 2 feet from me. We made a mad dash and hid in a portaloo, even that was moving in the wind. Afterwards tree's had come down, several people were blown in and the whole place was carnage. Proper shat myself that day and drove home in our boxers and tshort with mobiles drying out on the dash.
 
These big horrible buggers Conger Eels live for hours out of the water which my friend found out much to our amusement a few years back.

This conger was caught on a mackerel head about 4 hours previously and had stopped flapping about in the bottom of the boat about 20 minutes after catching it. The beast suddenly decided to have a last fight and bit into my friends boot and latched on for dear life flipping and wriggling and basically putting up its last ever fight.

This friend didn't know what had happened till it was too late and was really lucky he was wearing boots and not trainers. The eel only let go when he dangled his leg over the side of the boat kicking like a donkey. The eel swam away, whether it survived or not god only knows but I do know that they can live for hours out of water.
 
thecraw said:
These big horrible buggers Conger Eels live for hours out of the water which my friend found out much to our amusement a few years back.

This conger was caught on a mackerel head about 4 hours previously and had stopped flapping about in the bottom of the boat about 20 minutes after catching it. The beast suddenly decided to have a last fight and bit into my friends boot and latched on for dear life flipping and wriggling and basically putting up its last ever fight.

This friend didn't know what had happened till it was too late and was really lucky he was wearing boots and not trainers. The eel only let go when he dangled his leg over the side of the boat kicking like a donkey. The eel swam away, whether it survived or not god only knows but I do know that they can live for hours out of water.
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It would have survived no problem. If your going to keep an conger the way to kill them is either stab them through the head into the brain (don't miss they get really stroppy about it) or remover their head. Seen one live for 6 hours fishing on the Hoe in Plymouth.
 
Andy808 said:
It would have survived no problem. If your going to keep an conger the way to kill them is either stab them through the head into the brain (don't miss they get really stroppy about it) or remover their head. Seen one live for 6 hours fishing on the Hoe in Plymouth.
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He was raging as he was selling it to a local Chinese!
 
we were on a small fishing boat not far offshore, thought we'd caught a huge one but it was a great white shark, it rammed the boat and even put its head on the stern nearly tipping us over................


....oh hang on...that was Jaws, sorry
 
Fishing the river Calder once. Sat happily fishing one of the deeper stretches which was flowing well following a good bit of rain. All my kit arranged around me, I was perfectly set up for the day.
My mate popped along the bank to see how I was doing. He suddenly stopped in his tracks and told me to make no sudden movements. Wondering what the hell he was on about he then told me that I was sitting on my box on a peg which was threatening to collapse into the river.
Cautiously I turned to see the bank had broken away from the main bank and was very close to falling in.

Maybe I was being a bit of a nancy but I held his hand tight as he helped me back up the bank. Came close to losing all my kit and possibly myself that day. Still makes me shudder when I think about it.:(
 
Not exactly fishing but a fish related scare ............

My wife and I went on a diving holiday to Cuba and were on wreck dive. We turned around the bow we saw a shoal of Barracuda which then shadowed us for the remainder of the dive and every so often one would break away from the shoal, swim towards us and then back to the shoal.

We both found it creepy as it was like they were sizing us up :mmm:
 
Basher said:
Fishing the river Calder once. Sat happily fishing one of the deeper stretches which was flowing well following a good bit of rain. All my kit arranged around me, I was perfectly set up for the day.
My mate popped along the bank to see how I was doing. He suddenly stopped in his tracks and told me to make no sudden movements. Wondering what the hell he was on about he then told me that I was sitting on my box on a peg which was threatening to collapse into the river.
Cautiously I turned to see the bank had broken away from the main bank and was very close to falling in.

Maybe I was being a bit of a nancy but I held his hand tight as he helped me back up the bank. Came close to losing all my kit and possibly myself that day. Still makes me shudder when I think about it.:(
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That happened a friend of mines son except he did go in and got trapped under a cut away bank. He was saved by the cork butt of his rod and he was wearing waders that gave him bouancy. The rod butt helped him because it was the only part visable to someone that was walking the banks that day. They pulled him out. He was very lucky because it is a stretch of river where it is rare to see many people on the banks.
 
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