Salmonoid Reciprocity
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While not an anadromous fish the scariest moment of 0f a fish potentially extracting a pound of flesh from me occurred while beach fishing in Brazil. My practice was to carry my bait (sardines and shrimp) in a wicker basket. This late afternoon I was sitting on a rock enjoying the nice breeze with my feet in the water with the basket held between my thighs. The occasionally a wave would break into my lap. Felt the basket wiggling and looked down. The head of large moray eel munching on a sardine. I'm sure I sit the world record for a sitting high jump. That ugly head with its teeth was very close to a body part pretty dear to me!, Ok in full disclosure was not in danger of losing a pound of flesh but was very concern about a couple ounces.
Curt
Curt
Plus there is the danger of getting someone’s balls in your face while cleaning your coho, having someone’s dog pee on your fish or getting into a fight with a rock thrower. Summer beach coho fishing can be brutal.
SF
HA!
Brings to mind a somewhat similar experience from years ago.
Was on the big Island having a beach day, was swimming around in some rather large tide pools, the wife was lounging in the sand. Some long haired blonde kid calls out "Mr can you help me for a minute?"
So I swim over to the wall he's standing on, I'm in about 5' of water, he says I hooked a fish but it went back into those rock & I can't get it out!
I see his "tackle" consists of heavy duty braided handline to most likely a 4/0 offshore hook, it indeed goes directly into a crevice in the wall.
I give it a tug, nothing. I question the kid are you sure it was a fish? Yes he's adamant I saw it dart out grab it and duck back in.
So I get serious, and plant my legs on each side of the hole completely submerged in the water save for my neck & head. Using my entire body as a lever I feel a slight give, huh? The kid must be right I think. Caught up in the hunt now, and obviously not thinking clearly, l continue to handline this unknown creature directly towards my crotch.
Out pops the head of a angry Morey eel with aforementioned large hook pinned through his nose!! He's lined up directly with my very lightly protected wedding tackle
All hell breaks loose....
Long story short the kid got his eel & I got a good drinking story
c/22
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HauntedByWaters
Life of the Party
HA!
Brings to mind a somewhat similar experience from years ago.
Was on the big Island having a beach day, was swimming around in some rather large tide pools, the wife was lounging in the sand. Some long haired blonde kid calls out "Mr can you help me for a minute?"
So I swim over to the wall he's standing on, I'm in about 5' of water, he says I hooked a fish but it went back into those rock & I can't get it out!
I see his "tackle" consists of heavy duty braided handline to most likely a 4/0 offshore hook, it indeed goes directly into a crevice in the wall.
I give it a tug, nothing. I question the kid are you sure it was a fish? Yes he's adamant I saw it dart out grab it and duck back in.
So I get serious, and plant my legs on each side of the hole completely submerged in the water save for my neck & head. Using my entire body as a lever I feel a slight give, huh? The kid must be right I think. Caught up in the hunt now, and obviously not thinking clearly, l continue to handline this unknown creature directly towards my crotch.
Out pops the head of a angry Morey eel with aforementioned large hook pinned through his nose!! He's lined up directly with my very lightly protected wedding tackle
All hell breaks loose....
Long story short the kid got his eel & I got a good drinking story
c/22
I knew where this story was going. I’ve fished the beaches with prawn under a float all around Hawaii and sometimes numerous Morey eels come out of every nook and cranny in some places no matter where you try. They obviously have powerful noses because it can happen in seconds and several eels will be circling my bait.
One time I brought my son out to a rock to see it. I lowered the bait down and 4 giant eels immediately appeared seemingly out of nowhere. It scared the crap out of my son and he wanted out of there.
It not worth catching those things either. I now just move on if it is clear I am on eel turf. They are hard to land because they bury themselves in the rock and they are nasty biters out of the water. One local told me to be careful because if you get a really mean one they can slither after you on land similar to a snake. So no thanks I’ll stick to the pretty little reef fish.
That blonde kid started horse whipping that poor eel from side to side as soon as it cleared water the hook in its nose stayed put.
He must have seen them in action before