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MFF US Northeast => New York => Topic started by: LP Steve on Sep 07, 2016, 03:09 PM
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OK so before I get BBQ here I want to know what is the craziest most unbelievable or memorable thing you've seen or experienced while fishing or being on the open water. I starter a thread like this on shanty and it was a hit with several other states making a copy thread shortly after. A few weekend ago I had the coast guard come about 30' away from me towing the hull of a burned speed boat that was still smoking!!! Was at sodus it was in the news. It sunk a bit past me. I got lots more and I'm sure there are tons more to read. Please share!!! Thanks!
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Ok another one but someone else might have seen this and thought it was unbelievable. So at sodus again about 10 years ago myself and 2 friends rented a boat from bay bridge and set out. Well my friends brought a bottle of his fathers homemade wine so why not make some spritzers for bfast. So we all drank too much and each fell asleep on a separate aluminum seat of the Jon boat with a life vest as a pillow. Well a few hours go by and I woke up and we were drifted in the cattails by one of the low bridges just floating up and down in the tails with heavy boat traffic going by. It must of been a sight! I had the worst sunburn when it took off my shorts at home it looked like I was still wearing shorts. ;D
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well I was out by bay bridge fishing and a bass swallowed my hook when I pulled it out he was bleeding I tossed him in and he went belly up! then this guy came running up jumped in the water and attempted to revive the fish ......he then looked up waved his fist at a ranger boat screaming obscenities and that the water was to warm and something about stress....at this point I was becoming a little alarmed as this guy didn't seem fully in control of himself ,I slowly and quietly started to leave as he looked at me ...he said " and what do you know about this" I reacted quickly and said those darn rotten bass tournament fisherman!!!! he started mumbling ,that's what I though ...I seen my window of opportunity, and ran for my car hollering back I was going to get a fish EMT I think I seen him wiggle ....as I looked in the rear view mirror I could see him swimming the fish and working his gills .......after witnessing this I may actually take up golf
i'm rick trapper and I swear this was the craziest thing I ever seen
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We were out in Lake Michigan out of Holland pier in a 14 foot boat with an 8hp motor and saw something swimming towards us..Big doe deer. It wanted in our boat.. Pushed it away several times till a big boat came over and roped it and drug it towards shore....
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That is awesome dakk. I hope to hear more.
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4 females , with an average weight of a small piano each, in a canoe , with no life jackets and maybe 2" of freeboard ended up flopping around in 4' of canal water right before my eyes. Closely resembled a pod of Wright's whales gone astray. To my incredible good fortune someone beat me to them to help.
I did a slow slink into the cat tails.
Rg
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We were pulling my boat after perching in Irondequoit Bay years ago. The water was very low. This new boater backed his trailer off the ramp. I stood and watched him spin all four tires on his F-250 ford until it came out. When he pulled up the ramp, he had torn the dual axels off of the trailer. I stood there snapping photos as he screamed at me to get lost. Not 6 months later, I watched a guy dump a new starcraft islander on the pavement at the same launch. He had unhooked the boat from the roller trailer and started to back up. He hit the brakes at the top of the ramp and the boat rolled off the trailer. Only a approx. 2' of the boat made the water. The guy was a little irate and it got worse when someone told him he needs to back the boat in a little further for it to float! Another good one from this same launch was a fist fight between a pleasure boater and a jet ski operator. The jet ski operator cut everyone in line and pulled up to the dock. The guy standing on the dock waiting for his buddy with the trailer confronted him about cutting in line. The jet ski operator set his keys on the dock while they were starting to argue. The pleasure boater kicked his keys off the dock into the water. A few minutes later, the guys were separated by the sheriffs department.
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Thanks gambell! I love the ramp on busy days. Lots of amusement!
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I was fishing one afternoon with Lehigh Valley in a local 61 acre quarry, we saw an nice buck swimming across in the middle of the day. At least an 8 pointer. Jumped right out when it got to shore.
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Was fishing in a small river with a buddy opening day of walleye in a small boat on the out side of a sandbar about 30 to 40 yards from shore that was under about 1 foot of water with a tree on it under water. This guy fishing up river saw we were getting fish so he came up to where we were fishing and started casting his jigs at us and telling us to move. He would hit about 5 feet behind me and hang up on the tree each time, after losing about 10 plus jigs he walked away. So we moved over and picked up all the jigs and told him thank you for them. If he was not such an ass we would have told him about the tree and sand bar and returned the jigs to him. Two guys up river that were fishing with him were laffing so hard that one almost fell in. Retrieved about 30 jigs that day. The best part was his buddies each got there limit and walked out on him. Also there was a father and his young son on the other side of the river not getting anything and asked us what we were doing as we were releasing a lot of fish, so we went over and my buddy got out of the boat and I took the father and his son back over to where we were fishing and they got there limits in about a half hour which upset the guy off more. Always willing to help someone out if they are not and ass. Also at the time we left he still did not get a thing.
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Thanks for the good read guys!!
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On two separate occasions, both hot days, once on the Allegheny Reservoir and once at Raystown Reservoir in PA I saw deer come down the bank, jump in and swim around a bit and then mosey back up the bank.
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Years ago was trolling along shoreline on lake Ontario for spring browns when off to the distance I saw what I thought was a duck swimming but as I got closer I realized it was a deer out in about 7 fow and headed out further so I maneuvered the boat to try to push it back towards shore.....which worked....eventually saw it walk on shore.
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I had about the same experience as icejohn but on Oneida , dogs had put a nice buck out in the water , first I went to shore a ask the lady to put her dogs in , with a small argument about dogs chasing she complied and my wife and I went out and herded the now tired buck to shore
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I was fishing some of the large rocks out in front of Braddocks when a very large Grady white try to cut in between us and the shoreline. He managed to hit one of said rocks which started a very slow sinking process. We went over to get the severely intoxicated captain in our small 14 footer with some of his more prized possessions that could fit in our small boat. As we drove away from the spot young teens were walking out from the woods looting as the boat rested on the bottom with the top half still exposed. The capt. insisted we not turn back as he drank water from the lake in very large quantities. We dropped the capt. at the launch so he could call someone gave him our (home) number(no cell phones back then) so he could come retrieve his stuff when he got home. We never did get that call and found out later on that the boat was for sale, remained unsold, and was reported stolen days before the incident by this capt....... I must have been around 12 at the time.
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Awesome pic fillet!! That's definitely a keeper.
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there are so many funny things ,once while on the salmon river I was passing past the little black hole , I witnessed a man hook a nice king , he gets it almost on shore and the hook pops out and gets away he then proceeds to chase it back in the water in an attempt to land it he ran in the water up to his shoulders , then he realized he had now filled his waders and had to be tossed a line and reeled back in , by the way it was late fall water was pretty chilly we did hear a small yelp :o
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Haha ya never know what to expect at Braddock's. When they finally dredge it and build the break wall things including the ice fishing and fall pike should get a lot better.
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With all the people from all over the country that go there for salmon I'm sure some crazy things are happening. Thanks guys this is fun to read.
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Also one time was fishing off the break wall at Oak hooked up with a king fought it for like 40 mins on salmon gear unable to get the beast in any closer than halfway between the breakwall and the piers several boats saw me battling the fish and turned to come in from the west side. Finally after all this a sheriff boat drives right through breaking my line. Turns out a man fishing on the pier had snagged the back of the king while I was fighting it and "caught" said fish. To my dismay the double jointed rapala did not come with it.
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I almost got hit by a boat surfcasting South County in Rhode Island, 2amish foggy as heck I hear an outboard, guy was moving, well he must not have had gps because he made me run off the tip of the quonnie breach jetty and then parked his bow in the rocks...Hard. I didn't stick around to see the result after hearing the resultant swearing from the opperator.
Also high on the list, was fishing cape cod canal, 10am ish this time of year...doing my thing, jigging, and all of a sudden a 3-400 pound bluefin tuna jumped 50 yards in front of me. I soiled myself...first time seeig one that large in person. Epic sight.
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Go out Friday night to snag pogies. Tons of them. Saturday is a tournament. We go back to same spot but don't see bait. Buddy throws snagger out and snags a 36" Striper first cast. Then he preceedsn to snag 5 more stripers and I snagged one. 7 stripers snagged,landed and released. I've never seen them that thick together.
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Low that would have made me expell lol , last fall casting for eyes I'm really into it and out of no where a heron went to land about 8' from me with wings spread and a holy € from me and a screech out of the bird well I think I almost :o
And the bird left a huge white stain on the water and flew off , took me several mins to get it together
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i was smallmouth fishing off of a dam on a local res that gets very little pressure in early spring
A friend and I were walking down the dam and spooked three young geese into the water..
They were about the size of a duck. They were out about 30 yds when they started to spook again and
One just disappeared , two minutes later some splashing and another was pulled under and gone . The third
Made it to shore and let me pick it up and I brought it home! I've never seen any sign of snapping turtle in the area
I'm sure there around but never saw one Surface in a hundred hrs of fishing My only thoughts are it had to be a 20 pound plus cat or musky. The res has thousands of ducks and birds on it all winter and spring I should really go
Back with some huge top water baits !!
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watched 2 guys attempting to put a boat on a trailer manage to dunk the truck and trailer completely underwater. Had to call the rescue squad and get a guy with SCUBA gear to dive down and hook up a cable to haul the whole rig out.
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Ok so the truck thing almost happened to me when I had just gotten my first boat that needed a trailer. I was at Braddock's bay the ramp at the bar in hilton there. The water was so low. I backed the trailer down the ramp and when the seanymph floated off I threw the truck in park and opened the door to tie the boat off. When I took my foot off the brake I didn't really notice how far back I was and the truck jerked a bit backwards since I was parking it on the ramp and the seaweed on the ramp got me going enough that the truck started sliding down the ramp.so my door is wide open and it catches a pillar on the dock and bends it all the way foward!. Thank goodness there is a steel bar at the bottom of the ramp probably for when they poured the concrete that was enough to stop my truck. Crazy. I can't believe what is going on so I put it in 4 wheel drive and go up the ramp enough to close the door of the truck. It closed somehow but there is a bit of damage. Well the trailer tires wouldn't go over that steel bar for anything in 4 low no difference. So I gunned it and the trailer tung broke and the trailer rolled down the ramp and sank in 7 foot of water. I tied the boat off at the dock before this happened. So I had to call a buddy to come and I dove in and tied a rope around the trailer had him pull it and when the tires got to the steel I dove down and lifted it over. That is something that I will never forget lol. I still can't believe it.
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I have a bunch but this one just entered my brain.
When I was young I was fishing southern Champlain from shore. It was a dead calm day. Overhead, a military jet broke the sound barrier and every fish from Putnam Station to Vermont simultaneously jumped out of the water. Haven't seen anything like that since.
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I was heading out to fish on Clear Lake, Elgin, Ontario Canada one morning and saw a small boat going around in circles in the middle of the lake. It appeared that there was no one in the boat. Carefully approached it and discovered the boat skipper past out on the floor. Managed to get a line fastened to his boat and began to head to our group of cabins on the lake. As I was proceeding towing this guy and his boat to the dock, he comes alive and stands up and starts yelling! Stoned or drunk , I don't know. Got to the dock and undid my line and left. He managed to walk to a nearby cabin alive and lucky.
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Ready striper fishing the hudson,guy in a 14 footer goes to start the motor rope breaks he goes in the drink. Boat going around him full blast,another guy sets the pace to the run away boat and his partner leaps boat to boat.Shuts the motor down and picks the guy up unbelievable.
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My mom wanted to see an Osprey. So, I took her down to a local pond where I have seen one from time to time. Lo and behold this osprey comes flying right at us from the other end of the pond and lands in a tree directly above us. How lucky I was. Made my mom's day. All of a sudden it takes flight, does one circle and dives right in front of us. It tries to take off with a 2+ lb rainbow but couldn't get out of the water because the fish was too heavy. So, it started doing the butterfly stroke like a swimmer and didn't stop until it reached the other side of the cove, which was about 300 yds. He then dragged it up on the rocks and started eating it. Twenty years ago and she still tells that story.
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Speaking of birds, this one also comes to mind:
Several years back, my son and I fly fished a local stream for a bit. He's fishing the run above me and I look up and he has a nice fish in his net and he's waving for me. I walk up and he has a nice native trout about 16 inches in the water inside the net.
He says "I didn't catch it, it fell out of the sky." I said "What the @@# ? "
He was switching nymphs and just happened to glance up and see this object falling from the sky and land about 10 feet from him in the grass. He walks over to the object, only to find a live trout lying there in the grass. He grabbed it and placed it in his net in the water. When I inspected the fish it had talon marks on it. Apparently, a rather large bird of prey caught a nice trout and it dropped it 10 feet from my kid. What are the chances of that? If it dropped anywhere else, it would have surely died out of water. If he wasn't changing flies he wouldn't have seen it rain fish.
We never saw the bird but we released that the fish and it swam off just fine. Lucky fish.
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I am guessing aliens , big foot , possiably global warming!!! no matter what your son was a lucky kid to witness that! but that is the luckest trout there ever was !!!! that was great!!!!
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I was out fishing on the canal near my home one afternoon. When I returned to the launch I saw several poiplice vehicles, a couple ECO's and the county Sheriff's dive team at the launch. Looked like they were setting up for a practice rescue. There was a small aluminum boat hat appeared to be anchored just out from the launch.
As I arrived, so did the tow truck. It retrieved a fully submerged Ford Explorer with trailer attached. The guy's girlfriend had backed the truck down the ramp so far that he trailer wheels dropped over the end of the ramp. She had to be up to the doors in water to get in that far, it's a fairly steep ramp. She panicked and hit the gas forgetting she was still in reverse and powered the truck right down the ramp.
As I was waiting, stuff began floating up from the truck. I pulled at least 15 empty beer cans from the water along with a purse and other odd stuff. I dropped them off at the shore. The police were less than impressed with the empties. They both got sobriety tests and a ride in the back in handcuffs.
Rg
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Low that would have made me expell lol , last fall casting for eyes I'm really into it and out of no where a heron went to land about 8' from me with wings spread and a holy € from me and a screech out of the bird well I think I almost :o
And the bird left a huge white stain on the water and flew off , took me several mins to get it together
Yea they just sneak right up on you for sure
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fishing at wrights landing two woman had 4 children on a good size cuddy blocking the ramp boat in the water for what ever reason the coast guard was checking boats at the ramp .... the woman was told young children needed to be in life jackets and he wanted to check the boat for need safty equipment ....the lady went totally off screaming that he was not a police officer and had no right ....at this time I felt it to be getting interesting and sat down and poured myself a coffee.....the young coast guardsman repeatedly told her he in fact did have the right to inspect her boat and if he deemed necessary....this shouting match went on for awhile and other boaters even warned her it would be in her best interest to comply.....at this time a group of the coast guard personal came over and at this time the pleasantries ended the woman was taken of the boat last I seen her she was in handcuffs cring the other woman was being talked to and the four children were sitting by the bath house .....later I heard both woman were intoxicated and the one arrested ...... I did well on the rock bass that night and pulled 2 or 3 bass along with them .....all fish were dispatched at the fish cleaning station and ate
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My wife ....
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My wife ....
You win! :rotflol: :rotflol: :rotflol:
Rg
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:D :D
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Yea they just sneak right up on you for sure
Yes and that screech will get you every time...
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A friend and I were doing an over night trip to a back country pond in the Adirondacks in early October a couple years ago. We trolled wabblers all day and only caught one Laker. That night we were sitting by the fire and decided to take a walk down to the pond to look at the water. When I shined my head lamp in the water, I was like, "There's a fish right there!". Then I continued to scan the water with the light and there were 100s (no exaggeration) of Lakers swarmed right next to the shore. I'm talking less than 5ft out and about 50ft along the shore. I went and got my pole but couldn't get any of them to bite. I think they must have been spawning and therefore not feeding. They were literally in huge clumps. It was the most insane thing I ever saw on the water.
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I was out on Lake George on a busy holiday weekend several years ago and saw what I thought was a duck swimming. When I got closer I realized it was a small doe, and she was headed out into the main lake and a lot of boat traffic. Thinking she was getting herself in a lot of trouble, I figured I'd get her headed back towards land and safety.
Well, I guess she new better than me because no sooner did she get in enough water to stand up when a young coyote leaped out of the bushes and landed right on her back! The two of them went a$$ over teakettle into the water kicking and splashing. The coyote climbed out of the water soaking wet and the doe swam about 100 yds up the shoreline, climbed out and lay down. We hung out a little while to make sure the coyote didn't come back, and she finally got up and ran off.