Ice-fishing shanty blown across Michigan bay; anglers safe

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nice story...

 haresfur wrote:
 
At the age of 14 and on an 11 day, ~175 mile canoe trip in the Kipawa Reserve of NW Quebec, I drove a Flatfish hook into my scalp.  

The trip leader sat there for several minutes sharpening his knife preparing to operate on me.  I suggested he use a razor blade; he did.   The hook came out nice 'n easy.  I did not feel a thing, likely due to the sparsity of nerve endings in the scalp.   None of us had degrees in medicine.  

These days squeezing the barb flat and fishing barbless all the time makes removing hooks so, so much easier.   These days I insist on all my fishing partners fishing barbless.

 Coaxial wrote: 
a lot of people up and down the east coast are munching on them

some places in asia consider them a delicacy 

thai style is supposed to be tasty

i'd give it a go (damn the cultural appropriation, knives and forks ahead!) 

 miamizsun wrote: 
Just say no to Snakehead.

 Proclivities wrote: 
I wonder about that shirt tho. Is he stunning the fish with it? 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Lucky for him he was using the right bait.  Ca. 1949.

 Proclivities wrote: 
Leave no doubt! Smack 'em with a trout!

 miamizsun wrote: 
Early in his career and early to the sport of fishing, my father went on a fishing trip with his department. Managed to hook his boss in the scalp while casting. Although they were all medical researchers, they couldn't figure out how to extract the hook so the boss just wore the lure for the rest of the weekend until they returned to the city. Boss was very well known in the profession. At one point, someone put together a short biography of my father. After the professional stuff it said, "Peter was an avid fisherman and some of his catches were renowned across the country."

It has been confirmed by the MD Department of Natural Resources that the 94.6 pound cobia caught by nine-year-old Emma Zajdel of Ocean City has indeed set the new Maryland state record for cobia.  Emma caught the big cobia on the evening of June 30 and weighed the fish at the certified scale at Sunset Marina on July 1.  Emma’s fish shattered the old state record of 79 pounds set in 2014.



The fish is twice as big as the kid.

 I've got friends telling me the Shenandoah and North Potomac really rocked this weekend and I can't walk, much less wade.

  These so called friends told me this to torment me.

 haresfur wrote: 

  I've lived in this town since I was three years old and from the time I first laid eyes on it I've always thought this was the most hideous work of art on the entire campus.  And it has some pretty stiff competition too.  It has received a fair bit of abuse from college students through the years.

 buzz wrote: