Saturday 6 June 2009

"Never Seen Anything Quite so Bizarre or Incredible"

Not much fishing to report from me this past week so I thought I would share this gem from the Business Times of Australia.






By Ivan Adnan06 June 2009 @ 02:26 pm AEST
KAUAI - A man in Hawaii has caught what is possibly the luckiest catch of any era a fish that has coughed up a gold watch.



Curt Carish was at a picnic with others in the vicinity of Port Allen Beach on the island of Kauai when the group of friends spied a fish clumsily swimming close to the shore, The Garden Island website reports.



Encouraged by his friends Mr. Carish jumped into the water and clubbed the 10-inch fish unconscious, with a bamboo stick.



Mr. Carish mentioned he had noticed the fish's stomach appeared abnormally large but did not give it any thought after tossing it into an esky. (An “esky” is a cooler)



A friend later opened the cooler, to make the discovery of a gold watch next to the fish's mouth.



"The funniest thing is that the watch was on time and still ticking," Mr. Carish was quoted by the website as saying.



Mr. Carish believes that in the 30 years he had been living in Hawaii he had never seen anything quite so bizarre or incredible.

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He has obviously never been fishing with Brad "Fish Hawk" McC.

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3 Comments:

Blogger Fish Whisperer said...

That could be the latest in lure designs. Gold watches.
Expensive but if it catches fish you know we will buy it.
Tight lines

7 June 2009 at 04:57  
Anonymous Brad "Fishhawk" said...

I would have kept the watch and released the fish....what size hook was the watched tied on with?

7 June 2009 at 18:05  
Blogger Steve Dobson said...

All the boys are using a #12 Rolex this year.

As a matter of fact, the whole "Bling" series of baits has been very successful; judging by the number of big ones you see on MTV.

Cheers,
Steve

13 June 2009 at 18:39  

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